Since I know a lot of people are still catching up with the series, I am going to try and throw in some reminders of past plot details and I'll start with a quick reminder of how we left things back in March. President Roslin tried to rig the election, but then decided against it, giving the presidency to Gaius Baltar. It is Baltar who inadvertently helped the Cylons lower the human defenses, and he is still plagued by memories of the Cylons woman he loved, known as Model 6. Baltar also gave a nuclear weapon to a copy of Model 6 named Gina who had been tortured by members of the Battlestar Pegasus.

Gina set off this weapon, which not only killed a great number of the fleet, but also left a weapons signature that enabled the rest of the Cylons to find the human colonies, who had decided to give up their mythic quest for "Earth" and settle on the planet they call New Caprica. It took the Cylons a year to find New Caprica, but once they did, they came in full force. This time around, they didn't want to destroy humans, but to create a new society. President Baltar surrendered, and now New Caprica is run by a bunch of Cylons.

Now, I don't like to read the podcasts and I didn't watch any of the webisodes featured on SciFi that were supposed to help bridge the four months that have passed since we last had an updated, so feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Watching some of the webisodes might have helped make sense of all the scenes that I was seeing at the beginning. Somebody in prison. Somebody having sex, somebody lighting a candle, somebody connecting a battery, and somebody holding a raptor toy.

The person having sex was Ellen Tigh, but the person in prison was her husband Colonel Tigh. President Roslin is the one lighting candles and praying, and none other than commander William Adama is playing with the Raptor toy. Oh, and Chief Tyrel and Anders are playing with the battery. I could probably go into more detail, but I was so distracted by all of the stupid chanting during the opening sequence that I think I lost my concentration.