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I'm a little frustrated right now with some of the writing. I know there is only so much they can show in a one hour segment, but there is so much of the story being left out. They had all of these people living under a forced occupation who are not thrown back together with the rest of the fleet. That's a major potential for conflict and we've seen very little about it. We're asked to accept that the Chief and Callie just slid happily right back into their old jobs. Does Galactica have daycare? Who watches Callie's baby?

Adama kicks Starbuck out of her chair and tells her she's no longer like a daughter to him and Apollo yanks her off flight status. But we're supposed to believe that a few days later she's allowed to command a mission? Because she chopped her hair off and took a shower?

Apollo was a Commander and now he's back to being a major. He went from CO of a Battlestar to CAG. There's a storyline right there- how did they reintegrate the crews?

I still love the show, but if we keep getting these logical disconnects, I'm going to be a little less in love.

I'm wondering if the webisodes that were held up by NBC tie into how people were reintegrated within the fleet.

I don't know about Starbuck, but Apollo seemed most comfortable as CAG, and had he decided to go the XO route, you would have had father-son tension, as well as it makes for better story-telling-TV to have a strong character like Apollo be the leader away from the ship. As an XO, he couldn't do that.

Maybe they decided they weren't interesting stories. And really only 4 episodes have happened since they got off New Caprica and this is the first one to ignore it. And from what I saw of the next episode it looks like many of the boxing matches are pitting occupation survivors vs rescuers.

It's not a few days, it was long enough for Apollo to lose about 40 pounds, that's gotta be at least a couple of months.

I don't think it's logical disconnects, it's stories they've decided aren't interesting. Happens all the time, remember they skipped ahead 1 year in one episode last season. There's a territory Ron wants to get the story too, and distractions are being sacrified.

Kara had a breakdown of some sort. The Admiral had to shake her up to get her mind right and to get her back to the old Starbuck he trusted.

It worked, because she straightened up.

Sometimes you have to have someone you admire kick your ass to get your mind right..thats what he did.