Laser Galactica
Coming soon to a planetarium near you.
(Seriously, what the frak was that all about?)
** Inevitable comment spoilers after the jump. ** Spool down if you haven't seen the season finale.
Did I mention SPOILERS?
Galactica doesn't return for another billion months or so, but you can read this interview with Ron Moore in the meantime. I think I speak for the majority of fans when I say that more Admiral Kane is a good thing.
Update: Reader Ethic points out this heavily spoiler-laden interview with Ron Moore, regarding the season finale and some hints about season 4.
And completely off-topic: The super excellent Rome finished its run last night. HBO has said there won't be a season 3, what with it being good and all, and also expensive. It's a good thing when a series goes out at the top of its game, and Rome certainly lived up to that standard. If you haven't seen it, throw season 1 in your Netflix queue. You'll be hooked.
Back to BSG: Survey says: very weak, most predictable, most disjointed episode ever. Very disappointed.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:13 am
Were we watching the same episode?
I guess I didn’t see the verdict as a foregone conclusion, though it’s crazy how they managed to get back to status quo again.
But the music-listeners meeting up and saying “Yup, we’re Cylons” and then going back to work? I thought that was awesome. (Of course, I have my doubts that they’re actually Cylons.)
While I saw the ending coming, I was still on the edge of my seat waiting for it.
The only thing I could complain about is that it was rushed, just as the last season finale was rushed (even with an extra half hour to play with.)
March 26th, 2007 at 8:36 am
My wife said, “But there are only four of them? Where’s the fifth Cylon.”
I said, “That’s Starbuck, of course.”
I gotta agree with the dissapointment there. And I’m expecially confused over the use of a Bob Dylan song figuring into the actual plot of the show. I’m half expecting the next season to begin with Baltar waking up from a coma in his 20th-century bed in a hospital in Los Angeles in 1975, realizing the entire series was just a meaningless dream.
I’m really dissapointed with this season. It started with the awesome conclusion to the very gutsy series-changing season finale of season 2, but then quickly became a whimpering, self-flagellating angsty shadow of its former self. It just doesn’t seem to know where it is going from episode to episode any more.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:55 am
The whole “there’s music in the ship” thing was just a little too nebulous. Maybe we’ll get a better explanation in January. But it strikes me as pretty fortuitous that the final 5 just happened to end up on the Galactica, a ship that by all rights shouldn’t have survived the original genocide.
The trial was, to me, completely predictable from the moment that Adama said Baltar didn’t deserve a fair trial in part 1. It was such an obvious setup as a character building vehicle. Very heavy-handed for someone with RDM’s talent. I was also disappointed that after weeks of buildup, the trial ended with Lee’s “we all just need to get along” speech. (how many more times can they get away with that?)
I do have to say that Gaeta’s perjury was an unexpected surprise. I love how they’ve taken this straight-laced background character and turned him into a much more complex person. I’m looking forward to a confrontation with Baltar next season.
Baltar was in great form. I love watching him squirm. I LOL’d at his “obviously the prosecution was flawed from the beginning” line, and actually felt bad for him as he was slinking around the ship with not a friend in the world. He’s come a long way from the miniseries Baltar, and it’s been a fun ride.
The only real suspense for me was whether we were going to have to wait until next season to see Starbuck again. But I think we all knew she was headed to earth when she disappeared in the maelstrom. I will say that I’m intrigued with this serene personality that she’s taken on. I hope she gets better.
Kudos for the Adama/Roslin interactions though. They always bring a lot of energy to their scenes together. The lawyer character is a hoot too, and I hope we see more of him, although we probably won’t.
I’m kind of disappointed that they’re actually going to find Earth, and that Earth is apparantly *our* Earth. Although to paraphrase RDM, you eventually have to have the payoff or it becomes Gilligan’s Island in space, so I do understand that. But I was kind of harboring a hope that it wasn’t really our Earth.
Overall, a disappointing end to a lukewarm season. Season 4 will probably be the last, so I’m hopeful that they’ll step it up and go out with a bang.
March 26th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Ron Moore confirms some things I was not sure about in this interview (SPOILERS):
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm
March 26th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Thanks Ethic, gold star for you!
I’ve linked the interview in the main article!
March 26th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Well, there go all my neat theories
March 26th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Avert your eyes if you care.
Huh. I know many people who are getting turned off the series, but I still love it. Maybe I just like tripe.
I found it kind of disorienting to find out that, yes, that actually was All Along the Watchtower. Are they picking that up from Earth? Does that mean they’re, give or take, 40 LY away? Not sure what to do with that. I like Saul as a Cylon. It makes the whole first half of season 2 much cooler. Not intentional on his part, but planned.
Also, yes. Baltar’s lawyer is teh awesum. You might also know him as Badger, right? Isn’t that him, from Firefly? He wasn’t quite as crooked in this, but he does play slimy-and-proud-of-it well.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Coyote said:
I just had an e-frakin’-piphany, y’all. You know what this means? It’s so clear to me now. BOB DYLAN IS A CYLON! ZOMG!!!1!#!!1!*1!!!forty-two.
March 27th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Well, we knew that the Final Five Cylons were fundamentally different from the other Cylons, just now we know how.
They’re not toasters, they’re transistor radios.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Maybe it’s because I’m from Seattle, but I greatly prefer the Hendrix version.