TV Watch: Battlestar Galactica, Revelations
For all time getting this up, I know.
Spoilerifics to observe. Read at your own risk if you haven't made it to Age 4's mid-finale.
I'm not exactly sure what I was with child from this episode, especially with all the buzz that was bordering it. This probably wasn't it. Somehow I had assumed that the bluff that the Cylon rebels and the Colonials had created was active to follow with some kind of epic flatten out tragedy. It made me wonder things like, would the creators enfeeble the show's namesake and that kind of thing.
This is what I fondness about shows with finite endings. The show can take any point of view it needs and it doesn't have to worry about keeping the fair hero around for ratings.
What we got was much better, I assume. My only real complaint is that it feels a undersized bit like we got shortchanged with the impact of the four being revealed, although seeing Adama go to pieces was a harmonious choice scene and Lee's standoff with D'Anna was well good it as well.
I'm guessing that we'll have more of to follow. Instead, the writers wanted to get us to their end stage setting of choice - the broken, apocalyptic, devastated remains of Terra.
Not that the sight was a huge shock. Firstly this is a show which has never allowed characters to get off natural. Second, if we follow that the show has more than a little spiritual-minded undertones, then we won't get grace just by parking ships in circle.
It does raise some interesting questions though - who accurately did all the bomb dropping and when. If the Cylons were, in habitual, unaware of Earth, then why exactly were there five cryptic models that knew the way? How much of this ties into the "This has all happened before" mantra from a time or so ago.
Especially since, in reality, the four didn't advised of the way to Earth. They were just there to help magnanimous the envelope. Starbuck was the messenger - or rather Starbuck's vessel was the messenger.
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