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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2603916" data-attributes="member: 4779">Good ep.  I certainly had my fist in the position of defiance when the "to be continued" flashed across the bottom of my screen.  I've respected this series from the start, which was unexpected.  I've always enjoyed the dark tone that it kept.  I've always felt that in order to experience incredible highs, we must do the same for the lows and the good programs do that.  They don't cheese out and try to manufacture rage, joy or anything in between out of nothing.As that relates to this episode - there was a nice sheen of resentment over the whole thing.  Both Adama and Roslin have become comfortable in their current roles and from an outsider's view things may look lax and sloppy (which they were).  Even with the joyful moments, the upbeat music and the cheering on deck a pall hung over the whole thing.  And add to it, no character named Cain has ever (okay, maybe not ever - I haven't watched and read everything but you get the notion) been on the up and up within this genre.  Cain's demeanor was never kind or sympathetic and not for one minute did I believe that she wouldn't or didn't execute an officer who defied her orders.  Adama and his are in for a world of hurt.Pegasus-Six is an interesting twist.  She was obviously brutalized in every way possible, I don't think we need to get into details.  When Sci-Fi ran the "Adult Material Alert!" before that segment it was quite obvious that we were going to see something sexual in nature.  They showed just enough to make you hate the interrogator even more and to route for the would-be rescuers.  The interaction with Baltar is something I'm looking forward to.  But not as much as...Starbuck!  Just can't keep the girl down.  She was wrong to talk up the way she did in the briefing but it's her way so I can't fault her for that.  I would have thrown her off the mission as well.  The right move would have been to somehow bring up the record of her brilliant attack plan against the mining base in S1.  Oh well, she's not a scalpel, she's a sledgehammer.  I'm really looking forward to seeing her in the cockpit again after a very long time off.</blockquote>

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