The premise of the episode is that every 33 minutes the Galactica fleet is forced to have a FTL jump (Faster Than Light) because the Cylons keep showing up to find them. The pace of the episode is nice, building towards the end when one ship is revealed to be a problem and potentially harboring Cylon agents. There's a nice back and forth between Adama and Roslin, who are clearly the anchors of the show at this point and are forced to destroy the rogue ship and its 1300 people on board. Separately, we see that Helo, the soldier left behind on Caprica in the miniseries, has survived. He is rescued from Cylons by a duplicate of Sharon (Boomer), who we the audience know to be another Cylon...
Laurel here...This was a super good episode, fast paced and full of tension. My only criticism - the episode is called "33" because the cylons keep showing up every 33 minutes like clockwork, and the whole fleet just keeps jumping every 33 minutes to get away from them (a task for which everyone has to basically be awake all the time except for 10 minute catnaps). This plan is clearly unsustainable yet they never really show anybody working on a longterm solution. There should have been a nerd in a lab someplace or at a computer at least doing some math trying to figure something out. At one point Adama refers to "a plan that hasn't been implemented yet" but I feel like that's pretty vague. Anyhoo, tough choice to blow up a civilian ship but it seems to have been the right move, we'll see moving forward.
Starbuck also is slightly less annoying this episode, but she is still doing that thing of portraying a tough woman by acting like a man, which in my mind has no place in any show, especially a show about the future. President Roslin on the other hand acts like a lady and like a tough cookie, which I totally appreciate.
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