Six Degrees of Separation

Mark here...Laurel and I are back after a bit of a break doing our real jobs.  We are enjoying a Fish Pie, recipe of the 2 Fat Ladies and a white wine, selected by Silver Lake Wine.  Tonight we are starting off with the next episode of Battlestar Galactica, "Six Degrees of Separation".  This episode is a bit of a let down, not much happens.  A version of Cylon Six shows up and accuses Baltar of being a traitor.  We know he is a traitor, but not throughout the actions she accuses him of.  We also know, as he does, that she is a Cylon, which is something the others at first do not know.  In any case, the episode feels like an attempt to acknowledge the fact that Baltar is a weirdo and why do they trust him and not suspect him.  To that end, the whole plot just seems like a roundabout way of justifying his continued presence.  Personally, I believed that neither the President nor Adama trusted him, they just had no choice, as he was their only scientist.

Laurel here...I agree.  Supposedly this stunt is to exonerate Baltar of any wrongdoing and cast aside any doubts about his work on the "cylon detector"  but I always say where there's smoke there's fire, and there's a ton of smoke here.  I'm inclined to think that the commander and the president feel the same but we will see how it goes.

Also In this episode the 2 soldiers that are trapped on Caprica, Helo and the Caprica version of Sharon finally hook up.  Long overdue!  Are you kidding me you've been running from Cylons for a month barely surviving and you've never hooked up?  Good job for finally getting down to business.

One final note from me about this episode...we discover that even in the future men and women should never share the same public restroom.  Enough said.