Full disclosure: My personal politics are half Socialist and half Libertarian.
The episode was, for one, a throwback to the series’s more action-packed first season.
Battlestar Galactica does not do flashbacks well.
On the mythology front, Galactica took a few tentative steps forward, mostly onboard the Cylon basestar.
Battlestar Galactica knows how to pose a moral dilemma, but Friday night’s episode did it less gracefully than usual.
For the better part of “Torn,” Battlestar Galactica seemed to almost turn into Lost.
The beauty of sci-fi is that you can always hope for improvements in the future—to technology, society, equality.
The final montage suggests that anger at the collaborators won’t easily fade away.
In the fourth episode of its third season, Battlestar Galactica goes all-out war movie.
After its nauseatingly tense premiere, the show ratcheted back the drama in the second episode of its third season.
If there’s a shot that Battlestar Galactica deploys more skillfully than any other, it’s the close-up.
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While the show’s dark tone risked alienating casual viewers, the time-leap the series took in its second season finale divided fans.
Friday Night Lights is the most honest portrayal of contemporary small town life in the small screen’s history.