It was definitely a WTF? episode (in a good way). Like everyone here's been saying, it'll be interesting to see how they go from this.
It was still a bit of a trip to jump an entire year later. But let's face it: one TV season of watching them settling a colony would've probably been bland. Within a few minutes after the year-jump, you get a fairly basic understanding of what's happened to our characters. You don't get the details but you get the general gist of it.
I don't agree with the complaints about Adama and Roslin pulling away from rigging the election. Ever since the middle of Season 2, Adama's been thinking hard about the "It's not enough to survive" principles and his speech in the mini about the sins of humanity.
Looking at his recent actions (reuniting the fleet at Kobol, pulling back from assassinating Cain, just being willing to talk to Sharon), it makes sense that he wouldn't allow the election rigging or try to pull a coup.
Now this is my own little pet theory I'm throwing up here. But it'd be interesting to see if Moore's got the balls to throw in some real-world parallels at the start of Season 3: you got the Cylons occupying the human's home, the Cylons having the superior military might, and the Cylons trying to "encourage" (or impose) their will on humanity for the "betterment" of humanity.
Hopefully, they can take this idea and muddy up all the issues, making it so that neither the humans or the Cylons are completely in the right on this.
P.S.--Seven, I love your avatar!! German engineering in tha' HAWSSSS!!!