All that is contained in the following recaps are super spoilerrific, so if you have yet to see either of the shows that aired this past Sunday, March 25, 2007 then you may not want to read any further.
The parts I can relay without really spoiling anything of the plots is this. Claudia Black guest stars on “The Dresden Files” as a felon turned P.I., and it looks like they may be setting her character up as a possible intermittent returnee once “Stargate SG-1” ends its 10-year run.
On “Battlestar Galactica” the trial of Gaius Baltar comes to an end and the fleet draws closer to the nebula that will lead them to Earth.
Everything else that follows is full of spoilers — You have been warned!
SPOILERS AHEAD!!
The Dresden Files : “The Other Dick” (Recap)
Under new city rules Harry can no longer work as a police consultant on future cases unless he also becomes a licensed private investigator, which leads him to a class being taught by two P.I. partners, one being Claudia Black.
When Black’s partner turns up dead, both she and Harry suspect foul play, even though the police have no indication of such. Claudia and Harry (Paul Blackthorne) team up and learn that their prime suspect is innocent but being used by a fertilization clinic and an incubus who uses woman to try and create a duplication of itself.
Of course, with the help of Bob (Terrance Mann), Dresden’s ghostly partner, the case is solved, the incubus gets sent back to its own realm and the murderer goes to jail — which leaves Black’s character to take up residence as Chicago’s newest lone-working female P.I. in her old partner’s office, with the promise that she will throw some work Harry’s way from time to time — with a 15% commission fee of course.
Something tells me we may be seeing more of Claudia and Harry together in the future.
Battlestar Galactica : “Crossroads – Part 2” (Recap)
O my frackin’ god! Let me start by saying that I sat for an hour waiting for the light to fade on the visage of those Final Five so they could finally be clearly revealed and, well let’s just say Moore still has me wondering.
But, O my frackin’ god! Starbuck is back (is she a Cylon?), and claims she’s been to Earth, knows the way and will lead the Colonial Fleet there (or was Lee hallucinating)?
And, O my frackin’ god! Colonel Tigh is a frackin’ Cylon, Chief Tyrol is a frackin’ cylon, Sam is a frackin’ Cylon and President Roslin’s Press Secretary Tory Foster is a frackin’ Cylon (well actually I wasn’t too surprised by that one). So, who is the fifth — if they are the four of the Final Five – Gaeta or Starbuck perhaps?
Wait a minute! No where in the episode does it say that these four are Cylons, they themselves think they are, but thinking it is so doesn’t necessarily make it so, now does it! Did they even have human looking Cylons forty years ago when Saul Tigh first began his military career? Or, sixty years ago when he was born? Or, did they substitute a Tigh-looking Cylon in his place at some point in the past? I’m getting a headache!
Ron Moore is driving me crazy and now I have to wait nine months until 2008 to find out — or get more confused. Way to take a page out of J.J. Abrams’ “Lost” play-book Ronnie. All that angst aside, let’s face it, “Battlestar Galactica” is one awesome SF television program.
Bill says
I record every episode on disc. I had to replay it four times after I recorded “Crossroads, part 2.” Ron shows us Earth, and where it is relative to the fleet. Perhaps four good seasons is enough for this outstanding show. If next season is anything like this one, I think I’ll be satisfied when the fleet finally arrives.
Alice says
Two Cylon babies anyone?
EddieLa says
About Kara’s return… I think she might have entered BSG’s version of a wormhole. Might have taken her near Earth.
Also, if watching countless episodes of Star Trek has taught me anything and if there was a wormhole and if Kara is indeed back, wormholes allow the writers to play with time. The wormhole can possibly take the fleet back or forward in time. Corny? Maybe. We’ll see.
I look forward to season 4.
Ed from Texas says
Having those four be Cylons seems way to obvious to be true at this point. It also seems difficult to justify from the time line, especially in Tigh’s case.
My wife also questioned Tyrol’s baby and didn’t Baltar scan these people? His machine correctly identified Sharon as a Cylon, even though he kept that information hidden.
Oh, and just to stir it up a bit more – 2008 is nine months at a minimum. No guarantee this starts back up in January.
