I really enjoyed the episode, and I speak as someone who really felt as though the second half of this year was faltering seriously, at least up until the fantastic "Downloaded." Although my appreciation is not wholly uncritical -- I found Adama's complacency particularly jarring and unconvincing -- overall I thought it was a tight episode, suspenseful and emotional, and I LOVE the jump-ahead. The show has needed to trust in its own story for a while now, and I feel like, with this, BSG is finally wholly absorbed in its own mythos instead of being a mirror of the U.S. in 2001. I think we'll get a lot of background on how everyone got there from here, and we also get to avoid the boring "building mud huts" year of storytelling.

FWIW, I thought Gina was trying, in some way, to repay Baltar for his kindness, but I thought it was a sacrifice she made for him, not a gesture of true love or passion. Baltar's rapt self-absorption kept him from seeing that.