Battlestar Galactica:Season Finale {SPOILERS UNLIMITED} 1.4.05

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"Kobold's Last Gleaming Part 2--Season Finale" Episode #113

As the fleet prepares to battle the Cylons for control of Kobol, the tensions between Adama and Laura explode.

Special Presentation.

Cast...
Edwards James Olmos:Commander Willilam Adama-Commanding Officer of the Battlestar Galactica. Weathered and lean, he does not stand on cermony, preferring a simple day uniform with a minimum of insinga.


Mary McDonnell:President Laura Roslin-Secretary of Education, 43rd in line of succession to the presidency. Projecting class and confidence, she possesses great innate intelligence and stoicism.

James Callis: Dr *Vice President* Gauis Baltar-World-famous of three Magnate Prizes, and best known for his controversial views on computer. Stylish, handsomea and idiosyncratic, he offers the affected humility of the truly arrogant.

Trica Helfer:Number Six-A humaniod model of Cylon. With drop-dead looks and in a perfect body, her every move and gestrure is mooth and precise, her eyes keenly intelligent. And God talks to her...

Jamie Bamber:Capt. Lee Amada [Apollo]-Viper pilot and surviving son of Commander Adama. Ruggedly handsome, lean and rangy, he controls his anger and pain as if it were a fighter craft.

Kate Backhoff:Lt. Kara Thrace [Starbuck]-Viper pilot. A loner, as undisciplined and rebellious out of the cockpit as she is calculating and preise in it, she's maybe the fleet's best pilot-constantly in trouble because she doesn't suffer fools.

Grace Park:Lt. Sharon Valerii [Boomer 1 , 2 and 3 *dead*]-Raptor pilot. Not long out of flight school, she's the squadron rookie. *Was* Romantically involved withe Chief Tyrol. She's also a Cylon, in addition to the Sharon on Galactica, more are on Caprica *Well, there is one less...now*

Tahmoh Penikett:Lt. Karl C. Agathon [Helo]-Sharon's Valerii's ECO. Gave up his seat on the Raptor so Dr. Baltar could be evacuted to the Galactica. Left to fend for himself on Cylon-occupied Caprica with Boomer #2, for the moment.

Michael Hogan:Colonel Saul Tigh-Executive Officer of the Galactica. He's is the best man to have at your side--even if he too tightly wond, moody, prone to outbursts of temper, and a highly functional alcoholic *tempered for the moment*

Arron Douglas:CPO Galen Tyrol-Chief Petty Officer of the Galactica. Rugged, with the worn look of someone who hs spent a lifetime working around big machines, he's the kind of man for who his crew would do anything.

Alessandro Juliani:Lt. Gaeta-Senior Officer of the Watch in the Galactica CIC. Monitors the long-range sensors in case of Cylon attack and serves as Adama's "jack of all trades".

Paul Campbell:Billy Keikeya-Assistant to President Roslin. Young, eager to please, smart and polite, he's one of those who's usually smarter than the room but never lets anyone know it. He'd make a great diplomat someday. If there is a someday.

Kandyse McLure:Petty officer Dualla-A deckand currently on Combat Information Center duty. She is no-nonesnse, tough and pragmatic--even falling in love.

Richard Hatch:Tom Zarek-Political prisoner who has spent the last 20 years in jail for the terrorist bombing of a government building and inciting civil unrest against the government of the 12 colonies of Kobol. An outspoken critic of President Roslin.

Throughout this series, an experiment in the making...has taken the genre to a level, rarely in the Sci Fic....telling a story. Between the naysayers and those who love the show...it can be agree in earnest.

It got you talking...it got that imagination fired up again...it got you...thinking.

I will admit with great shame, I didn't like the first news of when the mini-series first came out, I listen to others who berated the opening premise...and still, didn't watch it.

But one day, I was two-thirds of the mini-series...and WHOA!!!, I was forgiven for my ignorance, and realize there, on what was being put forward....by the producers and what the actors projected.

Telling a...story.

Everyone aboard that fleet, has a story, to be told. Small parts that make the whole, from the humans fleeing the might of Cylon war machine, to the hybrid Cylons, who are evolving a bit too fast, as per individual. To the political infighting, of those who are vying for power that is left to grab. And a caste set system is growing among the machine/humans victors...what does this spell out, is there a great void, forming within the ranks?

Who knows.

The one very important thing that has to be asked?

Has everything that been done....made a story that you can believe, feel, and understand.

Does it connect with you, on levels that you only know...that exist?

For me, speaking for self...yes.

Ladies and Gentleman, set your Titvos', Divos', VCRs for a Encore showing of eps# 111, 112 and at regular time...Season Finale #113: Everything is coming full circle for some, and for some others, the circle may get...broken.

And again, my great thanks for those who saw it already, and not spoiling for others who has not seen it yet.

Thank You.
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Walked in from the rain just in time to catch the beginning...whew. From this, off to the local Toys R Us for Midnight Madness and Episode III junk...man its a good night! :)
 

Everything was going along fine. Predictable, but very interesting none the less.

Then I went numb.

I did not expect it. At all. Did not see it coming (and glad I didn't). My mouth was open for a good minute or more afterwards.
 

May I be the first to say...

HAIL MARY!!!

That was the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers

Just like that. Poof. Never saw it coming.
 

FRAK! My frakking cable went out in the last ten minutes of the frakking season finale!

It came back on in time to see Adama lying bleeding on a table.

What'd I miss? What happened with the Cylon base ship? What about Starbuck & Helo & Cylon Boomer? What about the group on Kobol?

FRAK! And I can't believe I have to wait until frakking JULY for the next episode!
 


The last 30 seconds was great.

The 59 and a half minutes before that? Not so good.

Contrived, pedestrian stuff. A real disappointment after a season I have generally enjoyed. I'll be watching again next season, but I'm not hanging out for July with the excitement I should have been.
 

Olgar Shiverstone said:
FRAK! My frakking cable went out in the last ten minutes of the frakking season finale!

It came back on in time to see Adama lying bleeding on a table.

What'd I miss? What happened with the Cylon base ship? What about Starbuck & Helo & Cylon Boomer? What about the group on Kobol?

FRAK! And I can't believe I have to wait until frakking JULY for the next episode!

Highlight and be spoiled:


Basically, Six and Starbuck fight over the Arrow, Starbuck finds Helo and CapBoomer, finds out that CapBoomers preggers. The nuke malfunctions, and GalBoomer has to land on the basestar and deliver the nuke. She sees other models of her, and determines she's a Cylon. Tight arrests Roslin. GalBoomer shoots Adama in the Ready Room, and Six shows Baltar what his task is (presumably take care of CapBoomer/Helo's child).
 


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