The President is a trader to his own kind and a resistance has risen to the occasion.  Col. Tye is in charge of the underground and continues to show his usual poor judgment.  He allowed and supported suicide bombing.  His own wife turns out to be a trader in order to keep him alive.  The Cylons beat him up and took one of his eyes and threatened to kill him if she did not spy for them.

The Cylons round up all the human leaders and bus them out to the country.  The plan is to massacre them all, ala the Nazis.  But their plans are disrupted by the resistance and the coming of a rescue force from the Gallactica.  The surprise attack succeeds and the humans are able to leave the Cylons behind.

The next episode, the colonial folks are trying to deal with those who were the traders and also in the process are discovering that it is real hard to turn back the clock and begin again.  The school teacher once more becomes President and once again they head for Earth.

Latest 11/10:  The Colonials discover a Cylon Base ship that has been wiped out by a plague of some sort.  They discover an antidote but are tempted to try to infect and wipe out the entire Cylon race.  The Admiral does not like the idea but surprisingly the school teacher President orders the attempt which fails.  The moral questions that they deal with on this show keep me aboard and interested.  Not your everyday TV pleasure cruise for sure.

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Religion seems to be an on-going theme on this series.  I am always interested in observing and detecting religious themes and references by writers of SciFi.  In BG they are in abundance.  The lady President is a ‘prophetic’ figure & some times just pathetic. The Human religion portrayed on the show is polytheistic–”the gods of Cobal did this..the gods helped us there..etc”.  Several characters have been shown praying to small hand-held idols.  The ‘Priest’ on last weeks show told the Chief who came to him for counseling, that “prayer was a waste of time”.  This week, he was exposed as a Cylon (an artificial lifeform) and then he proceeded to tell the President that there were really no gods–religion was just made up to console the masses. What I really find interesting, is that the blond Cylon lady keeps referring to “one true god”.  She’s the only one who seems to have a genuine faith, and yet her lifestyle seems to contradict her stated beliefs.

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