I think they cast her well but the cigar smoking cylon arse kicking 'tude clashed with the sobbing "I let apollo's bro die and it's all my fault" bit... adama should have kicked her arse good! if it was a guy there would have been 5 sec's max of intense soul searching ... and that would have been fine.
I will have to catch up on the episodes I missed in preparation. Is a good series just got distracted watching them all.