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As much as I applaud this show for character development and want to know more about Adama’s past, I found myself yawning through much of this episode. Why is it that Baltar talking to the Six in his head never seems to get old, and yet when Adama pulls the same trick with his wife, I can’t make it though even a partial episode without being bored out of my skull? It’s not that the writing was bad, I just didn’t seem to care. Maybe it’s because we’re three seasons in and Carolanne has barely ever been mentioned, I don’t know.

The Adama/Lee scenes were a step up, but I’m getting tired of that whole father-son dynamic. Yeah, we get it—Bill was never around, Lee resented him, Zak was the favorite son… but it seems like this was, or at least should have been, dealt with by now. How may times have they had a blowout, only to end up hugging at the end?

Adama and the show’s writers did redeem themselves with the short scenes with Roslin. My earlier question of “Did they or didn’t they?” on New Caprica was basically answered, and so was a new one: “But would they have?” Apparently, yes, and may in the future from the looks of things.

Another thing I found interesting was that Roslin came over to Galactica basically because she was sick of being on her ship, and she was off to the gym after their scene together. And Tigh was telling Adama he should take the day off because it was his anniversary from when he was married to his dead wife, with whom he never got along very well and was never around much when he was alive and had the chance. So the two most important people in the fleet (and all of human civilization, I suppose) can screw off all day, and meanwhile, the little guys like Chief and Cally have to work on their day off and stick their little baby in daycare.  Nice.

Speaking of Chief and Cally, I liked the situation in the airlock and the way it was handled, as well as the rescue, better than I did the rest of the episode. I had a lot of problems with the fact that they couldn’t figure out a better way to patch the ship (from the outside maybe?) or rescue them, but then, this is sci-fi so we want to see characters put into dangerous situations by technological problems, right?

No Cylons again, which can really be a bad thing when there isn’t much going on. And a quick scene with Baltar is always a sure way to liven up an episode. James Callis certainly doesn’t carry the show, but he’s definitely missed when he’s absent.

Not bad for a traitor to the entire human race.

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