Best BSG episode to date (new series) and why?

Darthjaye · Nov 22, 2006

So what's your favorite episode of the new series so far?

Mustrum_Ridcully · Nov 23, 2006

Darthjaye said:
So what's your favorite episode of the new series so far?

Difficult.

33 will always be one of my favourites, as will Kobols Last Gleaming, pt. 1 (the first use of their montage together with Bear McGreary's music - I just love it).
Exodus pt.2 was also pretty good.
I liked Downloaded with its Six/Baltar twist. Valley of Darkness with the Cylons aboard Galactica was also pretty good (I hope that was the right title).

All in all, there are more episodes I absolutely liked than episodes that I disliked. It might be easier to say which ones were the worst.

delericho · Nov 23, 2006

Pegasus.

Watching their joy at finding another ship turn to horror was fun. And I was left with the nagging feeling that maybe Cain was right...

Grymar · Nov 24, 2006

33 may be the best hour of TV I've ever seen. The sense of hopelessness and sitting on the edge of defeat was so well done.

Exodus, Part 2 was almost as great.

Joker · Nov 26, 2006

delericho said:
Pegasus.

Watching their joy at finding another ship turn to horror was fun. And I was left with the nagging feeling that maybe Cain was right...

Not being snarky, but about what was she right?

For me, like others, it's very hard to give one episode as the greatest.

It is more scenes from different episodes that spring to mind as being great, like Adama getting shot, or the space battles in The Hand of God and The Ressurection Ship Part 2.

I kinda liked Scar.

Grymar · Nov 28, 2006

Joker said:
Not being snarky, but about what was she right?.

When Cain was listing the problems that Adama had had so far (pilots going rogue, mutany, him being willing to risk the fleet in the S&R for Starbuck, etc) she said he had lost control.

He had. He didn't want to admit it, but he had.

Styracosaurus · Nov 30, 2006

Cain vs. Adama......

If Adama finds Earth, then there will be great rejoicing. Then they'll have to join forces to fight off the cylons.

Once Cain had raped every cylon to death, then she'd go find Earth and conquer it.

Starbuck made the statement at Cain's funeral, "we'd have been safer <with Cain in command>." I think that the authors are making reference to a frequent misquote of Benjamen Franklin, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." (supposedly said by someone else in 1755)

33 was awesome.
Scar was awesome.