[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

In any other time this story line would not matter but with the war on islamicism in the background I can't see this as anything but a hit job on the West.

Why would they do a hit job on the Islamofasciasts? None of them watch Battlestar Galactica.

FWIW, Ronald Moore the producer has stated that the occupation was modeled after the Nazi occupation of France in WWII.

From what i have seen so far, Tigh is the only guy on that planet who is actually thinking.

[trashcanbred]

Tigh is the only guy on that planet who is actually thinking.

I am wondering what he will do about his wife though. She did betray them and he is always hard on others when it comes to sacrificing their loved ones.

But you are right he is the only guy thinking.

[af_vet_rr]

FWIW, Ronald Moore the producer has stated that the occupation was modeled after the Nazi occupation of France in WWII.

This is heavily backed up in the next two episodes (that it's modeled on France and the Nazi occupation). I'm not going to say anything else, because it would be a huge spoiler, but I think it will finally come into focus that WWII was the model.

Moore set it in contemporary times just so people would perhaps understand it better (American history education being what it is :-/).

On a vaguely related note, the Cylons were the first to use suicide bombers, not once, but twice - I forgot the one that tried to blow up Adama.