I finally have been able to see Battlestar Galactica, Daybreak pt. 2 last weekend. Be assured, I won’t give away any spoilers! I really was looking forward on the one hand to watch the season’s finale, but it was bittersweet: it also meant that my favourite TV series would be over forever. After watching the finale, I had some mixed feelings, maybe that had to do with the expectations I had beforehand. I think I will write another review after watching things on DVD.

First of all I want to say that the finale wasn’t bad at all. I even had to cry at the end, which is not typical for me. I don’t know really why that happened but it did. I think it’s the sad realisation that my Saturday mornings won’t be the same again: the first thing I did the past few years was get myself a cup of coffee and breakfast and then watch the episode online that ran the night before. Or I stayed up to watch it live using TVU player.
This show is dear to me for many reasons. In some sort of twisted way it brought me closer to the Catholic Church. Not because of its content but because of Catholic fans I met online. Funny how these things can develop into directions you’d never imagine yourself.

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It has been a while since my last blog post. I’ve been busy arranging things, studying and I fell ill, again  :tear: . Next Wednesday morning I have an exam and need to work really hard to catch up with all the stuff I missed. Needless to say I’m VERY busy. But I’m never too busy to watch my all-time favourite TV show: Battlestar Galactica. Friday night (Saturday morning for me) is TV night for me. I just get up very early to watch a live stream from the show. This time the season premier of season 4 was on.

It was very frustrating for BSG fans to wait for the new season to start. The writers’ strike seemed to last forever. The anticipation was killing me for sure. I really REALLY wanted to know how they would continue after the impossible situation the fleet was in at the end of season 3. We saw a little bit of it and that disappointed me. It was too easy how the fight ‘ended’, it didn’t make sense either. But they dropped some interesting things in. It will be interesting to see how the different leads that have been given to the viewer will connect. There has to be a connection but I can’t see it. The questions are interesting: what exactly are the Final Five and who is the last one? Did Starbuck really die and what really is she? Her path seems to be different from the others, yet she isn’t a Cylon (I think). Baltar put himself in yet another impossible situation and it will be interesting how and if he can save himself now everybody really hates him.

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The season’s finale for season 3 was an episode filled with chaos, suspense and everything else that makes a season’s finale great. As I predicted, four Cylons were revealed, and they were the ones that were hinted at. The Cylon fleet re-appears and everything seems to go terribly wrong. Three different people appear in one dream they all are dreaming independently from each other. It’s not clear what the dream means and what the exact relationship between the people is and the plot thickens.

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This year’s “season’s finale” is a two-parter. The introduction was aired last night and was confirming a number of theories I had concerning the Cylons’ activities. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil them! On the other hand a number of secrets were “unveiled”, but those who have been watching previous episodes knew about this all along. Of course the fleet would find out about things, the question was: how will it end? Of course they didn’t answer THAT question… yet…

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I don’t envy BSG’s writers. They have to write a suspenseful, great episode for every week, possibly better than they have done before. The whole ‘blogosphere’ is still buzzing about last week’s episode. I too was baffled, speechless and could not believe what I had seen. So after last week’s adrenaline, this episode was rather mundane. I was a bit disappointed. I realise the whole story will be told over the course of a limited number of seasons which means that some story lines will be closed and others will be started. “The Son Also Rises” is the beginning of such a new story line.

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