by Alyx Grayson

Created on: February 21, 2009

After the powerful revelations in No Exit, this week's Deadlock felt very much like a deadlock on all fronts as the emotions, the pain and the birth of new ideas struggled to survive. Throughout the series, the parallels of Colonial and Cylon survival have played out, first subtly and more recently in powerful overtones

What We Knew

Hera is the child of two races, a product of the love shared by Athena and Helo. Despite pregnancy being a goal of Athena's initial involvement with Helo, it is the genuine love she feels for him that allows her pregnancy and also turns her against the Cylon plan. Helo's love in return keeps him devoted throughout her long incarceration. They take whatever is thrown at them by both sides, but remain steady in their commitment to each other.

Interestingly enough, Hera's birth is heralded by both sides as momentous. The revelation that Tyrol is a Cylon made it seem that his son Nicky is similarly endowed, but he's not Tyrol's biological son and Hera's status as the only Hybrid is secure. During Athena's pregnancy, blood from Hera and stem cells from the amniotic sac were enough to halt and reverse President Roslin's cancer. Roslin took Hera from them in an attempt to protect the humans from what she didn't understand. The Cylons kept Hera when they found her on New Caprica, but Hera grew weaker and weaker until finally reunited with her mother and father and the love they have for her.

For a Cylons and humans, survival lies in the power of love, forgiveness and compassion.

What We Learn

In direct contrast to her powerful and nearly messianic calm of No Exit, Ellen turns into a bitter and scornful woman when confronted with the evidence that her husband Saul moved on after her death'. She tries desperately to put the Saul and Caprica relationship in context, but the evidence of Carprica's pregnancy is too much. Tory and the other Cylons put forth the proposition that the Basestar should jump away from the fleet now that the Final Five are reunited.

In a surprising turn of events, Tyrol agrees with Tory. Anders wanted to stay with the fleet as does Saul. That's two to go and two to stay. The Cylons all insist that majority rules, so they must agree to the vote, they all go or they all stay. Ellen is the deciding vote, but she is obsessing over Saul's relationship with Caprica and the fact that Saul and Ellen had sex just shortly after her arrival while his pregnant paramour does not know.

Funny Fact: Ellen is appalled that Saul slept with

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