Battlestar Blogging
Hell of an episode last night, though I wasn’t as shocked and surprised as the preview articles led me to expect. I thoroughly enjoyed it all. Starting with Apollo’s ringing speech about justice and the hypocrisy of those standing in judgement on Baltar, followed by Balter’s sad walk down the hall, holding his meager possessions, free but totally alone.
And then the shockers: the reveal of four of the five unknown Cylons (if that can be trusted; I don’t take anything in Galactica at face value). Four you would not have expected, either. I was sure Gaeta was one of the Five.
This Entertainment Weekly article contains interviews with Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, and Ronald Moore (the show’s Exec. Producer). Olmos said:
All the kids who were chosen [to be] Cylons were floored. Just stunned. I remember reading it going, Oh my god