Can I say just WOW! Course I was using more colorful language during the course of the ep. 
Excuse the random rambling that follows....
Interestingly paced episode. They didn’t frak around with any unnecessary dialogue or scenes. Though I come away severely craving more from each of the character scenes. (Okay maybe not the Helo/Tyrol beating) I’m glad they just jumped right into the battle and didn’t have some big choreographed space battle with loads of VFX and explosions. They gave us the details of what was going to happen in the last ep. with all the nice little models and that was enough. The visuals of the Vipers destroying the Res. ship along with the musical score was effective. Loved that intercut with Lee and the battle in the background. Visually the battle was awesome yet it wasn't overkill and didn't take up more time in the ep than necessary to get across the action.
Who was going to off Cain came as no surprise to me since stupid Skiffy runs promos giving away that plot point. You’d have to be blind not to be able to tell who was holding the sidearm in the commercials.
But what was a nice little surprise was the backing down by both sides. I probably should have guessed that was a possibility, but last week’s ending was so intense, it seemed like neither would ever consider backing down.
That’s kind of my feeling, too. He’s such a principled character that this action that he was being asked to take part in was over the line. I guess he felt that if things had gotten so bad that those that he trusted were resorting to this, why continue on in this madness. It might just be easier and less painful to end it all. Not to mention all the **** he’d been subjected too. Getting a demotion to LT, having Kara outdo him yet once again and get the acclamations, etc. etc. compiled on the stuff he's had to endure since the beginning of the series. (Nicely played there by the writers by having it be revealed that he had been demoted through a conversation with his father rather than inserting some minor scene with dialogue specifically devoted to that development.)
Admiral Adama is nice but it just doesn’t have the same ring for me as Commander Adama. Yeah, I’m set in my ways.
Some episode down the line
That’s a little harsh. 
I thought they were okay guys, imho. I’m not ready to write off the entire crew of the Pegasus for the actions of a few. I hope Whiplash (Sebastian Spence) survived because I’d like to see more of him. I did see in another thread here that someone mentioned that the guy that played the CAG (Stinger) was no longer available to play the part so he may be a write off in the battle. Pity. I thought he was interesting as well. I even had to snicker when he put Lee in his place and called him a daddy’s boy. (And I like Lee....) He provided some nice conflict.
I'm gonna kind of miss Cain now.
MF did a great job portraying that character. I mean I hated her guts as soon as she practically goose-stepped off the Raptor and onto the Galactica, but damn she was an interesting and complex character. And she was only in 3 episodes! RDM really knows how to develop a character and push all the right buttons.
Correct. You just have to put anything that is spoilers for future episodes in spoiler tags in this thread. Discussion of the episode in the episode thread needs no tags because well it’s the episode thread....
Excuse the random rambling that follows....
Interestingly paced episode. They didn’t frak around with any unnecessary dialogue or scenes. Though I come away severely craving more from each of the character scenes. (Okay maybe not the Helo/Tyrol beating) I’m glad they just jumped right into the battle and didn’t have some big choreographed space battle with loads of VFX and explosions. They gave us the details of what was going to happen in the last ep. with all the nice little models and that was enough. The visuals of the Vipers destroying the Res. ship along with the musical score was effective. Loved that intercut with Lee and the battle in the background. Visually the battle was awesome yet it wasn't overkill and didn't take up more time in the ep than necessary to get across the action.
Who was going to off Cain came as no surprise to me since stupid Skiffy runs promos giving away that plot point. You’d have to be blind not to be able to tell who was holding the sidearm in the commercials.
But what was a nice little surprise was the backing down by both sides. I probably should have guessed that was a possibility, but last week’s ending was so intense, it seemed like neither would ever consider backing down.
Originally posted by Arative
Admiral Adama is nice but it just doesn’t have the same ring for me as Commander Adama. Yeah, I’m set in my ways.
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Originally posted by kharn the betrayer
I thought they were okay guys, imho. I’m not ready to write off the entire crew of the Pegasus for the actions of a few. I hope Whiplash (Sebastian Spence) survived because I’d like to see more of him. I did see in another thread here that someone mentioned that the guy that played the CAG (Stinger) was no longer available to play the part so he may be a write off in the battle. Pity. I thought he was interesting as well. I even had to snicker when he put Lee in his place and called him a daddy’s boy. (And I like Lee....) He provided some nice conflict.I'm gonna kind of miss Cain now.
MF did a great job portraying that character. I mean I hated her guts as soon as she practically goose-stepped off the Raptor and onto the Galactica, but damn she was an interesting and complex character. And she was only in 3 episodes! RDM really knows how to develop a character and push all the right buttons.
Originally posted by Speakfire
I love it when writers employ that writing technique effectively and toss you into the middle of the action, rather than start from the beginning and progress forward in a linear fashion.
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