Overall I thought it lived up to the much improved standards of Season 1.5. The resolutions to the cliffhangers were well-done, Rush's ultimate solution was awesome Good on him for having the guts to stare down the Lucian alliance; he's transitioned from a jerkass genius to someone who should be in charge. Young proved he wasn't up to the challenge when he failed to evacuate the oxygen in the gateroom, trading several lives and potentially the whole crew and the ship itself for Telford's (and, he thought, Rush's). He must have known that more than two of his people would certainly die, and everyone might die, if he didn't block their access to the ship at the point of entry.
I didn't like the parts back on the Faith planet, but then I didn't like the episode "Faith" at all. I object to the whole purpose, which was to write Alaina Huffman's pregnancy into the show. They should have found another way, even if it meant sidelining her for the duration of her pregnancy (especially since her getting pregnant by accident highlights just how absurd body-swapping sex is, especially for the women who might find themselves pregnant by someone they never met; but don't get me started on that). Failing that, they should have had the guts to have her unborn child die outright during the battle against the Alliance rather than to continue with this quasi-religious all-powerful aliens mythology and have the baby possibly have been spirited away to the Faith planet while still being dead on Destiny (what's up with that, anyway?). Bad things happen when bad guys invade and the commander is a colossal moron.
Oh, and I think Camille was a bit over-the-top emotionally. Unless something horrible was done to her by the alliance that we don't know about yet, but I doubt that given their inability to kill off TJ's baby. This isn't Battlestar Galactica no matter how much it wishes it were. I noticed she was a bit over the top in this regard back during the torture fake-out a couple episodes back (and I was on her and Scott's side, BTW; Scott struck just the right tone). I hope they aren't making her into a wimp.
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