Rating:  - Waiting for 2009......
Season three has great extras. I enjoy keeping up to date on everything BSG, while waiting on 2009 and the final season. Now I can watch all the available seasons over and over until I figure out who the Final Cylon is!
Rating: - Simply awesome!!!
Great series; excellent character development & acting. One of the best Sci Fi series of all time.
Rating:  - Great start and finish
The New Caprica episodes are some of the best of this or any sci-fi series. A weak, somewhat confusing middle that weighs down the series a bit. And then, a great last few episodes leading up to the slam bang monster finale. Wow, the revelations at the end of this are bone jarring!
Rating: - Battlestar Galactica - Season Three
Great series. Better than the original series but is very dark, like the Batman movies. You must pay attention to what's going on or sometimes you'll miss the point.
Rating:  - Uh-Oh...
I'm a BSG fan. I like the series a lot, minus a few 'clunker' episodes, but every series has those. Even Sopranos had those stupid 'Tony's dreaming' episodes.
One thing I always liked about this series was the characters, which are interesting because they are damaged, flawed human beings, unlike the cardboard comic-book archetypes we saw in the original BSG. Well, as the series goes on, some characters continue to develop and stay interesting, like Starbuck, Gaida (sp?), and Tigh. Others that seemed good in season one are starting to get stale and are revealed as only one- or two-note characatures, like Helo, Lee Adama, and Chief T. I don't mind too much, it's to be expected in a series of any length that some characters will run their short course and peter out early. My only hope is that they get killed off or turn out to be cylons or something.
So far, that would make this a four-star season: good, but the cracks are starting to show.
However, late in the season, the series takes a huge left turn into mysticism. It suddenly abandons science fiction and veers sharply into fantasy. Sure, the religious themes have been there all along, but always in a scifi context. It's not 'hard' scifi, to be sure, but it always tried to be based on future science. Why would they change the whole series so completely and so suddenly?
I'm disappointed, but not completely, not yet. I can only hope the elements which appear to be pure fantasy end up, later, to have a scientific explanation. And that's why three stars, instead of only one. I'm giving the writers the benefit of the doubt here, as they have done a (mostly) great job until now. If the explanation for the supernatural elements in this season ends up being within the scifi genre, I'll come back, retract this review, and give it four stars, maybe even five.
However, if, as I'm fearing, the writers simply got lazy and chose mysticism as a cheap device with which to sloppily spackle over gaping holes in the plot, I'll come back, erase this review, and give this season the one star it will have deserved.
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