Ahhh… Leo’s a crafty ol’ Toaster, so Kasey was human after all, i guess she won’t need to be introduced to Mr. Airlock…
but when it is…
[spoiler]holy crap, that was a short prophecy about Hera: made in one episode, fulfilled in the next
And THANK GOODNESS about Kara’s “child” NEVER trust that asshole![/spoiler]
AHHHHH what are you going to your beard!!!
Well, some of that sucked and some of it didn’t.
Roslin looks happy back in her chair. Is Adama simply going to install her as President? It looks like Tigh’s gonna arrange a shitload of lynchings.
I’m just amazed at how much content they crammed into the four episodes we’ve seen so far. What an awesome story arc, and I feel like all the characters have been given a fresh slate.
But there is now one Battlestar in the universe.
And how many basestars?
That was pretty damn sweet.
It was the easy way out with the not-Kara-kid, but I think it was probably the right way to do it.
Really curious as to what happens next… do we go back to “we need X resource! let’s send out Boomer and have her miraculously find it!” of the first season before they were really comfortable as a series? Do we do more of the find-Earth-mysticism? Or will (hopefully) the writers pull out something new and original? Mmmmm, wantmore.
(random other question: how will they fit in Anders, Samuel T. in a non-guerilla-warfare mode? we know he’s capable and a leader-type, but short of pulling a history of flight training out of his ass, what’s he going to be doing on Galactica?)
In retrospect you sort of knew that Pegasus was going to bite it. In many ways, this series is mirroring the major points of the old series. Pegasus appears and then is destroyed. Plus Baltar is now going to jet around the universe with the Cylons, just like Count Baltar did (though for different reasons).
I’m betting that Anders is given rank.
That was so frackin’ cool!
I guess we’ve now settled the question about atmospheric jumps for BattleStars.
And we’ve got one more clue on Amanda Plummer’s character – at least her tent was real.
Although BSG kind of slowed down after the Pegasus episodes last season, it’s definatly back on the rollercoaster tracks.
I know. The episodes only feel about 15 minutes long!
Marine officer? What’s gonna become of Tigh? Lee’s almost certainly going to become Adama’s XO since he’s the second highest ranking officer in the entire fleet. Will Baltar ever fall into the hands of the Colonials again? Nobody even bothered to ask where he was. He’s become Philippe Pétain and Judas Iscariot rolled into one.
WOWZA
That was an hour well spent. This episode delivered the goods. Major surprise for me when they sacrificed Pegasus. I’m guessing Lee will fair pretty well with any Board of Inquiry on the matter 
Might see Lee in the XO slot. Thinking maybe Tigh will semi-retire or something. Maybe run for President?
Figured Ellen was buying the farm. Did not figure she’d be making her exit in the first segment.
Xenabot finding and grabbing Hera so soon seems contrived. Baltar immediately recognized the child’s aura or whatever…a sign that he may be a toaster?
Awarding a minor ding for ending the Kasey angle that way. That was too easy a way out for the writers.
Adama on the bridge seemed to be channeling Gordon Lightfoot with the “It’s been an honor” line. Nice crowd pop for the old man on the hangar deck.
Looks like next week we’ll start an arc on dealing with the goodlife. The preview has lots of dark gritty goodness teasing…
More later. Poker tourney starting soon…
Actually, I thought the Kasey thing was handled in the best way possible:
- Kara won’t be dragging around a kid
- It totally fit with Leoben’s character: he’s a lying, dishonest sonofabitch: what he did tore up Kara’s heart big time
Didn’t watch the old series save for a few WTF moments with flying motorcycles.
RE Pegasus. I hope Lee got all the cocktail peanuts out of First Class. You might need a few things like that for up keep on the last battlestar. 
Oh and hey: wasn’t that the first appearance of Baltar’s inner Six when a real Six was around? It was subtle, but there was a Six on his back when he first picked up the baby talking about it being some new god shit… and then it cut to a real six about ten feet back going “what’s that?”
Gah! Bad plant! Naughty!
Flying motorcycles are in Galactica: 80, the series with Wolfman Jack and creepy Dr. Zee and only one good episode at all.
The “old series” is Battlestar: Galactica, with Zarek as Apollo, way before he needed to moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.
Shouldn’t Tom Zarek be President? He was VP.
Where did the term “goodlife” come from? I don’t remember hearing it on the show. Is it a Straight Dope coinage?
Pretty good episode.
Galactica’s planetary appearance was a great spectacle.
I thought Ellen’s demise came a little early? MIght have been nice to see it next episode or to have Sol off her as their ship was lifting off.
I’m glad not to have a prolonged mystery about Kara’s “child.” Better to show immediately what a mindfuck she’d been put through.
Didn’t understand why Pegasus couldn’t have jumped out once Galactica was safe.
The evacuation of the ships was too easy. I wish a couple of them had been taken out by raiders as they were lifting off.
I havent read any part of the trhead yet… but before I catch up, I have to simply say:
Holy Frakkin’ Shit!
That is the first time I watched any repeat of any show immediately following the first run…
“Not Everyone…”