Season 4, Episodes 9 & 10

Episode 9: The Hub

• Why is Laura having these visions during a jump? At first, I thought she was visiting the afterlife, since she saw Priestess Elosha. However, over the course of the episode, it became more clear that this is in fact Head Elosha. Another Head Character to add to the list!
• Gaius trying to calm the Hybrid was hilarious. And his idea of "focusing" on her just meant shouting. That whole scene with him and Laura arguing ineffectually over the Hybrid was just flawless.
• Cavil and Boomer got to D'Anna first! And then D'Anna strangling Cavil without even getting out of the bath! Fist pump!
• The battle for the resurrection hub was really beautiful, especially the explosion.
• The scene with Laura first trying to save Gaius' life, then letting him bleed, then deciding to save him again was so great. This is the first time he's admitted to anyone that he gave the Cylons the access codes, and he now chooses to tell this to Laura! Wow!
• I was totally fooled as Laura at D'Anna's assertion that she is the Fifth! What a great bluff, especially with the music! However, is this proof that Laura isn't the final Five, since D'Anna laughed it off so frivolously?

Quotes

Laura (to Gaius): "I think you're going to live. As usual."

Laura: "I love you."
Adama: "About time."
-This was both so touching and really funny. Adama's response reminded me of Han Solo's "I know" to Princess Leia's declaration of love!

Episode 10: Revelations

• Starbuck is weirdly sane.
• Poor peg-legged Gaeta!
• D'Anna's assertion that the Fifth is not on the fleet really narrows it down. We can now be sure that it is not Gaius, Laura, Adama, Lee, Starbuck, Gaeta, Dee or Helo. Could it then be someone who we thought was dead, or are they already on Earth and we've never met them before?
• Of course Tori would be the first of the Four to "join her people"!
• I loved the use of the "All Along the Watchtower" theme again to bring Tigh, Tyrol and Anders together to Starbuck's viper, and then the complete lack of music as Tigh reveals to Adama that he's one of the Five! He has finally embraced it, and no longer seems scared. I wonder, however, how they are going to explain away the fact that Tigh has aged since Adama met him.
• Starbuck talking to Kat's picture on arrival at Earth was touching.
• Where is Caprica Six, who we previously saw in the brig? Was she the Six who was walking up behind Tigh in the final scene on Earth? Is she going to give birth?

Quote

D'Anna: "All of this has happened before..."
Lee: "But it doesn't have to happen again."