A really good idea for an episode - Balta leads an escape of prisoners on the prison barge - is done in by the facism of the Alliance story arc. The Council of the Twelve take over Adama's job, which had potential if they hadn't loaded the deck so much in Adama's favour. The Council are all idiotic, stupidly naive about the Alliance who are clearly evil.
In the pilot this made sense because everyone was exhausted by war... but it doesn't make sense they'd be that way now after the destruction of the colonies and for a people they don't know. I don't mind the Council being villainous but they just make the Council so dumb without motivation.
If they'd made someone on the Council one of our people - Anthena, say - it would've been a lot better.
It's hurt even more by the fact that the Alliance are such lousy villains. However Baltar and the Borellian Nomen are fun, the final rescue quite exciting and clever, there's a great moment where Tigh overrrules Adama, and Ina Ballin is excellent as a more sensible member of the Council.
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