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A must have. This was the best show on TV for a reason. Drop your thoughts on sci-fi whatever they may be, good, bad, or indifferent. This is story telling at its finest.
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What you pin heads neglect to tell people is that season 4.0 is not season four, it is half of a season. Nice getting your delivery and then realising that you have half a season. So if you mark this season 4 out of five stars, cut that to 2 stars. Was a day when advertising was supposed to be accurate. Guess those laws have been dumped too.
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I almost gave up on this show afeter Season 3, which I thought it was not bad by itself, but simply inferior to the amazing Seasons 1 and 2.
Anyway, people sometimes tend to demand that each single episode of a TV show be a master-piece of film making. This is simply not possible. The shooting and writing schedule is frenetic, they are exposed to ratings, to threat of being cancelled, etc, etc. the producers of a show (usually) try do do their best.
Of course, sometimes there is sloppy and lazy writing, but I think this is more the xception than the rule.
In this season, sometimes I got pissed with some cheap "matrix-sequel style" riddles and philosophy, but other than this (and KAte Sackhoff as Starbuck - I simply thins she is so unpleasant and such a weak actress that the Starbuck character is obnoxious sometimes) it was a superior season than season 3.
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Once the "Final Five" theme was introduced, this series fell toward the abyss.
I admired the first three seasons, and was hoping the decline would be reversed in 4.0. Not the case. The FF theme is a narrative killer. It allowed the writers to fill up copy books with writing that should have been nixed in writers' conferences. Excellent actors go through the motions dramatizing these five non entities.
All five characters are reduced to unconvincing cut outs. Their previous character development goes down the drain. You can have no interest in these hollowed out creatures, they show no convincing motivation.
Meaningless ending to a final season that should have been stellar.
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The second episode of season four, "Six of One", reveals the crucial turning point when the Cylon revolution begins, and so the series kicks off into high gear again after a few slower paced episodes ending season three with the trial of Baltar and entering season four. The second episode also for the first time reveals Baltar's alter ego of himself talking to himself. Why an alter ego instead of the imaginary Number 6 is used is unclear though perhaps it represents another stage in Baltar's mental breakdown. The mad scientist gets madder.
Another crucial and shocking episode is the third, "The Ties That Bind", as one of the final five murders a particular human loved by another of the final five. This ultimately leads later on to one of the final five killing one of their own, which then evidently destroys any hope for the reconstruction of a new resurrection ship for the Cylons, or establishing an armistice between the Cylon factions.
Starbuck's return after the explosion of her fighter was a welcome and eery sight, though this begins a series of ideas that are never really clearly resolved later on. Is she dead? Is she alive? Is she a Cylon? Is she a ghost? Is she merely imagining Leoben talking to her, or is she somehow telepathically in communication with him. How does she then have this ability? If she is dead how come she has a physical presence? It seems as the series progresses that more and more people are losing their minds, from Starbuck, to Roslin, to the ever intriguing Romo Lampkin. Perhaps Battlestar Galactica can be seen as something of an insane asylum.
Pleasantly season 4.0 offers more hard hitting episodes and the series leads the audience on an intriguing path to Earth that becomes more intertwined with the Cylons.
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