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When the Dean Stockwell Cylon was talkiong about instilling fear to convert humans, and executing them at random to make them fear the Cyclons, he could have said "Allah" and it would not have seemed out of place at all.

Why didn't you think of the Romans or even the Nazis? Perhaps you are projecting your thoughts about the War on Terror onto this piece of science fiction?

Why didn't you think of the Romans or even the Nazis? Perhaps you are projecting your thoughts about the War on Terror onto this piece of science fiction?

Definitely not the Romans - one of the reasons they did so well was their tolerance for just about any religion - they saw the value of bringing in other religions (and if you've visited Rome and seen some of the museums, etc., you'd realize they had a god for just about everything - probably had one for bowel movements). Nazis..comparison could be made.

My point was (and I didn't make it clearly, it's late), is that for every part of tonight's episode that somebody said represented Americans, one could easily say it reprented other countries/religions/etc..

The fact that we seem to be unable to agree says quite a bit about how good the writing was. I had very high expectations for tonight's episode and wasn't disappointed. I actually find myself saying I like Tigh's character. It's also easy to see once again that Olmos was the perfect choice for Admiral Adama.