Unless... hmmm... besides Tigh's sweetie, are there any other "Desperate Housewives"?

Oddly, this ho-hum episode featured an event that's been a long-time coming: Roslin's death. Well. Non-death. I had a feeling something like that would happen and I was wondering how'd they do it. Shannon, I agree completely about the "miracle cures" thing -- it just seems like a cop-out. However, there's a legitimate shot at redemption with this one since there are a SLEW of storylines they could develop: Will Roslin be different now that she's been 'saved' by a Cylon? Will the combination of human-Cylon blood open a new can of worms (or a new can of Roslin?). Does her history of love affairs with power brokers bode well (or bode ill) for the Roslin-Adama storyline? And when will Billy go ape-shit on Baltar? (I'd pay good money to see that.) There are places they can go with this, so I'm going to withhold final judgement until I see how it plays out. But on first glance, the "miracle" thing is kinda lame.

As for flashbacks, I didn't mind them too much in this episode. Of course, BSG has a history of "weird" flashbacks -- remember last season when Tighe remembers when he and a young Bill Adama tried to get reinstated in the fleet? Do you remember that god-awful wig Tighe was wearing? And I love how they tried to make Edward James Olmos look younger by shagging up his hair and making him open his eyes real wide. LOL. Now THAT was a bad flashback!

Even if the miracle cure does set up interesting situations and changes, there are less lazy ways to write that sort of thing... oh, and the science of it made no sense to me either. It was like listening to Geordi explaining how his engineering magic worked. Which is what it all might as well be, magic.

Still a little confused by Baltar's actions. I thought at first he was coming around to the human's side since he was refusing to do what Gina wanted. Then he turns around and gives her a nuclear device. Hrmpf?