Well that was one of the best (well ok, maybe just better) episodes yet. Ron still threw the Iraq thing up in our faces, though, "just leave" nyah-nyah-nyah. Although the nuke thing is a damn good idea. 

Unsure why they felt the need to kill off Ellen Tigh.  Although I never much liked the character and thought it added a "Hi, I'm whipped" element to Tigh that he didn't need.  He needed to be the grisly old whiskey-drinking bastard smelly pirate he started off to be.

Spaceships, bullets, missiles, things going boom, gunfire... and that bit with the Galactica FTL-ing into atmosphere to drop the fighters and then jump back out again was an inspired bit of work....  Nicely played.

Seriously, I'm glad to see that maybe, just maybe the show will return to the business of being BSG. The Pegasus is finally gone (wondered how they would do that...), and (THANK YOU) Starbuck's kid isn't really (THANK YOU) Starbuck's kid, so we hopefully (THANK YOU) don't have to go down that road. (DID I SAY THANKS FOR THAT?)

And more importantly, Baltar is with the Cylons where he belongs! Get him up there in a big empty room in an elevated chair in the dark! Now! By your command biotch!

And get Apollo in the gym already, he looks ridiculous. Fatass! I can hear him now, "I'm not fat! I'm just big boned! >.< "...

...And after typing that, I just pictured the entire show done South Park-style. "Lee! Respect my authoritay!" "Oh my god! You killed Boomer! You bastards! Oh, Never Mind!" "Shut your frackin mouth uncle fracker!!!" And the split-in-half cartoon head of Gaius Baltar in place of Saddam.

I need to go drink something. >.<

Back to it!  So now the gang's all back together onboard a tattered Galactica.  Tigh's more grisly and battle-worn than before (wonder if they'll give him a patch or explain it off with a glass eye? Argh matey!), Adama's back at the helm, Baltar's with the Cylons, Starbuck is (THANK YOU) child-less again...

...but Apollo concerns me.  Sure he seemingly got over his content-to-sit-around-on-his-ass eating cheesy poofs phase and went after dear old dad... But what're they going to do with him?  Pull a Kirk and knock him back to Captain so he can fly again?

Please do just that, Ron.  Put everything right again.  You've nearly got it.  And to think you almost had me giving up on things... Remember...

Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest -- for a shining planet known as Earth.

Note it doesn't say "shining Cylon infested planet we named New Caprica."  Thanks!

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