Okay, VERY late to the party here, but I just got season 1 and started watching over the weeked. It was a chore getting through the opening 4-hour episode. Not because it was bad--just because it is hard to find a 4-hour block of time. I had to split it up to get through it.
First impression:
Seems very well done. The story is compelling. The characters are pretty interesting. The pacing is good. It's a little annoying that ships that the major characters are in somehow miraculously survive attacks that seem to leave all other ships/buildings/planets being nothing more than dust, but whatever--this has been a problem with movies for...probably as long as there have been movies. A couple of the big questions the audience is left with at this very early stage:
-Does Gaius really have a chip in his head that essentially makes him a potential tool of the Cylons? Definitely possible. Those scenes are done pretty well in terms of really keeping you guessing whether Ms. Cylon is really talking to him or if he's just out of his mind. Personally, I'm guessing she isn't really there. I think Gaius' struggle to cope with the fact that he is responsible for billions of deaths and the possible end of humanity has him nuts to the point of hallucinating.
-Is Boomer a Cylon? No. Simply because I refuse to believe she might be.
But these questions (and other things) are more than enough to keep me coming back.