I’m with danterner. I think with this final push toward their end, a lot will change, many will likely die (Cylon and Human alike) and Kara will be at the center of it.

The scream the hybrid made was chilling. I hope they never use that sound again.

I particularly liked the hybrid’s prophecy to Kara (“Thus will it come to pass. The dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House. The missing Three will give you the Five who come from the home of the Thirteenth. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace, you will lead them all to their end. End of Line.”) I think I now see glimmers of where the show may ultimately lead:

The hybrid’s prophecy begs the questions: Whose death is Kara the harbinger of? Who is the “they” that Kara will lead to their end? Since hearing a slightly different version of this prophecy (in Razor?), I have been assuming it is referring to humanity – that the Hybrid is prophesying that Kara will lead the fleet to its demise. This lends tension to Kara’s leading the fleet to Earth. But why can’t the Hybrid be referring to Kara as the harbinger of Cylon death, instead? Over the course of the series, we’ve seen the differences between humans and cylons deemphasized. Apart from their respective religious beliefs, at this point one of the biggest and only differences between humans and cylons is the death/resurrection process. Maybe Kara has a hand in somehow ending the cylon resurrection process. (By taking out the resurrection ships, or something permanent along those lines). If cylons can no longer resurrect, but instead can birth children (as they have been striving to do), then what at that point really is the functional difference between humans and cylons? They’ve become one and the same, and in a sense Kara would be the harbinger of death to cylon culture, bringing it to its end. If cylons and humans (the splinter group from the cylon civil war and the colonial fleet) wind up finding earth and setting up shop together, then Kara has brought about the end in another respect – she has led the humans to the end of their journey. This, too, would help bring things about full-circle: there would once again be one homogeneous group (comprised of cylons and humans both) living together on earth. Until the next time history repeats itself, at least: after all, “All this has happened before and will happen again, again, again….”