Let's Get Going
A very intense and extra-religious episode of Battlestar Galactica--plus a double helping of Tricia Helfer, which is always nice--but not a lot of forward motion. (Obviously I'm about to discuss the latest episode, so there'll be spoilers.)
The four hidden cylons are starting to crack, but no one still living has discovered their secret. Baltar is getting more messianic, and his cult seems to be growing, but we don't know where that will ultimately lead. (I'm not sure what to make of Baltar overall, including just what relation Six plays. For that matter, I'm a little confused as to how human/cylon the secret four are.) Roslin got a little sicker, but is still hanging in there. Lee is as annoying as ever. (I sure hope he isn't the Fifth Cylon.)
Meanwhile, no clash with the Cylons and no progress in getting to Earth. In fact, we didn't even see the Cylons off Galactica, even though they're in the midst of a civil war, and we only caught a glimpse of Starbuck's mission. I assume we'll get back to this stuff next episode.
Two sidepoints. 1) Edward James Olmos directed the episode. It didn't look that different from most episodes, though there was a little more "arty" cross-cutting. 2) I've always felt the creators of Lost know where they're going, but I often feel the creators of BG are flying by the seat of their pants.
posted by LAGuy @ 1:53 AM
2 Comments:
You think they'd at least show something about the Cylons, since they're half the show now. I guess we'll have to wait for the next episode.
Late response (having just seen it):
I love watching the show, but get increasingly frustrated with the writers' complete lack of thought about scale and infrastructure. We see a fleet of five or ten Cylon base ships and one resurrection ship. In this fleet, the six public models (seven if you count Xena-in-the-Box) fight each other.
Why don't they ask for orders from the Cylon homeworld? Is there a Cylon homeworld? If so, do they have a government? a king? a democracy? a giant computer that gives them orders?
Even if they don't have a homeworld, aren't there more Cylons on the former Twelve Human Colonies than in this relatively small fleet?
When Three was boxed in the fleet, was she boxed all throughout the Cylon dominions? If so, they would have had to actually kill every living Three. Surely the Cylons back on homeworld would have wanted a good reason to do that.
And can the final four be resurrected if they die? How would that happen? We know that a resurrection ship has hundreds of sleeping bodies of the Seven, for future resurrections. But how could there be prepared bodies of the Final Five on a resurrection ship? The Seven would have noticed that by now!
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