As the SAR team is attacked by Cylons near the beginning of the
episode, Starbuck gives Caprica-Valerii a Colonial standard
military sidearm, the pistol typically seen carried by military
personnel since the beginning of the second season. It is a
modified FN
FiveseveN.
Before the election has even been held, Baltar is already
calling the newly-discovered habitable world New Caprica.
President Roslin asks Baltar if he was with a tall, blonde woman
on Caprica (Caprica Six) just before the Cylon attack. Roslin
had a memory of this when she was dying of cancer in
"Epiphanies".
Admiral Adama reveals to Anders he was a fan of the Picon Panthers
pyramid team.
Chief Tyrol shouts "code blue" when he sees
the Number One Cylon, whom he recognizes as a double of Brother
Cavil.
"Code blue" would seem to be an agreed upon term in the fleet when
someone spots a person they know to be a Cylon.
After the two Number Ones are put in the brig, President
Roslin threatens to space them both. We don't see it happen
here, but The Plan later reveals that she ordered just
that and it was carried out by Admiral Adama. The execution is
revealed through dialog in a deleted scene of this episode.
The names of three ships of the rag-tag fleet not previously
seen are revealed on the election board at 26:16 on the Blu-ray:
Demetrius, Diomedes, and Embla Brokk.
Demetrius
is mentioned again in several later episodes; it is a sewage
processing ship.
At 30:10 on the Blu-ray, a typo of "Colonial Elections Act" is
seen on the sealing label of the Zephyr ballot box; the
word "Colonial" is seen spelled as "Colonila". Kind of ironic
that a real world misprint occurred in representation of ship in
which a different misprint occurred on the Zephyr
ballots in the story!
I love Mary McDonnell's performance as President Roslin as she
wins the election here. Roslin smiles and hugs, yet you can see
and feel the guilt in her at every moment for having fixed the
result.
At 42:08 on the Blu-ray, the interior-side door of Gina
Inviere's room on Cloud Nine has a notification on it that looks
like a typical hotel room posting of policies and rules.
After Gina has detonated the nuclear warhead aboard Cloud
Nine, at 45:58 on the Blu-ray, a piece of debris strikes
the "camera" in space (our viewpoint), cracking the lens!
Gina stated in
"Resurrection Ship" Part 2 that Cylons were incapable of
committing suicide, yet she appears to do so here with her
detonation of the nuclear warhead. It might be argued that this
was not exactly suicide, but a taking out of a number of the
enemy through self-sacrifice.
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At 48:47 on the Blu-ray, notice that the location on the
wall behind the President's desk where Roslin used to
have the whiteboard of the fleet's population now sports
a painted portrait of President Baltar himself. Baltar
also has a couple of lingerie-clad women in his quarters
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At 50:11 on the Blu-ray, an old era (BSG70) style
Colonial shuttle is seen at New Caprica City next to
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During the fleet's orbital defense patrol at 50:22 on the
Blu-ray, the narrative text shows "Day 380". This would seem to
indicate 380 days since the founding of the colony on New
Caprica, since we were already informed during Baltar's briefing
with Gaeta that it was "one year later" (from the time of the
election). So the total time elapsed since the destruction of
the Twelve Colonies would be almost two years.
Adama remarks to Colonel Tigh that more than half the crew of
Galactica are now living on New Caprica and laments,
"We can barely put a squadron in the air to train, much less fly
a decent cap." Presumably, Adama is using the acronym CAP for
"Combat Air Patrol" (though, of course, there is no "air" in
space!).
At 54:13 on the Blu-ray, we learn from Starbuck's own lips that
she is now married to Sam Anders. She also now has a winged
tattoo on her left arm that matches one on Anders' right arm.
At 56:00 on the Blu-ray, we see that Starbuck and Colonel Tigh
are now warm friends!
At 1:00:36 on the Blu-ray, we learn that Dualla is now a
lieutenant and apparently the executive officer of Pegasus
under Apollo.
At 1:01:33 on the Blu-ray, Helo appears to have taken Lt.
Gaeta's place as tactical officer and is also X.O. on Galactica
(confirmed in Ron Moore's commentary on the episode).
At 1:02:17 on the Blu-ray, a bottle of what is presumably
alcohol on Baltar's coffee table on Colonial One appears to be
named Anterior Stoat.
At 1:02:54 on the Blu-ray, we see some paintings stacked in the
tent of Starbuck and Anders. Starbuck was known to do some
painting during her off-duty life on Caprica; it would seem she
has resumed the hobby.
Number Five tells President Baltar that they discovered the
presence of New Caprica by the radiation signature of a nuclear
detonation. This would seem to be why Gina Inviere chose to blow
up Cloud Nine with her nuclear warhead a year ago
(earlier in the episode).
Notes from the audio commentary by Ron Moore on the
Blu-ray release
Tyrol's speech as president of the worker's union on New Caprica
is based on a speech by Mario Savio (1942-1996) for the Free
Speech Movement at the University of California Berkeley in
1964. Tyrol's hand gestures are also like Savio's.
Baby Hera's cradle is the same one seen in Baltar's visions of
her in "Kobol's Last
Gleaming" Part 2 and "Scattered".
Unanswered Questions
Did Apollo's former lover Shevon and her daughter Paya (as seen
in "Black Market") die on Cloud
Nine? It seems likely, as they were living in quarters on that
ship that Apollo had arranged for them in that episode.
