This set will be a must-buy for completists, but it may be too light on extras for everyone else.
The film’s storylines fail to inform or intensify each other in any theme-deepening or character-developing ways.
The film thrillingly plays out as an almost-Lynchian duet between warring states of consciousness.
For a film about a killing machine who can see at night, it’s ironic that Riddick itself is, both narratively and visually, a dark, muddled mess.
Every time 24 reveals its textual weave, it does still manage to achieve a genuine, almost pornographic thrill.
The series finale is about as audacious and ambitious a piece of television as I’ve ever seen.
If I have one concern about the finale next week, it’s that the show will not be able to find an ultimate meaning for the character of Baltar.
To a real degree, I’m willing to give the show a lot of slack because it’s a story still in search of an ending.
I don’t think it’s coincidence that this was the episode to reintroduce the concept of Cylon projection.
I’ve speculated before that the show’s writers are interested in their mythology, but probably not as interested as their fans are.
Genre fiction requires the infodump.
The episode is like a primer as to why we came to love all of these characters in the first place.
The ensemble of players, above everything else, is what makes Battlestar Galactica come to life.
The episode is probably going to piss off a lot of fans, especially coming this late in the show’s run.
Battlestar Galactica gets a reputation for being a dark show, and some of that is well-deserved.
The show has always given a sense that it’s willing to dispense with vital parts of its premise for an episode or two.
The episode zip along with verve, finding little time for the character moments the last few episodes have been filled with.
“The Ties That Bind” is probably the most Cally-centric episode of the show’s run.
It sets what must be all of the remaining plot wheels for the series’s end game in motion.
The episode wasn’t a slam-bang premiere, outside of its opening space battle.