The more Helo the better

4.05 "The Road Less Traveled"

Ah...here's a little bit of my show back. Or maybe I'm just distracted by all the sweaty Helo. Either way, something was holding my interest this week.

Even though the theme of this season so far has been "Let's All Have an Identity Crisis", this episode finally made me actually notice that that was the theme. And I feel about the identity crisis pretty similar to how I felt about the general angst of a couple episodes ago. It gets kind of monotonous when the entire episode is identity crisis. Try to parse the identity crises out over a few episodes, maybe break them up with some storylines of self assurance. I guess that was the idea with putting Baltar all over this Chief and Starbuck identity crises episode, but that wasn't really doing it for me because I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM. I can see that he's now very confident about his beliefs and his purpose in life and all that, but they've never actually explained how he suddenly became that guy. Or, if they did, and if it was all a product of that sick kid being cured after Gaius prayed for him, then I'm really disappointed. Based on the character of Gaius Baltar that we've been shown for the past three seasons, there is nothing that could convince me that that single "religious" experience would be enough to completely change him as a person.

Anyway, I liked everything happening on the Demetrius and I'm disappointed that they're going back to the fleet (although I am glad that not even Kara can come between the Fighting Agathons). I was a little disappointed that Lee wasn't on board to be involved in the "All The Boys Love Kara Thrace" fight between Sam, Helo and Leoben. Adama should have been there too, for that matter. Maybe when everyone's dead and they're all in the afterlife there can be some sort of grand battle to attempt to prove who loves her the most. I might put money on Sam.

I think the root of all of the problems I'm having with this season is that most of the characters have become largely unrelatable. They've shut us out of almost everybody's heads (whether intentionally or not, I don't know) so all of their weird actions are becoming less and less understandable. Maybe they're alienating us on purpose to convey what all of the characters are feeling right now, but it's just making me not care.

And finally, Helo was awesome this week...but why is it so hot on the Demetrius?