Prelude

It's hard to write about the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica since it's actually the first third of a three-hour finale. (Lost did a similar thing last year, splitting up the final show.) Furthermore, it was mostly flashbacks to the days before the Cylon destruction, and only pointed toward the big--and I hope final--conflict. In fact, I don't know if two hours will be enough to wrap things up, since they've got so much to do.

Though you might think they'd be forward-looking at this late point, I enjoyed seeing the characters in earlier days. Nevertheless, considering all the episodes we've seen this year, I'm guessing they had enough plot for one last season, and, stretching it out to a season and a half, ended up with a too many stories with stasis.

Too late to change that, but let's hope they can end it all with the intelligence and excitement that represents the series at its best.

PS I played one moment over and over. When the recon ship comes out of the jump near the end of the episode, the pilot doesn't say "frak" (even though the CC claimed she did), but the actual F-word.