Christmas Review #9 of 12

Nothing says Christmas quite like the traumatic aftermath of the Cylon holocaust.  Okay, so it’s not exactly a festive special but “Battlestar Galactica: Razor” debuted in the UK on Sky in December and therefore it makes the list on Fazzinchi’s Christmas dozen.  It served to give us a taster for the forthcoming final season of this most excellent series although it acted as a standalone story.  “Razor” told the tale of Kendra Shaw who was the self-styled living legacy of Admiral Cain

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Tags: Admiral Cain, Cylons, Kendra Shaw, Lee Adama, Michelle-Forbes, Number-Six, Razor, SkyOne

Civvy Street

The conclusion to the second series of Battlestar Gallactica has seemingly (and once again) reset the programme’s premise as the fleet have found themsleves a habitable planet that seems suitable to colonise. Of course, nothing is ever that simple, and the issue of whether or not to stay on New Caprica becomes the key policy in the election between candidates, Baltar and Roslin. Roslin’s near death experience from earlier in the series had unlocked some memories of her presidential rival’s liason with Cylon number six. Realising the threat of having a Cylon sympathiser in the big chair, she tries to steal the election. This two-part finale, “Lay Your Burdens Down”, once again moved the character development and relationships between crew members to new levels, with the final 20 minutes of the episode being set a year later, with the colonists struggling with their new lives. Overall, BSG has proved that modern TV science fiction can be thought provoking, grown up and thoroughly dramatic on a par with any contemporary drama and I look forward to more of the same from Ron Moore and the team in season two. So say we all.

Tags: Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, BSG, Cylons, Lay-Your-Burdens-Down, New-Caprica, Number-Six, Ron-Moore, Roslin, SkyOne