Tonight, the Battlestar Galactica: Razor event aired on TV and I really liked it. It provides a good counter-point to the way Admiral Adama and President Roslin have run things. Really, a completely different philosophy on the situation.

In the beginning of the miniseries, Adama’s thinking is that they are at war and they should be attacking the Cylons. It’s Roslin’s insistence that the war is over, they lost and need to just run and survive with the remaining humans that eventually convinces him otherwise. The rest of Galactica’s story is then motivated along these lines of survival.

The whole point of the Pegasus story, in my opinion, is to show what would have happened had Adama been allowed to run the militaristic campaign he originally wanted to. When the Cylons attacked, Admiral Cain decided it was war and every decision thereafter was one based on revenge and cold, basic wartime needs.

Definitely a cool story. Kendra Shaw was a pretty cool character and I loved watching her as an understudy to Cain. Especially in contrast to Lee Adama doing the same to his father, Bill. A very well written, self-contained story. I think they did an excellent job.

Plus, it’s all kinds of cool to actually see the things we heard about during Fisk’s drunken confessions to Tigh in season two.

As for the end revelation about Kara: OMG! Makes the end of season three even that much more crazy. Hot damn!

Supposedly the Cylon hybrid says a lot of interesting stuff during the rescue mission, before he specifically talks with Kendra. I don’t remember hearing any of this so I’m not sure if it is only in the extended DVD edition or if I was too busy watching to listen:

“Soon there will be four, glorious in awakening, struggling with the knowledge of their true selves, the pain of that revelation, bringing true clarity. And amidst confusion, you will find her… Enemies brought together by the apostle, enemies now joined as one. The way forward, once impenetrable, yet inevitable. And the fifth, though still in the shadow yet clawing for the light, hungry for redemption, that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering. I can see them all, the seven, now six self-described machines who believe themselves without sin. But in time, it is sin that will consume them. They will know enmity, bitterness, the wrenching, the agony of the one splintering into many. And then they will join in the promised land, gathered on the wings of an angel. Not an end, but a beginning.”

Pretty interesting stuff. Adds even more to the upcoming season than just the Kara Thrace is “the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death” stuff. Though putting it together with the above paragraph, is Kara the apostle?

But seriously, omg I want season four. The teaser for it that aired right after Razor said it begins in March. MARCH?!?!

Then there’s the fact that the season is now unfinished because of the writer’s strike. I’m all for supporting the strike but if the second half of BSG’s last season never gets made I will lose all sympathy for them. Of course, that’s just selfish me. Oh, also the fact that everyone in the industry in Vancouver (including a good friend of mine!) will be unemployed if it doesn’t end soon kinda’ bugs the hell out of me.