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Old April 1st, 2004, 03:53 PM   #43
Eric Paddon
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There are two things that I think are weak about the episode overall.

#1-Apollo takes a long time to realize that there's no connection between Red-Eye and a larger force of Cylons. He should have realized that the instant he learned that Martin's death brought no more Cylons many yahrens before. One might argue that Apollo is still not quite himself after Serina's death, but either way Apollo ends up showing very bad judgment that arguably costs Bootes his life by not choosing to act sooner.

#2-I find it hard to believe that this planet is not familiar with the war against the Cylons. There's some indication that they're familiar with Colonial civilization, but that would mean that Equellas had to have been settled before the thousand yahren war broke out and they became isolated from where their ancestors came from before news of the war developed. Obviously if they were aware of the Cylons, you'd have no episode, but that point IMO works against the credibility of the episode, whereas "The Long Patrol" works better with a planet on the distant reaches of Colonial space that had become forgotten during the early stages of the war.
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