Caprica Pilot Grounds the Galactica Universe but Still Maintains Dark Themes
For those that are already going through withdrawal from the removal of Battlestar Galactica from their lives, the Sci-Fi Channel is offering fans the unique opportunity to pay $20.00 or more for the pleasure of watching something on DVD they could see for free next year: the pilot to Caprica, the prequel series to Galactica where the audience can experience the 58 years hence doomed human race plotting their own destruction retracing the steps of the creation of the Cylon race.
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Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak Part 2. What the Frak? All This Time It Was Just “Goddidit!”
I’ve been chewing all weekend on Daybreak Part 2 and Battlestar Galactica in general as an artistic endeavor. While some of you may have watched me mercilessly gush praise over the program I have to admit that while the series finale left me highly entertained and emotionally heartbroken I did have some disappointment with the direction they took it. For a program that rooted itself so deeply in the science half of “science fiction” I was genuinely perplexed and let down by the amount of hocus pocus spiritualism in the final half of the two hour conclusion.
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Galactica: Daybreak Part 1- Facing the End
I’ve actually toyed with the idea that I won’t watch the series finale next week. It is with some shame that I have to admit that even though I’m a grown man that loves his action flix, Star Trek and the occasional adult magazine I tend to allow myself to get a little overly emotional in the face the conclusion of a nearly 5 year investment of my time and attention. And so, yes, I did start the process of beginning to choke up during Daybreak Part 1.
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Battlestar Galactica: Someone to Watch Over Me… “Play it Again, Slut.“
About 35 minutes into Someone to Watch Over Me I was mentally preparing to write a lukewarm review of a wishy-washy formulaic soap opera. I was actually begrudgingly looking forward being able to blog this episode without acting like every other drooling Galactica fanboy talking about how great it was. Well, shit. After the first 45 minutes, all hell broke loose and brought my complacent ass to the edge of my chair almost screaming at my TV. Things just got real ugly, real damn fast.
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Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock. The Bitch is Back.
I’m starting to get a tremendous sense of finality with each passing episode of Galactica. One of the positive things about what’s transpiring now is that we know that there is a resolution coming. It may not be a resolution we like, it may be painful, but with the end in sight and predetermined, we know that they can’t spring anything on us and let it slide any more. And in case you missed it, this week’s episode, Deadlock, gave us the birth of the second Human/Cylon child in the form of the Galactica itself now being rebuilt with organic Cylon goo.
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Battlestar Galactica: No Exit - Who the Frak is Daniel?
For those newcomers that have not watched Battlestar Galactica for the last 4 years but have decided to hop in for the last 6 episodes at least you got some of the original opening narrative from the credits. You also got to join the program at the exact precise moment when the show went totally batshit crazy.
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BSG Prequel “Caprica”: Want to See it in April? Shell Out $20 or Wait Until 2010.
With only half dozen or so hours of Battlestar Galactica left, many of us are already starting to feel the withdrawl pains coming on. Realizing that the old expression “All good things must come to an end” is something the television executives will not accept, there of course is the small consolation that Sci-fi has picked up Caprica, the Galactica prequel that chronicles the Adama family 50 years before the Cylon obliteration of the 12 colonies of Kobol. We have to wait until 2010 to see Caprica. Or so we thought.
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Galactica: Blood on the Scales - The Reckoning Comes
The fruits of Earth. The goal of the surviving humans for the first three and a half seasons was to find the elusive lost brothers of the human race. Adama believed that Earth was simply a fairy tale or a myth. In hindsight, it would have probably been better if it had just been a myth.
On that note, I’m not sure if the chill that accompanied the final moments of Blood on the Scales was due to the phenomenal conclusion to this particular chapter in the saga and the sobering conclusion the stories of Felix Gaeta and Tom Zarek or if it came from the damned cold draft coming down the flu of my fireplace that I forgot to close. In any case, I don’t think the show has ever been more successful.
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Galactica: “The Oath” is Broken. Damnit Felix!
Any Galactica fans not shaking mad after The Oath probably are severely misguided about the show’s vision. Before I start going off about this week’s episode let me give a big Frakkin’ THANKS SCI-FI for pretty much making the cliffhanger moot by immediately launching into the preview for next week’s episode which lets us know that President Roslin’s shuttle makes it, Tigh dies, and Adama is captured. Obviously the Sci-Fi Channel knows that viewers don’t want to be bothered being kept in suspense for an entire seven days.
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Galactica: A Disquiet Follows My Soul - Things Continue to Get Ugly
I suppose we all knew that things were going to go completely to hell in the last handful of episodes of Galactica. At this point, things are turning so ugly so fast that it makes you almost not even want to turn it on next week, not because the show isn’t still maintaining a high level of quality, but because you just know how painful it’s going to be watching the pathetic remains of the human race pretty much destroy itself over the next 8 or 9 episodes. And is anyone starting to wish that they had gone ahead and tossed Felix Gaeta’s ass out of that airlock a couple of seasons ago?
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