The Old Man Is Almost Back…

It’s been a long time since I wrote here, but some­thing is going to hap­pen tonight that sadly will be the begin­ning of the end for the best show on tele­vi­sion today (sorry, “Lost”). The reimag­ined “Bat­tlestar Galac­tica” fires up for the sec­ond half of sea­son four and I couldn’t be more psy­ched about it.

We last saw our band of pil­grims as they arrived at Earth, but not the Earth that we cur­rently know. It’s a bombed-out radioactive-looking waste­land that doesn’t look very wel­com­ing to the voy­agers from the twelve colonies. I would guess we’ll get our ques­tions answered this sea­son, at least I hope we do. Bat­tlin’ Bill Adama has brought these peo­ple this far, I doubt that he’ll leave them hang­ing, but what about hope at this point? Most of what was keep­ing every­one going onboard those fly­ing tin cans was the hope that Earth would be out there, some­where, and that it would be hab­it­able. It’s like get­ting half of a prayer answered. Sure, you made it to Earth, but are you going to like it once you get there? Good luck. Brother Cavil is still out there with his com­pa­tri­ots, and when they find Earth…eek.

We’ll also finally get to see the last secret Cylon. I guess after Baltar’s aborted Cylon Detec­tor didn’t fig­ure out that four of the Final Five weren’t human that some­one we know and love will be the last one. I’m hop­ing that it’s not one of the top two (Adama or Pres­i­dent Roslin), and I don’t think that the cre­ators of the show would take so obvi­ous a tack. My gut tells me that it could be Tom Zarek, but who knows. It would also be a com­plete mind f*ck if it was Billy Keikeya, who died in a bar­room shootout, or Ellen Tigh, who was killed by her hus­band back on New Caprica.

And is Lee Adama still the pres­i­dent now that Roslin is back? Does she even want to be pres­i­dent any­more? If Lee is still pres­i­dent, will Zarek keep try­ing to influ­ence him(another rea­son that I think he is a top con­tender for The Last One)?

My only com­plaint? That the Sci-Fi net­work sur­vives off of peo­ple watch­ing this one show, and because of that they aired the first ten episodes of sea­son four and then had the audac­ity to hold onto the final 10 until 7 MONTHS LATER. Shame on you, Sci-Fi Chan­nel. At least you’re finally going to air them.

And I’ve waited so long for this show to come back on. Please lord let it be good. No, be bet­ter than good, please be great and remind me why I love this show so much. Please.

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