OT: Season 3 BSG

[Will]

Atrocities said:
Could someone please explain to me what in the hell just happened in the last episode (19)? I cannot figure out what it was I just watched. Tye (sp) thinks the Galatica is a cylon now?

No, Tigh keeps hearing little snatches of music, which very few others around him seem to hear (it appears only Anders and Tori can hear it in this episode). It's driving him crazy, trying to find out where it's coming from. It's affecting Tori to a somewhat lesser extent, and Anders is occasionally distracted by it.

Atrocities said:
Baltar is a religious icon?

Baltar's leaked book and his distinction of living among the Cylons without being killed may have something to do with the religious reverence. While he's hated by many in the fleet, just by speaking out against the power duo of Adama and Roslin, while being in the position of a martyr would gain him favor with a minority.

Atrocities said:
Lee Adama is a traitor, The president has cancer again and along with that she having visions, Caprica 6 is now a mind reader, and Adama wants Lee thrown in the brig!

Lee is trying to escape his father's shadow by becoming his grandfather. He can't move higher in the military now than CAG, as long as his father lives. If he is to achieve anything more in his life, Lee needed to find a way to do it outside of the military. Since he's an idealist (see the episode introducing Tom Zarek), being part of Baltar's defense seems the perfect way for him to affect change and be something other than his father's son.

As for the President, I don't think it's so far-fetched that the cancer has returned. Survivors of cancer are at higher risk to later develop cancer again in the future. The visions would seem to be a side effect of her taking the hallucinatory drugs again.

And Caprica Six, I don't believe has any kind of mind reading abilities. She got a cue from her inner Baltar, and the more she went down that road, the more the reactions of Tigh gave her to say. I think she was talking as much about herself as she was of Tigh, since she believes that Baltar really is good as dead, and she'll soon have a gruesome death to deal with as well (before waking up again).

And I think the threat of throwing Lee and Baltar's lawyer in the brig was more because they were basically forcing his lady-friend to admit something deeply personal in public, again (similar to the first time she admitted she had cancer and was dying, only without the physical bars around her).


Also, if you listen closely to the teaser at the end, you hear Tori say "This isn't happening," and the Chief say "It's true... we're Cylons" as the music that Tigh, Anders, and Tori were hearing plays. Combine that with RDM saying that season 3 would see at least some of the Final Five revealed... well, there's only one episode left...