Battlestar Galactica: Daybreak

I hope I missed something, because if i didn’t then the writers of Battlestar Galactica spent half of the second to last episode of a five years series on flashbacks that had little or no real connection to the ongoing plot.

It’s not that many of the things in the flashbacks weren’t interesting. it was interesting to see what these people were like before their world was destroyed, but it would have fit far better early in the series not almost an the end. I already know who Kara, Rosyln, Baltar and the Adamas are like, what I want to know now is how the end of the series will end.

I do have faith in the writers. They have taken me on a long and interesting ride and I suspect that they are setting up things which will be important in the final two hours but that dosn’t make it nessisary.

The rest of the episode was very interesting. I don’t know why after five years I did, but I really expected Baltar to vollenteer for the mission to save Hera.

They put this idea in my head with the discussion betwene Baltar and Lee where he asked Baltar if he could tell him of one good thing he had done and he admitted he coludn’t.

I still think that he might just do something selfless at the end, but I certainly wouldn’t bet a lot on it.  As for the rest it seems almost certain that some of the main characters are going to die and the Galactica are going to be blown up.

In addition they really need to explain what is going on with Kara in the next episode and hopefully explain Baltar’s visions of six througout the show, as well as finding another plannet, deal with Caval, and tie up the plotlines of about 15 other characters. A lot to pull off in two hours of television interupted with occasional commercial breaks which is likly to have a giant battle as well.

Let’s hope that they can pull it all together next week and create a series finally which lives up to the quality of the rest of the series.