Featuring the space battle of the century.
Cast
James Callis as Dr. Gaius Baltar
Edward James Olmos as Admiral Adama
Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
Jamie Bamber as Lee “Apollo” Adama
Michael Hogan as Col. Tigh
Tricia Helfer as Number 6
Grace Park as Sharon “Athena” Agathon/Boomer
Tahmoh Penikett as Helo
Aaron Douglas as Galen Tyrol
Kandyse McClure as Anastasia “Dee” Dualla
Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gaeta
Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
Michael Trucco as Samuel T. Anders
Synopsis
As four newly-identified Cylons struggle to come to terms with their identities, Galactica engages the Cylon ships and Starbuck’s rescuers are revealed.
High Points
- Whoa. Thought we’d seen a space battle before on the show, but they just showed us what a real one looks like. The previous lot were just little playground spats.
- Original series homage of the best possible kind.
Low Points
- I think I might have preferred Baltar floating out of an airlock.
- I’m not impressed with the choice of the fifth of the Final Five.
The Scores
Originality: Come on. Hands up who didn’t see the Ship of Light coming? On the other hand, anything old is always new again on Galactica because they handle it so well, and the entire episode was somewhat unexpected. Five out of six.
Effects: Absolutely awe-inspiring. I hate to think what the rendering times on the Ship of Light shots are like as that looks like some seriously complicated lighting calculations. Six out of six. I’d
give it a seven if I was allowed to, but the staff said no.
Story: Taking up the threads from last week and carrying them forward, some people saw bits of this coming but the big picture’s weaving into a very interesting pattern. Well-paced and apparently rather carefully considered, we can see why this didn’t fit into last week’s episode. Six out of six.
Acting: Michael Hogan’s really getting to grips with Tigh now that he’s got a reason not to be a miserable drunk anymore. With a sober character to work with, he’s demonstrating even more ability than before. This episode is another fine demonstration of everybody’s skills. Six out of six.
Production: Beautiful camera work and outstanding new set design give this the very highest of production scores. Six out of six.
Emotional response: Firefly was the last TV show which made me want to cry. Galactica just made me cry. In a good way. Six out of six.
Overall: You know what I’m going to put here don’t you? Six out of six.
Crossroads, Part Three gets a well-deserved grand total of forty-one out of forty-two. Almost perfection and they’re making us wait until 2008 for new episodes! Oh, the pain.
Blah.
Ha frakkin’ ha.
Re: Blah.
Yeah, I almost didn’t read the review until I realized what day it was. I thought, "waitaminute, when did this air?!" Good one, you got me!
*ROTFL*
Oh that made my day. I’m looking at slashdot and going "Ok, lets see all the really dumb April Fool’s Day things, and I notice this thing on the RSS and go "OMG WHAT???!?!"
So for about 10 miliseconds, you totally got me. Well done!
Final Fifth
Oh come on! I know Tigh drinking Woodford Reserve is a bit of jumping the shark since it’s made here on earth, but damn is that good stuff!
Re: Final Fifth
Yeah, but we knew that, sooner or later, they’d introduce a daggit character somehow.
Re: Final Fifth
It might not be quite so irritating if it’d stop humping Tigh’s leg.
If only
If only the real next episode will be as good as this review indicates.
I really hope Starbucks reappearance is more ship of light and less cylon.
Anyway great joke. But the first thing that tipped me off is its the same day this "episode" would have aired, we never see Galactica reviews on the _same_ day ;-).
Re: If only
Quite so – especially not before it’s actually been shown.
Re: If only
So you were just making up for all of those late reviews by getting this one in really early.
Re: If only
Not to mention, if this was an actual review, the bit with the "Ship of Light" would have been spoiler tagged.
Re: If only
This is true, but I had to throw in an actual mention of it somewhere or people might’ve believed the episode was real.
Hm
I dunno about Michael Hogan. The part with naked Boomer and Athena in the same room is little overacted.
Brilliant :)
Great April Fool’s Day joke. :)
Khaaaaaan!
Damn you B42, you got me again. Two years in a row. Touche…
Re: Khaaaaaan!
Damnit, I’m 8 months behind, just caught up watching it, and searched the reviews, and saw this. I ran to download it, and couldn’t find it, and came back to double check.
8 months later, they got me, too. Nice one.