In this episode, the fleet has been forced to make faster-than-light jumps every 33 minutes for more than a week and a half to evade the Cylons, who seem to have some kind of homing device on a fleet ship. The pacing is taut. The script and acting are so good that the tension and raggedness of the Galactica 's crew, which hasn't slept in over hours, seem to flood out of the screen. Which is to say, nearly every episode offers up some ingenious situation or unexpected turn, and is backed by a script chock-full of believable dialogue and mostly understated acting.
Stacked up against Olmos' Adama, legendary Star Trek captains Kirk and Picard come off as even bigger, unbearable, pompous assess than we might have remembered. My main nits with Galactica are that it sometimes goes a little over the top in trying to come off as steamy fare for adults, with at least one sex scene per episode, and at other times verges too far toward the soap operatic.
I'm still not convinced of the need for the former but kind of understand the reason for the latter. Indeed, when Galactica becomes a bit melodramatic, that's because it's being true to its core premise. That's it. If you want to do Season 4, just watch the first episode, "No Exit," and then the three-part series finale.
You'll get the gist, and you'll not have to wade through as much stuff that is not so great. However, compared with the pacing and brilliance of Seasons 1 and Seasons 2, it's a frustrating season in which the characters seem to be treading water most of the time.
There's even a bizarre mid-season finale in which the fleet seems to be at the end of their journey, but really, it's not. This is episode 10, "Revelations," is one that some fans have suggested you watch as the final episode, but I do think there's something worthy about the real finale, even if some of the choices are a little wonky. One could argue that had that strike not happened that Season 4 might have turned out differently. But, even before the strikes happened, Moore and Eick had already decided that Season 4 would be the final season of the show.
Once you've finished BSG — even with this skipping around hack order — you may wonder if it's worth watching the other standalone movie, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. But you shouldn't. Throughout the show, you're told that the Cylons have a plan, but in the end, you're better off not knowing what it was.
Trust me. Battlestar Galactica is streaming on Peacock. Ryan Britt. Get ready to drink with Starbuck! Season 3 starts off great. Time to say goodbye! But what will ultimately sell you on the show or not is whether you click with the characters.
As the highly strung Baltar, Callis is a magnificent bounder matched at every turn by his poised scene partner, Tricia Helfer, vamping it up as Cylon sexbomb Number Six. Katee Sackhoff crackles with unfiltered emotion as hotdogging space cowboy Starbuck — originally a smarmy ladykiller played by a pre-A-Team Dirk Benedict — while the bullet-headed Canadian character actor Michael Hogan takes the creaky stereotype of the boozy bulldog colonel and finds heartbreaking new nuances within it as the abrasive Saul Tigh.
Despite the sprawling ensemble, everyone — from pilot-with-a-secret Boomer Grace Park to baby-faced political aide Billy Paul Campbell — seems messy and alive in a way that is all too rare. That emotional connection will keep you invested as the writers take bigger and bolder swings over the course of four seasons. The Cylon mythology and religion is deeply explored. A classic Bob Dylan song is audaciously co-opted.
Note McCreary's score in this sequence, punching miles above the weight class of basic cable. Another peak is when the show made an abrupt one-year time jump. At the time, the jump was one of the most shocking moves I had ever seen in a TV series BSG was once again making a move that would become a widely adopted storytelling trend years later.
Again, a massive risk that paid off. The jump took the drama into new directions that were every bit as compelling as the episodes that led up to it. Here's the time-jump scene. The run of greatness climaxed early in season 3 when the Battlestar crew is enslaved by the Cylons on New Caprica. Here the show's war-on-terror analogy came to a head, only now putting viewers on the side of a group suffering under the thumb of technologically superior occupying force.
And that's right where you arguably should end your watch. You will want more after "Exodus. BSG was fantastic. And there's nothing wrong with watching the rest. There are some fine moments along the way. It's not an ideal ending. Much is left unresolved. But it wraps a long succession of narrative and feels like a more satisfying outcome than you get with the remaining 36 episodes.
If you venture further, at first things are okay. After all the intense drama on New Caprica, one expected a bit of wheel-spinning in the episodes immediately following. There was Starbuck's death and mystical resurrection.
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