After an exceptional 2003 miniseries that was a "re-imagining" of the original from 1978, the new Battlestar Galactica began airing in January 2005 and it was one of the earliest shows I reviewed.
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Doux Top Twenty! Number 19: Battlestar Galactica
After an exceptional 2003 miniseries that was a "re-imagining" of the original from 1978, the new Battlestar Galactica began airing in January 2005 and it was one of the earliest shows I reviewed.
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Spoilers below!
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
"We didn’t want to be loved. We wanted to be treated fairly."Greatness is subjective and as much as I feel Battlestar Galactica: The Plan was great, I am finding it hard to find the right way to praise it. So I’ll start with everything I disliked.
Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak, Part 2
Starbuck: "Nothing but the rain."
This finale was a masterpiece. From darkness, to light, to oblivion. I wish I felt better about it.
Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak, Part 1
I swear, I honestly didn't think the end was getting to me. But when Roslin, barely able to walk, crossed that red line, I started to cry. All of the characters I care about are planning to take a disintegrating ship on a suicide mission. If Ron Moore stays true to form, there could be a Shakespearean bloodbath.
Battlestar Galactica: Islanded in a Stream of Stars
Adama: "The grandest."
It's time to say goodbye to this series, and it has started with the Galactica herself. It had to happen, but it just feels awful. It feels like the end. Maybe because it is.
Battlestar Galactica: Someone to Watch Over Me
Seems like forever since we had an episode about Starbuck. This was a really good one. And it may very well have given us one of the Big Answers.
Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock
Hot Dog: "How many dead chicks are out there?"
This episode was like a soap opera in space. Amusing, and rather sad. Sort of annoying, too. I was disappointed to see Ellen revert to type and spend the entire episode making an ass of herself. Not that Tigh was much better. The Final Five are most emphatically not godlike. Or maybe the message was that gods can be petty and jealous, too.
Battlestar Galactica: No Exit
Boomer: "Forgiving you."
There was so much information in this episode that I kept saying to the screen, "Slow down! What was that again?" And in fact, this is the revised version of my original review because I missed so much the first two times I watched this episode. The third time was the charm. It was just too frakking complicated.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood on the Scales
Incredibly cool conclusion, following last week's incredibly cool part one. This might have been their best two-parter ever, and that's saying a lot.
Battlestar Galactica: The Oath
Frakking wow. It's a mutiny. And I was worried that the final episodes would be an anticlimax. Silly me.
Battlestar Galactica: The Disquiet That Follows My Soul
Adama went back to life as usual. He put his grief and despair in its place and moved on to the important business of saving the human race. But the rest of the fleet wasn't ready to move on with him. To them, allying with the Cylons is still sleeping with the enemy. And not telling the fleet who the final Cylon was? Big mistake. Huge. Everyone is going to rush to fill in the blank.
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
Cheese and crackers. Can you say intense?
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #10
Aboard raptor 718, everyone's dead bar Gaeta. He injects himself with a syringe of morpha and prepares to administer a second, fatal dose. He starts to sing when suddenly the ship's interior is illuminated from outside and Hoshi's voice comes through on the com. Finally help has arrived.
Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
Some thoughts from Jess Lynde ...There is a great article over on the Chicago Tribune about last night's BSG. I didn't find it spoilery, but read at your own risk, as it does address that final reveal. It is quite lengthy, but includes an interview with Ron Moore and thoughts from the episode's writers and directors. Here's the link:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/01/final-fifth-cylon-ellen-tigh-battlestar-galactica-dualla-dee-.html
Some good stuff from Ron in the interview, especially regarding the final reveal of the episode. But I think my favorite part of the article is this bit from David Weddle about his inspiration for the title and the theme of the episode:
"The day the staff finished putting the cards up on the board with Ron, and the day before we began writing, I flashed on my favorite American novel, Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. It is a much underappreciated and towering work. Anyone interested in fine literature and great story telling should read Kesey's masterpiece.
"The book opens with a childish rhyme that enunciates the theme of the book and what to me was the theme of our show. `Sometimes I live in the country. Sometimes I live in the town. Sometimes I get a great notion. To jump in the river and drown.'
"In Kesey's book, the hero---Hank Stamper, an Oregon logger---does constant battle with the river that runs past his home, a river that has claimed the lives of pets and loved ones and comes to symbolize the vast and indifferent power of the universe that both gives life and cruelly snatches it away again. In his notes to himself as he was writing the book, Kesey scribbled something that has become one of the shorthand phrases Brad and I use while writing scripts. Kesey wrote: "Try to make Hank quit." By that he meant: take this strong, heroic character and pile one misfortune on his back after another until he finally falls. What happens in that moment? Does he despair? Does he get up and go on? For me, there is no more defining moment for a character.
"We tried to do this with almost all the characters in this episode: Adama, Laura, Kara, Lee. We ripped everything out from under them then sat back to see what they would do. What were their individual breaking points? And if they did break, would they stay broken or grope toward a recovery?"
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Interesting stuff. I like the dark place to which they took this episode. Dee's suicide was heartbreaking, but made absolute sense. When you've lost everything and all hope is stripped away, someone is bound to break. Dee was a powerful choice, given that she's always been the quiet, calm center, refusing to give up and providing strength to others. If Dee can't continue, where does that leave everyone else?
There were a number of great scenes and shocking moments in this episode, but I think my favorite scene was when Adama, Laura, and Lee returned to Galactica and faced with all the hopeful faces of the crew, Laura simply couldn't say anything. Powerful stuff. My second favorite scene was when Leoben freaked out after finding Starbuck's body and admitted he was wrong about Earth. Even crazy, faith-driven Leoben doesn't know what to make of Kara. Whoa!
I've got tons of questions about the 13th colony, the timing of its destruction, and the final five. And, of course, what the heck is Kara? I'm looking forward to where it goes from here.
Jess Lynde is a highly engaged television viewer. Probably a bit too engaged.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy #9
Aboard raptor 718, Sweet Eight confesses to Gaeta her treacherous past. At first Gaeta refuses to believe it. He remembers seeing people from the list alive on New Caprica. Sweet Eight admits to saving some, but only enough to fool him into trusting her. She accuses him of being seduced by hope.
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