The Best Show on Television Ends Its 3rd Season

Bat­tlestar Galac­tica Sea­son 3 is offi­cially done and I have mixed feel­ings about it. It started off with a real bang and I just loved the occu­pa­tion of New Caprica by the Cylons and the ensu­ing struggle/escape from the planet, but once they got off-planet the show started to waver. It started off great with “Col­lab­o­ra­tors”, which was amaz­ing and hard to watch and was prob­a­bly my favorite episode of the year, but then they started throw­ing in the “story of the week” episodes, like “Hero”, “The Pas­sage” and “The Woman King”. And yeah there were some excep­tional episodes thrown in the mix in between the val­leys (like the soon to be clas­sic “Tak­ing a Break From All Your Wor­ries”), but the sea­son just didn’t have the tight feel that the major­ity of sea­son 2 had. From lis­ten­ing to the Ron Moore Pod­casts, you can tell that the season’s sto­ry­line went through a large meta­mor­pho­sis con­cern­ing the presidency/legacy of Gaius Bal­tar and his rela­tion­ship to that sub-genus of humans, the Sag­i­tarans. There was sup­posed to be a big hul­la­baloo in regards to Bal­tar shoot­ing Sag­i­tarans dur­ing the Occu­pa­tion and how it was filmed and how Lee was sup­posed to sud­denly come into pos­ses­sion of this film and how there was more to in that it seemed, but that all got sgarbageped when they real­ized that no one really cared about the Sag­i­tarans (my opin­ion). The film was going to fea­ture heav­ily into the trial of Bal­tar but that was also sgarbageped.

This is more just ram­bling, isn’t it?

The infected bases­tar episodes (“Torn”, “A Mea­sure of Sal­va­tion”)were excel­lent in exe­cu­tion but made me furi­ous when a poten­tially huge new plot line was dis­carded just because Helo had a con­science. Adama should have shot him him­self. Or else Tigh could have eaten him, which I think he would have gladly done.

Tigh con­tin­ues to be my favorite char­ac­ter of the series, and when he isn’t on screen for long peri­ods of time I miss him. He’s a com­plete jerk and a drunk, but it’s price­less lines like “It’s in the frakkin’ ship!” and that lit­tle laugh he gave Helo in “The Woman King” that make me wish some­one would rec­og­nize how great an actor Michael Hogan really is. But he’s Cana­dian and a recluse, from what it sounds like, so he may never get the recog­ni­tion that I think he deserves.

Next favorite is Chief, Galen Tyrol. Every­time they want to have a heavy mythos-centric episode they seem to allow him to shine. Whether he’s com­ing to grips with the idea that he may be a Cylon, or try­ing to deci­pher the Eye of Jupiter, or even in Cross­roads, where he and oth­ers, for some rea­son, keep hear­ing “All Along the Watch­tower”, Aaron Dou­glas as Tyrol is great, and he plays the tor­tured part well.

Is it okay to think that Grace Park (Sharon/Boomer/Athena) isn’t that great an actress? Yes, it is okay. Because she’s not.

And I miss Brother Cav­ill (Dean Stock­well). We need more of him next sea­son. He’s just so slimy.