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Right off the bat, a difference: we go from “previously on Battlestar Galactica” straight to the opening credits. I don’t recall this ever before. There’s always a cold open, usually with an intense moment leading into the opening titles. Then, the opening music normally transitions from choral to exciting percussion with flashing previews. That too is missing in “Daybreak, Part 1.” Eerie. (Eerie is a funny-looking word when it’s capitalized, ain’t it?)

We are then endowed, as it were, with knowledge of what came before. Not just going back to Caprica City before the atomic horror, but a glimpse of creation. All very religious. Then the dialog begins, and we see a very Earth-like existence. We see our life before the bomb that will come, is what the writers are saying. Business, limos, kissing, drinking, celebrating, families, cooking, swearing, dying, yelling, normal “Earth” stuff (with all the actors playing themselves five years ago) — except Laura Roslin walking into a city fountain as part of a reaction to horrible news. That’s not every-day. That’s symbolism. So back we go to the Battlestar, and its and Laura’s dismantling.

Not much else causes me to comment throughout the episode. Except when Admiral Adama says to Cara Thrace: “I know what you are. You’re my daughter, and don’t you forget it.” Wha?!?! So I looked it up: he considers her a type of surrogate daughter. Oh. Okay.

Next week, in our final episode, we plunge pell-mell into a black hole and all die. Great.