I consider myself to be one of Battlestar Galactica's biggest fans, however I was very dissapointed with the premier. <br /><br /><font color="yellow"> Sci-fi is at its best when it explores the human condition as we the audience know it to be in the context of the sci-fi vehicle's universe </font><br /><br />Exactly, that was what Battlestar Galactica gave us in its first 2.5 seasons. In this first season, there was an episode where the Colonials tortured a Cylon prisoner, which of course could easily have been tied to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. However, there were so many other factors that came into play, that you couldn't make that direct comparison. For example, how can you torture a Cylon, they are machines, no wait, they are alive, what is "alive" and these thought provoking ideas go on and on.<br /><br />I thought it was "lazy" writing the way they turned New Caprica into Baghdad. Also, they can download now...how?, the Ressurection Ship was destroyed. There are 50,000 people left, and they are killing themselves, just to make the Cylons..download? It doesn't make sense...It seemed to me they couldn't reconcile the Starbuck-Leoben and New Caprica-Baghdad story lines.<br /><br />Also, the Centurions are not self-aware? Scar was self-aware, obviously the Cylons must have been self-aware when they initially rebelled, and there were not human models then, unless possibly there is a "God" computer. That was another part of the story that dissapointed me.<br /><br />I'm sure it will get better, but for the first time I am not happy with my favorite show. Hopefully it will be just a blip on the radar, and the series will return to its usual excellence soon.<br /><br /><br /><br />