BSG 1.1 Thirty-Three

I had the feeling, from the show's start (where we were thrown straight into the middle of a situation where the Cylons had been persistently pursuing the humans in thirty-three minute intervals) that the show was going to 'rewind' and show the build-up to this point. But it didn't. It literally put the audience in this situation and let us catch up with what had been going on neatly.

The exhaustion and the desperation of the situation continued the dark vein the show is tonally retaining, which I really enjoyed. The President writing the numbers of people left alive was a stark, black and white symbol of how dwindling and almost doomed the human race was.

I thought the show did linger a little too much on that Gaius character. Again, I hope it's going somewhere. Whilst his scenes with the Blonde Cylon did help with the narrative, she was constantly talking about God to him - forging him to believe that events were transpiring for and because of his beliefs. I have to assume this is a concept that is being taken somewhere. I don't understand why she is helping him. I am not even sure if she is really there; whether she is not part of the Cylons at all and just a part of his psyche!

This may all feed into the Cylon's masterplan, though. The co-pilot guy that was presumed dead for the miniseries turned up, surviving on the colony, but was captured by a Cylon Boomer. Why not just kill him? What is their intention? Again, with the ship that was being tracked, Apollo could not see any passengers on board? Had the Cylons taken them? Is there some form of human harvest taking place?

Like the fact that the Cylons were attacking in thirty-three minute intervals, their motivations and rationale remain unclear but intriguing. But this episode was a great opening - continuing the intensity of the miniseries and the ruthlessness in its uncompromising unfolding. Long may this continue!