Season 4, Episodes 1 & 2

Episode 1: He That Believeth in Me

• Does Tigh think Starbuck is a Cylon? His vision of shooting Adama was so believeable, and very reminiscent of Boomer's shooting.
• How did that raider know Sam was a Cylon? It must have programmed him with something, because as soon as it did, the Cylons retreated, like their aim for this attack was achieved.
• How does Gaius get himself in to these situations? Leader of a cult...or harem? Oh dear, Gaius.
• Hasn't Starbuck looked at her hair? Clearly she's been gone for more than a few hours, as she has a different hairstyle!
• I loved the staging for the scene in which Laura, Adama and Lee are talking about the fact that the Final Five could be on the fleet and they wouldn't even know. Tory, Tigh and Tyrol standing around them, blocking them in. Wonderful.
• I wonder if Kara's reaction to jumping further and further away from Earth is the same or the opposite reaction that Laura had at the end of season 3 when they jumped away from the Ionian nebula.
• Was Gaius really willing to die for that boy? Does he truly believe in God now?

Quotes

Tigh: "Those bastards can't programme me to help them." - This feels like foreshadowing. Also, Tigh is so much more interesting to me now that he knows he's a Cylon.

Lee: "Dad, what is Zack had come back to us in that viper? If my brother had climbed out of that cockpit? Would it matter if he were a Cylon? If he always had been? When all said and done, would that change how we really feel about him?"

Kara: "You are a better person than I am, Sam, because if I found out that you were a Cylon, I would put a bullet between your eyes."

Episode 2: Six of One

• Laura really looked scared at gunpoint. I don't think we've ever seen her scared like that before.
• Starbuck does seem like the product of some kind of brainwashing or conditioning. She is really determined to find Earth. Her destiny?
• The new Six we are introduced to on the basestar looks a lot more like Gina (from the Pegasus) than any of the other Sixes (it's the hair).
• The fact that Boomer's vote against the rest of the Eights sways the vote in favour of reconfiguring the raiders means there must be equal numbers of each of the seven models.
• Gaius sees Head Gaius! This blew my mind. And I loved the interaction between them.
• The whole scene between drunk Adama and Laura was just wonderful. I wanted to quote the whole thing! Seeing her cry at the end of it as she pulled out some of her hair just broke my heart.
• I'm so glad Lee and Kara kissed, instead of just leaving on a handshake. I think they're going to end up together, though.
• We hadn't really seen much of Dee in a while before this episode. Seems like she and Lee are no longer married. I wish she'd ended up with Billy.
• On the basestar, how would the Six's threat of having Centurions shoot Cavil, the Fours and Fives be persuasive? They'd all just download, surely?
• Does Tory really always cry during sex, or was she just disgusted by Gaius, or at herself for being a Cylon?

Quote

Cavil: "There's millions of Twos have that nose, millions of Sixes possess that mouth, Eights share those breasts and Ones have this brain." - Millions? Wow!

Head Characters

I wanted to talk here a little about the Head character's we've seen, and what this could all mean. Right back in season 1, Head Six tells Gaius that maybe he sees her because she implanted a chip in his brain, and given the lack of a better explanation, I took this to be the case. But then, back in season 2's "Downloaded", we see that Caprica Six sees Head Gaius. Woah. How's that possible?

Now we discover that Gaius also sees Head Gaius, which, if we assume the Head Gaius Caprica Six sees and the one Gaius himself sees are the same, then it would seem that these Head characters are independent of the people seeing them. Now, we could also consider the Leoben that Kara saw in season 3's "Maelstrom" to be a Head character, since he stated that he never claimed to be Leoben.

Are these Head characters angels, as Head Six claimed to be for Gaius? As far as we know, the people they represent don't seem to have any memory of the interactions with the people who see them, so it would also seem that they are independent from the people they represent. So why are they choosing to take these particular forms for certain people? I really hope we get to see more Head characters, and that give us some clues as to who they really are and why those who see them, do. So many questions!