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Exodus, Part 2 (Possible Spoiler Alert)

If you are not a fan of the new Battlestar Galactica, you may want to skip this post. If you have not watched last Friday night's episode (Exodus, Part 1), you may want to skip this post.

For the three of you remaining: I'm going to make a prediction about tonight's episode and it's not going to make anyone happy. In short, Lee Adama and the rest of the Pegasus crew are going to die.

I think the story has been building up to this for some time. First, there was Ron Moore's hint that a major character was going to die this season. Second, the Pegasus has sort of outlived her usefulness as a plot device. She was a major part of the second season, but now she's just a newer version of Galactica tagging along with the rest of the fleet. Finally, the show is much more "romantic" when the hope of humanity is a 50-year old beat-up ship that was due for retirement. And I love the fact that the starboard hangar bay had already been converted into a museum; that's so "Navy" it's not even funny.

So how's it going to happen? If you remember the Admiral told Lee to wait at the rendevousz point for 18 hours and then leave with the civilian fleet if they weren't back by then. My guess is that Lee is going to wait and then jump to New Caprica to try to save his dad and Galactica against orders. And then he'll die. Bada-bing, bada-boom.

I'll probably be apologizing for this tomorrow.