Editorial
Review
The
first half of Battlestar Galactica's second
season left no doubts about the continuing excellence
of the best science fiction TV series of 2005.
Beginning with the Colonial Fleet separated,
Col. Tigh (Michael Hogan) botching his temporary
command, and Capt. Adama (Edward James Olmos)
near death after a Cylon assassination attempt,
series producer/developer Ronald D. Moore and
his gifted writing staff packed more into these
10 episodes than most series manage in a full
season.
Maintaining
its reputation as an adult drama, the series
is compellingly anchored by the gravitas of
Olmos and Mary McDonnell, whose role as Fleet
President Laura Roslin grows more complex as
she reveals her diagnosis of breast cancer and
defies Adama, playing the "religious card"
with her conviction that prophetic visions will
lead the embattled fleet toward its legendary
home planet Earth.
As
Adama's son Apollo (Jamie Bamber) wrestles with
his role in Roslin's mutinous agenda, paranoia
runs high as Cylon copies (or "avatars")
of Boomer (Grace Park) complicate matters aboard
Galactica and on Kobol, where a lost Raptor
crew struggles to survive and Dr. Baltar (James
Callis) endures the increasingly haunting and
manipulative intrusions into his tormented psyche
by Number Six (Tricia Helfer), the seductive
Cylon who holds the secret to the Cylon master
plan to destroy humankind. more |
