Weekend Wrap-Up

The home stretch to finals and graduation is kicking my butt, so I apologize for the dearth of updates. There were some exciting developments in both "The Office" and "Battlestar Galactica" over this long weekend, and they of course need to be talked about.

First and foremost, we know Jim has an engagement ring for Pam. A RING! And he bought it within a week of his & Pam's first date. And this is why every 'Office'-watching woman I know is in love with Jim Halpert. He is the perfect boyfriend. The whole "Pam...will you wait for me while I tie my shoe?" was hilarious. I really hope this becomes a running gag for the rest of the season. Until the finale, when he actually proposes, of course. Which will be in some fantastic, totally Jim way.

Also, is this really the end of Michael & Jan? He seems to want to move on. But I wonder if he's kicked her out of his condo yet -- is he living with Dwight? Inquiring minds want to know.

"Oscar Meyer Weiner Lover." Too good to go without a mention.

Poor Kevin. First Stacy breaks up with him, then he has to endure the long walk to the Scranton business park each morning. I'm glad he "won one." It was great to see more of him this week anyway, after he got pushed to the side for the dinner party last week. But when will we get more Stanley?

Nice to get a line from Creed this week. Can't wait to see what happens when he gets his three chairs.

And, in everyone's favorite sci-fi epic, a not-so-favorite character bites it, a Cylon unleashes her dark side, and a really cute baby almost gets airlocked. Oh, and Starbuck is probably crazy.

Kara and her skeleton crew (Gaeta, Seelix, Anders, and the Fighting Agathons) are drifting somewhat aimlessly through space while she sorts through star charts and paints pictures of the sky on her walls. I thought the butterflies in her stomach were telling her where to go -- are they out of commission now? Anyway, she and Sam have some kind of love/hate-filled tryst aboard the Demetrius, and Kara tells Sam that she only married him because it (he) was easy and safe. We knew that already, Kara. Sam thinks Kara is another Cylon. That's probably going to end poorly for him.

Zarek is back, and he's manipulating Lee, I think. At the very least, he's trying to undermine Laura again by telling Lee how much she is amassing power and using secretive means to do so. So Lee does Zarek's bidding and tells the Quorum and the press about some document she was planning to keep secret. I really the writers don't turn Lee into Zarek's unwitting puppet. Seriously? We just went through that with Lampkin last season, and Lee is an intelligent man, so let's not make him look stupid again, kay?

The Cylon civil war continues, this time with the Cavils playing like they want peace with the Sixes, Twos, and Eights but then destroying their basestars without a Resurrection Ship in range. Yeah. It sucks. Also, Boomer and Cavil are an item. Ew.

Cally has been seeing everything through a fish-eye lens, if the camera focus on her this week was to be believed. She's also been going slightly crazy, what with her constantly crying child and imagining an affair between the Chief and Tory. She sneaks into the wall where the Four (minus Anders) have a conversation about being Cylons. Hearing that her husband is a Cylon doesn't sit well with Cally, to put it mildly. She beats the crap out of Chief with a wrench and then attempts to airlock herself and her Cybrid child, Nicky. She's interrupted by Tory, who has taken a turn to the dark side, but she's eerily calm and composed about it. She talks Cally into handing over Nicky and then bitch-slaps her halfway across the airlock chamber. Some newfound Cylon strength, perhaps? And then Tory sends Cally out the airlock. The End. Only 17 to go.

For lighter fare, I should have the Dancing with the Stars recap up tonight, and I just taped a re-run of the first episode of "Mad Men" on AMC, so I'm way excited to watch that tonight, too.