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Katee Sackhoff is always enjoyable to watch so it's very hard to be completely disinterested in any episode in which she appears. That said, the latest episode almost accomplished it. The entire episode builds to a moment that was spoiled in the teaser, which pretty much destroyed any narrative tension to the A plot, all of which could have been rolled into a single act with no loss. In stead we get a "to be continued" and a teaser for next week, which makes it pretty clear that all the action that should have been in this week's episode will be in next week's instead.
So, with 15 episodes left, the A plot for this week was two thirds spinning its wheels and looking up its own ass, in which characters have the same conversation three times, and one third actual plot - and that's being generous.
I'm no longer worried that BSG will run out of time to wrap up this season, I'm worried that the writer's don't actually have enough story to fill 20 episodes. And since Ron Moore and his writing room have never managed to write an entire season that hung together, it's probably no surprise that season four to date is so damn awful, meandering and bloated with unnecessary and anvilicious character beats.
Case in point: back over on the Galactica, the final four (minus one) and Baltar spent the episode monologuing at each other about their struggles with identity and God. Thank you, I hadn't been beaten over the head with this plot in a week and my concussion was beginning to clear.
So, with 15 episodes left, the A plot for this week was two thirds spinning its wheels and looking up its own ass, in which characters have the same conversation three times, and one third actual plot - and that's being generous.
I'm no longer worried that BSG will run out of time to wrap up this season, I'm worried that the writer's don't actually have enough story to fill 20 episodes. And since Ron Moore and his writing room have never managed to write an entire season that hung together, it's probably no surprise that season four to date is so damn awful, meandering and bloated with unnecessary and anvilicious character beats.
Case in point: back over on the Galactica, the final four (minus one) and Baltar spent the episode monologuing at each other about their struggles with identity and God. Thank you, I hadn't been beaten over the head with this plot in a week and my concussion was beginning to clear.
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