GALACTICA

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Either the Cylons injured the girl - or she injured herself. That girl is pretty creepy - she had no reaction to Starbuck's apology, and she knew to grab her hand at just the right moment. And she didn't say a word - even though she knows how to speak.
 

It's only been two episodes and you're saying his characteris undeveloped. Relax and give it at least until THIRD episode. Besides, I actually think his character has been believable so far. He has been exactly the type of person in office we would have expected form earlier episodes - a narcissitic brilliant person who escapes from tedium through fantasy and "pleasant distractions." I also don't see him as Saddam Hussein this season at all. Hussein is a brutal dictator, not a puppet.

About the little girl's accident, i think you are right though. Of course, the writer's for the show are good and always leave openings for multiple scenarios. My guess is that Starbuck already sees through the deception and is plotting.
 

Ummm, not sure you've been watching the news, but Balthar is not a symbol for Saddam Hussein. If you want to suggest a leftist agenda on the part of the writers (which is unfair, because neither the Cylons nor the humans come off as particularly sympathetic in this conflict), he could be symblomatic of the current Iraqi PM, controlled by his US overlords. But personally, I think suggesting a leftist (or rightist) political agenda on the part of the writers is a little simplistic. They're exploring how far a person will go when they've got nothing left to lose. I'll admit that they make suicide bombers look more sympathetic, but they go pretty far, through the former president, and through Balthar for that matter to express the horrific nature of suicide bombers.

As for Balthar not being developed, his chickens are coming home to roost this season. He is paying the price for his implant/fantasy/traitorous relationship with his sexy Cylon over the past two seasons. To be honest, I'm enjoying seeing him squirm for a change. Also look for more of him as the previews suggest what we might have suspected, that he will finally face the possibility that he, too, is a Cylon.

IMO Starbuck is showing the effects of four months of brainwashing. No way a rested Starbuck believes for two seconds that the stepford child is her actual baby. There's only one way to make a human/cylon baby... the old fashioned way.
 

I'm loving the direction they've taken Baltar in, in fact, I believe this is setting him up for his greatest plot sequence ever.

It's great to see him squirm, but it's going to be even greater to see how he manages to avoid execution (or prosecution for war crimes) by the colonials once they escape New Caprica.

I totally agree with bobby and anonymous, they've portrayed him exactly how his past actions would have predicted he act.

P.S. Would you give it a rest, he is NOT saddam hussein - he'd be a puppet president for the US like the president of Afghanistan or Iraq. Much like the human New Caprica Police are the Iraqi and Afghani armed forces getting suicide bombed everyday on the ground in Iraq/Afghanistan.
 

Who said he's even going to get away from the Cylons? Is anyone going to want him onboard? Most likely he is going to be left behind. Another plot thread that the writers introduced and have so far dropped this year is the one about the peace movement. It would seem that they would be more than happy to live under Cylon rule. You would have to assume that a reasonable size of the population would be content to stay behind.
 

"This ignores the assumed fact that the human-looking Cylons were genetically engineered by evil machines for the purpose of following orders and destroying the human race."

Exactly, the ASSUMED fact. If you consider that cylons have free will, then her joining isn't that strange. Besides, it isn't overlooked: there were objections raised in the episode by others. Finally, the Sharon "faction" is opposed to genocide at this point.