- Eddie Olmos gives a great reaction shot (terse, in-the-moment and faraway all at the same time) ... somehow Lee lands on the flight deck [he got a Raptor ready and flew back that quick ???] - Sucker Punch by traitorous Marines (ooh, I taste lunch) ... KAMBO arrives - KaBlam! KaBlam! Two revolutionaries, er red shirts, down lickety-split. Corny "I died once," line and amazing aim - memories fuzzy but can Kambo aim a gun! 
it was a guest actor (but the eyes are a different color - maybe a filter effect from how they shot the scene). Some political jockeying goes on at the Base Ship and the game of brinkmanship [X37] has it arming weapons and the Roslin line "I'm coming for all of you." She's going to beat them with her wig?
[spoilery] I have this theory that this fellow is not Leoben but a pivotal character, perhaps the Xeno Fenner fella who shows up in the final episodes and/or is the mad-scientist-who-explains-it-all-to-you character since it sounds like most of the big questions the creators and writers have left dangling will be wrapped up in a single episode (other blogs and scifi websites have posited that it will be the Islanded In A Stream of Stars ep). Several visitors to this blog say 
that clearly it is Leoben, but if you look closely at the man's face it is broader, and he has golden-brown eyes (like the actor hired to play Xeno) not blue as Leoben actor Callum Keith Rennie does. This man is clearly standing in the Cylon base ship C&C and wearing the same color shirt as a Leoben, but I think this is misdirection - SciFi has finally learned how to tease future eps by juxtaposing images, dialog and sounds without being so literal and giving away the store to anyone with even rudimentary deductive ability. The still image of this man was pulled from one of the 4.5 short teasers. It is possible it is Leoben, shot with what is called "monster lighting" but I don't think so.
This was an interesting episode. Show creator Ron Moore wrote the episode and made his directorial debut and created quite a cohesive, textured window onto the lives of our beloved characters. His stated belief that the characters are what drives the show, not the plot, was demonstrated in A Disquiet Follow My Soul. He achieved what he set out to do.
humiliated from the tip of her toes to her eyeballs and just doesn't know what to do - so she's at least going to take charge of her own life/death.
h we see on ultrasou
nd) - this nurse will probably figure in the coming civil war and line up against the Adama-Cylon alliance. The late Callie's baby is a cocktail weenie not a Cylon half-breed. At one of Baltar's annoying religious rallies (now he's challenging and mocking god and the crowd goes with it ??? ... and where-o-where is Head-Six?) there is a dumb fight between Tyrol and Hot Dog - the kid's real dad.
oing to share their superior jump technology they want full rights ... and thus the ground is laid for the civil war to come. How and why the press corps still dresses in suits and is so formal about the process is a bit baffling after all they've been through. Lee, filling in for Roslin, tells the press that the Fifth and Final Cylon is dead, that "she" is dead ... which of course causes a frenzy that they run from. The meeting of the Quorum was the most effective yet - with a well-written and acted speech by Richard Hatch - doing a great job in the Zarek part (and he's getting his swan song).
and kept a fairly muted color palette but did imbue his episode with just the right amount of movement and visceral energy.
The Hybrid as the Lady in the Lake?
Cavil certainly is Peter from the Christian arc ... the so-called "Keeper of the keys"
Superior. After the let-down that was Revelations, this episode absolutely soared, and reminded us again why this is a great show. The series' two best writers, Bradley Thomspon and David Weddle, wrote this episode based upon a Ron Moore story. It's almost hard to describe just how good this episode was and how many orders of magnitude it was better than Revelations. Perhaps that was the intent with what was originally intended as a two-part episode ... the windup and the punch. What a punch. What a series of punches. 
Michael Hogan was stellar as Tigh, as always, and is becoming grounded again as the character we knew and loved from the beginning. The scene I feared would be a stupid mano-o-mano redux with Adama and Tigh was instead informed with real feeling and was transformative for both characters. Michael Trucco got to show new colors in his role as Anders as a flashback unleashed a different side to hi
s character. 
fleshing out that backstory - if not all that entertaining). The tone of this episode is what was remarkable - it found that sweet spot on the tennis racket for maximum control and placement and power. Callum Keith Rennie was especially good this episode - and his surprise at finding the original Kara's body with the clone Kara was chilling. The scene I feared most - D'Anna's decision to remain on cinder Earth played out very well: she did wh
at I had hoped the Cylons would attempt - to break the cycle of repetition - with her self-sacrifice ... and she foreshadowed the coming major conflict with the Cavil forces. I loved the D'Anna character and 
will miss Lucy Lawless doing terrific work in the part, but it was well written and works.
nt story direction which would have had Baltar or Roslin as the 5th would have carried more weight, but I'll go with this Ellen choice for now - I'm sold so far. 
ere not too far off walking distance. The subplot with the Centurion artifacts (of a different type) and human bones which turned out to be Cylon was intriguing.
re made manifest and one of my least favorite actors on the show, Jamie Bamber, delivered his best work this episode as well - with depth and nuance to his performance in his scenes with Kandyse McClure. 
