He That Believeth In Me — BSG 4:03

Posted Apr 5, 01:43 pm in battlestar galactica, friends by Patrick Gage Kelley, comments closed.

Intelligent commentary on Battlestar episodes could be a challenge. One that I am ready to fail at. However so that I can actually use things like specific events and proper nouns these posts are going to be absolutely full of spoilers. So if you don’t want to know, just don’t read it.

I have a really hard time with this episode, the first standard ep. of the season (the internet unanimously seems to be calling Razor, episodes 1 & 2 of season four), and most of my dislike for it spans from an … interesting decision at the end of last season, which I will bet had less to do with where they wanted the series to go, and more to do with coming up with something really surprising for a season finale.

Two things I want to talk about from this episode, which I think should quietly disappear as not-so-relevant and one of those episodes where everyone talks a lot and then we all immediately forget it.

1. The new intro: Twelve cylon models, seven are known, four live in secret, one will be revealed. So this seems incredibly short term to me, as I find it hard to believe that only one of them is going to be revealed all season (won’t they all be?), so are they going to change this halfway through the season (yes). And even past that, this used to summarize what the series was about, cylons rising up and fighting back. I do think the whole show has become too focused on who the cylons are, who are the final five, who is the missing one, blah blah blah, and lost sight of the interesting questions about what it means to be cylon or human?
2. And more important, yet related, now that they have revealed these four cylons whom are living in secret, does it not seem like every single character on the show is a cylon? It should – because they all are. Thus ridiculous scenes can be created with cylons looming in the back of every shot, since … well humans are in short supply. We will now joke that Adama & Adama can just walk around saying “Good thing there isn’t a cylon in the room” at which point the camera can zoom to, well basically anyone for … umm tension?