Worth the wait?
Am I seriously going to talk about each episode of Battlestar Galactica after it happens? Well, maybe not, but for now, it's looking that way. Hey, I spent the first three seasons on the outside looking in, so now that I can follow it in real time with everybody else, I'm gonna discuss. So, last week I lamented the fact that nothing much
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I dunno. I think there have been some serious changes. It's just that the characters keep wanting to go back to a status quo, but never quite do. But while everyone kinda slides back into the comfortable jobs and relationships they've had since the End of the World (and really, what else can they do? It's all they've got.), there's an aggregate change that builds with every revolution. Compare the show now to what it was in "33". The jobs may all have been more or less the same at the end of "Crossroads II", but the characterizations and interactions and even the tone of the show on a meta level were miles apart.
This may or may not be a good thing. On the one hand, "33" was a high point the show never really reached again in terms of hitting every note right for 42 minutes. On the other, while no episode since has been that perfect, the last five minutes of last season was a wonderful punch in the gut that even the destruction of Olympic Carrier couldn't carry.
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