This is why I love this show, they didn’t waste any time getting to the answer for one of the last ‘big questions’ that has been leaving people guessing for years.  Who is the final Cylon model? Apparently, it is Ellen, Col. Saul Tighs dead wife.  Will she make a return, that is what I’m wondering.

This past episode was full of everything that makes this show great, but mostly, it put raw human emotion on display.  Seeing how the fleet sinks into a deep depression after their ultimate goal, the one think they have been putting blood, sweat, and tears into was an utter uninhabitable nuclear wasteland was sheer genius. Dualla, one of the characters I had really grown to like, took her own life, blowing her brains out after having just freshly arrived from what seemed like a dream date with Lee Adama.  She seemed in good spirits, she was happy, even telling Gaeta that she wanted to savor the moment, before she pulled the trigger.

Afterward, we witness how even the mightiest of them all fall when all hope seems gone, and everything you’ve been working for has been crushed.  An Adama who was trying to force him to enough anger to take Adamas’ life confused Adama, barging into the room of Saul who had been heavily drinking once again.  Ultimately, Saul realized what Adama was really trying to accomplish, and would not let the leader die the way he wanted.  With the fleet looking like it was about to fall into despair and destruction, Adama and Saul were able to rouse themselves out of the darkness and give everyone a new plan, which was basically, screw earth, we’ll find something else.

During the course of the episode, you come to find out that the ‘final five’ Cylons, had all actually lived on the planet before it was apparently nuked into cinders.  Chief Tyrol touching a shadow that had been imprinted onto a crumbling wall slab flashed back to himself walking trough a market, before looking off into the distance at a blinding explosion.  Anders, picking up the remnants of a guitar, started playing a song without knowing what he was doing, once he came to realization, he dropped it and ran.  Tory told them that she was experiencing signs of flashbacks too, but, honestly, I forget what she said, mostly it was confirming their questions.

The writers did try to show a little twist, but if you had been paying close attention, you might have seen through the ruse.  Starbuck, trying to find the signal that had brought them to Earth, ended up finding the remnants of her exploded shuttle, and upon finding the main pod, that still had a corpse in it, flipped it over to peer inside.  What did she find?  A burnt corpse, with her dog tag, and wedding ring around it’s neck.  If you remember back to when the Ancient Hybrid (from ‘Razor’) had said in the Basestar, Kara Trace, is actually the Harbinger of Death, this scene only cemented that ideology.  Though, she is still under the assumption that is can only mean that she is a Cylon. The final nine episodes will have to do some explaining as to what exactly Starbucks role is in all of this.

I can’t wait for next weeks episode, it looks like they really hit the ground running for these final episodes.