Battlestar's back

Well BSG is back and we are heading into the final episodes. The mother of all fanboy argument gets closer as the undoubtedly opinion splitting ending approaches. (Be careful to spoil yourself with the below, you might have to change you're trousers)

This week we pick up after the arrival on 'Earth' (I'm not yet convinced it is Earth) with people wandering around shell shocked that all there is a nuclear wasteland. A planet sized Whitley Bay. So shocked they even remember Baltar is a scientist and let him do things without accusing him of being a traitor every two minutes.

Roslin is so shocked to find she's been a bit of cow to the lead to here that has a full scale breakdown in her belief system; locking herself away to burn books and cry. Even the Admiral can't do anything to make her feel better.

Lee struggles to fill the gap she leaves at the head of the forum and just as it seems to be going well he's gut punched by Dee's suicide. (Dee had finally just had too much and it makes you wonder how much of a suicide problem the fleet has had all these years). Upon realising this the Girl who isn't dead but is a.k.a Starbuck hold her tongue just as she is going to lay on him the weirdness that is her discovery.

The Chief, Anders and Tori (the dull) are meanwhile having flashbacks to former lives lived on this planet roughly 2,000 years ago. Freaky. Well, apart from Tori who just says she had one not to feel left out. What is going on here? How did they get from here to the colonies? They in typical style remember not a jot.

Yes, Starbuck made a discovery so freaky even the Cylon (even Leoben freakest of 'good' cylons) ran away from her when he worked it out. You see, there is a dead Viper pilot on 'Earth', a dead Viper pilot with Starbuck's Viper, hair, flightsuit and dogtags. Seems she is dead. (But not a cylon, well not one of the expected five, since Deanna would have recognised her otherwise).

One Return of the Jedi style bonfire later and it seems the evidence is gone, until someone realises she has too many sets of dogtags.

Elsewhere the Admiral is in a foul and drunken mood, snapping at Lee rather harshly as he stands next to his dead ex-wife, crying manly tears and then trying to get Tigh to kill him since he can't bring himself do it. For once Tigh things there's been too much drinking and disarms the gun and refuses to be the easy way out for Adama.

We finish back on 'Earth', it seems even De'anna has lost the will for the fight, something so depressing it then drives Tigh to a suicidal wade into the sea but before he goes to far, flashback; he's on the planet, it's chaos, apocalyptic, a woman cries out, he goes to help, it's Ellen!

Ellen Tigh is the fifth!

So there we have it, a massively depressing but massively intriguing start to the final chapter of Battlestar Galactica. Any minute now it'll turn out to be all in Walt from Lost's head. But seriously it is going to be fascinating to see how this all ends; Where will they go? Will they find the 13th tribe (who by the way it appears where all cylons)? Will Tigh find Ellen? What the heck has happened to Starbuck? Can Lee handle being president? Will we find out what exactly is going on with the Six in Baltar's head? Will they ever run out of booze? What will Cavil do when he finds out he was frakking the fifth lost Cylon?

This is going to get messy, I can feel it.