A lot of people decry this episode as one of the weaker ones, but it’s also the one I’ve probably seen least from the series. In fact, I never saw it in its uncut entirety until I got the DVD set. Weak it may be, but it’s a whole lot better than “The Long Patrol” or “The Magnificent Warriors.” I’m up in the air about “The Young Lords.” That was pretty terrible all around, but the eye-popping production values make up for it.

Anyway:

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Man, I’ve got to write these things shorter. Granted, the last Galactica ep had a ton of important stuff in it to cover, but still it ran seven pages! I’ve got to find a way to do these things without killing myself or my fingers.

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With this episode, Galactica suddenly figures out what it is, and what it wants to be. Up to this point, the show has been scrambling to make deadlines, and just throwing crap on the air without much thought. Suddenly they start planning ahead, settling in for a long haul, which never materialized. Suddenly they’re taking major chances, stepping away from things that have been over done, and exploring the unique potential of the series in ways that even the RDM Galactica series never did.