I still haven't listened to it... I'm planning to do so tonight. :) I'm not at all surprised to hear that they didn't have this stuff figured out sometime before the last three episodes, though!

Even this idea doesn't make a whole lot of sense -- the humans would die out right frakkin' now if Cavil killed them. I think the "mu ha ha ha, I've got the little girl and she's tied to the train tracks" idea is kind of bizarre no matter how you slice it... it seems to be there just because they'd built Hera up for three seasons.