GALACTICA

Here’s my long awaited commentary on the final episode of Season 1.

Let’s begin with my predictions for Season 2:

(1) Commander Adama will survive because his character is too cool to kill off.

(2) Starbuck will bring back the Arrow of Apollo, and it will show the general direction to Earth but not its exact location or distance.

(3) Lee Adama certainly deserves to be put in the brig for pointing a gun at Colonel Tigh’s head, but somehow I suspect that he will come out smelling like a rose.

(4) I don’t like Laura Roslin very much and I enjoyed seeing her locked away in the brig, but unfortunately I suspect that she will be released after she turns out to be right about the whole arrow thing.

(5) What happens to the “Boomer” on Caprica? Not sure. Whether she gets taken back to Galactica as a hostage, or she escapes, it’s not clear.

(6) Gaius Baltar will switch sides and join the Cylons now. That was his role in the original series after all. The Number Six on the planet was a real Number Six and not one of his hallucinations.

Some gaping holes in the plot:

Number Six seemed to be expecting Starbuck on Caprica. How? Why did they let her land and not just blow her out of the sky if they were expecting her?

The many Sharons on the Cylon Basestar seemed to be expecting the spy Sharon. But if they knew she was coming, why did they let her blow up the ship?

Unruled has an interesting blog post where he writes about how much he likes the new Battlestar Galactica.