BSG 1.7 Six Degrees Of Separation

I’ve not taken to the Gaius/Blonde Cylon in his head storyline. It bugged me from the miniseries and its persistence has been an element of each episode that hasn’t engaged me, but I’ve taken it on board with the view that it would eventually get explained. As this episode focused in on that aspect, with the Blonde Cylon showing up on Galactica for all to see, I thought answers were coming.

Instead it raised more questions.

So the purpose of the episode was to continue the thread of making Gaius believe in God; the same God the Cylons apparently believe in. The ONLY God! So because Gaius, in his fantasy world, refuted Blonde Cylon she went out to destroy his life by appearing in his real world and having him accused of treason and about to be sentenced to death. Only when he turned to prayer were the charges dropped. Hallelujah.

The issue of how the Blonde Cylon appeared on Galactica remained unanswered. She apparently left a pair of glasses, tangible, and there was that scene where she was alone with the Commander. . . It’s all very confusing. Gaius asked the question at the end of whether or not she had ever existed for real, but there was no answer. That was my serious problem with the episode. There was the opportunity for clarification on this confusing matter and it was ignored.

I have to trust that it will eventually get resolved, but mostly I just hope it won’t take too long.

In the meantime Boomer had the word ‘Cylon’ written in her locker, with the chief suspect for me being Chief Engineer Tyrell. But something I have come to learn of, by accidentally glimpsing some things on the internet, is the existence of ‘the last Cylon’. I don’t exactly know any more than that, other than this is a guessing game that persists beyond Season 3.

I have gathered that it’s likely to be a character we already know proven to be a Cylon all along. It’s a piece of information I am not thrilled about having stumbled on beforehand, but since I have I ought to at least keep it in mind. So this episode showed Boomer looking at the Cylon Ship they had captured previously, and talking about it being a living thing. Being a Cylon, on whatever level, it’s normal that she would understand this stuff.

However, it was only Starbuck that was actually able to make the thing fly. This, for me, presents the idea that she could be a Cylon in waiting, too. This does at least explain how she was able to remarkably get the Cylon ship to fly in the first place on the planet she crashed on, since she would have an innate instinct for such things, but for now that’s all I have to go on.

Poor episode, is my ultimate response. The only one so far I’ve been rather impatient and bored with.