The Mental Masturbator

BSG The Road Less Traveled Review

As always, there are spoilers below

The “everyone is losing their minds episode”

Starbuck keeps checking the same region of space.  Finds Leoben.  She has definitely stepped through a door, she’s now totally willing to buy Leoben’s philosophy and advice.  He’s always told her she was special, now she finally accepts it.  Too bad for her no one else believes her.

The Chief has gone all Full Metal Jacket on us, which is not at all surprising.

You know, they really don’t know how to use Athena effectively, isn’t this the same one who told Starbuck on Caprica that she has a destiny?  Is it just that Leoben always talked about it and now she’s thinks he’s crazy?  And how come she didn’t talk to Leoben, or give unique Cylon insights on the situation?  Use of her character is extremely weak so far this season.

Baltar’s preaching is getting better.

Mathias dies…who?

No Adama or Roslin is pretty disappointing, but so be it.

Tory continues to demonstrate she’s nuts, and super brazen.  Telling Tyrol that Cally killed herself because of him in the airlock where she killed Cally?  Ballsy.  Stupid maybe.  If he finds out it’s gonna be nuts.

The scene between Leoben and Anders was really good.  As usual, Leoben freaked his captor out.  I don’t think Leoben knows Anders is a Cylon, but he still said some very apt things.  

I get the sense that this episode is the beginning of the crazyness and the end of setup.  Why?  For one thing, the plot lines are starting to intersect.  The Cylon civil war has intersected with the Starbuck plot line, and it seems like both of those are about to intersect with the fleet.  They’ve been setting these stories up for 5 episodes and now the domino are starting to fall.  Also, on Bear McCreary’s blog he said, “the first quarter of Season 4 is essentially laying the groundwork for bigger events down the line.”  This was the last episode of the first quarter.  I think they’re going to find Earth very soon, perhaps in the next few episodes.  I think there’s a very good chance they’ll find it before the mid-season break.