Battlestar Galactica #14:Blood on the Scales/Season 4 Finale/2009

[Truth Seeker]

Blood on the Scales

Writers:Michael Angeli

Director:Wayne Rose

Stars:Edward James Olmos (William Adama)
Mary McDonnell (Laura Roslin)
Katee Sackhoff (Kara "Starbuck" Thrace)
Jamie Bamber (Lee "Apollo" Adama)
James Callis (Gaius Baltar)
Tricia Helfer (Caprica Six)
Grace Park (Sharon Agathon/Number Eight)

Recurring Role:Bodie Olmos (Brendan "Hot Dog" Costanza)
Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy)
Alessandro Juliani (Felix Gaeta)
Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh)
Mark A. Sheppard (Romo Lampkin)
Alexandra Thomas (Hera Agathon)
Leah Cairns (Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson)
Ty Olsson (Aaron Kelly)
Sebastian Spence (Noel "Narcho" Allison)
Tahmoh Penikett (Karl "Helo" Agathon)
Michael Trucco (Samuel Anders)
Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek)
Aaron Douglas (Galen Tyrol)
Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster)

Guest Star:Mike Dopud (Specialist Gage)

President Roslin faces off against Tom Zarek and Lt. Gaeta as they try to take control of the Colonial fleet. Both the alliance with the rebel Cylons and Adama's life are at stake.
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[Shroomy]

Holy crap that was awesome. This week and last week's episodes were some of the most intense hours of TV that I've watched in a long time.

 

[RangerWickett]

I heart Felix Gaeta (even more than I heart shih tzus).

 

[Avarice]

What a great episode. It did my heart good to see Starbuck and Apollo going off on a killing spree together. Nothing cuts through many episodes worth of angst, uncertainty, and depression like a little good old fashioned blood-letting.

And once again, by the end of it all the writers had me almost admiring Baltar. Amazing stuff.

 

[Mark]

"I know who you are."

 

[Fast Learner]

Another great episode!

 

[dravot]

Loved it.

I'm left to wonder if Zarek and Gaeta had the benefit of a trial or not.

 

[Steel_Wind]

I enjoyed the episode, though I don't think that the beginning of it went off very well.

The cliffhanger was amazing; the follow through was worse than anti-climactic.

I wanted more Starbuck. I guess we will see more of her and potentially a confession death bed scene to Anders. And we will see next week if Anders survives or not. Given the way things are going, I wouldn't count on him surviving.

More Lampkin! The lawyer in me loves this guy. He's my BSG "real life" hero . With a pen, no less. Awesome.

Baltar was great, I'll give him that. It's funny how it ended up that Baltar, arguably the real traitor, is the one confessing Gaeta in the end before his execution. His resistance of the lure of sex as a soporiphic to his pain was the true sign that they Baltar has redeemed himself.

And as for Tom Zarek (Richard Hatch)? Well - he leaves BSG....for good. Not with a whimper - but a bang.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Roslin's defiances scared the crap of the skins!!! When she answered back the VP at C&C.

Number six was literally trembling at the RAGE!!!

Humans are such volcano starters.

 

[dravot]

I wanted more Starbuck. I guess we will see more of her and potentially a confession death bed scene to Anders. And we will see next week if Anders survives or not. Given the way things are going, I wouldn't count on him surviving.

Hard to say. Maybe he got to Cottle in time. Maybe not. If not, maybe he'll be resurrected - we don't know what the Final Five are capable of.