![]() She is WHAT this whole, painful trip is about, and WHO it ultimately will,fulfill their hope. The focal point of this episode's 'previous' clips are on 'Dee,' who, though she's been along for the entire ride, her role - whilst quiet, in comparison, contains much gravitas, because, Dee is our representative for the fleet's citizens, by-and-large. ![]() In the beginning of each episode of Battlestar Galactica, we begin with 'previously, on Battlestar Galactica.' Most of the times, the clips shown are from the previous episode, but, this is not always the case,many this episode's one of them. Congrats to the BSG writing team who were clearly ahead of the curve when they bullpenned this episode. This is a relatively new development and I think a good one. The new direction of TV writing is surprise. Which provides a segue to a theme that I am using in many recent reviews of 2015 TV (and God Only Knows in what year YOU will be reading this). I looked at some of the other reviews and found that some IMDb members were actually annoyed at the new twists and turns in the story. ![]() However, a funny thing happened on the way to this review. Were I writing this review in a vacuum, I would simply say it is nothing less than brilliant I have never seen so many stellar performances in such a compressed space anyone (foolishingly) tuning in without having seen the earlier part of the series might think they accidentally stumbled on a strange version of Masterpiece Theatre, lacking only British accents the core theme of the story is a stark reminder how "hope" is more than a 4-letter word, it is an essential part of being human and, if you take it away, bad things follow and I was generally gob-smacked by this episode since by this late stage in Season 4 I thought the writers were winding down, not winding up. ![]() If the rest of the episodes are anywhere near as good as this viewers are in for a treat. The acting was as good as I've come to expect from the series I especially liked the confrontational scene between Edward James Olmos and Michael Hogan as Adama and Tigh. how did five Cylons from Earth get to the Twelve Colonies and why do they know nothing of it? Just what is Starbuck? And where will the fleet go now that they know there is no Thirteenth Tribe waiting for them? I thought the bleakness of this episode was fantastic even the way the scenes on Earth were filmed, with the colour slightly washed out, added to the bleakness and sense of desolation. I had been expecting more answers than questions as the series approached its ultimate conclusion instead unexpected questions are raised. Even the Cylons seem depressed with D'Anna opting to stay behind and die on Earth rather then in the cold darkness of space and the four known members of the Final Five having flashbacks to the time long ago when they were on Earth at the moment of its destruction. With the dream of Earth lost fleet moral plummets and in one shocking scene a character who has been with the show since the mini-series commits suicide. There are bigger surprises to come though, much bigger analysis of bones show that the population was entirely Cylon and when Starbuck and Leoben search for the source of the colonial signal they make a startling and perplexing discovery that leaves even Leoben lost for words. Surveys of the planet show that it is dead everything killed in a nuclear way two thousand years previously. After a long mid-season break due to a writers' strike we finally learn about Earth.
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