Ordinary Day

I am now absolutely convinced that the Six we've seen having speaking lines on Caprica is Baltar's Six's corporeal body, or else that all the copies of a given Cylon model have some kind of group memory--because the way Six started pounding Starbuck into the ground when she found her was absolutely and totally personal. That wasn't just a Cylon taking down an enemy. That was a jealous woman taking down a rival.

AHA. This scene suddenly makes a whole lot more sense -- it doesn't help having missed most of the series, but anyway. I was like, "Wait, how the hell does Six (let alone this Six) even know who Starbuck is?"

I am not yet, however, convinced that the Six in Baltar's head is anything other than Baltar having basically lost it -- modulo the dramatic convention clearly in place that All Visions/Hallucinations are True (i.e., his psychosis/whatever allows him to tap into the same underlying mystical bullshit that's giving Roslin the visions of the snakes, and so on).

To be sure, there's clearly some serious action-at-a-distance-group-mind shit going on. E.g., the base-star boomers all knew that Sharon was coming. (... which also means they can find/destroy Galactica et al anytime they want to, which means their real goal is Something Completely Different, and WTF? But I guess we knew that much already...)

The rubber hits the road when we ask how Caprica Six knows about Gaius and Kara. There are spies aboard Galactica. But once you narrow down to people who actually knew/guessed about the affair, we're down to a fairly small group. So methinks there's another Cylon lurking in the main cast, perhaps one of the folks in the poker game.

Also, I think it was llachglin pointed out that somebody handed Sharon the gun in that final scene.

And she aims for the stomach? She had plenty of time to get in a good, clean headshot -- I know, the slow motion was dramatic effect, but she's a fucking Cylon; cannot be stopped and all that... So WTF is up with that? Fighting the programming? or Higher Purpose?

(...Yeah I know, kill Olmos and they've killed off their best actor and they clearly don't want to do that...)