Well, I saw it a few weeks back through cable on-demand, then watched it again live on Friday. It was somewhat against my will, since I still hold a grudge against Ronald "D is for Deus ex machina" Moore for the way he wrote himself into a corner with BSG and wasted four years of my life. How do you write a meaningful prequel to a story which ends with the revelation that it's all God's plan, there's no such thing as free will, and oh by the way, half the main characters are angels? I have to concentrate real hard on not thinking about the ultimate spoiler when I watch Moore's stuff. Hell, I'm even skeptical of old Star Trek TNG episodes if I see his name on the credits.

That said...interesting how Moore returns to the theme of monotheism triumphing over polytheism. Here he portrays the mainstream polytheistic society as corrupt and decadent, and the teenage rebels embrace monotheism, with its "black and white absolutes" as the head inquisitor laments. Opening with a suicide bomber blowing himself up for the greater glory of God, and you have some pretty thick allegory soup.

It's a challenge to figure out where Moore's coming from: He starts by reminding us that a good deal of the trouble in real human history has come from that "black and white absolutism" of monotheism (particularly the children of Abraham slaughtering each other down through the ages, through the modern icon of the Abramaic suicide bomber); yet the kinder, gentler, polytheism falls to the juggernaut of God's Cylons. Moore even reinforces the message rather bluntly with captions describing events as "X years before the fall".

I think I'll continue to watch it, as long as I can maintain the suspension of disbelief necessitated by knowing how the story ends. Moore does have a knack for putting actors through intricate set pieces and vignettes, so maybe he did have a point when he disparaged the "fetish" for plot in story lines.

Safe prediction: We're going to see Zoe II grow up, and at least once in each episode, near the end, we're going to see an infant, then toddler, then kid, etc., look into the camera with eyes made adult by CGI. Count on it.