Battlestar Craptica

It happens on even the best shows and, on Friday night, it happened to BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. They had a truly awful episode. Flat, obvious, speechy, boring and illogical. For those of you who saw it, I had one big question while I was watching the episode:  how did Buckshot or the Cylons know where the
Galactica was? And if they knew, why didn’t they send three or four Basestars there to blast it out of space? Wouldn’t that have been a better plan?

The only nice bit was the implication that Balter is having a menage-a-trois with two Cylon women. I wish we could have seen that episode instead.

UPDATE: I’m not alone. TV Critic Alan Sepinwall agrees with me.

Okay, I’m starting to get just a little bit
concerned about the post-exodus portion of the season. The virus
two-parter had some interesting moments and ideas but never quite
clicked, and "Hero" felt like a mess from start to finish.

 

9 thoughts on “Battlestar Craptica”

  1. Yeah, I was gonna write an OTT emotional, WTF-are-you-talking-about rebuttal, but it’s best that I simply say that “bad” Galactica is better than “good” something else.
    But I can’t resist, re: “illogical”: Since Sharon is a Cylon, why don’t the Cylons yank her entry from the Windows registry? Not sure why they’d allow one of their own to turn coat.
    One more thing, a la Columbo: I wasn’t sure if that was a three-way, or if the Six that was pictured was the imaginary version, tying in to the previous episode.

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  2. Last week’s episode had more heft than this one, particularly when you consider the flaccid “importance” of Adama’s moral decision. But I must concur that this season has been wildly inconsistent. The virus may have kick-started a deficient storyline, but GALACTICA appears to be settling for much less than when it first started out. The Cylons aren’t very nerve-shattering anymore. The human race emerged relatively unscathed from New Caprica. So what we have left is borderline soap opera, with occasional dips into ethical questions. Moore had laid down a promising reboot with the second season finale, but in returning to the quest for Earth, what we’re getting instead is a capitulation to by-the-numbers space opera. Perhaps the time has come to kill off some major characters or to restore the sense of urgency that resided just underneath the surface. If Galactica doesn’t stumble upon Earth by the fourth season, then it may very well jump the shark.

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  3. Yeah I wanted to see Xena and 6 and Balter get it on. I was like “wow..he had them both. Sweet”. lol While yes it wasn’t that great of an episode. And, the past 3 haven’t exactly been so great. Yet, they ARE going to kill a major character. That was posted up on galactica’s main site. So it’s already been known that one major character is going to die. Don’t know who just yet. And, also too they are going to have some form of victory the likes of which they have never had.

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  4. Yeah I wanted to see Xena and 6 and Balter get it on. I was like “wow..he had them both. Sweet”. lol While yes it wasn’t that great of an episode. And, the past 3 haven’t exactly been so great. Yet, they ARE going to kill a major character. That was posted up on galactica’s main site. So it’s already been known that one major character is going to die. Don’t know who just yet. And, also too they are going to have some form of victory the likes of which they have never had.

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