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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 4177733" data-attributes="member: 6092">I also managed to avoid any previews or spoilers, so all of it was new to me.  And I found it a bit lacking but I think it was me.  I liked the character of Cally and was sorry to see this happen to her.  I also didn't care for Tory, cylon or not.  Not hate but apathy.  I just didn't care.  Anyway, after her speech to Cally about how she wasn't evil and didn't know what she was, I expected her to live up to that.  I expected some good drama with Cally knowing and pushing her husband to reveal it.  That's not what happened.And, honestly, I feel cheated and that the writer(s) took the easy road out and just killed her, rather than have that drama.  It would have really added to the tension of Cally and the chief's relationship and put a new level on it.  Instead, it went away.  I also found Tory here to be strange.  She wasn't especially vocal in anything prior to this, in terms of being a cylon, and to do this seemed way too sudden.  Further, apparently we are to believe she is evil, because she was able to kill Cally with no hesitation.  So, is that because she was a cylon?  Or was she always that evil?  If this is the last season, I don't think we have seen Tory enough to answer that, and so it's another reason I am confused.  (Mark Hope:  How is Tory clearly evil?  What have we seen to back this up?)  I am more than willing to say I have forgotten something as I haven't watched any previous seasons since they aired.  As for the plot with Lee . . . hmmm.  Are we to believe that he willingly undermined the President for the VP?  Did he see something that was wrong and work to correct it now?  Did he know the consequences of revealing her plan but did it anyway?  I guess things didn't seem obvious to me, whether it was the acting or the writing, I don't know.  For me, there were too many questions in what we saw.  It's as if the actors weren't told their character motivations and did what they could with what they had but the edits don't work.  In contrast, I knew exactly what was happening with the cylons.  I knew as soon as the basestars arrived what they were going to do.  So, again, I am perplexed.  Is that group better at acting the subtleties?  Was the writing for those scenes better?  All in all, more of a confusing episode but perhaps future episodes will help bring things together.  edg</blockquote>

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