If there is one thing I've learned over the last two episodes it's that Cylons are, to quote my man Rob Zombie; "more human than human." Their programming is filled with blind faith, pettiness, jealousy, backstabbing, and racism. All these wonderfully human traits amongst a species that is supposed to be superior to humans in every way. Maybe we'll find out in the Caprica prequel series that this was done on purpose. Ha ha Cylons, just wait! You may destroy humanity but pretty soon you're going to be your own worst enemies. You're going to be just like us! Maybe the fifth will be an obese chain-smoking fanny pack-wearing slob that knows the way to the Churros stand at Disney World. Bummer.

All Adama has to do is blow up the resurrection hub, grab the five and go to earth and let the Cylons kill each other. Ah, but as we all know, BSG never takes the easy route.
Compared to what's coming they're all just running around on a puppy farm. Dark days loom for these people we've come to know as friends.
Spoilers I have boys and girls, but I'm bound by a higher authority (NBC Universal) to keep my frakkin' mouth shut.
I did speak with Aaron "Chief" Douglas about the future of our Galactians on set up in Vancouver. Here's the skinny from Tyrol:

Hello my friends, radio silence has been broken. I've been in a 20x20 room for a week that looks and smells like what I imagine the Demetrius must writing the heaviest of metal. I've finally come up for air and you can expect a full two episode report this weekend. I'm stoked I get to watch two in a row!!!

Fight'em 'til you can't,
Scott

It's taken me all week to get my head around The Road Less Traveled. I've watched and re-watched. I've discussed it with my inner circle of BSG nerds and no matter how I look at it; I'm bummed on this episode.

Maybe because the previous episodes have been so strong it made this episode feel that much weaker.

Look, I understand storytelling. I understand exposition, setting up the arcs for the big payoffs etc etc. This episode just felt like it was treading water.

Baltar has once again set himself up in direct conflict with Roslin. Great. But I've seen that coming for three episodes and this episode really didn't move the story along. Same with Starbuck. Who didn't see a mutiny coming as soon as they were on the Demetrius? Why play it out so long?

And where the hell is Adama? Enough of him being Roslin's nursemaid. Seriously, who wants to see him reading every week? In the grand scope of the BSG mythology Adama has been there for all the major events in some way and to have him on the backburner right now in this crucial time is out of character.

There are a finite number of episodes left of BSG and I was actually bored and pissed off by this episode because I felt like it wasted valuable time. These characters deserve more.
And just to end on a positive (because even an off episode of BSG is better than anything else on TV) the Leoben — Anders dialogue was great and opens an intriguing door. Human — Cylon alliance? Holy crap.

Next week's previews look killer.
Cheers,
Scott