BSG: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down

Baltar's Cylon detection process is finished and President Roslyn, acting on the bogus tip given her by Leoben, wants the first subject to be Adama. He, of course, suggests that she should be the first test subject.

When an erratically flying Raider starts buzzing the fleet, Adama is discovered to be on a Raptor with no filed flight plan, further fueling Roslyn's suspicions about the commander. But when he returns to the Galactica, he brings with him a surprise -- Col. Tigh's wife, Ellen.

Adama wants Ellen tested first and the president doesn't. Roslyn even questions Tigh separately about Adama. Headbutting ensues.

This was a good, but not great episode, filled with embarrassments for almost every character. Although some of the hijinks made me laugh, no progress is being made. I mean literally no progress. I don't know if the fleet has moved at all since they collected the water.

Anyway, some more observations:

• Tigh's wife is a total ho. She's a drunk too, which is perfect since Tigh was almost in danger of getting sober. Luckily, she appears with a bottle of ambrosia and they proceed to get plastered. At one point this loose chick is swinging from the ceiling. I kid you not.
• Apollo actually shows up in this episode. Unfortunately, his only purpose is to get hit on by slutty Ellen who toys with his crotch during a dinner party.
• Ellen's kooky story about being in a coma since the attack doesn't wash, but I don't think she's a Cylon. It's not explained how Adama found her on the Rising Star.
• Billy and Dualla engage in some light petting in a popular makeout spot where a dozen other couples oooh and ah as the Vipers fly by on patrol. I had a problem with this scene, and it's not just because I hate Billy. It's been 28 days since the entire human civilization was destroyed. I just wasn't buying the innocence displayed here by the young couples. The scene looked like Saturday night at the drive-in from a 50's movie. And, yeah, I don't like Billy. Wasn't Dualla busting his chops about stereotyping Sagitarans the last time we saw this couple? Maybe she's just horny. This show has been exceptionally good about continuity and showing the natural progression of relationships. They dropped the ball here.
• Helo and Caprica-Boomer. Jeez, how boring are they? However, I did like the conversation between Caprica-Shelly and Doral. As Doral hollowly muses about what it must feel like to, well, feel, tears of frustration gather in Shelly's eyes. She is jealous as shit of Sharon being able to get Helo to fall for her the way Baltar can't really fall for Number Six. Did the Cylons really think out the ramifications of installing the Emotions 1.0 software in themselves? Evidently not.
• Baltar gets caught with his pants down, literally. I guess even Lt. Gaeda isn't comfortable working too closely with him anymore.
• It turns out that Baltar's test takes hours to run and at this rate he estimates it'll take over 60 years to test the whole fleet. However, this doesn't matter since he's tanking the tests anyway! Since he's determined not to give out real results, I think he should speed up the process and pass twenty people a day.
• No Tyrol and Galactica-Boomer scene in this episode. I think that's a first.
• Hey, was ambrosia the color of NyQuil in the original show??