This is pretty much nothing but spoilers, y’all.

Man, this shit is really coming to an end, isn’t it? It’s hard to believe, especially since season 4.5 has been so unbelievably good through and through.  Even that one meh-ish episode was still really great, right?  How are you dealing with the pain?  Equally important, how are our favorite humans and cylons dealing with the pain? Let’s check in, shall we?

Lee Adama once again has to get snippy with the quorum members, who are all eager to strip Galactica of her supplies before she’s even gone cold.  We won’t stand for that, will we?

Ellen Tigh copes with everything by — SHOCKER! — being a complete and total cunt.  I know. Uncanny.  She belittles Saul’s attachment to Galactica, Adama, and the rest of the crew; she tries to undermine his sense of loss over his unborn child; and she insists his concern should lie with his “millions” of cylon “children.”  Nice try, Ellen, but please fuck off.

Baltar copes with his (relatively) new and inscrutable personality as a radio cult leader by contemplatively shaving with a straight razor. Scenes where anyone shaves with a straight razor are always fraught with tension and what the literary types call “symbolism.” Yawn.  This scene was saved by the fact that Starbuck is sitting in that stall back there with the door wide open, peeing.

Oh hey, look who is in this Hybrid tank?  It’s none other than Sam Anders.  Starbuck and one of the Eights eagerly await his cryptic utterances.  I confess I can never be bothered to pay attention to any type of “cryptic utterance” like these (or like, for example, the utterances of the annoying River on Firefly), so that’s all I’ve got here.

And behold here, the exciting return of SCIENCE!  I know!  Remember when Baltar still used to be a “scientist” and was always working in his “la-BOR-a-tree” on his “cylon detector”?  Man, that was a long time ago.  I guess even though he is the horny swami of Galactica’s indie radio station now, he has still somehow retained access to the lab.  Will answers (or at least excitement) ensue?

Helo and his inability to tell the difference between Boomer Eight and Athena Eight — well, he’s not too happy with himself.  Don’t cry, Helo.  I will come and comfort you!

Although not convinced by Baltar’s belief in angels, Starbuck seems to find the phrase “necrotic tissue” persuasive enough that she hangs her own photo on the Wall of Death. (See? SCIENCE.)  I question the placement, though. Seriously.  And did anyone else get creeped out by her weirdly beatific smile in this scene?

Despite Ellen’s evil machinations, it’s still Bill Adama with whom Saul shares his tightest and most sentimental bond.  Watching these guys toast to Galactica as the camera slowly pulled back in this final scene definitely had me shedding a few tears.

I guess it’s fitting to end Battlestar Galactica with the end of Galactica herself.  I can’t wait to watch it all play out.

What do you guys think?  What will Cavil do with poor sniveling Hera? Will Helo strike out on his own rogue mission? WHAT is going on with STARBUCK?

Full of tasty and delicious spoilers.  If you haven’t seen this episode yet, stay away!

This week’s episode was a very moody one, in which it seemed at first  that not much was going on in terms of plot.  But then, lo and behold!, it turned out that plenty of shit had indeed been percolating!  Excellent!

Here are some of my favorite moody moments:

I have a few questions:

Is Starbuck’s Imagination Dad a Cylon? Possibly a #7? Or an Earth Cylon? Or none of the above?

And, more importantly, how did she play one hand’s worth of melody and two hands’ worth of harmony with ONLY TWO HANDS?

What does Crazy Cavil want with the Cylon Baby?

And, even more importanly, where is that beautiful Imagination House and can I have it? For real?

Avast! SPOILERS be here!

I haven’t been in a hurry to post about this week’s Battlestar Galactica episode, “Deadlock,” mostly because I don’t have too much to say about it.  I also suspect y’all won’t have much to say either. It’s gotten so late that I barely even remember what happened!

In the show’s defense, however, it wouldn’t be fair to expect each and every episode to be as Earth-shatteringly awesome as the last few have been.  It’s a quality show, but let’s face it: it can’t be perfect all the time.

Looking through the screencaps I took of the episode, it appears there were two major developments I wanted to mention — if by “developments” I actually mean “elements of return to the past,” which is basically the opposite of developments unless you are living in a world of cyclic time.  Let’s not get into that.

MOVING ON.

So, as you all know, I loathe and detest Ellen Tigh with every molecule of my Vague corpus.  Hate the lady.  I was willing to admit, however reluctantly, that she was getting more interesting (and less cunty) in the last episode.  OH MY HELL, that is no longer true.

Ellen Tigh is back to being the completely and utterly depraved ho-bag bitch she always has been.  Do we blame her for the Cylon Baby’s death? DO WE?

In other news, we saw the (at least for me) long awaited and much doubted return of Imagination Six!

Hooray!  While Baltar was busy being a ponce the entire episode, at least we can speculate as to whether his actions will have any unanticipated badassed consequences, as they were the fruits of Imagination Six’s manipulations. WILL THEY?

What did you think? Totally meh, or am I expecting too much these days?

Warning! Spoilers abound!

I’m not going to write a proper post, but here are some images from my favorite moments this episode, with brief captions.

What did you think?  FRAKKING INSANELY GOOD EPISODE, RIGHT???

So if you don’t know that Dollhouse, Joss Whedon’s new show, is premiering tomorrow night, then I just don’t know what to do with you!

As you can imagine, I am pretty fucking psyched about this development, and I’m just hoping the programming geniuses at Fox (who are, let’s not forget, responsible for the early demises of Firefly, Wonderfalls, and Arrested Development, among others) give this show a chance to be as awesome as I’m sure it will be.

I typically don’t like to read too much press or reviews about things before I see them, so my knowledge of Dollhouse going in is pretty minimal. Let’s just pause and appreciate the pretty, pretty cast.

