The Hand of God

Mark here... Laurel and I are watching the next episode, called "The Hand of God".  Laurel made us a delicious nicoise sandwich with tuna and an arugula and corn salad. This episode finds the fleet running out of fuel, so they are searching the galaxy for a source of tylium (fuel).  When they find some, of course its on an asteroid with a cylon base.  They craft a plan of destroying the cylon base.  There are a few twists in the episode...first the original plan is a fake out.  More importantly, the key pilot is not Starbuck but Apollo.  Starbuck is still recovering from a leg injury which renders her benched for the attack.  It's a nice action episode which shows us Apollo is a good pilot as well.  Starbuck is left to helping plan the attack.  As it's a tv show with limited budget, the space scenes are few but awesome.

Separately, Roslin is starting to have visions as a side effect of the kamala extract she is taking to treat her cancer. We've already been told this is a side effect of this alternative treatment, hallucinations.  Her visions, however, tie in to the predictions from the scriptures of the twelve colonies, adding a bit of mystery to them.  The scriptures predict a dying leader who leads them to a new home...and we know Roslin has untreatable cancer...

Back on Caprica, Helo and the cylon-Sharon he is with are still on the run from the cylons.  Cylon-Sharon has not checked in so the search is on...and so is the romance between them...

Laurel here...this episode is sort of like a mini-movie in an awesome way.  They have a clear dangerous mission, which at one point you are sure is going to fail, then...plot twist!  They overcome and are triumphant.

One of the things I really like about this one is that we see another side of Apollo.  He is normally super straight laced, by the book...but in this episode we see that he can also make the tough choices and take risks when necessary.  During the attack against the Cylons he does a super sketchy move and flies through a Cylon tunnel in order to get to their fuel supply and bomb it, and in turn the whole Cylon base blows up. Way to go Appollo!  Anyway it was refreshing to another side of him, to see that he is not always such a goodie goodie and can take risks when necessary.