And what lessons can we draw from this week’s Battlestar Galactica episode?

That middle aged guys are da man. Bald guys, gray-headed guys, guys with glasses, guys with one eye.

Adama, up in arms

Also, we learn that middle aged women presidents with space cannons are not to be trifled with. She’s da man, too.

To recap: Roslin hightails it to Cylon ship, talks toasterheads out of cutting and running, Tigh thrown in brig, Adama thrown to wolves, condemned to death, gets shot but it’s all a dream by Baltar, Apollo and Starbuck liberate Tigh & Cylons, Sam shot and Starbuck can’t leave him, evil vice president shoots up parliament-thing after they diss him, lawyer kills armed guard with ink pen (proving that the ink pen, is indeed–oh, you know) Gaeta’s hand trembles but he orders Adama shot anyway- oops, too late. Adama liberated by toaster-head friends. And those of us who have been watching those horrifying trailers all these past weeks exhale, knowing at last that Adama is not dead.

Well.

Not yet. This is a very dark star.

By closing credits, Galactica is back in Adama’s control, Gaeta and vice president are executed, but not before the show’s writers make Gaeta all sympathetic and three dimensional.

So what would have been your verdict- thumbs up or down on the little mutineer? Or a kinder, gentler intergalactic justice?