I'm really curious to find out if there's any significance to that "Last Supper" picture on the front page, or if it's just a reference to this being the last season.

How dare he insult the good Lieutenant.

I borrowed season 1 from a friend a while back, just bought 2.0, 2.5 and razor. Waiting for them to arrive, got them and season one for $80 off ebay. Once I'm done watching 2.0 and 2.5 will probably be time to get 3, and watch it, then razor, then will be ready for 4.0:)

Okay, here's some Rampant Speculation Which Has No Basis In Anything Further Than Fanwank Theory that I've been batting around for quite a while now, and I thought I'd share behind some spoiler-swipe tags, regardless. Here goes:

[Swipe]Anyone else think we're destined to find either the Cylons or the Final Five (or whichever members of the Final Five survive; or some combination thereof) as the progenitors of humankind once we get to Earth -- possibly even Baltar and Six as Adam and Eve? Something like that? Or Baltar and, I dunno, Tigh as Adam and Steve?[/Swipe]

Anyway, just a theory I've been nursing for quite awhile.

My take has been similar to what you are thinking.

The cast does Letterman's Top Ten list.

I'm just glad Seelix survived her first combat flight.

Yeah I bet we'll have a lot of this now.

President: "Anyone could be a Cylon ! Anyone ! YOU could be a Cylon !" (stares at Tigh for a moment)
(Tigh looks mortified)
President: "Ha ha, cheer up Tigh, it's not like you're a Cylon !"
Tigh: Ha... ha !
President: "OR ARE YOU ?"
(Tigh looks mortified)
President: "PSYCH !"
Tigh: (sighs with relief) Oh... ha ha !
President: "Security, take him away !"
(Tigh is mortified)
Security goes right past him and takes Extra #57.
Extra #57 yells "I am not a Cylon, I swear to Gods !"
Adama shoots him in the head.
(Tigh is mortified)

There's a new #6 coming named Natalie, apparently the leader of a new branch of Cylons with entirely different goals than the rest of Cylon-kind. And I think she's going to have something to do with Helo and Athena.

Season 4 is reported to be 22 episodes.

Doesn't mean won't split it a la Seasons 2 and 2.5.

Not sure what you mean by "navel gazing", but if the humans had the means, the Cylons would be wiped out in immediately. Since that is not possible, it leaves room for stories about understanding the how and why this happened. That includes whether humans "deserve" to survive.

I mean, it's safe to say that there is a faction of radical Muslims that are, in fact, hell bent on the destruction of the United States. Now there is a debate as to whether torture should be allowed, or at least redefined so that we can be even more cruel to our captives than we would have ever thought possible 20 years ago. The genius of BSG is how it actually works through those social issues within a fictional story.

I think the big twist this season will be the "good" Cylons. I believe there will be Cylons that think the human holocaust was wrong, and want to work at ending the war. Obviously we know that is possible, since at least one already exists. Once they understand that Cylons are "human enough" and have independent ideas about right and wrong, they can no longer just kill every toaster they meet. Each toaster may actually have the same rights to liberty as each human. At least it makes for interesting stories.

And that act of genocide would have made humans no better than the Cylons. The reflective tone of BSG was set with Adama's speech during Galactica's decommissioning:

Spoilers ahead, so if you haven't watched the episode, steer clear!

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Just watched the premiere episode tonight and I really liked it. Here are some thoughts that popped up after watching the episode...

The initial scene when Tigh shoots Adama in the head shocked the hell out of me, and lingered just long enough to make me think that it actually happened. Nice.

Baltar's scenes were excellent, and I'm liking where they're taking his character. For the first time since the series started, he actually did something selfless and was ready to die for a something outside himself. Interesting.

I like how Lee brought up his brother when he was talking with his father: a nice tip of the hat to something gone but not forgotten and I find it frames his reaction to Kara returning rather well.

In regards to what happened with Anders and the Raider while he was piloting the ship, I'm of two minds... Either the raider gave an order to Anders, or Anders issued a command to the raider. Either way, it means the Raider is aware of Anders being a part of the Final Five, something that the skinjobs aren't privy to. It's obvious that the Final Five are an altogether different breed of Cylon, so could they possibly work in conjunction with the toasters at some point to overthrow the skinjobs, which seem to have subjugated the toaster variety of Cylon? Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the toasters might know something the skinjobs don't.

Now for something I wanted to share with you guys about the episode that's more on a personal note. My wife is a big fan of the show and is actually quite active on the SciFi.com boards. A while back, one of the frequent forum posters died in a car accident, and this sudden passing sent some shock waves through the tightly knit community. My wife has always enjoyed creating fan art, and both as a coping mechanism and as a tribute to Sara (the girl who passed away), she made a collage in her memory and passed it along to Terry Moore (Ron's wife). Ron put the collage on the memory wall and took this pic with his camera:

When Kara is looking at the wall and wondering why no one took her picture down, you can see Sara's face smiling back for a brief second as the camera pans down. I just think it's awesome of Ron Moore to have done that, and thus including Sara's memory in Battlestar Galactica forever. She loved the show, and you could say she's now a small part of the very thing she loved.

Wow, indeed. How touching. That goes a long way to making me not hate her for how she always butts into the podcast commentary.