Battlestar Galactica One thing...
Battlestar Galactica One thing I've learned doing this job is that I develop biases to the point of blindness. Take this show. After one subpar episode, a return to form and then another so-so installment (the hostage crisis), I was beginning to worry. Still, I didn't give the
Galactica folks too hard a time when I would've blasted lesser shows for committing the same sins, because I
wanted to believe it was just a couple of hiccups. And right I was. This was one of the good ones, with the "barely competent and paranoid" Garner creating strife as commander of "the beast" (
Pegasus), Roslin tackling her reelection
and the abortion question, and then Garner leading his ship directly into a Cylon trap. If Apollo and Starbuck hadn't been onboard, I would've assumed this was the writers' chance to take
Pegasus out of the picture and restore
Galactica to its lone-wolf status. But I was pleasantly surprised to see that after Garner's
The Poseidon Adventure moment — poor
John Heard doesn't seem destined to survive long on a hit series, what with his
Sopranos bridge dive and now this — Adama promoted Apollo to commander of the
Pegasus. Interesting twist, as was the handshake-hug with Starbuck (still not sure what's going on there, but I
know I'm not buying the relationship with Dee). Between that and Baltar stabbing Roslin in the back to declare his candidacy,
Galactica appears to be back on course, big-picture-wise. Number Five was sure happy, anyway. But
that can't be a good thing.
