Spoilery

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My main one being, thank god that cheap knock-off Starbuck wannabe biotch Kat is no more. I've despised her from the beginning and while I know I was supposed to feel something for her slow, painful death, the most I could dredge up was a little pity for Kara and the Old Man because they felt bad about it. For myself, I held up my fingers in a big "W" for Whatevah, and was delighted to see the end of that stinker of an ep.

I don't think I would've minded quite as much if the general plot had made anything like sense. Sadly, it did not. I'm trying to tell myself it only seemed as suckful to me because I'd just seen the glory that was "Unfinished Business" (Jesus God whenever anyone asks me about season 3 I'm just going to point to that ep and drool prodigiously), but I'm inclined to think that it was just poorly written and the show is entitled to a stinker or two per season. Thankfully the remaining glorious episodes more than make up for it.

The only bit that I did like was Three and Baltar visiting the Hybrid. Although the "cow-eyed" comment slipped past me. I kept sitting there muttering, "Oh I know who that is...I know who that is..." but Baltar had to actually say it. What was weird, though, was that he was referring to Hera and not Juno, though he then goes on to say Jupiter rather than Zeus. And even stranger, the closed captioning read Zeus. WTF? They've very clearly established the gods of these folks to be those of the Greeks, not the Romans, so why are they going all weird with it now? Very, very odd.

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For all the hype over Jane Espenson's BSG debut, this made for a surprisingly weak ep. I'm surprised they let her do such a prominent recurring character as Kat, especially after they made her such a focus in "Scar," and the OMG SHE WAR A DRUGG1E!!!!! revelation just *shrieked* ABC After-School Special. It basically made her the classic friend that only gets introduced for the Very Special Episode and is then never referenced again. I can certainly live without her, especially if it drives Starbuck to more distraction (right now, it looks like she's having the greatest public slow-motion descent into madness since Clinton Portis willed the 'Skins to five straight wins last year through the miracle of cosplay).

All in all, I think it wasted what could have been a very good plot point: they have fewer ships and more people per capita on all of them, and consumables are bound to be a problem sooner rather than later. I had hoped they would hit this a little harder.

And yes, the pantheon mixup is a little weird. I'm starting to get the sense that people have stopped double-checking the series bible when they do their continuity checks, or as they say at work, "donkeys is slippin'."

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It absolutely was "A Very Special Episode", a very crappy special episode, but it definitely followed the familiar pattern. The worst bit for me, beyond the whole not caring about Kat or whatever happened to her, was the earlier stuff where Laura would ask a rational question and some other character would jump in to plug that plot hole as quickly as possible. More often than not the answer seemed to be a simple rewording of, "Because the plot demands it." *sigh*

Apparently Ron Moore's latest podcast claims there was some actual plot clipped out of this one and left on the cutting room floor. I'm going to be very forgiving and assume that's why it made no frakkin' sense.