BSG 3x07 - A Measure of Salvation

[fahye]

Okay, so...the humans have gradually become immune to this particular encephalitis infection, and the Cylons don't have antibodies that can recognise the RNA of the vaccine properly. Fair enough.

That would make a really easy way to screen samples for possible sleeper agents. Cottle seems to have at least some kind of genetic biotechnology in his lab, and he's identified the sequence, so a simple hybridization experiment to see if an individual's DNA contains the antibody would be just as easy as Baltar's...thing...from S1. Which nobody trusts any more.

Oh, man, I have been studying biology for too long.

(Interesting point, though - ARE there any sleeper agents left? We know that the final five Cylons are different in some way to the seven already identified. Does that mean that the 'they could be any one of us' threat no longer exists? Or are final five models just as likely to be hiding among the Fleet? I hope so, because that's one of the best elements of suspense - and Sharon did say that there were eight Cylons in the fleet, and I think they've had enough exposure to the familiar seven that none of them would be able to stay very well hidden.)

Also, Six-inna-head? She rocks so hard. And what happened to Caprica's Baltar-inna-head? Maybe he was lost when D'Xena shot her. Though we never got to see him post-'Downloaded', which is kind of a shame. RDM could have done a lot more with that than just throw it at us once.

Conclusion: no Zarek (travesty!) and not enough pilots (woe!). Although Lee has snapped from fat-and-sullen to hot-and-useful in next to no time, for which I am very thankful. With his Marines outfit and his biceps and his Plan To Save Humanity and...awww, it reminded me of that trick he pulled in the miniseries, on Colonial One, where he ended up rolling around on the ground giggling. WELCOME BACK, LEE. MAY YOU AND NOLONGERCANCERPREZ BE PRAGMATIC AND AWESOME AT EACH OTHER FOR MANY EPISODES TO COME.

And is it just me, or is New Caprica seeming increasingly like a very weird dream? We're back in space. We're plotting. We've got our moral ambiguity and our political decisions and our explosions. YAY. It's like we never left!