Two part ep which is an immediate sequel to the pilot, picking up on the Jane Seymour-Richard Hatch romance and the fate of Baltar.
It has a great idea: a virus lays low the male pilots so they have to recruit women to do it... then have to sneak back on the planet where they contracted the virus to figure out where it came from... despite there being a Cylon transmitter on said planet. That's entertaining though the training of the pilots here feels ruhsed.
The other idea is them discovering the Lost Planet of Kobol which is more mumbo-jumbo-y though it benefits from decent acting and location filming in Egypt, I think.
This episode has great emotional power with the death of Jane Seymour which I remember being traumatised by as a kid, esp as I related to Boxey. It feels like an episode rewritten and replotted at the last moment, things down played like everyone thinking Starbuck was dead, but is a meaty episode. I liked how at the end it's unclear how much of a liar Baltar is.
It was clear with this ep they didn't know what to do with Athena - Cassiopea already has a job (nurse) but Athena just sort of hangs around.. they should've made her a bad ass pilot off the back of this.
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