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“Faith” - Review

Posted by battlestar

May 9, 2008 |

Liked:

  • Drums starting right at the beginning = you know is going to be an action-packed cold open.  Yipee!
  • Tory actually doing her job and not acting bizarre nor sleeping with Baltar?  I love it!
  • Getting to see a jump from a window?  Amazing.  Just like watching that first jump to hyperspace through the viewport in the Millennium Falcon in A New Hope.
  • Again, Kara is talking about sounds again.  More evidence for the Ship of Lights theory?
  • The fade into Starbuck’s art was a great touch.
  • I love Nana Visitor, and she certainly did not disappoint with this guest appearance.
  • The hybrid on the baseship takes the cake when it comes to all things Cylon and crazy.  But major props to the actress who plays her (it?) for pulling that role off and not making it look stupid.
  • Please, oh please, give Mary McDonnell an Emmy.
  • I was getting very upset that Bill didn’t show up till the last few minutes of the episode after not being in last week’s show at all.  But man did that two-minute conversation (if that) with Laura make up for the loss of airtime.  I love the two of them so much.

Disliked:

  • These people are going to need decades of therapy once they find Earth.  Poor things.
  • So why didn’t Starbuck just leave on the Raptor at first instead of having that major snafu go down?
  • I can take a lot of blood and guts; I’m a biology teacher who gets excited about teaching dissections.  But even I had to look away when Gaeta was shot and Starbuck and Athena tried to patch him up.
  • How did Emily’s teeth suddenly look so great?  Is there a cosmetic dentist on the boat somewhere?

Questions I Now Have:

  • So did Baltar have his own near-death-boat moment or is he just making some lucky guesses?
  • How easily will D’Anna give up the identity of the Final Five?
  • They all must have been really distracted not to notice Sam freaking out on the baseship.  I wondered what would’ve happened if he stuck his hand in the glowing, gooey command console?

I know there was quite a bit of dislike for last week, even though I didn’t mind it too much.  But this week, the show is definitely back.  And yay for the preview for next week showing an answer to a question I’ve been griping about for a few weeks now.

So what did you think?


Comments

1 Comment so far

  1. Maeghan on May 9, 2008 11:38 pm

    I swear, if Mary McDonnell doesn’t get an Emmy for this… I will never take the awards seriously again. She was absolutely BRILLIANT tonight. It was amazing to watch.

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