Apollo crashes on a planet and gets thrown into Shane - a hot widow with a bratty son are being tormented by a local landowner. I like that the landowner's hired gun was a downed cylon and that there are these outposts of the lost colonies.
It's a little soon after Jane Seymour's death to throw Apollo with a woman (Kathy Cannon) - maybe it wasn't planned that way. Lance Le Gault is Cannon's brother, playing him in Walter Brennan mode.
There's cuteness with Boxey gambling with the pilots (including Larry Minetti off Magnum) waiting for Apollo to come home.
But it's so derivative. Lance Le Gault's death is just like Elisha Cook Jnr's in Shane. The baddy plays it like Sydney Greenstreet. The language sounds silly.
I wonder if this episode was a filler for production. There are still some decent production values with extras at the saloon and stuff..
Maybe it's also there's no real point to it... Apollo has a son, so meeting a surrogate son doesn't mean anything, and he's just gotten married the previous episode, so a love interest doesn't matter. It would've been better if Starbuck had crashed.
I do like the implication that Apollo rooted the mother at the end, by the look on his face.
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