Dilbert’s a fan of BSG! HT to BaltimoreMick.

I’ve been bad about blogging on BSG lately, understandable given my increased work load as finals arrive, studying commences, and, did I mention how many papers I have to write? Anyway, some quick thoughts on the episode, first, a summary:

Food supplies have been contaminated. The refugees in the Rag Tag Fleet are starving. Galactica locates a planet with an edible protein-packed algae in the middle of a dense and hard to navigate (not to mention highly-radioactive) star-cluster. Galactica’s pilots use Raptors to navigate skeleton-crewed ships through the cluster. After Starbuck learns that Kat assumed a new identity and reinvented her life after the Cylon attacks on Caprica (she was a drug smuggler named Sasha), Kat switches her radiation badge with Helo’s, hoping to kill herself before her secret is revealed to Admiral Adama.

* So, now that Tigh’s back as XO, Helo gets booted back to the flight-wing, and judging from the CoC chart at the end of the episode, he’s not even a flight leader. Man. There is just no more job security anywhere.

* I liked Kat, and I’m sorry to see her go. I always thought of her and Starbuck as the same character at different points in their lives, and thought the contrast between them — and their rivalry — was great.

* Of the three newly-recruited pilots we met in “Act of Contrition”, now only Hot Dog remains.