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Just remembered two of the other things that made me wonder about Cottle. 1) The fact that only Baltar was able to come up with a Cylon detector. Surely if anybody else might have been able to do so, you'd expect it to be a doctor. If the doctor's a Cylon, no worries. 2) Scanning Baltar's head to see if there was a chip in it. The doctor said there wasn't. But if the doctor's a Cylon... As far as Helen Tigh goes, I'm actually wondering if she's going to turn out to be human after all. Making some sort of contrast as to how a somewhat unpleasant, manipulative human might be/seem just as bad as a Cylon.

I can't quite pin down everything that makes me suspect him, but it sure seems like he'd be in the PERFECT position for manipulating the survivors. So far it seems like the Cylons go in more for manipulating/influencing than necessarily being in charge. After all, he supplied the drugs to the President that caused her hallucinations, he (possibly conveniently?) wasn't on Galactica when Sharon shot Adama,... and I can't help but wonder if perhaps Roslin's cancer isn't spreading or is perhaps treatable. But by telling her it has spread or can't be treated, you're certainly influencing her actions. I dunno. Maybe it's all nothing, but it sure seems convenient they just happened to have ONE doctor survive with them.

Part of the problem with this is that at any point in the future when things seem really bad, all they need to do is have somebody open the TARDIS panel and suck in the vortex or whatever. ("Sure, it might kill you, but at least you'll be able to wipe out the enemy/resurrect him/etc.") I rather enjoyed the episode up to that point.

Hrm. Anybody else think that was a bit heavily on the deus ex machina type deal there at the end? "Oh look, the time vortex from inside the TARDIS took over Rose and now everything is OK." (Except for the Doctor, of course.) I dunno. Just found it a bit less than satisfying or something.

No, no, I'm not saying he's not allowed to have a multi-purpose tool. But you've got to have some limits on things. Otherwise you run into the trouble of making things far too easy for him and all that.

Anybody else think they're going a bit overboard with the sonic screwdriver? It's reversed computers, appears to have been used as a medical scanner*, reattached cut barbed wire, reversed teleports... In the old series they eventually wrote the sonic screwdriver out because it was getting overused and making things to easy. I really think they're going to have to do that at this point now... *Ok, I suppose in that he could have been using it just for a bit of light, but it didn't quite seem that way.

Oh well, then. In that case, yeah, that kid looked too young to be Adam.

Hmm. I'd have to double-check the timing on the episodes, but is there any chance the kid who spray-paints "Bad Wolf" on the TARDIS could be a younger Adam? After all, I read that the establishing shot for Adam's house is supposed to match up with the road where Rose met Clive, so he may be in the same area... Just don't remember off-hand what years Aliens of London and Dalek are supposed to be.