It has won Peabody awards, been called the best show on television by Time magazine, shunned by the Grammy's, and universally praised by its critics and fans for its top notch integration of challenging social and political themes, and tonight BattleStar Galactica returns to a stage torn from the most desperate, polarizing, and important stories of our day and age. It is a story of insurgency, suicide bombers, occupation, torture, wrongful imprisonment, and leaders under the influence of industrialized motivation. No, it isn't Iraq, it's New Caprica, an effigy of the Baghdad culture if there ever was one.
When we last left StarBuck, Apollo, and company, we had jumped a year into the future where President Baltar had settled the fleet on an earth-like planet thought to be safe from the Cylon radar. While a fledgling civilization struggled to form, the Adama boys were getting used to military irrelevance in a peace time where most of their soldiers and pilots were staking claim on their chunk of the murky rock below, leaving the Pegasus and Galactica halls empty and running on bored skeleton crews. The settlers struggled through a mockery of a socialist existence, their dreams of a bucolic oasis long forgotten. Then, the Cylons returned, Baltar surrendered, and the "to be continued� flashed before our eyes as the Pegasus and Galactica ignited their Hyper-drives and got the heck out of dodge.
Tonight's episode takes a similar leap forward, a few months into Cylon occupation as we see the battle to regain freedom sprout wings. Be sure to tune in with BuddyTV tonight for live expert commentary as BattleStar Galactica returns to the airwaves!