Airdate: 5/4/80
Dr. Zee, the teenage whiz-kid of the Galactica, tells Adama
about his recurring dream, which frames the episode’s following story. During
the timeframe of the original series, Starbuck, while on patrol with Boomer,
crash lands on a desert planet with a damaged Cylon warrior. Fraught with so
much loneliness he actually fixes the Centurion just to have a companion, he soon
befriends his would-be enemy, whom he teaches the ways of human behavior. In
return “Cy” returns with a female, a pregnant woman named Angela, the
self-proclaimed matriarch of a new society. Constantly querying Starbuck of
where he’ll be at the time of judgment, he picks up on her inference that he
ought to be the spiritual father of her child and may have to sacrifice himself
for departure for a new life elsewhere. All this does indeed come o pass
(Starbuck ostensibly left to die at the hands of invading Cylons, despite Cy’s
last-minute, sacrificial act of heroism), and we finally learn that Dr. Zee has
these dreams because he is, in fact, the baby, and Starbuck his “father.”
Series finale feels more like an episode of the original Galactica; I’m guessing writer/producer
Glenn Larson figured he’d use the hour of TV time to do the finale that never
really happened, at least in terms of Starbuck’s story. It’s not terrible – it
actually is nice to see Dirk Benedict reprise his role one last time, and with
no one else around to steal his airtime at that. But it sure is an oddball
episode, beginning as a variation on the WWII classic Hell in the Pacific, and ending a little too hippy-dippy for my
taste (I mean, what is really up with the Angel-a
character anyway?).
Well, anyways, that’s the ball game, folks. Series
assessment next. This one gets a…
Rating: ***
Oh, I never mentioned this before, but I have to make this
observation: why do three Cylons need
to pilot their fighters? I know they’re not people, but it sure must be awfully
expensive to replace those two extras when a ship goes down. Okay, maybe there
needs to be a co-pilot, but what the hell is that guy in the back doing?
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