It picks up where last season left off: Four of the final five Cylons revealed (to themselves and us, but nobody else), and the re-appearance of Starbuck. The show revolves around Starbuck: Where she was, where she’s been, why she’s suddenly alive, why she’s been gone for two months but she thinks only a few hours (and the clock on her fighter bears her out), whether she’s a Cylon (she passed the test), and whether to pay attention to her claim that she found Earth.
Oh, and these nuts who think Baltar is some kind of Holy Messenger. They must be Obamamaniacs. Think about it: There are more than a few parallels between Gaius Baltar and Barak Obama.
It ends on a cliff-hanger (quite an effective one, too).
The question of the season is who is the final Cylon. Starbuck is too obvious (and there is another reason, which I won’t go into because it comes out in the premiere). So is Baltar. The final Cylon has to be a major character, or the revelation will be anti-climatic, but until we get a better idea of how the humans and Cylons are intertwined, I don’t think we can make an intelligent guess about the identity of the final. But we can rule out who it cannot be.
It can’t be Helo, or there would be no Helo-Boomer baby (remember, the baby is the first human-Cylon cross, and since Boomer is a Cylon, Helo must not be). It can’t really be Adama, unless his kids aren’t his kids (back to that Cylon reproduction problem). But it could be just about anybody else.
If he hadn’t been revealed as a Cylon at the end of last season, I’d bet on Tigh. Oh well.
Darren says:
I’m most interested in learning when the switch was made with the “real” Tigh, since Bill’s known him for a few decades. Detention?
You think Razor’s going to play into this at all? We know Admiral Cain’s sister was taken by the Cylons–were those kidnapped humans models for the skinjobs? And who was that original hybrid, the one who ratted Starbuck out?
I hope they tie this season up nicely, not leave us hanging for the eventual movies. That would be *so* cynical.
April 6, 2008, 12:44 pm