Taking A Break From All Your Worries

Okay, we need to catch up a little here. March 13th was the last time that Fazzinchi.co.uk featured a review of Battlestar Galactica, at which time I was talking about “The Passage”, so it’s high time we put that right. The Other Viewer and I have managed to watch five further installments over the last few weeks in an endeavour to get up to speed with the tale. I have found that the pace has started to drop off and in its stead has come a build up in the inner mythology of the show. However, rather than the predictable descent into

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Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Cylon, Saul-Tigh

I Really Liked This Screencap (… just thought I’d share that!)

I caught up with the latest two episodes of Battlestar Galactica last night, well, the latest two shown in the UK (with appropriate apologies to the dishless masses) and it was a surprisingly mixed bag on offer.  We began with “Unfinished Business” that was an episode based around a boxing tournament on the Galactica that included Lost-style flashbacks to a time on New Caprica before the Cylons found the colony.  However, boxing doesn’t really do it for me and I found the

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Tags: Admiral-Adama, Apollo, Battlestar Galactica, Cylon, New-Caprica, Roslin, SkyOne, Starbuck, The-Passage, Unfinished-Business

President Roslin Faces Up To The Challenges

Now that the crew of Galactica are leading the fleet back on their quest for Earth, the series seems to be settling into something of a routine.  There have been three episodes shown on SkyOne since the last report from Fazzinchi Towers and they’ve all been pretty great.  In “Torn”, we see former rivals Tigh and Starbuck continue their bitter backlash against anyone in their vague vicinity, which finally leads to a confrontation with Adama who gives each of the pair an ultimatum

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Tags: A-Measure-Of-Salvation, Adama, Apollo, Athena, Babylon-5, Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, Bulldog, Cylon, Helo, Starbuck, Tigh, Torn

Collaboration Is Bad

They’re all back on Galactica with the remnants of the fleet in tow, fleeing the cylons and struggling to survive. So, have the producers reset the clock on Battlestar Galactica? Far from it. The backlash from the occupation of New Caprica has begun in the episode “Collaborators”, during which President Tom Zareck appointed a vigilante group known as The Circle to act as judge, jury and executioner of the humans who had worked with the Cylons during the months on the planet.

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Tags: Aaron-Douglas, Apollo, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Collaborators, Cylon, Roslin, SkyOne, Starbuck, Tigh, Tyrol, Zareck

Come In Number Six

The second part of “Exodus” (the fourth installment of series 3 in the new Battlestar Galactica) saw the end of the occupation of New Caprica… the clue was in the title I guess, and there was plenty more intrigue as the last remnants of humanity continued to battle against their oppressors.  The Baltar storyline is wonderfully underplayed (by Jamie Callis) as his initial self-absorbed personality has been manipulated and coerced by the cylons to the extent that he was seen here

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Tags: Adama, Babylon-5, Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Exodus, Jamie-Callis, Saul-Tigh, Sci Fi, SkyOne

Guess Who’s Back?

After the announcement that Battlestar Galactica was to be remade (or “reimagined” as the marketing folk would have it) and news started to leak out about the production, for example news that Starbuck was being cast as a woman, all hell broke lose amongst fandom to the point where these people were “openly dissapproving” to the stars of the show when they made public appearances.  Indeed, there are people still who do not watch the new Battlestar Galactica because they

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Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Cylon, Katee-Sackhoff, Occupation, Precipice, SkyOne, Starbuck