<p> What do you do when you don&#39;t remember what you&#39;ve done?</p> <p> There are real incidences of people committing murder while in a somnambulistic state. Can you imagine what that would be like, to wake up and find that you&#39;d done something you had no memory of, that you would never have chosen to to? Even in the world of BSG, your first thought would not, could not be, &#34;I must be a Cylon.&#34; To doubt your own identity at that level seems unthinkable. In a way, I think Boomer (and the Chief) don&#39;t go quite crazy enough.</p>

<p> Way to ratchet up the tension.</p> <p> If the second half of the mini-series seemed like a little bit of a let-down (and I&#39;ve not yet got my commentary on it up, so this is a spoiler), this first episode of the actual series kicks things right back into high gear.</p> <p> Even if I find it implausible that the Colonials are able to even pretend to function after 130+ hours, medicated or not, the actors do their considerable best to give the impression that these are people who are beyond even working on autopilot. Even the best of them have moments of staring off into nothingness as their minds are unable to keep going.</p>

<p> Yeah, so the new BSG episode maybe didn&#39;t have the impact on me that it was intended to because it&#39;s been so goddamned long since the last episode.</p> <p> In fact, I&#39;m looking forward to BSG being over so I can go back and start at the beginning and watch it all start to finish–to date, I&#39;ve watched each episode as it came out, and I while discussion with Chet suggests that this makes some of the less-wonderful episodes from Season 3 a little less glaringly bad, it means that after each break, I don&#39;t remember all the nuances of the story so far.</p>