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Battlestar Galactica: “Daybreak”
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Daybreak Part 1”
I’d like to tell you I’ve come up with some smart thoughts on this one, but I won’t have time to process it fully for a couple of days at least — so instead, I’ve decided to wrap up all of “Daybreak” in one post next weekend. All I can say now is: I can’t…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Islanded in a Stream of Stars”
“Sometimes I wonder what home is. Is it an actual place? Or is it some kind of longing for something, some kind of connection?” —Laura Roslin “One of us here is living proof that there is life after death.” —Gaius Baltar “This ship has never let us down. So we’re gonna send her off in…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Someone to Watch Over Me”
Adama: “Did you love her, Chief?” Tyrol: “I thought I did.” Adama: “Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That’s what love is. Thoughts…” —from “The Farm” “Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don’t know your direction doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” —Slick So! We’re back…
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Charlie Jade news
Those of you who’ve followed on over from Pop Critics likely already know of my great affection for Charlie Jade and disgust with The SciFi Channel for their mistreatment of this fine noir science fiction. Minimally promoted, and yanked unceremoniously from its Friday timeslot to burnoff theater – Tuesday mornings at 2am – the network…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Deadlock”
“How many dead chicks are out there?” —Hot Dog Really? We couldn’t have packed most of the events of this episode into 15 minutes and then moved on to something else? We needed to watch growly Adama stroke the walls of his ship 35,000 times in order to understand what’s at stake if he loses…
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Battlestar Galactica: “No Exit”
“I think we have to accept who we are.” —Admiral William Adama “You are not a mistake. If you could just accept yourself as what you are.” —Ellen Tigh “I need to be something.” —Kara Thrace “Saul, stay with the fleet. It’s all starting to happen, it’s the miracle, right here, it’s a gift from…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Blood on the Scales”
“The truth is told by whoever’s left standing.” —Tom Zarek “I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.” —Gaius Baltar At last a day of reckoning has come, and tyranny brings even more blood than we might have imagined, and not in the ways we might have guessed: the Quorum executed at…
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Battlestar Galactica: “The Oath”
“I could do this all day. Who’s next?” —Kara “Starbuck” Thrace “Felix Gaeta. Who would’ve thought?” —President Laura Roslin “When this is over, there’s gonna be a reckoning. And live or die, it’s how you act today that’s gonna matter.” —Admiral William Adama Semper frakkin’ fi, indeed. What an amazing hour of television. So many…
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Battlestar Galactica: “A Disquiet Follows My Soul”
When the soul has suffered all it can. —“There is a Languor of the Life,” Emily Dickinson Holy tylium ship, Batman! The wheels on the bus keep popping off one by one, don’t they? And where last week’s episode was filled with ever more painful revelations and monumental open-ended questions, this week we pause for…