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.

Man, and I thought Quark was bad with the ripoffs! Sorry, “Hommages.” Galactica is pretty much nothing but! Ok, so the first and second stories were basically original, the third one was “Shane,” the fourth one was original, the fifth one was “The Guns of Navarone,” the sixth one was “The Magnificent Seven,” the seventh one was basically original (That creepy one with the kids), the eighth one was “Patton,” and now, now, now, we’re ripping off “The Towering Inferno.”

Glen Larsen likes to rip people off. If a story works, grab it, it's all just TV after all, right? Nothing to get upset about. This time out, he rips off Patton, but the writers take a freer hand with it than usual, so the story warps and wanes and goes in its own direction. If one wasn't immediately aware of this, one need go no further than to listen to the music.