No spoilers here … but no promises about the comments.
I managed to not record the mid-season premiere of Battlestar Galactica on Friday — but, fortunately, SciFi has the episode on tap. And … wow. BSG once again proves in “Sometimes a Great Notion” (ep 413) that the creators just have too much fun running its characters the wringer … the big spiked wringer … filled with acid. Radioactive acid.
All until the last 15 seconds, when things kind of go off the rails. But … we’ll see. Short of that, it’s big and powerful and complex and gritty deeply intimate and full of those feet of clay that make this BSG everything the original was not.
Well, now I have to watch the next episode. And the rest of the season.
(The annotated/podcast version is interesting … though it’s got some backstory spoilers that some folk might not want to hear until after it’s all over — though it leave off discussion of the last couple of minutes. One interesting aspect in the emotionality of the episode was that it was the last one shot before the Writers Strike — in fact, the strike began during filming, and there was some concern that it might be the last episode of the show depending on how the strike went, which added a bit of rawness and fear to everyone’s play.)
Good stuff.
(And, for those who have seen the episode, some inopportune commercial placement in Canada …)