Season 2, Episodes 19 & 20

Episode 19:  Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1

Highlights/Moments of Revelation

• Laura's mania before the debate, followed by her adopting Adama's father's ritual of breaking pencils, then the giggles! So cute!
• Gaius trying to insult Laura before the debate began while trying to appear to be joking with her.
• Tom Zarek, sexy? Really, Six?
• The reunion of Kara and Sam (Anders) made me realise that I'm starting to prefer them together over her and Lee.
• The ending seemed like it was trying to be a cliffhanger, but didn't quite succeed.

Quote

• Cavil: "Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting and singing and mucking about with old half-remembered lines of bad poetry. And do you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing."

Episode 20: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2

Highlights/Moments of Revelation

• Having a "previously on Battlestar Galactica" at the beginning but no teaser before the credits was interesting. Building hype for the finale, I guess.
• Sam didn't seem at all confused about Sharon helping the Galactica crew, and he didn't even get an explanation. I guess Kara told him about it off-screen.
• I just LOVED the reveal of Cavil as a Cylon, though it seemed odd that none of the crew on Caprica was surprised to see him there. Also, Sharon not saying anything, nor even giving a reason for not doing so, was interesting.
• No harm done, eh?

 Question

• Why doesn't Gina wear a bra? Or any version of Six, apparently.

Quote

• Gaius: "I don't have to listen, I'm the President." - this was a nice contrast to Laura's idea borrowed from Adar of not having to explain oneself as President.

I'm going to leave the final 18 minutes of the season 2 finale for a separate post, coming next week, which will also cover my thoughts of season 2 as a whole. Thanks for reading, and see you then!