KEVIN GREENE-ILLUSTRATOR

Here it is Thursday already and I haven't written about last Friday's Battlestar Galactica. Wow. What a great episode. What I liked most about the episode is that they shifted the chronology of the episode. It started in the middle and then jumped back 48 hours, Now, I know a lot of shows do that but I think they did it because it went against the grain of how you would expect the episode to progress. We know a huge battle is coming and a lot of shows would have made a big deal of showing all this pre-battle stuff, when that really wasn't what it was about at all. Sure, it was a major offensive, but really the show boiled down to what Adama and Cain would do after the smoke cleared. Would they pull the trigger on their assassination plans? That scene with Starbuck and Colonel Fisk hanging on the orders of their commanding officer was as tense a scene as you will see....and their reactions were refreshingly human. Happy that it didn't come to it, and scared enough that it almost did. That scene was the point and it was a real nail-biter. So watching that and having us jump right into the battle made this an exceptionally well put together episode.
But I would be remiss if I did not mention the battle. On a purely sci-fi space battle geek level, this was top tier. Again Zoic goes off, rendering just a beautiful series of shots. The shots of the Galactica and the Pegasus laying waste to the Basestars while the Vipers are just annihilating the resurrection ship were some of the greatest space battle effects ever done. They were just unloading on the Cylons and there was a visceral thrill in watching the Colonial fleet get some payback. Zoic is THE BEST and they proved it once again. To do this on a weekly basis is just ridiculous....
Well, I can't wait to see what happens tomorrow. I have no idea how they will save Laura Roslin (this show makes you think that they just may not) but maybe her salvation lays in Sharon's hybrid baby. We'' see...I'll be watching, that's for sure.