Four months after the Cylons discovered humanity's new home on New Caprica the people are under a state of occupation; the government of Gaius Baltar is just a puppet regime and neither Galactica nor Pegasus has been heard from since fleeing from the Cylon fleet. Life is hard for the people; Colonel Tigh is in prison minus one eye, Starbuck is being forced to live with Leoben who believes that she will grow to love him and Chief Tyrol and Anders are striking against the Cylons when they can but victories have little meaning when the Cylons just download into a new body when killed. When Col. Tigh is released he is determined to strike against the Cylons in a way that will really hurt them... by targeting those people who are working with them. Meanwhile back on the fleet Adama is not pleased with how things are slipping; Apollo has grown fat, what pilots they still have aren't performing well in training and he has come to realise that the only person he can talk to is Sharon Agathon... a Cylon.
This episode was a good start to the third series; it quickly brought the viewer up to date before being thrown into the action. The story wasn't afraid to confront difficult issues as the 'good guys' turn to tactics such as suicide bombing which were being employed routinely by the 'bad guys' in Iraq at the time the series was made... the parallels were obvious and make the viewer think about whether tactics which are considered 'evil and cowardly' would be viewed in the same way if used in a cause we agree with. As expected the acting was top notch; I particularly like the scene with Edward James Olmos and Grace Park as Adama and Sharon and the scene between Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas where Tigh and Tyrol discuss the rights and wrongs of their new tactics. If this is a typical season three episode this will be a fine season.
This episode was a good start to the third series; it quickly brought the viewer up to date before being thrown into the action. The story wasn't afraid to confront difficult issues as the 'good guys' turn to tactics such as suicide bombing which were being employed routinely by the 'bad guys' in Iraq at the time the series was made... the parallels were obvious and make the viewer think about whether tactics which are considered 'evil and cowardly' would be viewed in the same way if used in a cause we agree with. As expected the acting was top notch; I particularly like the scene with Edward James Olmos and Grace Park as Adama and Sharon and the scene between Michael Hogan and Aaron Douglas where Tigh and Tyrol discuss the rights and wrongs of their new tactics. If this is a typical season three episode this will be a fine season.