Season 4, Episodes 3 & 4

Episode 3: The Ties that Bind

• Boomer and Cavil? That's kind of creepy.
• Laura's so lucky to have Adama to read to her in bed!
• The Centurions now only take orders if asked nicely!
• Could we interpret Kara's feeling that she's watching herself and not actually in her own body as evidence of her being a clone, with her consciousness having been downloaded in to it?
• Is this the beginning of a Cylon civil war?
• Cavil doesn't believe the Cylons have souls. Is he also an atheist?
• When Cally overheard the fact that Tyrol is a Cylon, whose memory/vision was that of him cutting his finger and licking the blood off? His or hers?
• So awesome how Cally heard Tyrol's voice as a machine when he came back in to their quarters!
• Tory killing Cally was kind of harsh. But, I guess she had to die because she found out about the Four.

Quote

Cally: "See, that's what I like about you, Doc. You just pretend to be a bastard."

Episode 4: Escape Velocity

• So it seems like maybe Laura's shared vision with Athena and Six was prophetic, as she had the same wig in that vision as she now has, due to having lost her hair from chemotherapy.
• Does Tory even know that she killed Cally, or has it been erased from her memory? How does everyone else think she died?
• Caprica Six as Ellen was genius! The transition shot was so seamless, I almost didn't notice it was a different actor at first, but for the voice. Is this foreshadowing Ellen as the Fifth? Or is it Head Ellen for Tigh?
• Speaking of the Final Five, how old are they? Were they ever children? Do they have parents, or are all their memories manufactured? For example, was Tory planted on the fleet after Billy died, or was she always on the fleet and had in fact lived on one of the Twelve Colonies her entire life?
• Racetrack and her co-pilot didn't die in that crash? Wow. Suspension of disbelief, I guess.
• Tyrol's daydream of Adama saying to him that Cally couldn't take being married to a Cylon was very similarly shot and staged to Tigh's daydream of shooting Adama in CIC.
• Tyrol hated Cally. That's sad.
• Caprica Six smiling as she was punching Tigh in her cell was creepy.
• Head Six moving around and lifting up Gaius like a puppet, while slightly ridiculous, may have given us some evidence of her existence in the physical world. When we saw Gaius from the guard's point of view, he was being lifted off the floor by an invisible force. No doubt this will later be viewed as a miracle by his groupies.
• The way Adama trailed off in to his own words when reading to Laura without her realising, was just lovely.

Quotes 


Gaius (to Tory): "I think I preferred it when you cried."

Tigh (to Six): "No we are not going to talk about the fragile body of Gaius fracking Baltar!"