Reviews - Battlestar Galactica

Farewell, New Caprica; we hardly knew ye. The two part “Exodus” bids farewell to a setting rife with dramatic…

Okay at this point, they’re just showing off. “Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” ended with one of the best time jumps…

I’ll be honest: what I really want to talk about is the time jump. When ”Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 2” aired, it…

Let’s all welcome the latest addition to the Battlestar Galactica cast: the great John Heard, playing the not so…

Both of this week’s episode’s follow the standalone approach of “Black Market;” neither is quite as narratively…

Ah, thank goodness, a Roslin episode. We get flashbacks, we get drama, we get life-or-death. Although I’m still not…

Bad storytelling decisions are like time travel. No, hear me out on this: say you have a time machine and you go…

Welcome back to Battlestar Galactica reviews—again. When last we left our heroes, the band had gotten back together,…

“Home, Part 2” is the episode where Meier dies. This is not a big event. Much as I love character actor James Remar,…

The Cylons are the enemy. If Battlestar Galactica has a villain (and I’d say at this point in its run, it does), the…

There are plenty of ways to generate drama, but my favorite is one that Battlestar Galactica excels at: putting…

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…

“Kobol’s Last Gleaming” is a masterwork.

The line that jumped out at me in this pair of episodes occurs at the end of “Colonial Day,” when Commander Adama…

Lords of Kobol, I’d forgotten how unpleasant Ellen is.

It’s significant that both of the Cylons who take up most screentime in this first season of Battlestar Galactica…

The multiple storylines that center around Zak Adama’s death have never been my favorite of the stories on Battlestar…

Battlestar Galactica draws a lot from the power of one-to-one interpersonal relationships, and that’s on display in…

“33” is not an easy episode to write about, because it fits together so well: It’s hard to pick up one piece and…

It’s shocking, at the tail end of this episode, when a brief conversation between Tigh and Starbuck drops reference…