Battlestar Galactica

By Brian Howard I miss Battlestar Galactica. And that’s a good thing, because you should miss a great show that had a great run and ended well. But you should realize you can’t recreate that awesomeness or overextend it. Hopefully SyFy keeps that in mind with Caprica and with The Plan, this fall’s cylon-cent...

By Brian Howard Me, I’m just glad I watched the pilot episode over the weekend to prep for this recap because last night was a bad case of Short Attention Span Theater. It’s amazing to look back and see how much of the story was laid out in the very first episode.

By Brian Howard All I’ve got left is Thursday nights. I took on a lot of shows this season, both to blog about and recap and just to watch for enjoyment. But one by one, they’ve fallen by the way side, from Flight of the Conchords and Battlestar Galactica to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I gave...

By Brian Howard Such has been my Battlestar Galactica withdrawal that I’ve already begun, just a week after the series finale aired, a complete rewatch of the series. With the Caprica release still a few weeks off, NBC has done a service to those suffering BSG withdrawal by casting Tricia Helfer (Caprica...

By Brian Howard And what of Anders. He never woke up, and if not for his flashbacks to his pyramid days, we’d never have seen or heard from him again the way we knew him. He sailed off into the proverbial sunset, steering Galactica and the entire fleet into the sun. It was poignant and poetic, I thought.

By Brian Howard The Galactica will soon be no more, a fitting parallel for the end of the series and the end of the fleet’s travels. But the quorum isn’t so sentimental about it, ready to scavenge its parts as soon as the Cylon representative Sonia assures them of her people’s loyalties.

By Brian Howard So assuming Boomer and Hera survived that fiery FTL jump near Galactica’s flank, what does that mean for the fleet? We can safely conclude Cavil engineered Ellen’s escape, right? His purpose was to put Boomer on board Galactica so she could steal Hera. If that’s right then Hera must be pret...

By Brian Howard Having chicken-and-egg issues with Battlestar Galactica? Wondering who made who? Where Earth’s rebellious Centurions came from if the 13th tribe was Cylon in the first place? If you’re watching these final episodes, you’re probably struggling with at least one of these or other ques...

By Brian Howard Like the Roslin/Caprica scene, I think Baltar’s machinations played a larger purpose of feeding into the conflict Adama is struggling with as he frets over the fate of his ship. The human-Cylon alliance is not only something he knows many of his people reject, he himself isn’t all that com...

By Brian Howard I admit I was a latecomer to Battlestar Galactica. I watched the first two-and-a-half seasons over a three-month, Netflix-assisted blitz that had me consuming three episodes at a clip some nights. I just want to know if there’s another Cylon to be revealed, where the fleet and they Cylon al...

By Brian Howard More often than not, an episode of Battlestar Galactica ends with me wondering why the frak I didn’t get on board with this show earlier. “Blood on the Scales,” which aired Friday was no exception. (Don’t you frakking hate it, by the way, when BSG bloggers use the word frak to seem hipper to the...

By Brian Howard Now this is one of my favorite shows, and at varying times my favorite show, depending how I’m feeling about The Office or Battlestar Galactica on a given day. But this third season has been a bit of a disappointment, kind of a post-sophmore season sophomore slump.

By Amy Vernon Yes, we know that in the Caprica prequel, Cylons are created by the humans. This is why the Cylons believe in the one God; the Earth, when it was destroyed, was primarily monotheistic. And Moore and Eick are brilliant. Just a couple hours ago, I was obsessing over who the Final Cylon is.

By Amy Vernon After my insane ramblings, stay tuned for the weekly So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival. What if the Final Five were created by Earthlings in the Diaspora and set out across the Universe to find the other 12 Colonies after a huge war between the Humans and the Earth Cylons?

By Amy Vernon An odd episode. Sine Qua Non (Latin, a "dead" language): Without which, not. Adama is nothing without Roslin. • Great fight between Adama and Tigh. Tigh's the only man in the entire fleet who could have punched Adama (who, frankly, needed it) and not ended up in the brig.

By Amy Vernon Roslin Be sure to come back Tuesday for So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival. Wowwowwowwow. Of course, Baltar knows all about Roslin's dreams that she shares because he's in them, too. He has them; remember back on Kobol? He was the first to have the opera house dream, shared w...

By Amy Vernon But we learned that Eric Stoltz has joined the Caprica prequel cast to play the yin to Esai Morales' yang. Then, we have this really fabulous interview the Boston Globe did with Edward James Olmos. He shares a lot about the feelings on the set without spoiling anything at all.

By Amy Vernon Welcome to this week's So Say We All: The Battlestar Galactica Blog Carnival, for episode six, "Faith." Paul Levinson sees the distance between the "good" Cylons and the humans receding, in Battlestar Galactica 4.6: Cylon on Cylon, posted at Paul Levinson's Infinite Regress.

By Amy Vernon Look, we're in the odd position of knowing that most of what Leoben had to say is true. Everything he said about the civil war is accurate. Why should we think that anything else he had to say wasn't? In fact, the only thing I can think of that we know for sure Leoben has lied about (besides pretend...

By Amy Vernon The nebula is obviously a big trigger. It's where Kara comes back; it's where the four hidden Cylons "find" themselves; it's where the Cylon fleet busts out. Is the same thing that brought the Cylons there the thing that triggered the four's awareness of themselves?

By Amy Vernon The SciFi Channel gave this description of the April 4 episode: In the season-four premiere, the last remnants of humanity continue their search for a new home as the thin line that separates them from the rapidly evolving Cylons is redrawn.

By Amy Vernon It’s taken me a few days to get around to posting on the Battlestar Galactica-themed reenactment of the Last Supper featured in the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly. I had to absorb everything Moore had to say and think about what it all meant.