So, thanks to some leftover credit from hooking up my TiVo to Amazon's Unbox service (a concept which, by the way, still blows my mind - I hop on my computer, go to a webpage, order up a TV show, and it appears on my TiVo, and eventually my television... gotta love technology), I was able to catch up on all of the Battlestar Galactica episodes I missed, including Razor, and I have got to say... woah.

First, Admiral Cain would have shot me. There is no rutting way I would have followed her orders when it came to the Scylla, and since she tended to get in a killing mood when people disobey her... yup. Tactically, she was correct - the Pegasus needed crew and equipment to continue its battle against the Cylons, there is no doubt about that. But she was thinking on too short of a scale - yes, it is their mission, as military officers, as a ship's crew, and as the ship itself, to take the battle to the enemy, especially after said enemy just glassed twelve whole planets and killed God alone knows how many people. But considering the fact that they received no word of survivors form the colonies, they have to treat the situation like they are the last humans in... well... the universe. And taking those humans into repeated and increasingly deadly combat, while simultaneously shooting, and killing-through-stranding, some of the few civilians you happen to come across? Yeah, you might win the occasional battle against the toasters, but you sure as hell will lose the war.

Second, I find it all manner of amusing that the humans got to Earth after someone glassed it. And, yes, that does have to be Earth - granted, the stars projected in the Tomb of Athena on Kobol were possibly thousands of years out of date... But considering that Battlestars plot their FTL jumps and other navigation based off constellations, something tells me they can account for drift. Furthermore, the probability of different stars happening to align to perfectly represent those twelve constellations from some other planet are so small as to be effectively zero, so we are just going to have to accept this is Earth. The real questions are who nuked it, when, and why... And I guess that is what the rest of the season is for.

Third, what is the deal with Starbuck? Dead (as in ship-exploded-on-gun-camera-footage-dead), not dead; harbinger of death, guide to Earth... And what is with Adama 1 and Adama 2 just going along with it? Hope is one thing, but, damn..

For only having half a season left, this show has a lot of loose ends to either tie up, or chop off.