Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 kickoff
If the Battlestar Galactica writers wanted to kick off the final 10 episodes with a bang, with fans salivating for more, more, more, they succeeded.
Also: if they wanted to confuse and depress people, they succeeded. Not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy it, but wow.
On the depressing: Following the discovery of the irradiated "Earth", the fleet's jubilation immediately pivots into chaos and despondency. Fights break out, nearly everyone's on a drinking binge, and those in command (Laura, Adama) take it as a personal failure, and are crushed by the weight of responsibility for leading so many people, a substantial number who have died along the way, to this false end.
But none of their anguish compares to the shocking and disturbing events that happen with Dualla. For her, coming all that way, enduring so much only to be let down: it's too much. While everyone else is on an angry-binge, she tries to carve out one perfect night with Lee (her ex-husband). One last moment of happiness. Then, she says good night, exchanges a few words with Gaeta, hums a happy tune, and shoots herself in the head.
The fallout is intense. Lee & Bill Adama struggle to make sense of it. Gaeta, her longtime bud (but, as I mentioned in the webisodes review, someone who I could've seen her getting together with), has a new look in his eye. His arc is growing ever darker, and I am sure there is more to come.
It was an extremely depressing episode, however I don't expect that things will continue this way. This is likely something that was negotiated with the network for "impact", and subsequent stories will have to be less bleak, even if they're not anywhere near "light" or "happy".
On the confusing: It's sure sounding like everyone's a Cylon these days. Kara apparently crashed/died on Earth, but yet she's also there, alive (Kara discovering her own charred body was creepy). Cylon? Who knows. And why is Leoben frightened of her? Also they seem to think the 13th tribe was of Cylons, and the final 4 (Tyrol, Anders, Tori, Tigh) have flashbacks to a time when they apparently lived on Earth and their civilization was nuked. Tigh recalls a "memory" (this could be a red herring, given how much he hallucinates) of Ellen back in his past life. He exclaims that Ellen is the final Cylon! The recently-dead was on my list of candidates for the final Cylon, but again, I don't know how far to trust Tigh's visions. Regardless, it's sounding like there's a lot more than 12 models of Cylons.
What it's sounding like is generations of Cylons (perhaps 12 in the current gen?), making basically everyone a Cylon. Either that or something involving time travel, but that would be very new ground for the BSG universe to date. Who knows? Ideally, we shouldn't know. I'm hoping the end will bring a full resolution that I couldn't anticipate - one that isn't cheesy, far-fetched, or unsatisfying. We shall see what comes to pass...
Also: if they wanted to confuse and depress people, they succeeded. Not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy it, but wow.
On the depressing: Following the discovery of the irradiated "Earth", the fleet's jubilation immediately pivots into chaos and despondency. Fights break out, nearly everyone's on a drinking binge, and those in command (Laura, Adama) take it as a personal failure, and are crushed by the weight of responsibility for leading so many people, a substantial number who have died along the way, to this false end.
But none of their anguish compares to the shocking and disturbing events that happen with Dualla. For her, coming all that way, enduring so much only to be let down: it's too much. While everyone else is on an angry-binge, she tries to carve out one perfect night with Lee (her ex-husband). One last moment of happiness. Then, she says good night, exchanges a few words with Gaeta, hums a happy tune, and shoots herself in the head.
The fallout is intense. Lee & Bill Adama struggle to make sense of it. Gaeta, her longtime bud (but, as I mentioned in the webisodes review, someone who I could've seen her getting together with), has a new look in his eye. His arc is growing ever darker, and I am sure there is more to come.
It was an extremely depressing episode, however I don't expect that things will continue this way. This is likely something that was negotiated with the network for "impact", and subsequent stories will have to be less bleak, even if they're not anywhere near "light" or "happy".
On the confusing: It's sure sounding like everyone's a Cylon these days. Kara apparently crashed/died on Earth, but yet she's also there, alive (Kara discovering her own charred body was creepy). Cylon? Who knows. And why is Leoben frightened of her? Also they seem to think the 13th tribe was of Cylons, and the final 4 (Tyrol, Anders, Tori, Tigh) have flashbacks to a time when they apparently lived on Earth and their civilization was nuked. Tigh recalls a "memory" (this could be a red herring, given how much he hallucinates) of Ellen back in his past life. He exclaims that Ellen is the final Cylon! The recently-dead was on my list of candidates for the final Cylon, but again, I don't know how far to trust Tigh's visions. Regardless, it's sounding like there's a lot more than 12 models of Cylons.
What it's sounding like is generations of Cylons (perhaps 12 in the current gen?), making basically everyone a Cylon. Either that or something involving time travel, but that would be very new ground for the BSG universe to date. Who knows? Ideally, we shouldn't know. I'm hoping the end will bring a full resolution that I couldn't anticipate - one that isn't cheesy, far-fetched, or unsatisfying. We shall see what comes to pass...
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