Battlestar Galactica

By Myles “Revelations” Since New Caprica, Battlestar Galactica has been a series defined by the intersection of two races - of their people, their beliefs, their actions and their futures. At odds with one another from the moment the Miniseries began, humans and Cylons have slowly but surely cen...

By Myles It's apparently streaming on SciFi.com, so I'm avoiding any and all discussion of anything even close to tonight's midseason finale of Battlestar Galactica, "Revelations." All signs point towards an intense and dramatic hour of television, so I'll definitely be bracing myself for som...

By Myles Yes, certainly, there has been some strong episodes in this first half of the fourth season, so my apparently very late welcome to the series is not to say that the show has been wholly off its form since its premiere in early April. However, with this our 7th episode in the first half of the sea...

By Myles If there's anything that Battlestar Galactica's latest episode asks for, it is certainly the episode's title: faith in its vision, faith in its journey, and faith in its slow as molasses pacing. If there was any hope in this changing, then "Faith" certainly set the record straight: with s...

By Myles I missed Leoben, no question - philosophizing Leoben is one of the best elements the series has seen, and from his first interactions with Starbuck in the first season (Hell, even he and Adama in the miniseries) he has been the strongest at human/Cylon interaction. Here, he is floating in s...

By Myles And that about does it for "The Ties That Bind" - on a last note, there was some great music from Bear McCreary during the first Demetrius montage, I was really pleased to hear us get some more fantastic original score material. “The Ties That Bind” April 18th, 2008 Speaking to a friend ahead o...

By Myles When I finished watching Season Two of Battlestar Galactica, my response was quite simple: “That was ballsy.” Jumping forward over a year in time created a lot more questions than answers, and if I learned anything from Alias it was that sometimes you risk overwhelming your audience. And,...