I'm assuming anyone reading this thread has watched the last episode:
"Okay, now this little bit is something I came up with, you know, in a rewrite. That, okay, Galactica can't just jump into low orbit. Its going to jump into the fucking atmosphere and
fall like a
rock... I love this, this is just, like, tremendous effects work by Gary Hutzel and his team. And its just going going going going, and then at the last second it jumps out. Now watch all this. This is, like, visual effects a go-go. And we'd better win the fucking emmy for this this year or I'm gonna -- I sware to God."
– Ronald D. Moore
Michael Hogan is such a fantastic actor.