Oh, ho, ho!  It’s all catching up with Gaius Baltar.

Shelly Godfrey ( a Number Six) arrives on the Galactica with damning evidence against Baltar.

Kara is back on her feet, kind of, and as grouchy as ever.

And as Baltar begs for help, President Roslin passes out and Doc Cottle runs to her rescue.  Her cancer is running out of control.  And then Baltar is brown-nosing Gaeta to get access to the evidence.  Bad Gaius, bad!

And back on Caprica.  Poor old Helo.  I’d love for that guy to get a break.  Right now he’s dragging Caprica Boomer around unaware that she’s a toaster.

Highlights?  “No more mister nice Gaius.”  hohoho!

- Alistair

Ooh, Cally is encouraging the Chief / Galactica Boomer canoodling.  That can’t end well.

And are Cylons on board the Galactica?  Yep, It’s a Doral (Number Five) and he’s just blown himself up!  Messy boy.  Caused three dead and thirteen injured.

They get the Master At Arms involved and tell her about the humanoid Cylons.  And she gets her independent tribunal / investigation.  Will this end well?  Let’s hope not.

But questions are asked and fingers get pointed at the Chief.

Meanwhile President Roslin holds court with the reporters in the fleet about the humanoid Cylons.

And on Caprica?  Caprica Six, a Doral and a Caprica Boomer are watching Helo closely.

Highlights?  When the kangaroo court goes badly wrong and Adama smacks the Master At Arms down.  Quality.

- Alistair

And they think Starbuck is alive, and by “they” I mean Adama and by “alive” i mean alive…  yeah, okay.

Head Six is seriously messing with Baltar and for good reason.  Exactly when will the Cylons return when they realise one of their patrols is missing?  Personally I’d leave Starbuck to her fate.  She’s a mouthy pain in the ass at the best of times.

And back on Caprica?  Helo and Caprica Boomer are holding tight.  Ah, lovely, lovely Helo.

Ahem.

But Cylons abound and one finds its way into the cafe where Helo is making breakfast.  Heh, a toaster alerted by a toaster.

Highlights?  Adama.  Actually anything with Adama wins for me.

- Alistair

Just so you know I’m not spending ALL my time watching Battlestar Galactica…

- Alistair

Ah, memories of Zac.  And an explosion in the hangar bay takes out a hundful of other pilots.  The upside is that you haven’t met any of them, so the loss is little.

And flashbacks of Kara and Lee getting it on?  Naughty, naughty.

Adama wants Kara to train a new batch.  And the last one she trained was Zac, who she passed because he was crap but they were doing the horizontal rumba.  I can’t see him being happy when he finds out…  Oh yeah, he does.  Oops.

Back on sunny Caprica, Helo and Caprica-Boomer find a fallout shelter.  Very cosy.

And President Roslin finally gets to see Dr. Cottle.

Highlights?  Dr. Cottle.  I could watch him all the time.  The crotchety old bugger.

- Alistair

Boomer and Crashdown found a sourse of water.  But they need bodies to get to it.  So Lee Adama goes to a prison ship in the fleet to bargain work for time off their sentence.  And who do we see?  Why, it’s Apollo from the original series.  Oh, sorry.  My mistake.  It’s Tom Zarek.  But they both look remarkably similar…

Baltar continues to bullshit about his Cylon Detector.  Colonel Tigh is tucking back into his bottle and Lee, Billy and Dee fall foul of Zarek and the inmates.  Boooooooo.

- Alistair

Oh, Boomer.  Why are you soaking wet and have detonators in your jacket?  And why are there many more missing from the arms locker?

And there’s Lee Adama, tortured by his memories of blowing up the possibly Cylon controlled Olympic Carrier way back in the previous episode.

President Roslin pops on board the Galactica for a pep talk and while the Virgon Express pulls alongside for water recycling, that crazy kid Boomer sneaks off for some personal time with the Chief.  And then there a big explosion in the water tanks.  Oh, Boomer you crazy kid, what did you do?

And there’s Billy and Dee, sitting in a tree, k i s s i n g.  Well not really, but Billy’s getting nowhere fast telling her how nice her hair looks.

So, Galactica is venting all it’s water on the port side tanks into space.  That can’t bee good surely?

And on Caprica Helo has fallen in with Boomer.  Oh wait, isn’t Boomer on the Galactica.  My… brain… hurts…

Episode highlights; Baltar you are quite, quite mad.

-Alistair

That said, and if you haven’t already watched any of it, consider this your SPOILER WARNING.

33 is the first episode of the first season set after the mini-series and it hits its pace masterfully.  The Galactica is under attack every 33 minutes after they jump to a new location.  After about five days morale is thin on the ground and the Cylons are trying new tricks with a space ship that jumped late.

It plants a lot of the initial seeds of confrontation between the military and political factions in the fleet.  All good stuff.

And Helo is on Caprica trying to dodge the Cylons on the ground and bumps into an old friend.

High points definately include; everything with Helo, Boomer and grumpy Chief Tyrol.  Oh, and Admiral Adama.

- Alistair

I’m no better at this one than any other I’ve played though…

So last night there was a Battlestar tournament. Because it’s a new game and this was the first tournament there was a small turnout for it (6 of us).

Three games were played and three were lost. Oh well. At least for the second and third games I didn’t get totally gubbed and it was a close run thing.

The next tournament isn’t for a couple of weeks which gives me plenty of time for practice. And I did get a limited edition card for participation. Which was nice.

The remake will be 6 (aye, very good) episodes for SkyOne.

And ex-Doctor Who Christoper Eccleston has been linked with the lead role.

I have to admit I’m in two minds about this one. The original series of The Prisoner has always been amongst my favourite tv shows. And it is usually expected that remakes are little more than shadows of their former selves.

But then the new Battlestar Galactica series is a remake (well, it’s a re-imaging apparently) and there was a Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) remake a few year back with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer which I really enjoyed.

Even the new series of Doctor Who is kind of a remake. Well, it’s not really. It’s more of a re-styling.

I’m hopeful that it’ll be good. A bit hopeful. A wee bit hopeful. Not very hopeful at all.

Hmmm, better wait and see.

BBC has stuff about it here and here.