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So, based on what I watched from the first part of the season finale of BSG, we are headed to RDM Effect nirvana. First of all, you could pretty much gleam where most things were going based on this one hour alone. Baltar is going to be innocent. I could have told you that the minute that the prosecutor woman stood up and said “I will only try him on the stuff I can prove”, I knew there was no way he would get a guilty verdict. Secondly, no Caprica Six at the trial so far? I thought she would be the star witness. Instead, we get Tigh getting made an ass of, Roslin magically sick again, and Lee Adama finally resigns (he’s such a teenage crybaby sometimes). That’s the best they could do?

Oh yeah, there’s also the whole thing about the people that are going crazy on Galatica. Tigh and Anders hear music no one else can hear now. Tory, Roslin’s assistant, looks like the walking dead. Gee, I wonder if they’ll be revealed as three of the final five Cylons. When this happens, this will be RDM Effect at its finest. First of all, we have no build up for this. Tigh spent the first half of the season showing some guts, leadership and resolve he never showed before by leading the resistance on New Caprica. Anders might be a broken man in the wake of Starbuck abandoning him and seemingly dying, but he was a patriot too. And Tory? We hear very little from her this season, and suddenly she’s there looking all out of sorts and just giving away that she’s a sleeper. Ugh.

See, one of the best parts about season one was the way they built up Boomer’s reveal as a sleeper to the rest of Galatica. We saw her as she slowly went insane dreading that she was a cylon and such until the moment came and she shot Adama in CIC. That’s how it’s done. Sadly, we’re way past the point of doing it in a good way.

I’ll still watch the last part of the finale. I’ll feign surprise when they name the final Cylons. I’ll even just accept it when Kara Thrace shows up alive and well (which she will, I’ve decided that RDM Effect just works that way). It’s just that the shiny veneer that made me not be able to wait for the new episodes each Friday has slowly worn away thanks to RDM Effect. I’m afraid that before long, it will be gone.