You should check out my flist! A lot of people on there are so happy. I'm pretty happy, too, at the moment, but I'm pretty sure it's for completely different reasons (I'm the lone girl in the corner swooning over the Chief/Boomer kiss).

But yes, I'm not sure that I think Boomer has any good options, just less awful ones. As you said, Galactica (with the exception of Tyrol) still hated her and wanted her dead, despite being able to work right next to cylons that were part of the initial genocide of the Colonies (include Caprica, who snapped a baby's neck in the miniseries).

I can't see her as a black-hat because... a black-hat would have killed Athena, not beat her up. A black-hat wouldn't have been so uncomfortable and edgy about the idea of sleeping with Helo to throw him off the trail. A black-hat wouldn't have asked Tyrol to come with her. A very dark grey hat is where I'm living.