I'm hoping Brad's right about Starbuck's special destiny thing. To be honest, I loath BSG turning into The Starbuck Show. I just can't stand in your face people whatever their stripe and the feminist passive agression thing gets to be a real pain in the ass very fast.

I've never rated Helo as the Final Cylon but your comment on his killing of the captured Cylons is a good one. I kinda like to think of Helo as a regular dude who's fairly grounded. That's nothing special but the ordinary can be very special according to some spiritualities.