We bid goodbye to New Caprica and Battlestar Galactica
Farewell, New Caprica; we hardly knew ye. The two part “Exodus” bids farewell to a setting rife with dramatic…
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Battlestar Galactica’s third season finds the Cylons in charge
Okay at this point, they’re just showing off. “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” ended with one of the best time jumps in…
Battlestar Galactica lays down its burdens
I’ll be honest: what I really want to talk about is the time jump. When ”Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” aired, it was…
Battlestar Galactica regains its focus in two strong episodes
Let’s all welcome the latest addition to the Battlestar Galactica cast: the great John Heard, playing the not so great…
Battlestar Galactica tries two standalone stories, with mixed results
Both of this week’s episode’s follow the standalone approach of “Black Market;” neither is quite as narratively…
Epiphanies come with a cost on Battlestar Galactica
Ah, thank goodness, a Roslin episode. We get flashbacks, we get drama, we get life-or-death. Although I’m still not…
Adama makes a choice, and Battlestar Galactica suffers for it
Bad storytelling decisions are like time travel. No, hear me out on this: say you have a time machine and you go back…
On Battlestar Galactica, hope is a fast ship you can’t steer
Welcome back to Battlestar Galactica reviews—again. When last we left our heroes, the band had gotten back together,…
Following the stars on Battlestar Galactica
“Home, Part 2” is the episode where Meier dies. This is not a big event. Much as I love character actor James Remar, he…
Starbuck leaves home to find it on Battlestar Galactica
The Cylons are the enemy. If Battlestar Galactica has a villain (and I’d say at this point in its run, it does), the…
Guns are pulled and blood is shed on Battlestar Galactica
There are plenty of ways to generate drama, but my favorite is one that Battlestar Galactica excels at: putting people…
Everyone’s in over their heads on Battlestar Galactica
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 as…
Battlestar Galactica: “Hand Of God” / “Colonial Day”
The line that jumped out at me in this pair of episodes occurs at the end of “Colonial Day,” when Commander Adama and…
Battlestar Galactica: “Flesh And Bone” / “Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down”
Lords of Kobol, I’d forgotten how unpleasant Ellen is.
Battlestar Galactica: “Litmus” / “Six Degrees Of Separation”
It’s significant that both of the Cylons who take up most screentime in this first season of Battlestar Galactica are…
Battlestar Galactica: “Act Of Contrition” / “You Can’t Go Home Again”
The multiple storylines that center around Zak Adama’s death have never been my favorite of the stories on Battlestar…
Battlestar Galactica: “Water” / “Bastille Day”
Battlestar Galactica draws a lot from the power of one-to-one interpersonal relationships, and that’s on display in…
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Battlestar Galactica: “33”
“33” is not an easy episode to write about, because it fits together so well: It’s hard to pick up one piece and…
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Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries, Part 2
It’s shocking, at the tail end of this episode, when a brief conversation between Tigh and Starbuck drops reference to…