It takes the easiest approach to every scene, haphazardly juggling different tones without integrating them into a cohesive and consistent thematic identity.
To watch Open House is to revisit some of the hoarier conceits marking the last half-century of the non-supernatural horror film.
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’ve speculated before that the show’s writers are interested in their mythology, but probably not as interested as their fans are.
Battlestar has always had a weakness for Big! Shocking! Moments! that turn out to just be dreams.
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.
The show has always given a sense that it’s willing to dispense with vital parts of its premise for an episode or two.
After two episodes full of deliberate but pulse-quickening pacing, “Sine Qua Non” feels a little scattered.
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.
There isn’t a moment in Memory during which Billy Zane seems natural.
“Woman King” was strengthened by the central performance of Tahmoh Penikett.
The season, so far, has given some of the show’s less-heralded players some good material to work with.
The season’s most ambitious gambit is its attempt to get the viewers to shift their loyalties, ever so briefly, to the side of the Cylons.
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.