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Don't forget, the interior of the Cylon raider is organic/mechanic, so she managed to figure out what does what (like our heart pumps blood, bones give us structure, etc) Starbuck is also supposed to be their best pilot, so if anyone could figure out the interior of the Raider, it'd be her.

She probably ripped the patch from her flight suit, which is designed to give a pilot protection from space, if only for a limited amount of time.

It is still considered a science fiction show, so you sometimes you have to accept these things.

Good luck with keeping the faith. Not to scare you off, but Season 1, the beginning of Season 2, the very end of Season 2/beginning of Season 3 are the best. Along with any multi-part/story arcs. Season 4's pretty much all over the place. I think the show's a little overrated, but the good parts are REALLY good.

Not sure... but Rob above is correct. The DVD set has the 13 eps listed, and those comprise the entire season 1. The miniseries (pilot tv movie) is also included in the set. However, I seem to remember hearing a review stating that outside of the audio commentary, that the other extras that were included in the original dvd release of the miniseries were not included in the season 1 set. Not sure myself... I have both and since I already had the miniseries release, I only watch that and have never watched the first dvd of the season 1 set. Only reason I can think of for some of the discrepancies you are talking about is that some people might be combining 33 and Water, since they were shown back to back and do lead into each other like a 2 parter... same with Act of Contrition/ You Can't Go Home Again and Kobol's Last Gleaming pts 1 and 2.

The first episode had my jaw hitting the floor- Starbuck is a jock broad?

Boomer is now a cute BABE?

The opening scene was unique. No one can take away from that Six's kamikaze initiation of the Cylon hostilities. I was disappointed that Tigh got in a fight with Starbuck, and turned out to be a drunk. I was practically chewing my fingernails- "God'... PLEASE don't let Starbuck and Tigh go to bed together- let some things stay sacred!!! "

There is this cool effect that has been making the rounds- you know the one I mean- where the same character gets repeated over and over in the same scene. Then they had to go and spoil it by having them wear the same duds for no reason. I really hated that they had to tell us right at the start that Boomer was a Cylon. I wish they'd spun that out a bit longer- but that's just me.

I hated the idea that Starbuck could get away with taking over that Raider just like that! Making it airtight- just like that! Those weren't funny enough? They still had to say that she could still out-manuever a Viper, controlling it awkwardly as that? But the bit I couldn't see coming was where she painted her name on the Raider! Like, good job there was an interstellar 24-hour paintshop handy!

Which stayed on in vacuum- after hypersonic flight through an oxygen atmosphere to get into space to start with. Also it was some kind of Day-Glo to be visible in the black of space. Starbuck's life depended on all of these factors working together!

When it comes to stuff like that, it is done in every single sci-fi show. They put themselves into impossible situations and get themselves out of it by doing totally implausible things. It's just one of the conventions of sci-fi TV. If you can't except that the sci-fi isn't for you