Then let’s come back here after it airs (Fox, Friday the 13th, 9pm/8pm Central) and discuss! Wheee!

Some vague and general SPOILERS HERE, but nothing too specific. DO NOT READ ON unless you’ve either seen the episode or you just don’t care.  There will probably also be spoilers in the comments, too.

The Battlestar Galactica 2-parter (“The Oath” and “Blood on the Scales”)  that aired last week and continued this week was by far some of the most intense television viewing ever. During both episodes, I was on the edge of my seat, pulse racing throughout the entire viewing. WHEW! Those dudes were totally not fucking around.

Here’s Tom Zarek, still annoying as ever.  I was feeling pleased, for a minute, at the way the Quorum members refused to be pawns in his game (for once). And then something happened that had me literally shouting “HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT” right in the middle of my living room.  I reiterate, holy shit.

I barely remembered anything about this Captain Kelly character — I had to go look him up on the Wikipedia a minute ago and things are still pretty foggy, though I do happily remember Ty Olsson from Men in Trees (shut up) — but he earned a place after this episode, for certain.

HOT DOG! IT’S HOT DOG! I get nearly as excited when Hot Dog makes an appearance as I do when Cylon Babies make an appearance.  Mainly because I love to shout “HOT DOG” at the screen.  Try it some time.  Hot Dog was especially awesome in this scene, wasn’t he?

So I just wanted to ask: when the armed dudes were dragging Romo Lampkin down the corridor and he said, “I don’t suppose anyone is going to feed my dog,” did any of you wonder if he still actually has that dog? Dude has a track record with pets is all I’m saying.

Oh yeah, and Laura Roslin was not fucking around this episode, either.  She will use every weapon at her disposal, even her own eye teeth, to end you, dude.

So what did you guys think about the end?  You can guess how I felt about VP Tom Zarek, but I’m not even entirely sure how I feel about Felix Gaeta.  One thing I can say for certain is I will not miss those close-up shots of his diseased leg stump.  Shudder.

To illustrate a little anecdote I mentioned in the comments to the last BSG entry, I present you with the following:

Some vague and general SPOILERS HERE, but nothing too specific. DO NOT READ ON unless you’ve either seen the episode or you just don’t care.  There will probably also be spoilers in the comments, too.

This gripping episode was all about people being pushed to the edge of action and the crazy people-pushers who pushed them there.  One of my least favorite characters on the show returned as the centerpiece of this theme.

Other crazies came out of the woodwork, too.  Have you been wondering about Gaius Baltar and the state of his ever-changing hair? Then have no fear:

He’s back and looking quite the dish with this new haircut.  HAIRCUTS: I ADVOCATE THEM.

Felix Gaeta had a lot to say this week, too:

(That caption only makes sense to you if you’ve seen the episode, OK?)

On another note entirely, I thought Admiral Adama was being very much the hard-boiled detective in this week’s episode. It all started when I saw him fallen asleep at his desk with a bottle of whiskey and a magnifying glass:

As the episode rolled on, we also saw the Admiral working information by “appealing to [someone’s] intellect” in a way that had nothing to do with intellect, and advising criminals to “cool [their] heels” in the slammer.  Someone’s been reading his Dashiell Hammett!

Here are some of my other observations as I watched:

– This episode jumped right in to the big OMG-type shit, didn’t it? The scene in the beginning that had Tigh saying “I need a drink”? Well, well, well indeed.

– You know what occurs to me? We haven’t had much Helo lately.  MORE HELO, please.

– There are just so many occasions in this episode for me to do my song and dance routine to the classic tune of Cy-lon Bay-bee! A-wocka wocka wocka CY-LON BAY-BEE!

SO! What did you think?

No specific spoilers here, but if you’re like me you still may want to wait until you’ve seen the episode to read this.  There may, of course, be spoilers in the comments.

The new season of Lost premiered last night, and I and my fellow fan Clarabella chatted online during the episode, questioning every detail and pausing more than a few times to say, “wait, WHAT?”  It was a great episode and this season promises to be full of Lost‘s signature mind-bending intrigue.

I won’t say anything too specific about it here, but I will tell you that writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have some very different ideas about time travel than what I learned at the feet of Dr. Emmett Brown.

Speaking of Cuse and Lindelof, the two princes of smugness had another one of their annual smirkathons the hour before the premiere – yet another self-congratulatory recap episode where the writers don’t so much recap the series as justify why, in their opinions, Lost is such truly great art.  This time around I think it had something to do with “telling universal stories about the human condition.”  Man, I love this show, but I almost love making fun of the writers even more.

But enough about that!  Did you see the show?  WHAT is UP???

No specific spoilers here, but if you’re like me you still may want to wait until you’ve seen the episode to read this.  There may, of course, be spoilers in the comments.

Well, guys, Battlestar Galactica is back to wrap up the fourth season — and the entire show. I can’t believe it’s back! I can’t believe it’s ending! Oh, the conflict I’m feeling!

I’m not going to recap the episode or in fact say a lot about it, but I will say I thought it was great.  As expected, it dealt with the aftermath of what the human and cylon crews found on earth at the end of Season 4.0: a big, empty wasteland.

I especially enjoyed the confrontation that took place between Tigh and Admiral Adama, and I wished that the conversation Starbuck wanted to have with Apollo had taken place.

The shocking “realization” at the end of the episode regarding the identity of the final cylon, though.  I’m not sure what to think about that.  Is it true, or merely a manipulation? I really hope it’s not true.  I’m being general here to avoid spoilers, but what do you think?  Feel free to get specific in the comments!

Also, what the frak is going on with Starbuck?