Baltar gets acquitted through an arduous process in this episode. Lampkin does his job as an attorney and Lee Adama saves Baltar with his idealism. When Lee is forced to reveal the biases inherent among the judges, he fails to answer the question directly, but he focuses on the forgiveness that is available to everyone but Baltar. Mutinies, killings, and even collaborations are forgiven, but that Baltar’s surrender to the Cylons may have been necessary is not. This is the most compelling part of the case that gets him acquitted. While this brings an end to Courtroom Galactica, I wondered how come Caprica Six never testifies against him. The prosecution fails to use her as a witness, considering how her testimony can damn him. She may have withdrawn due to Lampkin’s manipulations, but the prosecutor failed greatly in not pursuing her as a witness. Also, where is Zarek? It’s nice to know that Colonials are not above perjury, as Gaeta provides most of the details in Baltar approving an execution but the most crucial ones – that he signed it at gunpoint by a Five who provided the list, not a Three.
Poor Baltar – he’s an outcast amongst humans and he might not even be able to find refuge amongst the Cylons again. Lampkin and Adama both abandon him once the case is over. The Final Four of Five have been revealed and so far he’s not among them. However, he has his groupies to help him out, and he might emerge as the Jesus figure to go along with the hair.
So four of the Final Five are revealed. Does hearing bad music that no one else can here is a prerequisite for being a Cylon? Saul Tigh, Sam Anders, Tory, and Tyrol all hear very bad music throughout this episode (though Saul hears it last week). Since Saul Tigh suffered the most at the hands of the Cylons during the occupation of New Caprica, it’s most likely that D’Anna apologizes to him when she received that vision. But, there is room for Laura Roslin or Starbuck to be one of the final five. Roslin shares a vision with Sharon Agathon regarding the infant Hera and they both wonder if Caprica Six is an active participant in this vision because they see her take Hera. With all the teasing and the hype, these four are hardly angelic in form or being. Saul isn’t what I would imagine as divine. The question then is how did these people spend years among the Colonies growing up amongs humans. All of them have verifiable lives before the two years before the Cylon war, and Saul Tigh is almost enough to have been witness to the Cylon’s earliest production. If the company that created Cylons engaged in biotechnology early on, they may have researched creating humanoids.
Such a suspenseful ending with the Cylons being revealed and Starbuck showing up, claiming she knows the way to Earth. A lot of cliffhanger, and Battlestar Galactica won’t show up for another year. Talk about major withdrawal symptoms.
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