Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:32:00
Battlestar Galactica - Crossroads
Can this be right? 20 episodes this year, and this is 19 of 20? Last week was one of the last 4 that were supposed to blow us away and be some sort of return to glory?
Umm…
Don’t get me wrong, I like Battlestar, even a weakened, overly-soap-ish Battlestar, but the hype was that we were going to be floored. Even the “death” of Starbuck didn’t blow my mind, as it was a fairly average episode up to that point. So this is the end? Where’s the...oomph? What happened to this show?
OK...I just cannot seem to write the usual review. I tried, I really did. It just ended up being me describing what was happening on the screen, and that sucks.
Here’s my jumbled thoughts:
Tigh is hearing the “music” because of something that he and Anders both experienced. What could that be? The music is the Cylon tracking device/manner...it;s something. Could be an implant in Gaius, Six, even Hera...could be a simple transmitter attached to Galactica. Could be anything, really...Salty Seadog will track it down though, because he may be useless and weak some days, but once he gets a wild hair up his ass, he usually gets the job done.
Laura’s assistant is a Cylon. Something is wrong, and she looks to me like Sharon did way back in the day when her programing was kicking in.
Lee. What to say about Lee Adama? He’s chosen a principle over people, and now he’s paying for it. He made the choice because he’s a bitchy little whiner with Daddy issues, but still - he’s usually on the right side of an abstract principle. The problem here is this is not 2.5 years ago, when we had the luxury of acting like the 12 Colonies are still here and that this is just another trial in a Caprican courtroom.
Gaius Baltar is, through action and inaction, at least partially responsible for the deaths of 5000 of the last human beings left alive. Lee can’t possibly think people are going to take him defending this man very well. Especially those in the military...he resigned his commission to defend a treasonous scumbag like Baltar? I may understand his choice of principle over people, but I also understand when Dee left him. I might have done the same.
The lawyer is totally sleazy, BTW. He’s a defense lawyer through and through.
The extra clip was Lee and Lawyerman talking about Gaius’ guilt. Lee said ‘You know he’s guilty, right?” Good thing they cut that. Lee’s actions would have been even harder to justify if we were presented with the simple fact that he believed his “client” to be guilty. Lawyers are not expected to defend clients that they know are guilty...that would put him on the wrong side of the principle IMHO.
Looks like we’re going to end the season on a lot of fracking talking, BTW. Remember when this was the best show on TV?
Posted by JimK at 10:32 PM on March 18, 2007
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#2 Posted by Kazama 
on 03/19 at 12:54 PM -
I totally agree. This .5 season and most of the rest of the show this year has had very weak writing. Also, did I miss something or did they not do a normal opening just to give emphasis on the number dead? It seems like they had a lot of good ideas that were all half baked.
#3 Posted by artmonkey on 03/19 at 03:39 PM -
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again;
Moore is lost in the quagmire of how to effectively, but inconspicuously, inject his political points into the series.
It’s no coincience that the shark-jumping started with the whole, “insurgency” on New Caprica angle.
Still, I’m holding out hope for some really good final episodes this season.
In the extra scene, Apollo (whiny bitch that he’s become.) discusses Baltar’s guilt.
But the lawyer, whose true motivations are yet to be seen, I’m sure, reminds Apollo that it is not about guilt. It’s about criminality.
And frankly, he’s spot-on.
Baltar is guilty as hell… but is anything he did explicitly illegal???
The music? Definitely the cylon tracking signal.
Why is it heard only by Tigh and Helo?
Well, because they’re both cylons, of course.
#4 Posted by Joe R. 
on 03/19 at 11:26 PM -
BSG needs to pull a Star Trek, or a Star Wars. You know, sometimes the creator of a concept has some good ideas, then goes batshit crazy with it. When someone else comes along and takes over the bulk of the creativity, you realize how good the concept was.
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What was this series about?? i forget?? mushy interpersonal relationships? or a all out war?