While dressed like the lovechild of Marlo Thomas and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg.

Last week’s episode of Battlestar Galactica saw the demise of a perfectly logical character. That is, a character that was important enough to draw a reaction from viewers, but not important enough to seriously impact the show as we know it.

The Battlestar writers did a pretty good job of keeping us guessing as to how Cally’s death would play out, what with the suicide-with-half-cylon-baby/no-Tory-is-here-to-help/no-Tory-is-here-to-murder fake outs. It’s probably the biggest moment Tory has had in the entire show, including being outed as a cylon.

It was a pretty shocking moment and I was sad for a minute. Only a minute though, due to her innocent, little girlish appearance. Eventually I realized that Cally was kind of a pain in the ass and the actress who played her wasn’t that great (did you see that scene with the doctor?).

This brings us to the whole issue of who’s going to drop dead this season. Speculation is rampant and bleak. Even Edward James Olmos is hinting that no one makes it in the end. And while I don’t necessarily expect everyone to end the series with babies and puppies and wood-burning stoves, I think that the theatrics of an everyone-dies-in-the-end conclusion might be a bit much — even for Battlestar.

So, who’s going to stick around for a while? I expect people to drop like flies all season, but the questions are who and when. Here’s a round-up…

(for the record, when I list cylons, I’m talking about their current body)

Gaius Baltar – Baltar’s death would be the most satisfying and longest overdue. He’s survived the attack on Caprica (saved by Number Six), survived the presidency on New Caprica, time with the Cylons, a trial on the fleet and avoided being killed by the masses afterwards. The very fact that he’s so awful is reason enough for the writers to keep him around, plus with his whole new guru storyline I expect this to take a while to play out.

Tigh - Tigh is another one who’s “had it coming” for a while, mostly through being unpleasant to any and everyone.

Adama - Wouldn’t that be a kick in the head to have them kill off the old man prematurely? To have them kill Adama and then see people scramble to replace him and cope with the loss in leadership? The more I think about it, the better idea it seems.

Apollo - No effing way.

Helo - Helo has always been a bit peripheral to the whole Starbuck and Apollo Awesome People Fan Club Superstar Show. Hell, he spent the first season in the woods. He could be a mid-season death that makes people sad, but doesn’t change the season’s trajectory too much.

Roslin – Roslin will die in the last episode or not at all. For a woman who was supposed to be dead meat in season one, this would kind of make it all come full circle. I can’t imagine they’d off her beforehand with a cylon attack or some such nonsense.

Anyone else have thoughts on the way the rest of the season will play out?

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