Also, in the last few episodes they have been having that almost Scottish background score in the show, which I think was very well done and added a lot of emotion to certain scenes on the ships. Did anyone else here think back to B5:In The Begining with Londos speech about the humans last part of the Earth Minbari War? Clearly it wasn't the same score, and wasn't a "rip off" of it, but both seemed to have that Scottish feel and both worked very well for where they were used.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I like it a lot.
With the exception of the first episodes with the Pegasus, they've always used a score with a celtic hint to it.
I hope that doesn't mean it will be leaving us now that the Pegasus is gone.
I thought it was a great moment when Galactica was falling through the atmosphere of New Caprica before jumping out. Not your typical sci fi battle tactic, eh?
This is the part I didn't really get. They jumped out of the atmosphere and then not long after jumped away again. We saw early on that it takes a while in between jumps, 33 minutes is a number I believe we were given at one point with a perfectly healthy ship and a full crew. Now they're on a skeleton crew with a ship that's damaged to hell and they can do it faster?
The whole space battle was great action, but just kind of ruined continuity for me. So we've got the cylons who destroyed nearly all of humanity's fleet with a numbers advantage against two "out of date" battlestars. Three cylon basestars pound on galactica for 2 minutes just bombarding it with missles and it stays afloat (with its jump engines coming on soon after no less) while the supposedly inferior pegasus takes out an entire basestar with its first barrage on its way to destroying all four basestars?
And why were there only 4 basestars? With jump technology couldn't they have pretty much sent the entire cylon fleet after the humans with them down to their last two ships? I guess the idea is that there's a distance limit but towards the end of season 2 Starbuck jumps all the way back to Caprica from Kobol (so far out they've never even been there before) all in one jump.
And on the ground all the cylons are just....not there. In this episode and the second (with the centurions trying to execute the 200 people at the beginning) they never show any centurions getting killed. How exactly to bullets kill those things anyway? The only time we've ever seen them gone is when they were blown away by a raptor missle, yet in these last few eps they just mysteriously go MIA anytime there's a big fight. With all the resources the cylons have and all that's left of their enemy confined to one place they have only a few centurions on the ground?
Still love the show and loved the ep of course, but it seems these types of things always get overlooked in sci-fi shows.
Tigh has become, by far, the most intereting charcter on the show to me.
Agree, Tigh has always been the character I was most interested in and that position only solidified itself tonight.
Speaking of Colonel Tigh, did you see Adama's face when his friend stepped off that transport...in that condition...and that he needed help? It was too sad...
That whole last scene with Adama being hoisted up and looking back at Tigh, and then showing the expressions on Tigh and Starbuck for a good long while was a great scene. Perfect music and mood, perfect execution by the actors. It really has Tigh set-up for some major screentime in the future and perhaps another big play in things.
i always thought ellen was a cylon, but to bring her back now would cheapen the death scene beyond belief.
Agree, but I still think it will happen. The meeting she gave the map for ended up being too small an event with too little screen-time for that to be the way they got rid of a character that they built up so much for over 2 years, although they could've just been using her as a tool to develope Tigh's character the whole time.
did you see Adama's face when his friend stepped off that transport...in that condition...and that he needed help? It was too sad... 
