It's been a little over a month since the last episode or "mid-season finale" - a growing trend among hot shows that I'm quickly getting sick of... yeah, I'm talking to you: Prison Break, Lost, BSG & more... It's not suspenseful, it's simply irritating. I have an idea: air a whole season - ok, throw in a few repeats - have a finale, THEN start another season. I'm not buying this mid-season crap. So where did we leave off?

Starbuck is still being a douchebag, and crash landed on the Algae Planet, left to fend for herself by her undercover lover, Lee. Everyone wants this Eye of Jupiter thing, yet no one knows how to find it. Athena is pretty pissed about her baby situation - and we've all seen the cylon rage before and it isn't pretty - and she wants her baby back, NOW. Baltar broke up his cylon threesome and took camp with Team D'Anna, though ulterior motives are looming. And oh yeah, nukes are ready to launch and destroy the Eye of Jupiter, the Algae Planet and all the main characters fighting there.

The opening scenes are intense. Col. Tigh is inputting the secret firing code to deploy the nukes. I wonder if he used the same secret code for his ATM pin on the colonies, because I totally would - there's no way you'd forget that... anyway, over at the cylon base, there's lots of infighting and the cylon front is splitting. They don't want the temple destroyed and believe Adama will nuke it... oh yeah, you better believe he will, he's no joke.

Please Daddy, No!

Sam's at gunpoint on the Algae Planet because he wants to go save his wife, yet Lee says there's not enough manpower to spare for a search party, so he comes up with a brilliant plan: he's sending his own wife, Dualla, putting her life in danger, to save the woman he's been doing on the side. Yup, she's excited for this mission. By her look alone, you know Lee's not getting ANY for at least a month... so he'll run to Starbuck.

Back on Galactica, just as Adama was going to push the button, the raiders turned back. Pheeeeeeew. Close one. Again. Meanwhile, the cylons are still fighting and ganging up on the D'Anna model for her defiance. I'm a little confused here, I know that each cylon model has the same biological DNA, but the specific models all act differently (i.e. Boomer, Athena and Caprica and the other 7's), so how are they ganging up on the model? Why wouldn't they do that to the Sharon model? Anyone? One raider, carrying Baltar and D'Anna are still on their way to the Algae Planet, but Adama doesn't see the risk, and disengages the nukes.