I thought this episode finally gave Apollo some needed depth.

I thought it finally gave him some much needed poontang, but that’s me : )
I’m glad to see that Appollo isn’t letting his crush on Starbuck get in the way of his scorecard.

This is what I get for trying to write a comment and debug HTML at the same time. :(

It seems quite clear to me that it’s no more than six months since the attack at this point.

I thought that was kinda a given.

Last week, we had Roslin’s flashback to the day she learns she’s got cancer, which (from the miniseries) we know was the day of the Cylon attack. There was a caption on that flashback, "189 Days Ago," which gives us a pretty clear timeline up to that point.

It seems quite clear to me that it’s no more than six months since the attack at this point.

During the President’s flashbacks in "Epiphanies" there’s a subtitle that reads something like "Caprica: 183 days ago". Yep, about six months.

But it’s fairly clear that things have to move slowly, as it were, because there’s so much going on. If we went away and left them for a month before coming back for another episode, we’d find the fleet much changed and very confusing, I’m sure!

Bit of a tangent but I thought the unaired episode(the one with the bounty hunter) of Firefly in the DvD collection was pretty crappy.

But yeah, no show is perfect :)

"Does that seem right to you?" :) actually I really liked that episode. There are a couple of episodes early on that I could do without, though. Not so much bad as just not as compelling and/or hilarious. But this seems to be a highly personal thing, with wildly differing opinions among Firefly fans.

Given that events are not progressing realtime, our first impressions of how believable it is for character X to get away with Y for so long may well be skewed.

Let’s take Baltar as an example. He hasn’t been wreaking havok for as long as it feels like he has (at least to those of use used to series progressing at approximately a year for every season). Given that the passage of time is less than it feels, it’s entirely reasonable that the administration may be suspcious of Baltar without knowing what he’s up to. Could be the "enough rope to hang yourself" thing. Also, the level of distraction from other events may also have prevented any real action against Baltar. Also, given his current position of Vice President and the fact that the general population doesn’t see his behaviour, they would have to move more carefully or face a revolt.

All that said, you don’t have to jump all over this and say "but that is just explaining away weaknesses in the plot" or "but surely in the situation they would have acted" or what have you. I’m just throwing this out as a counterpoint to the other arguments.

It will say that I also find the length of time the Baltar thing is going on a bit annoying. And, for that matter, some of the deus ex machina stuff that goes on is a bit obvious. But this is supposed to be entertaining. Sometimes, you have to dispense with total realism in the interest of making something entertaining rather than boring.

Actually, I thought this episode finally gave Apollo some needed depth. Prior to this it’s been all about his "daddy issues" and now he’s finally shown to have had something of a real life before everything got blowed up real good. The scenes with Dee, in particular, made him a more interesting character in my eyes.

I did like the end when the Admiral said "You should have told me about the girl." I thought that line really felt right for the Admiral as a commanding officer and a father.