4×01/2: He That Believeth In Me and Six of One

I have been tending to focus on things Who-related of late (although I never mentioned Torchwood during its recently concluded second series at all) but the remit of this blog is pretty much anything I see on telly and one import that is just as much a fixture of my weekly viewing is Battlestar Galactica. The relaunch of BSG happened at about the same time as Doctor Who and both have just begun their fourth series since coming back. However, while I am sure there are people

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Tags: Baltar, Battlestar Galactica, BSG, Cylon, He That Believeth in Me, Series Four, Six of One, Skin Job, Sky-One, Starbuck

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

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

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