Garoo

I don’t know, and don’t want to check, how old Mary McDonnell actually is, but she ought to have felt insulted when she met the guy they had hired to be her old student who’s supposed to be evidently that much younger than her. (Although I guess they couldn’t quite make Roslin a total pedophile, either.)

As for Boomer’s flashback, why did it need to justify her “I owe him one” ? Because shooting Adama in the gut wasn’t enough of a debt?

Speaking of Boomer, whatever happened to the idea that jumping from too close to another ship would damage it? Nothing seemed to happen when the Raptors jumped from within Galactica, nor when Galactica jumped away from the Shadow colony.

Not that Galactica ramming into the colony was any more realistic, but I understand that they had to top the memorable time when it jumped into New Caprica’s atmosphere.

The truth of the opera house was pretty weak — as was the… supposed reveal of Hera’s importance (can’t say I consider it resolved at all) — but that was all tied into the huge deus ex that the second part was, and… well, that was kind of inevitable, and there was no hiding away from the fact the past two seasons were heading strongly in that direction.

While I agree with most gripes I’ve seen so far in the forums, I’d like to point out that the “They have a plan” could very well be explained away by Cavil’s machinations. I’m pretty sure that’s how that part fits in Moore’s mind, and it would have worked if the episode revealing that plan had been written better.

Finally, when I read speculation that the writers had pulled a Copperfield and were going to reveal the real Earth in the finale, I thought I would hate it if that happened; but the finale’s first part was good enough, and the shot of the Moon cool enough, that I bought it instantly.