Battlestar Galactica, SciFi, Airs Friday 10/9c Episode: “Islanded on a Stream of Stars� (Season Four, Episode 20) Synopsis: The Cylons aboard Galactica confer with the Admiral on how to mount a rescue mission for Hera, while Boomer is well on her way to bringing the child to Number One. Meanwhil...

Battlestar Galactica, SciFi, Airs Friday 10/9c Episode: “Someone to Watch Over Me� (Season Four, Episode 19) Synopsis: With Boomer in the brig of Galactica, President Roslin has been asked to extradite her to the rebel Cylon Basestar to be tried for treason. Tyrol fears that she will be executed...

“Someone to Watch Over Me” February 27th, 2009 For an episode driven by the power of melody to transcend minds and to bring people together, there was a return to a familiar rhythm to “Someone to Watch Over Me,” a return to form for Battlestar Galactica as it heads into its f...

Battlestar Galactica, SciFi, Airs Friday 10/9c Episode: “Deadlock� (Season Four, Episode 18) Synopsis: Ellen, the final Cylon returns to Battlestar Galactica to be reunited with Saul, only to find that he has gotten Caprica Six pregnant. While Ellen works with the other high-ranking Cylons on bo...

“Deadlock” February 20th, 2009 “Imagine, instead of 50,000 survivors, there are only five.” The above are the words of the fifth and final Cylon, words that are in fact quite resonant: considering what we have learned of the Cylon back story in the last few episodes, the Fina...

Battlestar Galactica, SciFi, Airs Friday 10/9c Episode: “No Exit� (Season Four, Episode 17) Synopsis: With the Galactica mutiny squelched, Adama is trying to pick up the pieces. Thanks to Tyrol, they discover structural integrity problems with Galactica, and Adama has to make special efforts to ...

The title of this week’s episode has multiple layers of meaning to it. On one level, it’s about how the warring factions of humans and Cylons are finding they have fewer and fewer options left to them for survival, as they draw closer to an inevitable final battle. On a second level, it&...

Mutiny Revisited February 13th, 2009 With the end of Battlestar Galactica only a few months away, it has come to the point where we are beginning to place into context just what we’re watching. When I wrote a lengthy and esoteric review of “The Oath” in the hours after its airing, ...

“Blood on the Scales” February 6th, 2009 For the second time this season, I found myself in a situation wherein being able to watch Battlestar Galactica wasn’t in the cards. I am not a fan of this particular development, as it is inherently frustrating, especially when the episode ...

Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E14) It is impossible to have a bad episode of Battlestar Galactica . Even a bad episode is better than most of the other crap on TV. Fortunately, this was the opposite of a bad episode. Obviously, there was no question about how t...