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Ah, Felix Gaeta. After so many years of wondering about your love life, we finally got to see it — and this being Battlestar Galactica, the fantasies were probably better. Spoilers for the webisodes ahead. More »
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I like a fast-moving plot, but the breakneck speed at which events unfolded and characters did about-faces on Friday's Battlestar Galactica episode was frankly untenable. The human vs. robot drama reached a fever pitch in last week's kickass episode, but this week's story, called "Sine Qua Non," made several obvious mistakes. Familiar characters veered so far outside their usual behavior patterns that the episode felt forced at several points. But it didn't have to be that way. This week I'm going to veer away from our usual recap pattern to go over some of the episode's problem points, and offer a narrative solution that I think would have worked better (and probably pleased audiences more too). Spoilers ahead! More »
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The last several episodes of Battlestar Galactica have been occasionally slug-like, but Friday's installment, "Guess What's Coming to Dinner," delivered some serious asskickery. As the rebel cylons and the human fleet work their way toward an uneasy alliance, there are juicy, twisty plans-within-plans on both sides. Plus there are some seriously intense scenes with the cylon sleeper agents, torn between human loyalty and curiosity about their newly-discovered robo-identities. Unfortunately, there is also singing. A lot of singing. Spoilers ahoy! More »
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For those of us who have gotten sick of scientist-cum-messiah Baltar's sermonizing, Friday's episode of Battlestar Galactica, "Faith," was a welcome relief. Instead of watching a sweaty dude in a shiny robe preach to a room full of Lilith Fair lady ninjas, we got to watch an asskicking Starbuck court danger and cylons. Plus there were views of the cylon Base Ships that we've never seen before — and that looked seriously awesome. For BSG fans who like the whole character development thing, there was plenty of that too. A lot of the humans (and cylons) are having to face their mortality for the first time. And it's not always pretty. More »
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Hope you enjoyed yet another "everybody is more psycho" episode of Battlestar Galactica on Friday, complete with ten percent more nervous breakdowns and a bit of sartorial madness. "The Road Less Traveled" also brings us the return of a certain creepy Cylon, who makes all the weirdness even weirder. And then there's the ongoing mystery of why everybody is so sweaty on the poop ship Demetrius. Wouldn't it be cheaper to keep them cold in space rather than cranking up the heat? Spoilers ahead. More »
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I like watching sexy ladies torture sweaty men as much as the next person, but Friday night's Battlestar Galactica took that scenario way too far. Called "Escape Velocity," the episode delved deeply into Baltar's religious beliefs and Tyrol's post-Cally bitterness, but was also packed with enough randomly-generated sadomasochism to fill a bag of holding. Is there a way to wash your eyes out with soap? You'll want to know after enduring several scenes with lines like, "Pain is pleasure," and "I want the pain." Spoilers ahead, if you can bear it. More »
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Things are getting awesomely ugly on Battlestar Galactica, with the humans squabbling over sex and the justice system while their arch-enemies the Cylons march towards all-out bot-on-bot civil war. One of the more stylized, surreal episodes of BSG, last night's "The Ties that Bind" was full of weird camera angles and blurred-out backgrounds that perfectly capture the mental disintegration of several major characters. And one person's life takes a seriously unexpected turn in a scene that had me yelling "HOLY CRAP!" at my monitor. You guessed it: spoilers lie ahead. More »
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Last night's episode of Battlestar Galactica was one of the best in a very long time — better, by far, than the season premiere last week — because we got to go further inside the Cylon social system than ever before. And it wasn't just gooey computer interfaces and creepy threesomes with Baltar. At last we're seeing the gripping political conflict of the New Caprica episodes again, only this time around the Cylons are breaking into warring factions rather than the humans. It turns out the Cylons are as divided as the humans over what direction they should go (literally and figuratively). Some, like Six, want to follow "the one true god" and find their mystical destiny; others, like Brother Cavil, prefer the pragmatic rationalism of war. Spoilery recappage ahead. More »
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