[PogySailor]

Well, I thought I wouldn't like it, but I do. A couple of things that I liked:

The Cylons aren't interested in a negotiated truce. They want to destroy humanity completely. The "liberals" on the show have yet to figure that out. We shall see how this plays out.

Better character development. Some insight into the people rather than just set piece characters such as "fighter jock".

Much better effects, but it is 2003. Sure the flight physics are still wrong but at least there is an attempt to make them more realistic.

A couple of things I didn't like (maybe a little picky):

Mixed up military ranks. Commander is a Naval rank, but in this show Captain Adama is junior to Commander Adama. Opposite of the real rank structure. Of course this could be because they are "aliens" afterall.

Baltar is somehow of duped into giving the Cylon "female" access to the defense systems just for a roll in the hay? Kinda weak IMHO.

Smoke trails from the missiles? I'd like to think they would use something besides chemical propellant.

And just where does the omni-direction lighting come from in deep space? Everything seemed to be evenly lit.

[Ichneumon]

Baltar is somehow of duped into giving the Cylon "female" access to the defense systems just for a roll in the hay? Kinda weak IMHO.

That's not the impression I got. They mentioned that she actually contributed a lot of the program code for the system, as if she were a consultant. And they gave the impression that Baltar was taking credit for her brilliant work. I think that the scenario is that Baltar thought he was taking advantage of her technical expertise, but she was actually taking advantage of him. And he had naively given her access to the defense network so that she could work on it as his "apprentice". The "roll(s) in the hay" was just further playing to his ego and roping him into a false sense of security, making him think that he was the "user", not the "used".