Battlestar Galactica Midseason Finale

Oh BSG, you know how to tease us. The bet was that we’d find out either the identity of the Final Cylon or the location of Earth by the end of this last episode until – we’re not sure when. Spoilerish stuff after the jump…

Sci Fi Channel Photo: Carole Segal

The episode title Revelations said a mouthful. It also drove home why they brought Lucy Lawless aboard this show. She was pure awesome as D’Anna took over the leadership role for the rebel Cylons. Her terms are simple: the final Cylons for the Colonial hostages. Lee Adama’s not having it, because then the Cylons could leave for Earth without the humans.

The Adamas decide that if it goes bad, they blow up the baseship rather than let the Cylons go to Earth without the Colonials. Tory sneaks off with D’Anna under the guise of bringing Roslin her medication. For what it’s worth, she did bring the pills. She’s been waiting to get her Cylon-ness off her chest though. Unlike the others, Tory’s positively proud of her status.

Baltar and Roslin had a great scene as he thanks the president for not murdering him. D’Anna starts killing Colonials to make Lee get a move on and he green lights a rescue mission destined to fail. Thankfully though, they don’t ever have to try it. The BSG update of All Along the Watchtower plays, bringing the three Cylons still onboard to Starbuck’s weird Viper.

Now Tigh has to reveal his Cylon status to Bill Adama. Bill struggles to deal with this as we all have and asks all the same questions we did. I’ve known you for 30 years! You had hair when we first met! Cylons don’t age, do they?

Tigh reminds Bill they didn’t know skinjobs even existed for a long time, so they don’t really know what the rules are. Tigh wants to place himself in the airlock so Bill can call D’Anna’s bluff. Lee not only points Tigh down the airlock but gets the names of Tyrol and Anders from him.

As Tyrol and Anders get escorted to the airlock, Anders pleads with Starbuck to check out her Viper.  She does and finds a faint signal that could be the way to Earth. Now she makes a mad dash to Lee and convinces him to come take a look. After she convinces him, Lee offers a gesture of goodwill to the Cylons. They had Earth’s location and could have jumped without the Cylons, airlocked the three and been done with it. Instead, they’ll find Earth together.

Of course, we all wondered about what the crew would find on Earth. The Statue of Liberty in ruins? The Architect telling them this has all happened before, Neo? More of the Statue of Liberty vibe is in play. Earth is in radioactive ruins. Where do they go from here? And who is that Fifth Cylon? All these questions to be answered whenever BSG returns. This is going to be a ridiculously long wait, fans.