First, to the comment of a couple weeks back, the suposed advanced reviews i told you turn out to be more like you said it,snipets, so sorry for the misleading comment. You can find them here http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

For this weeks episode observations,couldnt agree with you more, we are progressively witnessing a decline on the writing of our beloved BSG, i just hope they go back quickly to what they had us fond, a great show (Not just scifi show) based on a excelent script, backed with some flawless acting.

Finally, i would like to say "Thank You Shannon" for bringing us your take on BSG

Thoughts on two of your Questions: 1) Anders has definitely run into D'anna. I'm assuming Tigh/Starbuck and many others on the planet have as well. She's as good as made, unless she cuts her hair short, dyes it blonde, and wears a slinky red outfit. (Of course, everyone knew about Pegasus Six, too. She sure made a mess of things months after her escape.)

2) If the cylons jump in with a bunch of base ships, it must be assumed that Galactica and convoy will jump out. Yeah, there'd be losses, but the fleet and the command would remain. Now if you could take out the command first, THEN send in the base ships...kinda like real war, it'd get one-sided real quick.

Either way, just for paranoia or safety's sake, I'd be thinking a jump is in order. Good thing they got loaded up on all that Tylium back in season 1. (Talk about a pretty little bow!)

Keep up the reviews. It's great to hear someone else's opinions about the show. Even if we fundamentally disagree about what should happen to Baltar. ;-p

On the one hand, Rob and Ryan are right that Galactica would jump away. Also, Rob's real world war strategy analogy about taking out the command first makes prefect sense.

However, on the other hand, if the Cylons knew EXACTLY where Galactica was, why not assemble a big enough fleet and/or enough nukes to jump in and launch an insane amount of nukes immediately before Galactica has a chance to jump away? (Sorta like The Captains Hand when they launched a few nukes at Pegasus right away). It could be argued that if the Cylons knew EXACTLY where the fleet was, they could have assembled a bigger fleet and more nukes for a more all-out attack instead of screwing around with a convoluted plan to get Adama that might not work. Perhaps this was Shannon's point. If so, it's certainly a fair point.

I guess I don't feel strongly either way on this issue, but it is an interesting discussion.

As an aside, either way, it really was a convoluted plan by the Cylons for a number of reasons. Most importantly, how would the Cylons know exactly when Bulldog kills Adama in order to time their attack shortly thereafter? (assuming that was the rest of the plan, as Rob suggested). Also, what if Bulldog never made it to the ship or never got to Adama? Do they care? Would they attack anyway? Was this really part of a larger attack plan and if so does it matter if Bulldog never killed Adama?

By the way, I definitely didn't hate this episode, but I definitely didn't like it either. All in all, I thought this episode was "just OK" (which I guess equals "mediocre" based on the high standards set previously by the producers/writers).