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This might be the episode where I shouted at my tv "seriously? are you serious? Are you serious?" more than any other episode of tv evar. I am sure the next eps will eclipse this, but I feel like I said it a lot.

KARA. AND LEE. IN A SCENE TOGETHER. AND THEN ANOTHER. AND THEN ON THE SAME SET. AND THEN ANOTHER WITH TOUCHING AND TALKING AND FEELINGS AND MY HEART EXPLODED FROM LOVE FOR THIS SHIP, YOU GUYS.I just - these two. Hell yes.

- Bah, these two happy with each other. I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS, RON MOORE. (Er, I'm not spoiled. I'm just talking HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF THINGS NOT ENDING WELL WHEN THESE TWO ARE TOUCHING AND SMILING.)
- I am happy to have it confirmed that Lee doesn't care what or who Kara is. She is the woman he loves and that's that.
- This is a point I feel they've been making all season. Lee Adama loves Kara Thrace (and there's her full name again). Full Stop. ( I think this might help her with whatever journey she is on.)
- At the same time, Kara seems to be finally realizing she isn't her old self. I might be reading this wrong, but she knows she's not who she was, as evidenced by her last conversation with Hybrid Sam, but that doesn't mean she's not Kara.
- As a side note, I was really happy to see Dr. Baltar back. Remeber non-cult leader, non-failed president Baltar? Yeah.

- I do suspect this might be the last Kara/Lee ship time we get. I think we'll see them on screen, but this felt like the big wrap up to me, and I don't think I could ask for more, especially from this half of the season. I was never expecting hearts and flowers, but I was expecting some acknowledgement, and I got that. Katee and Jamie always say so much more than is written, and so I'm happy.
- I would be quite happy to be proven wrong on this.

- ALSO, HANDS ON FACE.
- Which made me wonder where in space Lee is getting manicures. BUT *HANDWAVES* IN FAVOR OF HANDS ON FACE OMG!

From the shallow end:
HOW THE HECK DID KARA RESIST LEE WALKING AWAY BACKWARDS FROM HER, SHIRT HALF UNBUTTONED, HIM GRINNING, SHIRT STRAINING, EYES HOT. GAH. WOMAN. PLEASE.
- Sigh. They're both so pretty. Sometimes I wonder if there is babyfic in this fandom purely because of the genetics that would be involved.
- ALSO, let's talk about Lee's longer hair, which for the most part this ep made Jamie look like his hair had rapidly begun to thin, except when he was with Kara in the hall and he just looked gorgeous. I'm a short-hair!Lee gal any day, but if I have to deal with the mullet, let's have it look like it did there, please. Curly and combed back a little and not parted. Le sigh.


Other things (because I can acknowledge there is more to this show than Pilots! Except I also talk about pilots again):

- Kara puting her picture back up on the wall was maybe the act of closure I have been looking for for her. Acceptance and peace - it's what I think Kara deserves, above and beyond the men in her life.
- Speaking of Kara's boys, how cool is Hybrid!Sam?
- This is not necessarily the ending I would have wished for this character - in life he was so physical that it's even more striking to see him in the tub. But I think shooting Sam was going to be her final act of mercy. Would she have shot herself next? I think so, even if I don't think she was suicidal. Before Baltar's little announcement, I think she just wanted things to be over.
- How lovely did Kara look when they opened the door to Sam's 'room,' lit brightly from behind, hair flowing? Someone is trying to suggest she is an angel. (It's the show, if you are confused.)
- I think Sam might save then all.

- Dee is on the wall, next to where Kara would have been. I'm sure Lee put her picture up there. I think Lee has a few issues, but I also think Lee knows where on that wall he wants his picture to go.
- Could they not have taken a few candids of Luciana, Kandyse and Katee? I mean, I roll my eyes every time I see the promo shots.

Let's talk about Lee's little "Gaius BALTAR?" moment with the captains, and Gaius Baltar.
- First of all, best reaction shot ever? Maybe.
- Secondly, is he still holding a grudge from way back when? (Meaning both KLG and New Caprica, New Caprica making more sense, of course. ) There was lots of weird glare-y reaction shots of Lee while Baltar was outing Kara.
- Thirdly, what is up with Baltar and his harem? Are they policing things now? I must have missed something, could someone explain what's going on beyond him making his radio addresses again.
- Fourthly, ouch. It sort of hurt to listen to them divide up Galactica like a coma patient with matching organs.

- Kara on the toilet while talking to Baltar? I suspect EJO thought that was a hilarious idea. *rolls eyes*
- Hey, remember when these two slept together? Me too.

- Ok, Tahmoh and Grace must have had a rough week. Their eyes must have been swollen shut by the end.
- And Hera! Muffin!

- Boomer, man, Boomer. She's a stone cold bitch one minute, and then the next I sort of feel for her.

- What did Cavil mean that Hera was going to have all kinds of playmates? Does he think he can make more babies? Does he mean the other cylons?

- Hey, cylons, pls to be stop making so many references to the final five being your parents and vice versa, because it is making all of the frakking around that has gone on between the two groups really, really gross

- Adama and Tigh sitting his quarters, toasting Galactica wasn't as moving for me as it should have been, because we have been coming to this point for so long. At one point I winced at the sound of Galactica tearing herself apart in the back ground of a scene.

- I spent most of the ep holding my breath because of a certain casting spoiler that never came to fruition. I'm going to be . . . annoyed if it never does.

I can't imagine how they're going to wrap everything up in three hours.

Three hours! It's finally starting to hit home how little time there is left.

ALSO. I just peaked at my flist and it seems there are finale spoilers out there. OMG., be strong, elly, be strong! *covers eyes*

I have never gone spoiler free, so this is going to be a challenge.