I really should have seen it coming. It is not like BSG’s producers haven’t made a habit of breaking their seasons with a six month or longer haitus, and left a harrowing cliffhanger for us to try and flesh out the latest plot device.

And all bets are off as to who the Final Cylon is, with a subtle clue that s/he was not in the fleet with the four other (now revealed) members of the “Final Five”.

And yes, it wasn’t that whiny pilot (Pike) who warped out of the Battle of the Resurrection Hub in “Sine Que Non” ( he was the dead Raptor pilot in a previous episode when Galactica later discovers the scene of the Cylon-on-Cylon battle (the 1, 4, and 5 models against the 2, 3, 6, and 8 models).

Sometimes it takes watching the replay episodes a few times to stitch it all together.

The denouement was excellent, but the condition that they find Earth in is a bit of a disappointment.

And D’Anna just had Laura Roslin so good, too.

Looks like I’ll have to edit my previous BSG post: Laura Roslin ain’t the Final Cylon.

At least not that we can be sure of. And unless the producers decide to yank our collective chain again … with tonight’s preview intimating that Saul Tigh reveals his dirty little “secret” to Admiral Adama.

Perhaps I am hearing things, but if the end-of-episode preview is correct, D’Anna (Number 3) has fingered the last Cylon, and it is yanked the viewers’ collective chain:

Laura Roslin.

And here I was for a moment thinking that it would be Felix Gaeta, opera singer.

So, to review, here are our known “Final Five” Cylons:

Laura Roslin - ??? -
Saul Tigh
Sam Anders
Tory
Galen Tyrol

And the “numbered Cylons”:

1) Brother Cavil
2) Leoben Conoy
3) D’Anna Beirs
4) Simon (the Black Cylon)
5) Aaron Doral
6) Gina/Caprica Six/various clones
7)
8) Sharon Agathon/Boomer/various clones
9)
10)
11)
12)

Now the only other wrinkle I can think of us that in this week’s episode, we find out that Col. Tigh (presumably) impregnated the Number Six cylon in the brig… according to BSG lore, Cylons cannot make baby Cylons - so that may yet cast doubt on Saul Tigh’s “cylon-hood”.

I must admit, this season is head and shoulders better than the others for how they are working the plotline.