Battlestar Galactica - Hub

 "Hub" was a nice return for me to the final season of Battlestar Galactica after a little hiatus as the Resurrection Ship--which functioned as a cloning and transfer of personality/soul when one clone is killed, allowing them to return inside the clone of another created exact form--is once and for all nuclear bombed and destroyed, leaving only those Cylons still alive existing with one remaining life. No longer will a Cylon skinjob resurrect into another body, awakening in "clone goo". If a Cylon is killed, that is it. Just like humans, Cylons get one chance and that's it. D'Anna (Lucy Lawless) knows who the "final five" are and President Roslin needs that information so she can pluck the hidden Cylons out from among her crew. The Basestar with the hybrid who keeps shouting "Jump!", causing the ship to time jump repeatedly, allows for Roslin to experience a type of spiritual "connection" with Elosha (Lorena Gale) on the Battlestar Galactica (the ship is empty as they walk silent corridors to the sickbay where a dying Laura has friends attending a type of vigil with Admiral Adama by her side, eventually kissing her and putting aside his selfish desire for her to hold on). Helo and a Sharon clone with Athena's downloaded memories organize a search and destroy mission, with Roslin's blessing, to find D'Anna and destroy the Hub. The human pilots and Cylon pilots have their problems, no doubt about it, but this Sharon clone trusts Helo and encourages them all to realize they will need each other to not only succeed but also survive. Helo is  a bit uncomfortable with this Sharon clone but is able to steel himself. They secure D'Anna, after she snaps the neck of a Caville clone, and the Hub (and several Cylon ships during the space fight) is ultimately KABOOM! So D'Anna won't spill the beans to Roslin, realizing that her life can no longer resurrect...knowing the final five is her insurance.

Oh, but the kicker to this episode besides all that is Gaius Baltar is injured when the Basestar is attacked. A major gash on the side is bleeding out and Roslin arrives to place on him a bandage. And in a state of shock, Baltar reveals he gave the Cylons the access codes with Roslin appropriately stunned. In fact Roslin removes the bandage with Baltar once again bleeding out. So will Roslin let Baltar die? While she considers that, the jumps by the hybrid give her time with Elosha, eventually convincing her to do the humane thing even if Baltar was partially responsible for all the human slaughtered by the big Cylon attack. McDonnell's reaction to that admission, how she looks as if she's having a panic attack, is just the response I figure many might have. It is quite a secret...Baltar admits that he once carried a lot of guilt but it eventually left. Baltar claimed to have transformed. I admit, this episode has quite a hook. I imagine at the time many viewers were wondering if Laura would let Baltar die. With her doing the right thing eventually, when the hybrid jumps the basestar to where Admiral Adama awaits in a Viper, the two of them can embrace without Baltar's death being another complication between them.

So besides all that, the ending gives us an affectionate loving hug between Adama and Roslin. This episode is loaded. Even with the Sharon clone taking Helo to task for Roslin lying to the Cylons about D'Anna's "recovery" (she wanted to see D'Anna in secret, once again placing a distance between human and Cylon relations), the look on Adama's face seeing Roslin safe and her "I love you" back to him...it was a happy reunion. 4/5