I’m kind of torn with what’s going down on the Grand Poo Barge. I guess its logical for the the crew to mutiny and not align with cylon rebels and instead to return to the fleet, but I would think by now that they’d have witnessed enough things that would put the “logical choice” into question. Unfortunately, Kara is the only one on the ship to have witnessed the map to Earth first hand, but Gaeta was the one that analyzed the Eye of Jupiter and should realize the incredibly small probability of that star going supernova at the exact moment when it did. Therefore, it would seem that it shouldn’t take that much of a leap of faith to follow Kara.
Audra mentions that she hopes that Kara comes back to reality, but who is to say that she isn’t already there? She’s seen Earth and say’s she knows how to find it. That isn’t any more illogical than some of the arguments made by the President who they have been following loyally since the reunification of the fleet at Kobal. Starbuck appears to be their best (or only?) hope to find Earth and I think they need to follow her as far as it goes. It made sense to separate the search party from the rest of the fleet because it is a dangerous mission, and exactly because the fleet isn’t in danger their mutiny seems that much more self serving.
I’ve been a Helo fan from the beginning, but this is the first time (IMO, obviously) that I’ve really seen him really fail in his decision making. He “hand picked” this crew to serve on this mission, knowing that it required following Kara’s gut instinct to find Earth. Unfortunately, clearly the crew he picked was not up to the task. That appears to show a poor judge in character by Helo. Then again maybe Adama gave him an impossible task and Bill’s desire to help Kara may have clouded his judgement. He may have had too strong a faith that the men and women in his command would also have the same faith in Kara.
For the Gods sake - it’s just hair! It grows back! Get over it!