Sounds good to me.
I hate you, Cervaise. I hate you with the burning intensity of all 12 suns of the 12 colonies. But on to my comments, which I haven’t put out for everyone who I’m sure has been waiting with bated breath:
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Sorry, but there’s no way Starbuck patched that hole with her flight suit. Patching it to seal it off enough to acclimate the atmosphere - fine. Patching it enough to not decompress when exiting the moon’s atmosphere? Don’t buy it. Someone mentioned there’s fanboy explanations - I’d love to hear them. I want to buy it, but can’t.
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I can live with Starbuck flying the ship. That’s not really so much of an issue. I don’t buy ElvisLives explanation because it’s WAY too much speculation and projection, but I buy her flying it.
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I don’t buy her maneuvering it like that. Would it have been too difficult for the producers to put a display screen in there? With a simple 3"x3" display screen, it would have vastly improved the credibility.
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Everything else was fantastic. We got lots more Adama/Lee action, we got Starbuck doing her thing, we got some Lee/Chief interaction, we got Boomer2/Helo action (I LOVE how slowly they’re taking this sideplot - it’s a big tease each week, but too much would be implausible).
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The various chrome toasters were fantastic. I always love throwback jokes, and that one’s tops in my book.
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I have a Boomer2/Helo issue: the first thing either one of them would want to do once settled in would be to shower. Is it such a difficult request to get some steamy-sillouette-Boomer2-coming-out-of-the-shower scenes in there?
What? 
I’ll be in my bunk…
All we were shown was a few minutes of her time on the moon, but we know she was there for over 46 hours. They just showed up the important parts, like when she started to patch the hole. I’m sure she spent time patching it more carefully off camera. She had a knife, yellow Super Sticky Space Tape, and who knows what else in her survival kit.
Well, of course. If Starbuck stroked me, I’d probably be pretty compliant, too.
Compliant but not just plain pliant, eh?
Oh, and Munch? Come get me. I will frack you up. 
Let’s you and him fight.
It probably doesn’t have a lot of pain receptors. It may not even understand who was doing the shooting, poking and cutting. Maybe without its control box, it’s just a big dumb insect that simply exists to have a master make it fly.
Just caught this ep on the Monday night rerun and eh, gotta say this two-parter was the weakest of the series so far. Aside from being rather cliche’d throughout (I swear I’ve seen the ‘we ain’t gonna abandon the lost pilot’ plot about fifty times on the various iterations of Star Trek) I was just annoyed by the whole setup and payoff.
The writers had an interesting basic idea with the Raiders being cyborg-type organism/machines, but as others have pointed out, such a device would have been highly unlikely to have any sort of mechanical controls that a human could manipulate. Cut the FBW computer out of an F16 and see how well it flies. Yeah, OK, so it’s a fantasy, but I just didn’t buy the story at all. Meanwhile, back on the ship, everyone seems to have suddenly developed a stiff neck and pretty much phoned in their performances. I will admit that the last scene was fairly affecting, but that was about it.
Not horrible, in the end, and I’ll be there for next week’s episode, but this one was just not nearly as compelling as the first few installments or the miniseries.
One part was from Top Gun. When the alert fighters are launched, the XO makes the comment about, “This will be over in xxx minutes”. That scene came straight from top gun. I’m guessing the writers were having a bit of fun with it.
Scene:
Baltar: Commander Adama, I’ve found a way to detect Cylons in human form.
Adama: How soon can it be implemented.
Baltar: Immediately.
Adama: Exactly what do you need to make this happen?
Baltar: A bedroom, no covers of any kind, multiple cameras and a contingent of socialators.
Adama: Excuse me?
Baltar: I know how it sounds, but it has come to my attention that while having sex, it seems that Cylons’ spines glow red. By careful observation of crewmembers engaged in love making, we can pinpoint any Cylon attempting to pass for human.
Adama: Are you crazy?
Baltar: I know how it sounds, but really it is a foolproof method.
Adama: Will there be DVD distribution?
Baltar: I’m sorry, sir?
Adama: If I’m going to approve this, I want a cut of the profits.
Baltar: Of course, of course, I’m surprised I didn’t think of that.
Adama: You’re only a genius, I’m a commander – that’s the difference.
I thought it was completly reasonable to search for Starbuck as she is a trained pilot. Losing a Viper hurts, but losing a fully trained pilot hurts a lot more.
I’m willing to suspend my disbelief and let Starbuck fly the enemy fighter. It does play a huge role later in the series.
I do agree that at this point they have overues Starbuck a bit. They will do so for one more episode and then the show finds a better balance.
The plot that bugs me the most is Boomer2 and Helo on Caprica. It really isn’t going anywhere and he is sooooo dumb.