I am – Hercules.
Commander Lee Adama runs the Pegasus and Baltar wants the presidency. Admiral Bill Adama has a giant scar under his shirt and Helo doesn’t know his Cylon love-child lives secretly among the fleet. Six has a nuclear warhead in her hamper and Captain Thrace continues to crave the loins of a Caprican pyramid player. The toasters are planting shrubs (IF you know what I mean) and we’ve still only seen six of the 12 models!
Tonight brings the first hour of the 150-minute season finale. Word is a human-habitable planet – one not called Earth – is discovered. Tom Zarek reappears. And Starbuck begins sniffing around Caprica, perhaps on the lookout for boning material.
That’s one of the things I love about “Battlestar Galactica,” the best ongoing franchise on television: Things change!
At some point during “Lay Down Your Burdens,” the Cylons (led perhaps by Bill’s old miniseries nemesis Leoben Conoy) arrive and offer the Colonists peace. All the colonists have to do in return is give the Cylons a certain number of human beings each year to be used in Cylon medical experiments. And a lot of the humans say, “I know a good deal when I hear it!”
If you listened to series mastermind Ron Moore’s podcast for “Downloaded” (last week’s Cylontastic installment), you know the all-robot alliance forged by Baltar’s Six and Tyrol’s Boomer is what precipitates the olive branch.
Tonight I get to hike down to the Directors Guild of America Theatre to stare at Grace Park and Katee Sackoff and Ron Moore in person for the Museum of Television’s salute to “Galactica." The only acceptable thing they can screen there, of course, is “Lay Down Your Burdens Part One.” Those in attendance should not only get to see how part one ends 15 minutes before the East Coast does, they should get to watch it in a roomful of several hundred like-minded fans. Then? We get to ask the writers lots of supernerd questions about the Dradis. The TV museum rules.
To anticipate the questions? Yes, “Galactica” is greenlit for a 20-episode third season, and, yes, that third season begins colorcasting this summer.
10 p.m. Friday. SciFi.
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