I liked it.
Starbuck figuring how to pilot the red-eye flight
I figured when I saw that the foot pedals that the "brain" was more of a human-based cybernetic organism. I am assuming that the cylons have better fighters than the humans, but that the cylons themselves are subject to a design flaw where they become too predictable because the pilot program is always the same, unlike the humans. So the ships are better, explaining why Starbuck could still outfly Apollo, but the cylon brains operating it have to come dangerously close to being a true human to preserve what elements of randomness it can.
Adama doing a 180 and forgiving Starbuck
First it isn't clear that he did forgive her. It was just that the reality of her loss hit harder than his anger toward her. Adama is a very cold man, his own son had to question whether or not he'd be searched for given a similar scenario. So Adama simply isn't very good at expressing complex emotions like the ones he faced in this episode and as a result he goes too far in all directions: from threatening Starbuck to truly embracing her as a daughter.
The President not asking for resignation
She's gambling the entire civilian leadership against the possibility that Adama might wise up in an hour or two? No chance. She is only in charge at his sufferance. If Adama wanted to stage a coup, he could and with very little effort. The rag-tag fugitive fleet needs the Galactica FAR more than the Galactica needs the fleet. As Adama said, if it had been Apollo, they wouldn't have abandoned the search at all.
And that bit where Apollo and Adama bond was a damn fine scene. Apollo essentially is told for the first time that his father loves him and his reaction was dead on. Kudos to both actors.
