Can you explain why you thought the last episode was great? While I thought some of the plot twists related to “Earth” were interesting, they were soon destroyed by the incomprehensible behavior of various characters. It’s like the writers just make the characters do things to create plot twists without any attempt to have them flow naturally from coherent characterization or motives.
I agree that there was an excessive amount of scenery chewing over what clearly would have been a terrible shock, but they seem to have gotten it under control by the end of the episode. If they keep that tamped down, and untangle the questions that arose, it looks very good to me.
That was the WHOLE POINT! You are traveling through space...there are only 50,000 of you left. Cylons are killing you off left and right. Before you know it...there are only 30K humans left and the only ray of hope you have to hang your hat on is finding Earth. You spend a couple of years zooming through space dodging cylon raiders...your best friends getting wacked left and right only to find a planet that is a radiological wasteland; not the paradise and new home you had hoped for.
Now...imagine that is you. How are you going to hold it together? How would you react? Some people will keep going...some people will react violently...and some people will chose to end it all (like Dee).
I thought it was a perfect testament to human nature. Their behavior would certainly be incomprehensible...their faintest of hopes were dashed.