Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Prep

April 2nd, 2008

This Friday is the first episode of Battlestar Galactica Season 4. It’s the last season “evar,” so it’s finally time to deliver the goods.

This is what I hope to see during this final season:

• Earth. Reach frakking earth and have an awesome surprise waiting there.
• Reveal the last of the “final five” Cylons and have it be someone important.
• Explain once and for all what the heck is up with Baltar and Head Six. Is he a Cylon? Is she an implant?
• Quasi-religious stuff where the hybrid babies become all powerful god like beings.
• All-out war. I’ve read rumors of a toaster rebellion. That’s cool if it involves some seriously apocalyptic space battles, like fifty basestars laying waste to thirty Battlestars.
• Fatalistic dark stuff. Let’s see a main character bumped off every episode so just Lee Adama and a rowboat remains.
• Mind-bending flip-arounds like the season two finale. If only for fat Adama and the mustache.

What I do not want to see:

• Commander Adama hooking up with Roslin.
• Commander Adama hooking up with anyone, for that matter.
• The Cylons teaming up with the humans in order to find Earth.
• Soap opera love-stuff. The Lee-Starbuck-Anders-Dualla thing in Season 3 was a thumbs down.
• Boxing.

Let’s recap: Who are the Cylons that resemble humans?

• Number 6 appears in Baltar’s head and had other guises such as Shelly Godfrey and on the Pegasus.
• Number 3 “Diana Beers”
• Number 5 “Aaron Doral” model.
• Brother Cavil.
• Leoben, who first appeared on a space station in the miniseries and later was blasted out an airlock, and also tortured Starbuck on New Caprica.
• Simon, a doctor who first appeared on Caprica when Starbuck was captured in “The Farm”.
• Number 8 Sharon / Boomer was on both Caprica and the Galactica. Caprica Sharon had a baby “Hera” with Helo.

That’s seven human-esque Cylons. Next comes the “final five,” four of whom were revealed at the end of Season 3: Tigh, Anders, Tyrol (Chief), and Tory. That’s eleven Cylons with the last one to be revealed during Season 4. This Cylon’s identity is a big reason to watch Season 4. One clue that emerged a few months ago was this “Last Supper” type photograph in Entertainment Weekly. The prevailing thought is the last Cylon does not appear in the photograph. I find this a bit disappointing as all the major characters are shown.

I also have several Battlestar Galactica videos to share with you:

David Letterman Top Ten List:

Check out this promo, with several Battlestars unseen before (Titan, Hades) doing battle:

If nothing I wrote above makes any sense, you may want to watch this compact first three seasons in eight minutes clip over at SciFi.com.

You can also check out any of my Battlestar Galactica related posts over on the TV Show page, mainly episode reviews of seasons 1 and 3. Here they all are for easy clicking fun.

• Crazy Battlestar Galactica Theory #1: The Cylon Sex Disease (STD)
• Thoughts on Season 4
• Who’s The Cylon? Poll Results
• Early Predictions For Season 4 Of Battlestar Galactica (by Guest Blogger Paris Lemon)
  
• Is Battlestar Galactica Getting Too Political?
• Free iTunes Recap
• Thoughts on Season One

Season 1

• 2003 Miniseries

1. 33
2. Water
3. Bastille Day
4. Act of Contrition (1)
5. You Can’t Go Home Again (2)
6. Litmus
7. Six Degrees of Separation
8. Flesh and Bone
9. Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down
10. The Hand Of God
11. Colonial Day
12. Kobol’s Last Gleaming (1)
13. Kobol’s Last Gleaming (2)

(Sorry, I’m in the process of writing reviews for Season 2)

Season 3

1. Occupation
2. Precipice
3. Exodus
4. Exodus, Part 2
5. Collaborators
6. Torn
7. A Measure of Salvation
8. Hero
9. Unfinished Business
10. The Passage
11. The Eye of Jupiter (1)
12. Rapture (2)
13. Taking A Break From All Your Worries
14. The Woman King
15. A Day In The Life
16. Dirty Hands
17. Maelstrom
18. The Son Also Rises
19. Crossroads Part 1
20. Crossroads Part 2

Season 4

• Razor

Alright, that’s it, and as you can predict, I’ll write reviews on each episode of Season 4 as they transpire. If you’re super-jonesing to be among the first to watch the season premiere, said episode will stream at the SciFi.com website from noon to 1 pm EST.