As the episode involved several battles between spaceships, this might have led to severe confusion, but the clarity of the storytelling and the show’s ability to delineate battlefield geography meant that I was able to follow everything, title cards or no. Due to a prior weekend commitment, I was only able to view the episode on a screener DVD that did not have completed visual effects. 2” is a testament to the strength of the show’s technical crew. While last week’s episode was all build-up, Part Two is all climax, even if some of the plot threads devoted lavish attention in the first part are abandoned in the second. Both were written by David Weddle and Bradley Thompson and directed by Felix Alcala. 2,” forms a complete story with last week’s episode, “Exodus, Pt. These same events dig tiny holes in the Galactica foundation that may grow into chasms given enough time. But all the characters bear scars of some kind from events detailed in the last few episodes. There is never any doubt that the humans stranded on New Caprica will eventually be reunited with their counterparts in space and continue their galaxy-wide search for Earth (this is TV, after all, where you abandon the status quo at your peril). As in the best war movies, though, the focus is less on the explosions and more on the human cost of the struggle for freedom. In the fourth episode of its third season, Battlestar Galactica goes all-out war movie, featuring what seems to be the biggest battle of the show’s run.
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