The odds were most of the rest of the human crew - unhappy, as we saw last week, about Adama's order to install Cylon faster-than-light drives in the ships. Gaeta, who has graduated from pathetic to despicable, is now giving the military orders, and Zarek the political.
The real President, Laura, is now finally back in the fray, trying to douse the mutiny, but it's a little too late. Balter weighs in too, with similar nil results. On the other hand, we had another great scene when Adama takes Laura in his arms, and they kiss, let's hope not goodbye, and Lee, Starbuck, and some of the small band of good-guy humans board a shuttle craft that Tyrol had secreted for perhaps just such an occasion.
Another great scene, earlier, had Starbuck blasting away a couple of humans to save Lee. Then she kisses him, too, and says it feels good to be alive.
BSG has never been better in fast-moving blasting, in which every major character is expendable... and we've yet to see what the bad Cylons - Caville and company - are going to do about all of this.
See also: Battlestar Galactica, Final 1: Dee, Ellen, and Starbuck ... Final 2: Baby and Mutiny Make Three
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Thank you for the summary and the analysis. Sadly, I had to miss this episode (sci-fi may have it up...I will be checking later), but now I am up to date.
The ending should be interesting. I wonder if they will explain why and how the 5 ended up where they are. I also wonder if they will show more of the "Earth Cylons," having gone to another world or something....
The PC brigade, the ones who had an issue with all the black female witch doctor characters, could have a helluva time with Gaeta after this episode.
He spends four years as a by-the-book goody-two-shoes desk jockey, then the writers make him a) disabled and b) gay, and all of a sudden he's Machiavelli.
Correlation, yes, but not necessarily causation...
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