You make some good points there Dave, and I will come to them in a bit, but first I want to say that I think I have been a little put off by this episode for two main reasons.
Firstly, Jeremiah's outburst when that huge fella complains that J has taken his 'spot', was frightening, not the kind of behaviour I would like to see in my heroes. I suppose we saw shades of it in the last episode, but at least then he had serious motivation for his rampage. I wonder how far J is from the psychosis of this episode's Michael?
Secondly, I have to disagree with you ladies about Priestly's performance. I have seen him in other things where he has been quite enjoyable to watch, but every time he set off on one of his crazed monologues I was thinking of William Shatner's stilted dialogue (or rather, the parodies of it) in Star Trek.
I agree with Dave's assessment that if Michael really was all that charismatic, as he is supposed to be, then there shouldn't be such widespread discontent with his methods. Not even his henchmen seemed particularly happy with their jobs - surely a pre-requisite in that kind of set up.
I think there were too many convenient weaknesses in Michael's operation, and I also thought it seemed too much like an obvious plot device that Julie should be pregnant and thus given the motivation to turn against Michael.
I did however quite like the angel of death scene at the end, and have to say that I am quite glad we will never see this character in his present state again. I wouldn't mind seeing him again, but not as the arch-nemesis type we saw here - perhaps as a shrivelled refugee who arrives at Thunder Mountain in the next season, without his god-complex.
If Michael has access to even basic military information that is accessible at the base (like how to operate those Daisy cutters) then he could probably work out the other strongholds of military power from a map of other bases. And Cheyenne Mountain is going to figure prominently there. So I agree that it seems odd that he wouldn't have figured it out yet.
How did the mole get info back to the End of the World exactly?
I often watch my sf with non-sf fan friends, and usually the things I really like don't often elicit many groans from my companions, but this series does, on a minute-to-minute basis (A notable exception to this little rule is Trek). I am also not getting interested in the series very quickly, and at this point and far more interested in figuring out whats happening back at Thunder Mountain than on the a-team-like exploits of Jeremiah and Kurdy.
Which is why I don’t think Jeremiah would have held out on the information so long. And why not use Kurdy as a hostage? Would Jeremiah have not given in then?
I wondered about this too, but a good reason for not using one of the two as a hostage would be that they BOTH know about Thunder M, so if circumstances led to the death of one then Michael would have been severely limiting his options.
I also didn't think Jeremiah would held out that long on the information front, in fact, considering how things turned out, giving the information might have saved a lot of lives. Mind you, if the information had been turned over then Michael would likely have killed them anyway. Again leads to my opinion of Jeremiah being a little bit pyschotic - I certainly wouldn't have held out in the face of that kind of threat to others. Why does he have such a deep allegiance to Markus and the others anyway?
Jason Priestley as Michael was awesome. What a villain! I think with this performance many forgot the cute guy in Beverly Hills. This episode put him in my list of great baddies. Other things I love about this episode when Kurdy ask Jeremiah is he have a plan, that was so funny. 
