Jun 23 2016
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Farewell, New Caprica; we hardly knew ye. The two part “Exodus” bids farewell to a setting rife with dramatic…
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Jun 16 2016
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Okay at this point, they’re just showing off. “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” ended with one of the best time jumps…
Jun 9 2016
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I’ll be honest: what I really want to talk about is the time jump. When ”Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” aired, it…
Jun 2 2016
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Let’s all welcome the latest addition to the Battlestar Galactica cast: the great John Heard, playing the not so…
May 26 2016
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Both of this week’s episode’s follow the standalone approach of “Black Market;” neither is quite as narratively…
May 19 2016
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Ah, thank goodness, a Roslin episode. We get flashbacks, we get drama, we get life-or-death. Although I’m still not…
May 12 2016
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Bad storytelling decisions are like time travel. No, hear me out on this: say you have a time machine and you go…
May 5 2016
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Welcome back to Battlestar Galactica reviews—again. When last we left our heroes, the band had gotten back together,…
Jan 7 2016
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“Home, Part 2” is the episode where Meier dies. This is not a big event. Much as I love character actor James Remar,…
Dec 17 2015
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The Cylons are the enemy. If Battlestar Galactica has a villain (and I’d say at this point in its run, it does), the…
Dec 10 2015
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There are plenty of ways to generate drama, but my favorite is one that Battlestar Galactica excels at: putting…
Dec 3 2015
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Saul Tigh is good at his job. He’s a drunk and a bastard and, at times, the sourest sack of shit in the galaxy, but…
Oct 16 2014
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“Kobol’s Last Gleaming” is a masterwork.
Oct 9 2014
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The line that jumped out at me in this pair of episodes occurs at the end of “Colonial Day,” when Commander Adama…
Oct 2 2014
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Lords of Kobol, I’d forgotten how unpleasant Ellen is.
Sep 25 2014
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It’s significant that both of the Cylons who take up most screentime in this first season of Battlestar Galactica…
Sep 18 2014
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The multiple storylines that center around Zak Adama’s death have never been my favorite of the stories on Battlestar…
Sep 11 2014
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Battlestar Galactica draws a lot from the power of one-to-one interpersonal relationships, and that’s on display in…
Aug 28 2014
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“33” is not an easy episode to write about, because it fits together so well: It’s hard to pick up one piece and…
Aug 21 2014
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It’s shocking, at the tail end of this episode, when a brief conversation between Tigh and Starbuck drops reference…