KEVIN GREENE-ILLUSTRATOR

Friday night saw the season finale of Battlestar Galactica...and it was worth the wait. Only a handful of shows would dare to jump one year ahead in the last half-hour and make it work. Initially, I was against it. I wanted to see what everyone had done in that year, I didn't want to miss out on a year's worth of stories. But that was the point: There were no real stories, no real movement. Everything pretty much ground to a halt once colonization of the new planet begun. It was cool to see some of the changes. Cally pregnant, Dualla is a Lt., Helo serving in the CIC. but that's just window dressing. They all let themselves go...and now they have to pay the price.
I also liked how they didn't create a new utopia, a beautiful new home. The place looked like Farmers Market in a Seattle park. It really reflected how human these characters are. They escape from genocide and manage to hide from the Cylons and the same old human trivialites come forth. They forgot what bound them together and fell back on what they know. Sorta like this country with 9/11. Everyone was united and then the same ol' bickering started. So it was really interesting to see that the same has happened here. And then the Cylons, after a year of silence, come back. They let them get fat and careless and distracted and came right back to take advantage of it. As 6 says when the Cylons were flying overhead, "Judgement Day". This continues the theme that started in the mini-series with Commander Adama's speech at the Galactica decomissioning. Do we deserve to go on? Are we all on the wrong path and subject to be harshly judged? The Cylons sought out genocide the first time for the wayward Children of God, to pay for our sins. And once again they are back. (And it's Baltar's fault AGAIN...He's gonna two more 6's in his head to deal with this...) Only, what do they want now? They have a new agenda and it's frightening to imagine what they want this time. And a skeleton crew aboard the Galactica and Pegasus will be hard pressed to deal with this. President Baltar has really done it now...I can't wait to see how they get out of this. Half of next season will have to be devoted to it...Excellent.