Well, focus this week once again shifted back toward Baltar and completely away from Starbuck's quest and the cylon civil war stuff (is it just me, or are there just too many plot threads happening at once these days?). Truthfully, what had my attention the most this last episode though was the intriguing interactions between Tigh and Number Six. Tigh is still obviously grieving the death of his wife (to the point where he'd even see Ellen when occasionally looking at Six), and Number Six seems to be the only person he can confide in. This is quite the dramatic character shift for Tigh (though finding out you're a cylon can make a person change in a lot of ways I suppose), and his interactions with Six on this episode are making me wonder if there's a potential relationship there between these two. They're both clearly wounded people (or...err...machines), and seem to be sharing a connection that could lead to a possible romance of some sort, which I think would be a rather fascinating and unexpected direction for things to go. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
As usual though, you'll find my more in-depth comments about the episode up on my overcast for the week, and my preview below to give you guys a taste. Enjoy!
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Another character lost...
Usually at least once or twice a season on BG, there's an episode that hits us like a sledgehammer, because the writers will prove that they have the guts to kill off central characters that the fans actually care about. On second season, we lost poor Billy Keikeya and Crashdown, with third season, it was Kat and Tigh's wife, Ellen. Now with the 4th season, we've lost a character we've seen from the beginning of the series: Cally.
I always felt bad for poor Cally, because she was a kind soul, who has just had notoriously bad luck over the course of the series. We watched her over the first season, obviously infatuated with Chief Tyrol, but unable to do anything about it since the Chief was involved with Boomer. Then Boomer was revealed as a cylon, and we watched Cally stick by the Chief, even when he beat her in a crazed rage while coming out of a fevered dream. Things seemed like they might go Cally's way at the end of season 2, when time jumped ahead and we saw she was married to the Chief and they had a child together. Though this happiness was all too brief, as the cylon invasion of New Caprica turned their lives upside down, and Cally found herself nearly executed in front of a firing squad.
But somehow Cally managed to escape death and reunite with her family and friends aboard the Galactica once again, only to now get the horrible bombshell of information that her husband, whom she has stood by so unfalteringly, is in fact a cylon. The knowledge of this information sadly cost Cally her life, and she will be missed. Though I fear her death may be only the first of several heavy blows we're likely to get this season, and who will be left standing by the end of this series is anyone's guess.
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I always felt bad for poor Cally, because she was a kind soul, who has just had notoriously bad luck over the course of the series. We watched her over the first season, obviously infatuated with Chief Tyrol, but unable to do anything about it since the Chief was involved with Boomer. Then Boomer was revealed as a cylon, and we watched Cally stick by the Chief, even when he beat her in a crazed rage while coming out of a fevered dream. Things seemed like they might go Cally's way at the end of season 2, when time jumped ahead and we saw she was married to the Chief and they had a child together. Though this happiness was all too brief, as the cylon invasion of New Caprica turned their lives upside down, and Cally found herself nearly executed in front of a firing squad.
But somehow Cally managed to escape death and reunite with her family and friends aboard the Galactica once again, only to now get the horrible bombshell of information that her husband, whom she has stood by so unfalteringly, is in fact a cylon. The knowledge of this information sadly cost Cally her life, and she will be missed. Though I fear her death may be only the first of several heavy blows we're likely to get this season, and who will be left standing by the end of this series is anyone's guess.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
2nd Episode of the Season
So this week's episode was another interesting (albeit short) one for the new season. Clearly since this is the last season, the writers of BG have thrown out the stand-alone episode mentality that seemed fairly prevalent in the second-half of season three, and are instead hitting us with a series of cliffhanger episodes that each keep segueing into the next.
For this week, we saw just how far poor Starbuck could fall in her desperate quest to get her peers to believe her stories of Earth. We saw Lee Adama leave Galactica, and his (apparently now former) wife Dee behind. And we even got to see the genesis of what will likely turn out to be a civil war among the cylons.
In short, things are getting dark on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, very dark, and it's likely only going to get worse for our poor characters, at least until the end of the journey is reached, and earth is hopefully, and finally found. But much like Baltar seems to have with his newly-discovered "one true God," I have faith.
(And of course, you can find my more in-depth commentaries of the show at www.overcastmedia.com, the preview for this week's episode which you'll find below.)
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For this week, we saw just how far poor Starbuck could fall in her desperate quest to get her peers to believe her stories of Earth. We saw Lee Adama leave Galactica, and his (apparently now former) wife Dee behind. And we even got to see the genesis of what will likely turn out to be a civil war among the cylons.
In short, things are getting dark on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, very dark, and it's likely only going to get worse for our poor characters, at least until the end of the journey is reached, and earth is hopefully, and finally found. But much like Baltar seems to have with his newly-discovered "one true God," I have faith.
