This is yet another episode of a show that continues to defy all logic and reason. I thoroughly enjoyed season 1 and most of season 2. Season 3 has been okay at best (although I thought the Exodus episodes were great).
In this episode, a Cylon ship looking for Earth is infected with some sort of virus that is killing them. Somehow, this virus is able to transmit itself back to the Cylon Resurrection ship when one dies. This is absurd, as we find out later that the virus is a 3000 year old virus that humans have now become immune to. It is absolutely impossible for a virus capable of infecting humans to somehow be transmitted back via radio waves to the Cylon ship.
But that isn't even the worst part of this episode. Throughout the series, we have seen the Cylons systematically hunting down the entire human race (after they slaughtered close to 12 billion people). I am getting sick and tired of this show attempting to make me feel sorry for the Cylons or even feel any sympathy towards them at all, which it has tried to do on countless occasions. Here, the humans finally have a way to eliminate the Cylons for good, but enter the idiot Helo. He thinks it would be genocide to wipe or the entire Cylon race, but somehow conveniently forgets that they are fighting a fracking war against them, and have been for the past few years or so. Helo ends up successfully sabotaging the plan to wipe out the Cylons, again conveniently forgetting that he has just signed the death warrants for countless other humans. What makes this even worse is that he sees no punishment for his ludicrous actions. Adama just decides to "close the book" on the whole incident, even though it is clear who is at fault.
The show seems to be getting worse and worse. The writers are obviously running out of ideas, and it is painfully showing. Next time I'm in a war with an advanced race of computers who have wiped out almost my entire species, I think I'll sit and debate whether wiping out their entire race to end the war will "take a piece of my soul." Ridiculous. Helo is a traitor and should have been put out the airlock.
This has been my biggest issue with this show. Things seem to be finally working out, but then out of nowhere, one dumb idiot makes a ridiculous decision that fracks everything up for the entire human race. This has happened so many times in this show it is getting extremely tiresome.
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