Father and son, before Lee went civilian. / SCI FI Channel Photo: Frank Ockenfels
Very brief spoilery thoughts about Friday’s Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump.
Granted, I haven’t watched next week’s BSG nor do I have any idea what will be in it, but I wonder if it wouldn’t have been a good idea to make the previous episode—ending with the surprise baseship jump—the last one of the final half-season, skipped this episode altogether, then resumed in medias res. Think about it: it would have been disorienting to end on the Hybrid’s sudden “Jump!” then come back months later to find that Lee Adama is now president and Admiral Adama has resigned leadership of the fleet in favor of Tigh. There’d be a nice what the—? moment (perhaps opening on the old man floating alone in space in his Raptor), and then you could go back and fill in the blanks.
Instead, we got this episode, which seemed simultaneously too rushed with the developments and too dull with the explication of them. The episode in general seemed very mechanically driven, with the uninteresting Lampkin storyline seeming to exist only to make plausible Lee’s sudden line-jumping to interim president. The Tigh-Adama showdown, on the other hand, was compelling—not to mention that Tigh evidently knocked up the prisoner Six, which would mean a Cylon-Cylon baby—but to leap directly from that tremendous breach of faith to Adama nonetheless saying Tigh is the only other one he would trust with the fleet made little sense, except as a means of leaving pieces in place for a coming episode.
All in all, I’m inclined to hyperjump past this one and be thankful we have another episode coming up next week. Speaking of which, for those of you who watched the preview of next week, I strongly suspect that the big surprise “reveal” in it was just a trick of editing. What say you all?