OH!  Speaking of how things work - opening scene - Raptor spinning out of control.  Heading straight for Colonial One.  One engine firing and sending it erratically forward and in a spin.  The very clearly showed us the pilots ejecting when the top of the raptor was lined up with the top of Colonial One.  The energy from the ejections seats should have worked like directional thrusters, pushing the Raptor downward and almost certainly, given the sizes and distances on the screen, out of Colonial One’s path.

I think the writers forgot how space works… :) YES.  I AM A DORK.  Shut up.

You’re not taking into account a few possibilities though.  This is space, but its also sci-fi space.  And while they try to be more space savvy than other shows I think its obvious that they still have things like artificial gravity and Inertial Dampeners.  Even if you blow the cockpit its likely those were still working within the ship and don’t depend on an atmosphere to work.  Those would have stopped the ejection seats from affecting the ship speed.  Another explanation is force required to eject and actual inertia.  In space you won’t need as much thrust to eject as you would in atmosphere.  And whatever thrust they did have might not have been enough to alter the raptors direction significantly before collision.

I can’t believe anyone bought Baltar’s friggin’ “We’re the oppressed underclass and I’m the son of a poor dairy farmer” when the dude was once friggin’ PRESIDENT.

You must have watched a different episode than I did, cause I thought it sucked.  “We can’t stop the conveyor to clear the jam, or shit will explode"--then Chief...stops the conveyor after the dude gets hurt.

Didn’t this show have fucking killer robots or something once?

Joe; I think the problem is that this, what i think was a good filler ep, comes on the heels of quite a few boring filler eps.  We need to see something happen and SOON.

Re: the conveyor; You can only not stop it when it’s jammed.  For some reason, clearing the jam makes it OK.  :)

Re: Baltar - I think Callie summed it up in behalf of all the suckers - she said something like ‘I know it’s Baltar, but...” I guess his “arguments” such as they were, must have been very persuasive?

Whatever.  He’s just trying to taint a jury pool.

I don’t mind these “slice of life” episodes either, but come on! Mix in the slice of life portion with a little action portion so it’s not one long dialogue-fest.

As for your writing on the episodes, I prefer your previous style. It was much more entertaining to read (though maybe not write). I like how you expounded on SaltySeaDog and HeadGaius and the other entertaining names… seeing how you came up with theories of what was going to happen and why. It was like sitting next to you on a couch while watching it without having to shush you.

Now you’re just like all the other “recap the episode” posts on other blogs. With the above style you might as well go write for DirecTV, cable or TV Guide putting together those little descriptor you get when you hit the “info” button on your remote.

Just my opinion of course…

ill have to watch this later, but one thing i have noticed. WEAR and TEAR, on teh ships of teh fleet.. we are not seeing much of it, come on!
they been flying for about 2 years now nonstop surely someone is gonna have a engineering casualty of some kind!

though i notice the Galactica looks a bit beat up.

Good point about the filler episodes.

And I found the whole conveyor/safety thing annoying, since that’s my line of work.  I understand that it’s an alternate universe, and they’re under an unusual set of pressures, but it bugged me.  I’d think a society with FTL travel capabilities would have better manufacturing design practices than that.  I suppose it’s the same way that programmers or electronics guys feel all the time about sci-fi stuff.

As for your writing on the episodes, I prefer your previous style. It was much more entertaining to read (though maybe not write). I like how you expounded on SaltySeaDog and HeadGaius and the other entertaining names… seeing how you came up with theories of what was going to happen and why. It was like sitting next to you on a couch while watching it without having to shush you.

Now you’re just like all the other “recap the episode” posts on other blogs.

Huh.

You know what?

You’re right.  I will figure something out...but you make a very valid point.

Tyrol was right in that they were being taken advantage of, but Adama and Roslyn were right too in that it’s a time of war and they’re running for their lives.

All in all, I did like the episode, but I did think it was an overkill way to come to the obvious solution.. that they need to take turns doing the dirty work.  The thing with the kid getting hurt was so easy to see coming from a mile away though.

In reality if just about anyone with common sense were Tyrol, you’d think you’d just explain what’s wrong, then offer that taking turns is the only fair idea (and it’s more sensible as more people learn the necessary skills)… and you simply volunteer for one of the crappy jobs right up front to show that everyone has to take a turn.

I really hope they’re not going to spend too much time on the whole class warefare thing… hopefully this was it.

They thing I told myself in order to have this episode not be like “Ah-DUH people, why’d you need to even think about this!” is that they have been on the run for so long, and the one time they got to stop they were enslaved.  So basically, no one has taken a minute to figure this stuff out.

We saw the politics gets hashed out early on in the series, but this sort of thing was left to our imaginations.  As long as jobs were getting done...they just carried on. 

I might have used it as a B story to some action though...Either way, at least it wasn’t about hoarding medicine and Lee Adama - Grand Inquisitor.  :)

Put it this way Jim, I actually looked forward to reading your episode review every week because they were so entertaining. “Hmm wonder what they had to say about this episode over at Right Thoughts?”. Sad I know. My life is sad like that.

I was actually disappointed not to get my “JimK special” this week. Now I’m contemplating hanging myself. :(

Was I the only person who though “C-Licks” instead of “Seelix” and wondered what the “C” stood for? I thought there were some other pervs here, dammit!

These days, BSG seems to be slowly drifting from “Tightly Written Adventure in Space With Interesting Characters” to “Boring, Contrived Family Drama in Space"… typical of a show where the money people want to pad in a few extra seasons of episodes without the effort and expense of actually writing and developing another story arc or two. Can anyone say “Sopranos”?

You notice it in episodes like this one where, as other people have noted, there are poorly thought our elements such as the ejector seats not changing the course of the Raptor and the “sometimes the conveyor explodes when you stop it, sometimes it doesn’t” thing (and who designs something that shitty in the first place?!??) I mean, these people Travel Through Space!!! They can’t design a refinery to anything near OSHA standards??? They conveniently switch between “Star Trek Shiney” (ugh) and “Mad Max Primitive” whenever it suits the lazy writer’s needs. They need to get their shit together or this show’s going to start sucking harder then an American Idol contestant…

Finally got to watch the episode, and I came away with one thought:
WHY THE FRAG IS ANYONE LISTENING TO FRAGGEN BALTAR? Dude the cover of the book making him look all Che was priceless,and pretty much should be a major clue. Baltar is a fraggen genocidal dictator, who ordered the deaths of his own kind. He helped plot the destruction of the colonies. Yet he’s being remade into this “champion of the people’ just like ol’ Che. UGH.

If you listen to how po o’ Baltar came from such humble beginings, and had to escape his rural background, only to rise to the Presidency pretty much scuttles all his psuedo-socialist crap. If all people are only to be who they started out as because of the oppression of the Ruling class, then wouldn’t that mean Baltar should be shoveling cow shit some place? But, as I have said before, logic rarely is involved with rhetoric.