Spinlock_1977's Journal: FRACKED-UP Battlestart Gallactica Details?

If you watched the season finale of the new Battlestart Gallactica, you just saw this: Starbuck tackles the bad guy, they fall 10 feet, and bad guy (girl, actually) gets skewered. Starbuck gets up, and there's 6 extra inches of steel poking through the corpse - clearly enough to penetrate the tackler - Starbuck. But she's ok, and un-penetrated (in this particular incident, anyway), she just shakes it off.

Later, Adama gets shot and his #1 has the presence of mind to press on the entry wounds, but is too daft to tell Adama's son to plug the exit wounds. Nobody runs for a sheet of plastic. Not one FRACKIN bridge officer or pilot or the CAG knows penetrating-wounds-first-aid-101?

I could certainly be wrong, but is there a notable shift here in the reality-factor that's been present in the series until now-ish?