So the jailbreak is on, but Tigh has to poison his own wife first. She gives a nice speech, making him feel even worse about what he had to do. With all her faults, it was obvious that he really did love her. But you know what they say: once you go Cylon, you can never go back. Here’s hoping that Tigh loses his eye for good – how great would he be with a black patch?

The coolest thing about the escape was Adama’s ruse with the drone ships and the subsequent jump into New Caprica’s atmosphere. There’s Galactica, crashing to the planet, but he’s able to launch a crapload of vipers before jumping away.

For a moment there, it looked like he was going down with his ship, but you just knew that Lee would show up with the Pegasus to save the day. I thought it was interesting how the writers figured out a way to save Galactica while destroying Pegasus at the same time. After all, it the show isn’t called “Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus,” is it?

I have to say that the special effects on the show are tremendous considering how much the creators grumble about limited budgets. The space battle scene was extremely action-packed, and the effects are getting so good that you don’t get lost in little details that look odd, which was still a problem for sci-fi television as recently as a few years ago.

It looked like both the Cylons and the humans were each going to leave New Caprica with a hybrid baby, but Casey turned out to be a random human child. Katee Sackhoff’s (Starbuck) acting was terrific in that scene on the ship. When she discovered that she wasn’t Casey’s mom, she looked like she had just been punched in the gut.

I’m curious how Maya died on the way to their ship, leaving the baby Hera for the Cylons. Roslin stressed to the leaders of the insurgence how important it was that they get off the planet, and while tons are others are able to escape, they are not. I wish we had been able to see how that happened. Maybe they can tie a flashback into a future episode to explain it.

The Admiral looks better without the ‘stache. Now if we can just get Lee to go on a diet…