Interesting episode of Battlestar last night, once again managing to deepen the rift between Lee and the Admiral. Given their relationship as the miniseries aired, that’s not an extremely difficult thing to do, and Kara’s death certainly exacerbated that.

Adama was absolutely right to ground Lee. Lee couldn’t concentrate on the simplest duties, mourning as he was. Of course, one might say the same of Adama, though he seemed to more easily be able to compartmentalize his emotions and stay on task. And he was right that Apollo screwed up by not finding the bomb planted on the underside of the raptor.

But to say that Lee couldn’t travel with Romo Lampkin, I thought, was a bit far-fetched.

I want to know more about Lampkin, however. I think that, yes, the fame is part of why he wanted to take Baltar’s case, but that there’s more to it than that. I don’t think he’s a Cylon (though who knows?!), but I have this sinking feeling he’s going to get Baltar acquitted, with Lee’s help. Did Lampkin actually know Lee’s grandfather?

Adama’s disappointment with Lee, though, seems to relate to his own relationship with his own father. His father defended the worst of the worst, as Lee tells Rollo. He obviously was a very busy man and probably had little time for his family. Adama probably went into the military as his rebellion against his father and was glad that Lee followed in his footsteps rather than attempting a career in law. That’s why he keeps insisting to Lee that he’s a pilot, not a lawyer, and his desire to help on the defense is so painful for him.

Now father is pitted against son, and as Romo pointed out in his letter to Baltar, that’s a powerful thing for the defense to have on its side, and they don’t even have to bring it up — it’s obvious for all to see. The question is, with Lee helping with Baltar’s defense, is Adama going to have to step down as a member of the tribunal because of a conflict of interest?

As for Caprica Six, it was nice to see her for the first time in what seems like weeks. Didn’t get much out of that scene, though, except to see that Romo had taken Baltar’s pen (which made it rather obvious that he’d taken the President’s glasses, given the juxtaposition of the two scenes of missing items). I guess we also realized that Six could have been a liability for Baltar but now is likely to be a benefit to Baltar’s defense. Six knows she can’t get a fair trial. Indeed, that she won’t even have a trial, which Rollo reminded her of.

But if Baltar still indeed loves her (and she still seems to be hallucinating him, or whatever their true connection really is), she can at least sacrifice herself to save the one she loves. By saying at trial that Baltar had no idea he was leading to the destruction of the 12 colonies, that Baltar tried to fight some of the Cylons’ actions on New Caprica and that Baltar had the colonists’ best interests at heart, not the Cylons’, he could indeed be acquitted.

Romo’s sticky fingers seemed to be more than met the eye, too. I somehow doubt he didn’t know what it was that he stole from Apollo’s friend, the anti-Baltar bomber. He even had it in a separate pocket from all the “funny” things he’d lifted from other folks. His decision not to steal from Apollo also seemed rather calculated to draw him into Baltar’s side rather than just because Apollo’d already “had enough stolen.”

I thought the discussion over who the bomber was was rather interesting. We can’t forget that Cally’s the one who killed Boomer and Athena knows that. Cally is rather radical and has evolved from being an extremely mousy, somewhat timid woman in the first season to an extremely strong-willed leader of the disenfranchised. That continues to cause conflict with Tyrol. The “bonus scene” at the end of the episode added more than previous bonus scenes have. I generally regard these as “why the heck are they even showing us this?” because they are so short and add pretty much nothing to the story. But Athena’s confrontation of Cally was very interesting and foreshadowed more problems to come, I believe. I think Cally has somewhat accepted Athena, but still sees Boomer first and can’t overcome that.

And lastly, poor Anders. He really did love Kara, despite all she did to him emotionally. He knew what he was getting into almost from the beginning, but she did also promise him she’d come back for him on Caprica, and she came through on that promise. He’d still be fighting toasters on a radioactive hunk of rock if it weren’t for her.

I was glad that he and Lee have buried the hatchet, too. Neither could help his love of Kara and they each recognize that. Apollo’s the only one who could talk him off the viper (even though Anders fell, rather than climbed, off it). I wondered about Dee, though. I’m sure she recognizes that Apollo’s still mourning Kara, and even understands it. But how is she coping with it? I’d like to see Dualla more often.

Just two more episodes and we find out, perhaps, what really happened to Starbuck. Despite the fact that I totally don’t want to accept it, I’m finding it harder and harder to believe she’s not a Cylon. They’ve taken her name off the opening credits, but they’d have to be stupid not to, because otherwise that’d be a major tipoff that she’s not dead — or human.

I still think Tigh would be the real stunner to be one of the final five.

Anyhow, here’s a couple of tidbits to tide you over until next week:

• BSG’s creators have given viewers the resources to film their own four-minute BSG shorts. Two humorous demos already are up. David Eick is going to choose his favorite among the entries at one point and that short will be broadcast during an episode of BSG, I’m guessing next season.

• Found this amusing video on YouTube: