Considering Ron Moore is in charge of the show and he wasnt a big fan of Voyager (and quit the show after a couple of episodes) I think he will be avoiding the same mistakes.
There is alot of confusion regarding the hacking at the SciFi forum.
We know that Gallatica had the Cylon Navigation system installed, but it was not networked to the main computer.
I THOUGHT what the problem was, was that the old main computer system was slow, and could not calculate the jump fast enough. The new navigation system was MUCH faster (because its newer). So, he links to it to boost processing power, but using a firewall between the connnection....etc.
That makes sense to me. At most offices I've worked at, people would OFTEN run complex process on a networked computer simply to complete it faster. And, unfortunetly, many times we've been hit by viruses because most modern viruses can jump networks.
I don't like the techno-babble, but it DOES all seem plausible.
I just don't let stuff like this bother me. If anything it's never as implausible as CSI crap I saw Gary Sinise pull files off of a charcoal burnt to a crisp hard drive for crissakes.
Oh yeah, *loved* the FX especially the fire zone around Galactica. Incredible.
My bet for sleeper Cylon - Baltar. He's mentally unstable because he has two Cylon personalities in him. The controlling Number Eight and the unknowing "I'm a human" version. How else could Number Eight be in his head? (Which got to the point of annoying last season, especially with the cue music every darn time! But they flipped it beautifully when Number Eight physically showed up on the bridge.)
This was my main complaint about the episode as well. Season 1 was very good about avoiding technobabble. Great episode for Tigh; really laid bare all of his vices and weaknesses as well as all of his incredible strengths. When the hero's not around, mere mortals have to improvise, and this was a great episode for forcing his hand in such a way.
I think there is a difference between the techno babble of other Sci-Fi and what was done on Battlestar. Here they were talking about a simple computer network, a real life divice that I'm sure 99% of the shows audience has dealt with before. Its techno, but it isn't some made up babble that doesn't add up to anything more than an excuse. Its real. And I thought it worked well because the no-network situation had been previously established. And there could also be serious consequences because of it down the road, as others have pointed out.
I was under the impression that there were no energy weapons on the show, just bullets, missiles and nukes. As to whoever was on the planet not chasing them, Callie tells Tyrol that they're no longer being chased, which would seem to imply that they had been running a while and that whoever it was had persued them.
So, is the cat out of the bag with Baltar's Cylon detector or do you think that Boomer wasn't tested officially and no one knows about the first test? Hmm.., pilot with parents that supposedly died when she was young and no family. She would have been near the top of the list.
Why Boomer pulled the trigger at that time is another plot thread I would like some explanation for, or at least an exploration of. I hope they just don't leave that open-ended.
I thought it was simply that Boomer knew she was a cylon, and knows she is doing bad things that she can't remember (ie bombs, etc). Baltar knew she was a cylon, and told her to kill herself to stop her from doing bad things.
But then someone mentioned that Baltar is really a cylon, and was telling Boomer to shoot Adama.... then my head exploded.
Regardless, Boomer IS a cylon, but why did she still blow up the basestar? You would think she would have switched to "evil mode", and stopped herself. OR AT LEAST the "other" boomers would have stopped her?