Well remember "pilot" episodes which that was don't always have the same begining as the rest of the series so they may add that later on
I personally like it a LOT, it has drama but it's not so overboard that it's one of those "OH PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK!" deal.
And it is realistic too in that some times hard choices must be made for the sake of the numbers, you know? unlike the original series where they NEVER lost a ship, or even if they did they never made a mention of it beyond "LORDS Of KOBOL" or somethin stupid like that and then it was never mentioned again, they never ran out of fuel/food/supplies/fighters and they could lose like 10 pilots a episode and have like 1,000 more waiting in the wings, WHERE do you get those pilots from?
Also they actually have PILOTS and MARINES instead of some stupid hybrid "WARRIOR" where they know how to do everything.
PLUS it's nice to know what the hell they are talking about when they mention time frames, I mean what the was a "CENTON" a minute a second? It seemed like it could go either way depending on the episodes!