Since the destruction of the Cylon's resurrection ship we haven't seen the Cylons but now they are back and one raider in particular is picking off Galactica's pilots one by one; this raider has been nicknamed Scar by the viper pilots. Galactica and her vipers are protecting a mining operation while Pegasus has gone ahead with the rest of the fleet; as the mining is taking place in an asteroid field the raiders are practically invisible until the moment the strike. As the mission progresses a rivalry develops between top pilots Starbuck and Kat as two who is the better pilot and which of them will ultimately destroy Scar; at first this seems fairly harmless but as time progresses the rivalry becomes more and more bitter with Kat needling Starbuck about her drinking and Starbuck striking back with comments about Kat's one time addiction to stimulants. Of course when the moment of truth arrives they must work together or die in front of Scar's guns.
When I first watched this I thought it was yet another filler episode; albeit one with some great action scenes but further viewing made me think of it as something much better than that. Usually when a character is killed they are forgotten about by the end of the episode but here they spend quite a lot of time talking about their constant losses and at the end the long list of lost pilots is said in a moving toast to the fallen. As always the main cast put in a fine performance; especially Katie Sackhoff as Starbuck and Luciana Carro who played Kat.
When I first watched this I thought it was yet another filler episode; albeit one with some great action scenes but further viewing made me think of it as something much better than that. Usually when a character is killed they are forgotten about by the end of the episode but here they spend quite a lot of time talking about their constant losses and at the end the long list of lost pilots is said in a moving toast to the fallen. As always the main cast put in a fine performance; especially Katie Sackhoff as Starbuck and Luciana Carro who played Kat.