GALACTICA

This series has the same weakness that the original did: The fewer Cylons seen, the more boring the episode. The Final Four/Five don't count because they are still going through this introspective phase. They might as well still be human. (Tory is my exception; she's getting hotter every week. I could live with a whole episode of the Adventures of Tory Exploring Her Newly Revealed Cylon Sex Urges.)

Speaking of urges, I hope this new Baltar-Tyrol relationship does not go beyond the hand-holding stage. The thought of Gaius lying down and rubbing the ex-Chief's big round head freaks me out.

The floating dumpster sequences took up too much time. There's a mutiny, we get it. Leoben is still jonesin' for Starbuck, nothing new there. He should have been spending more time with Anders and less with Starbuck. How much does Leoben know/sense about Anders? Did the Cylon Raider learn something significant from the scan of Anders's eye? That's what we want to know.

Athena has turned out to be the most human crew member on the dumpster. Must be something to do with her programming.

The use of "frak" as a substitute swear word has gotten too overused and too obvious the last couple of episodes. What I wouldn't give for someone to drop a nice "felgercarb" here and there.

Baltar is going to be in some deep felgercarb if his harem has a sudden onset of simultaneous PMS.

Probably the weakest episode of this season thus far. Next week: Base Star action! Things are looking up.
 

At the beginning of the episode, Starbuck says, "It was so clear when I got back. If I just focus, that I know that I can find that sound again."

Is the "Sound" the song that the final five all heard in their heads at the same time, including Starbuck?

It seems to me Starbuck has been revealed as the final cylon.
 

starbuck is not a cylon Moore even stated so.
 

obviously, the writers are heading towards a conclusion where most of the cylons are annhilated, including all of the ressurection ships. however some "good" cylons will survive and join the rest of the human race to repopulate a post-apolyptic earth.
with 2 main religious factions, baltar's god, and the gods of kobol.

baltar being some sort of messiah, like moses, with most of the cylons joining him. also a big group of humans will join him as well.

i'm not sure about starbuck, is she even human at this stage? which of the factions are behind her events? baltar's god or the gods of kobol?
seems to me it's baltar's god, cause leoben also speaks of 1 god, and he seems to know a heck of a lot about starbuck.
 

Hi Michael,

I just came across your blog, and I must say I think you're spot on about the writers of BSG and the whole season 3 debacle. I think season 4 is paying the price for all the contrived plot elements (even down to the fact that they're now stuck with waiting for Starbuck to have "dreams" or "visions" about where Earth is).

I struggled trying to watch the last two episodes, and fast-forwarded through most of it.

I can deal with some convoluted areas of a show trying to fill an hour every week. Maybe Sci-Fi just needs to pay better writers.
 

"I struggled trying to watch the last two episodes, and fast-forwarded through most of it."

As did I. I'm afraid of how this is going to end...and I don't like it.
 

I'm thinking that Starbuck is the first human/cylon hybrid. Seems like the easy solution. Maybe even related in some degree to Leoban. The 'sound' she heard might be just a half-heard version of the sounds heard by the four who found out they were cylons at the end of S3.
 

I wonder if Helo might be the final Cylon?

Not a chance - he's the father of one of the half-cylons. It seems pretty obvious the two half-breeds are going to be the Adam and Eve of a new race, possibly re-populating Earth.

In the hybrid's nonsense ramblings a few episodes ago, she said, "Synthesis is the goal: they will not harm their own." Also, the wiser Cylon models are always going on about the half-breeds, and Tory intervened to save one of them. The two races join as one, the conflict is resolved, and we all learn a valuable lesson. Until the "Watchtower" song entered into things, I was quite sure the kids would literally be Adam and Eve, the viewer's ancestors.
 

Both Helo and Starbuck aren't the last cylon. Moore explicitly says that the last cylon is missing from the Last Supper picture...