P.S. I didn't offer the Baltar as Anti-Christ and Six (Caprica) as Satan theory -- that was another blogger!

I would like to thank you all for your thoughts on my Baltar/Jesus parrallels, especially you Keith McDuffie. We'll see how the writers and producers deal with it as the show progresses. I just had to bounce the ideas off of someone!

Doogla -- I can definitely see some relationship with the whole singular God thing coming into play once Galactica reaches Earth, but no WAY will it be Baltar as Jesus or Six as Satan, etc. There are just so many holes in that that it's preposterous to consider.

What if Earth's gone when they get there, and the populace of Earth has left in search of a new home? Doh.

I also have the noticed Baltar as Jesus thing, with him looking like Jesus and being the "chosen one."

And so if Baltar is supposed to be some sort of Jesus figure, wouldn't he have to die and then rise from the dead...

SOMETHING has to go down in the end of the series relating to religion and how it affects Earth, once they find it. It has been the subplot for the entire series, Why do you think they dwell on it so much? It's in vitrually every episode. My theory may be bad or totally wrong, but the "one GOD" religion has to translate into something. Where are they going with this if not to establish the
monotheistic religion on earth? I would entertain other suggestions. It makes no sense to me to cover the aspect of religion so fervently, then give no heed to it once they find Earth.

At least they don't use 'felgercarb'.

Borat, I actually found the cross cutting between those scenes to balance each other quite well.

Gene, as someone who helps people with relationship issues I can assure you there are people and relationships out there that are just like the whole L/D/K/A thing.

OK, *enough* with the Jesus/Adam/Eve/Satan and Earth stuff already. I'm actually not even sure I want to continue to entertain the idea of telling you all the ways in which that's just a really, really bad idea.

Sorry to piss on your theory there, but it just makes my skin crawl.

Wow the impact of Gaeta's "meeting" with Baltar diminished quite a bit thanks to the Lee/Dualla scene.

Hopefully we won't see a drunk Lee anytime soon. I like the relationships but a quadangle is just too annoying. I hope this doesn't come up for a looong time.

Like many commenters, I am finding the marriage/divorce subplots really annoying, they slow the narrative too much; but I believe that the real reason they are so jarring is that they are simply not realistic or believable.
First, the pairing of Lee and Dualla just makes no sense -- it almost seems as if it were a strangely arranged marriage, a couple of people who never paid any attention to each other and then suddenly they were married. We've never been shown sustained scenes about the two of them that would indicate that they were ever in love, rather, the minimal coverage their relationship received would indicate that they were just horny. Kara has become over the years the least sympathetic character on the show; I feel more concern for Cavill than Kara, even when he is advocating the destruction of humans. This leaves me less than interested in seeing her work out her self-destructing love life; in fact, I would rather that she NOT end up with Lee because of the disaster she leaves in her wake.
Love stories in continuing series, especially the "will they or won't they" type (a fitting analogy for an episode that aludes to "Cheers") work best when the relationship takes it course over a period of time. Shoving two characters together and then pretending that they have a relationship, so that you can later take it apart, doesn't invest the audience's emotions.
I have enough faith in the BSG writers and producers to believe that they are going somewhere with all this -- I just wish they'd get there.
Meanwhile, a good example of this is the relationship between Bill Adama and Laura Roslin... a touch here, a touch there -- when they become a couple, I will believe it.