The Passage

We finally the get issue of food properly addressed. But I'd like to know how they ended up with a shortage so drastically and so quickly. Do they have a farming ship in the fleet? On the old show, there was a similar issue where the farming ships needed new seed or the food supply would run dry. This episode also references the old series with the story about jumping through the star cluster. In "Lost Planet of the Gods", Vipers were sent out to navigate and guide the fleet through a "void".

Knowing they would jump into a very bright area, why were the pilots not equipped with sunglasses or something? That at least would have cut down on those first few disorienting moments. And can I ask if it's possible maybe to tether the Raptors to the ships so that their location is not so unknown? Maybe I'm just really picky.

I do not like the story on the base star. I so cannot buy that the other five Cylon models are actually fabulous shiny beings akin to Larson's Holy Kryptonians. I don't much like the hybrid either, but at least Baltar is shown to have some smarts and can interpret it (he totally pulls a Mulder here, jumping to conclusions that no normal person could). 

The Kat story is pretty good. I've never cared a whole lot about her, but it was good to see her go out in a very heroic fashion. THAT's a heroic death. Not suicide bombing. But good grief, that's even more ships lost! There's not going to be much of a fleet left by the end of the season.

Helo was concerned for Athena when most others didn't seem to be. Cylons are more resistant to the radiation? I guess Helo is why she didn't lead any of the jumps. Wasn't there something about radiation that was harmful to Cylons way back in the miniseries? Whatever happened to that?