And Tricia Helfer as Evil Cylon Babe #6 is simply über-hot.
There's some excellent work on the male side as well; granted, Lee/Apollo was a little on the whiny side last night [and I wasn't thrilled about the fact that his Mom & Dad got divorced], but there was outstanding chemistry between Edward James Olmos, as Adama, and Michael Hogan, as his Number Two. [Hogan is the one who gets bitch-slapped by Lady Starbucks at the poker table, but it turns out he ain't the wuss you'd expect him to be.]
The jury will rule on Political Correctness with the conclusion this evening. The biggest dilemma is presented by Stands With A Fist Up Her Ass: Will she become an evil Marxist-Fascist-Cylon-Fifth-Columnist Hillary Clinton, or a take-no-prisoners, iron-maiden, I'm-straddling-you-in-your-wildest-fantasies Ann Coulter? I'm worried that they're pushing her towards the former, and that Olmos, Hagen, et al will degenerate into a bunch of Harold-Ickesish-Sidney-Blumenthalian-Rahm-Emanuelian girly men.
It will also be interesting to see what they do with the character of Baltar. He was a really slimy [Bill] Clintonesque philanderer in part one [although it's hard to blame him, given the quality of the chicks that were spreading for him last night]; we'll see whether he grows a spine in part two.
That's why it's so important that they make the correct decision tonight in re the development of Stands With A Fist Up Her Ass.