Who’s Snarling Now?

Hot on the heels of the news that Lost is to run for just three more, 16-episode series, I now hear on the grapevine that the fourth series of Battlestar Galactica is to be the last. While my initial reaction was one of abject dispondancy, I have now had time to reflect about this and can feel compelled to conclude that this is probably “a good thing”�. “Heresy!”, I hear you cry! Well, not quite. Having seen the series finale of three last week I can only feel even more encouraged that the

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Tags: Adama, All-Along-The-Watchtower, Apollo, Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, Crossroads, Cylons, Roslin, Sky, Starbuck

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

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

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