Well, I've just borrowed the season 1 & 2 boxset from a friend and have been busy plowing through them.
I thought I'd start at the beginning though.
At first viewing it this episode was a little irritating. The 33 minute attacks seemed over the top and the 5 days without sleep subplot was overdone IMO. You could *maybe* argue that the military do push their recruits to the limits so, given their higher than norm physical condition, they would cope but be as ragged as they were by the time the episode began. This, however, would not have held true with the civilian ships which were also having to jump every 33 minutes so I thought that card was overplayed - two days, three at most would have been sufficient to produce the same results. I did like the idea that they were effectively being hounded out of their star systems and forced to begin their exile and the subplot of the Olympic Carrier and thought that was well done (although what do people think really happened to it? Was it boarded by the Cylons?).
The human 'clock' was good as well and hammered home the message that once the 40,000 or so are gone, it's game over.
The Caprica element is interesting as well, although I am a little surprised that there are *no* other survivors with Helo from the off - my memory of the pilot is hazy but when he's left behind he's with a group of other people, where the hell are they? If I were them I would have made damn sure I stuck with the only guy with access to military survival training & possibly knowledge of nearby supply depots.
Overall a catchy, dark start.
