Yeah, I know I missed last week’s blog. So how about I just get to it? Here’s what happened on the past two episodes of Battlestar Galactica.

Warning! Spoiler Alert!

Last Week: Someone to Watch Over Me

• The Chief helps Boomer escape from the Brig.
• Boomer beats up Athena, has sex with a clueless Helo, kidnaps Hera and jumps away from Galactica. (The Chief had no idea Boomer was planning this)
• The jump tears a hole into an already crumbling Galactica.

This Week: “Islanded in a Stream of Stars.”
Cylons and humans are working hard to fix Galactica but newer, larger cracks keep appearing before their eyes. Eventually a huge hole tears into one side of the ship killing tens of humans and cylons.

Starbuck and Ellen are trying to convince Adama to search for Hera but Adama refuses. Tigh convinces Adama to send a small recon mission to a place known as “the colony” – this is where the Five and the centurions retreated to after the first human/cylon war. The recon mission goes to the last known spot for the colony but returns with no signs of the place. Cavil must have moved it before the cylon civil war.

Ellen wants Tigh to do more to search for Hera but Tigh refuses. He doesn’t want to think of himself as a cylon. Ellen tells him that everything they did in the past was to prevent war and that Hera is their last hope. Tigh appears to be unconvinced.

Athena and Helo are, understandably, going through a rough patch. Athena won’t talk to him. She keeps having the same visions she used to have of Hera running away from her into the arms of Caprica-Six and Gaius. Roslin starts having the vision as well. Helo begs Adama to let him and Athena take a raptor to go and search for Hera. Adama refuses and tells Helo about the fruitless recon mission already conducted.

The cylons on the baseship are telling Adama that Galactica is a lost cause and that they should transfer onto the baseship. Both Adama and Tigh refuse.

Starbuck listens to Gaius on the radio. He’s talking about his belief in angels (he continues to see a vision of Caprica-Six and believe she’s his angel). Once he finishes his broadcast he spots the actual Caprica-Six trading with some of the people from his cult. He gives her his condolences and offers his help. She says she doesn’t want it, that he hasn’t changed but she has. He seems hurt. He later meets Starbuck in the bathroom. She tells him about her situation and gives him the dog tags she got off of her dead body on Earth, hoping he can find out what she is.

Anders is hooked up to Galactica’s main power grid, almost like a hybrid. He’s rambling. Kara can’t stand to see him like this so she takes out her gun to shoot him. He grabs her arm and starts saying some more stuff and calls her the harbinger of death. She releases his grip on her arm. Throughout the whole thing there are power fluctuations on Galactica. Tigh later has Anders unhooked – though it doesn’t seem like Tigh knew what happened.

They hold a funeral for the people who died while rebuilding Galactica. Once the ceremony is over Gaius grabs everyone’s attention and tells them that death isn’t the end. As long as you embrace death you will cross over. Then he tells everyone about Starbuck and says that the blood off of the dog tags she gave him is from a dead body and that the DNA matches Starbuck’s. Adama starts yelling at him to shut up but he goes on. Kara slaps him and walks away.

Boomer is on the raptor with Hera. Hera is crying and asking for Athena. Boomer threatens to tranquilize her but instead projects her dream house. She’s surprised to see Hera there with her. Hera goes to the room that Boomer imagined her daughter to be. Boomer later lands the raptor in the Colony – a HUGE purplish ship that makes a baseship seem insignificant in comparison. Cavil takes Hera but Boomer seems hesitant. Hera screams for Boomer. Boomer just stands there crying.

Lee meets Starbuck at the wall of pictures. He tells her it doesn’t matter what she is. She smiles, watches Lee walk away and then puts her own picture up on the wall. She goes back to Anders and tells him she needs his help figuring out the pattern that’s in the sheet music Hera drew her. She plugs him back in.

Adama walks around Galactica, and sees the construction crew working hard to repair the ship. Realizing it’s a lost cause he goes to his quarters and cries. He later calls Tigh and tells him to get ready to transfer onto the baseship.

Quote of the Week: “We’re abandoning ship, Tigh.” – Adama

Opinion: It’s sad to see Galactica in the state it’s in, but it’s clear that they need to get off of it before it tears in half. I still can’t figure out if Gaius is serious about his beliefs. Was he trying to exploit Kara’s situation to bring more people into his cult?

Next Week: Caprica-Six says that humanity’s final chapter is about to be written. The hangar deck on Galactica is filled with people. Adama is standing in front of a raptor and says that no one should feel obligated to join this mission; it’s likely a one way trip. Tigh, Ellen and Starbuck walk towards him.