I just want to stop here, by the way, and mention that I think making the Cylons a human creation was definitely a mistake. I mean, I see where they were going with wanting to give the bad guys a motive that's fraught with dramatic tension and whatnot, but the fact that the Cylons had no motive was one of the things I actually liked about the original. All that really mattered back then was that they wanted to wipe out humanity. Reasons weren't important. And at its core, Battlestar Galactica is supposed to be about a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest for a shining planet known as Earth. It's not about humanity's comeuppance for our arrogance, or even about how the war started in the first place. It's about the journey, and mankind's last great struggle for survival, and that's what this mini-series is missing in spades. Maybe it'll be different once the series starts, but now that I've seen one naked and listened to her whine about God and being "alive" and all that crap, I'm just not as scared of the Cylons as I used to be. Oh, well. Maybe they'll get it right in 2028.
Galactica. The venerable old MS X-Files Sans Serif font informs us that we're in the Starboard Landing Bay, where the decommissioning ceremony is about to take place. The Vipers (both new and old) do their fly-by, accompanied by trumpets blowing the original show's theme as a fanfare. Aww. At least that one was kind of sweet. But not sweet enough to stop me from asking what kind of an idiot spaceship designer would build a landing bay with a roof made totally out of glass. Do we not have asteroids in the future? It's especially stupid when you remember that the landing pods are retracted into the ship most of the time, so you wouldn't even be able to see outside. Whatever.