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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