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Mokers
This was the best episode of the season, but overall, this was an average season...
I don't' know if I can agree with you on that one Siskel.
I was happy with how it ended, but really, they got to this point using about twice as many episodes as they really needed.
There were a couple of episodes that drug it out yes, but I'd have to say overall that they contributed to the overall show--even though I didn't like them as much and they made me want to shove Baltar out the airlock. A friend of mine who watched them back to back--instead of being
nickle and dimed each week said that he really enjoyed the season overall as well. I think bad elements of certain episodes are much easier to overlook when you're being pacified the next hour by a great episode.
Look. Gaeta is missing a leg. It's hard for him to pick up a cup. He is sweating still, but at least he is not singing any more.
Felix could still be a cylon. ;-)
Loved the scene when Saul told the old man he was a Cylon. Didn't love the following Adama in pain sequence. That was so melodramatic and cheesy and overacted. Why is he such a pussy now?
This, I actually loved. I really liked the fact you get the feeling that Adama has no confidence in who he is anymore. A man who he's been friends with for MORE than 30 years now tells him, "Look, Bill. I'm a Cylon. Like it or not." It makes Adama question his very soul. Afterall, good ol' Husker spent most of his younger years blasting toasters out of the sky and now--and now---what? What does it mean? Who is he? He needs to question it for a moment. Fall down. Get right back up. And realize he is still the man he was. I think it was an important scene and one I personally would never omit.
Lee's speech about forging a new path was almost as cheesy.
Nothing is as cheesy as the speech in Independence Day by Bill Pullman. Nothing.
I really thought Lee was going to kill Saul...until I saw that Kara started running through the halls. At that moment, I knew she would dramatically stop everything before he died
Because the shows writers 'do what they want' so often, I half expected that to be Tigh's last episode. The only thing about that scene that pissed me off was how much longer it apparently took Starbuck to race through the halls and decks of Galactica. Seems like Lee and team know quicker routes to the airlocks. Sometimes I hate dramatic pause.
Overall, it was worth it. I sort of wished they had just ended the season now. It would have pissed off a lot of people, but it would have shown some courage.
I turned to my wife at the end of this episode and said, "That's gonna be one helluva epilogue." I'm an epilogue type of guy. One of the reasons I loved ST:TNG was because after all was said in done you got to see how the characters reacted at the end of the show. I enjoy that element in story telling.
And really, so they didn't find the final colony. What's so bad about that? If the rest of the Cylon fleet can't find them, who cares? Start a new fucking life. Is the entire planet for shit? Didn't they have weather on their planets? So it's one rainy, cold day where they landed. Come on people! Start humping and get on with the human race! Build some more planets to defend your fleet. Do whatever.
Humping is good. But seriously, they're humped. I half expected to see
Peter Ustinov climb from the wreckage with a bunch of cats.
Not the best season ever? Maybe. Better than 3? Overall, definitely. Season 1 is still my personal favorite and I don't even know why. Probably because it was new. Stepping back I'd have to rate this half season at 87% fresh.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 06/19/2008 05:32AM by Madaracs.