(And of course, you can find my more in-depth commentaries of the show at www.overcastmedia.com, the preview for this week's episode which you'll find below.)
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Saturday, April 5, 2008
1st Episode of Season 4
Well, just watched the 1st episode of the new season last night, and published my overcast covering it today (the trailer of which is pasted below). As usual, Moore and Eick did not disappoint, once again delivering a solid season opener, of which its only major crime was that it was simply over too quickly!
The episode opened with an enormous space battle (something that is surprisingly not too common on a show which is essentially about war), one which again shows the incredible talent of the visual effects artists working on this show, who consistently deliver work up to feature film standards. Hell, I thought overall it was a better space battle than the one that opened EPISODE III, and God knows how much more money Lucas had at his disposal with that one!
But we all know that it's not really the space battles which keep bringing people back to BG week after week, but the human element, and this episode was full of all sorts of compelling drama in that department, leaving the doors opening for some pretty compelling narrative directions in this final season. Starbuck is now apparently at the top of the Cylon suspects lists after her sudden and unexplained return, and finds herself struggling to make the others believe that she did actually find Earth (which I'm inclined to believe she did). Meanwhile Baltar is well on his way to believing himself the "new messiah" with the support of his new group of devoted followers, and the newly revealed four of "the Final Five" are still trying to figure out if they can trust themselves within the fleet. Anders in particular had a fascinating encounter with a cylon raider, which seemed to result in the cylons pulling back when they had the humans dead to rights, making us wonder just what indeed ARE the final five's roles in the big picture here?
All in all, a very satisfying season opener that has already left me hungry for more. Next Friday can't come soon enough!
-Tim
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The episode opened with an enormous space battle (something that is surprisingly not too common on a show which is essentially about war), one which again shows the incredible talent of the visual effects artists working on this show, who consistently deliver work up to feature film standards. Hell, I thought overall it was a better space battle than the one that opened EPISODE III, and God knows how much more money Lucas had at his disposal with that one!
But we all know that it's not really the space battles which keep bringing people back to BG week after week, but the human element, and this episode was full of all sorts of compelling drama in that department, leaving the doors opening for some pretty compelling narrative directions in this final season. Starbuck is now apparently at the top of the Cylon suspects lists after her sudden and unexplained return, and finds herself struggling to make the others believe that she did actually find Earth (which I'm inclined to believe she did). Meanwhile Baltar is well on his way to believing himself the "new messiah" with the support of his new group of devoted followers, and the newly revealed four of "the Final Five" are still trying to figure out if they can trust themselves within the fleet. Anders in particular had a fascinating encounter with a cylon raider, which seemed to result in the cylons pulling back when they had the humans dead to rights, making us wonder just what indeed ARE the final five's roles in the big picture here?
All in all, a very satisfying season opener that has already left me hungry for more. Next Friday can't come soon enough!
-Tim
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
IGN's BG Coverage
God bless IGN.com. The last several years, IGN has been one of my favorite go-to sites for news and reviews on new video games, movies, comics, and TV shows, so I wasn't surprised to find they'd have something about Battlestar's return to TV after such a long absence. What was pleasantly surprising is just how much good stuff they put up for fans today. Aside from an early review of tomorrow's first episode for the fourth season (which I refuse to read before watching it), they were kind enough to print a new interview with Katee Sackhoff, their Top 10 Favorite Characters List, and a great article lining up the suspects for who just might be the elusive 12th cylon. I highly recommend all BG fans to check out all their stuff.
-Tim
-Tim
Previews of my BG Overcast Series
As I mentioned in my previous entry, I am currently doing weekly "DVD-style" commentaries for BATTLESTAR GALACTICA episodes for a website called Overcast Media. For those of you who haven't had a chance to check out the site yet, I've included here two short video previews of the episodes I've done thus far, just to give a sense of what these commentaries are like. Hope everyone enjoys them, and check out www.overcastmedia.com for the full episode commentaries!
-Tim
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-Tim
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Welcome to my BG blog!
Hello everyone! Welcome to my new blog on all things BATTLESTAR GALACTICA! I decided to set this up in response to the DVD-style commentaries I've been doing for BG episodes as of lately (which if you haven't checked out yet you may find at www.overcastmedia.com). So here I'll continue to discuss recent episodes, favorite bits, theories on where the show may be going in its final season, and any other points of interest that may pop up. Feel free to chime in with your own comments here too, whether they relate to my Overcast commentaries, to BG itself, or if you just blatantly disagree with whatever crazy things I might be saying. All I know is that the last season of what I consider the BEST show on television is nearly about start, I'm chomping at the bit here with anticipation (as I imagine most of you are as well), and I'm anxious to hear from all you other BG fans out there! This Friday can't come soon enough! So say we all!
-Tim
-Tim
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