Tony says
Leobin said way back that Adama is a Cylon. Maybe he was right 😉
Gary Zero says
It’s official, BSG is close to jumping the shark. I think it did last season but to most people it’s close or has already. http://jumptheshark.com/topic/battlestar-galactica-2004-general-comments/21694
Magess says
But Adama wasn’t hearing the music.
I dunno. I don’t like it if they’re cylons. The other cylons think of the final five as gods. And those final five happen to be Galactica crew that don’t know who they are? That doesn’t seem like people the other cylons would be looking for. What could Tyrol ever have to tell them?
Justme says
So, when Lucy Lawless’s character apologized to one of the five, who do you think she was talking to – one of these four or someone else?
JohnFromTroy says
I don’t remember who plucked out Tigh’s eye, but maybe that’s who the Three (Xena) apologized to.
Maybe she was involved in Leobin’s pychological torture of Starbuck.
Both characters had a hard time at the hands of the Cylons. She could have felt bad enough about how either were treated to apologize for it.
Alice says
What does a song from Earth have to do with being a Cylon anyway? If it is the tracking device,still… why do the Cylons know it?
Kyle Nin says
I think she saw Tigh, and she apologized because he was tortured by the Cylons on New Caprica. If only she knew who he was, then he never would have made to go through that.
emiliano says
Is it possible that the Cylons faked Tigh’s military history? Who served with him that is currently on Galactica? Not Adama, Bill met Tigh on a freighter/cargo ship after the war (2×01, Scattered). I don’t think they knew each other before then. He married Ellen after he met Adama, so she might not have know him for that long. Maybe the Cylons started infiltrating the Colonies soon after the first war.
dingosatemybaby says
Where to begin?
WTF!?! Why in all of creation would they be hearing a Hendrix (Dylan?) song?!?! Are they going to arrive at Earth and find it “our” earth in the mid 60s? I cant wait to see how they explain THAT song away.
Didn’t the defense demand a mistrial based on the fact that Adama had pre-judged Baltar? What happened to that? Lee gets on the stand and whines for 5 minutes and everyone forgets about it and just plows forward. What a shocker that they were going to find him not guilty. YAAAAWWWWWWWN.
As far as the mysterious 5 – I’d bet my left one that they threw darts at a board full of cast photos to decide that. Even so its probably a ruse. Why would those 4 numbskulls be cylons? The writers have done nothing in the way of foreshadowing this, no clues, no hints, NOTHING. Seems like they just pulled it out of their collective butts.
And Starbuck…Oh, you mean she’s not really dead? Really!? Wow, I didnt see THAT coming a thousand light years away.
Moore said in one of his recent podcasts that its nice now that the show is mature to not have to be involved in every writing meeting. Hey Ron – it SHOWS. This season was the WORST.
And now, Season 3 is over and we have to wait until 2008 for this crap to continue? So it could be…what, December 2008? Moore should come back from whatever vacation he’s on and grab the helm again before the show crashes into the deck like Starbuck’s viper.
I never thought I’d say this because I was the biggest fanboy for S1 and S2 but I think I’m done with this cluster-F of a show.
What a disappointment.
./D
tllgrrl says
I watched last night while I was taping it.
I watched it again this morning.
Both times my reaction was: What.The.Frack!?!
I just checked my iTunes and Ron Moore’s commentary isn’t up yet.
I can’t wait to hear what he has to say about this one.
Oh. One more thing…Two Thousand EIGHT??????
By the way, dingo, it doesn’t matter that it’s a Hendrix/Dylan song. That it’s a song is what matters.
That they’re all hearing it is what matters.
We don’t know that BSG is happening in our future…or in a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
Let it go.
Open your mind a bit and just go with it.
(And put your paralegal textbook away, while you’re at it.)
; )
SciFi Cindy says
I think Starbuck is now a resident of the City of Light. These light beings are the halucinations Baltar and Six are seeing, and producing the President’s dreams and visions. They are producing the music the “final five” are hearing. They are manipulating Cylon and Human alike, but for what purpose?
John from Jersey says
Those who use the term “jumped the shark”, just because they disagree with a creative decision, should be airlocked. I’m so damn tired of hearing that stupid, inane indication of fanboy whining…
Gary Zero says
John, I’m a non-fanboy of the show. But I like the term and I think BSG fits it nicely. Glad to see people are beginning to see through this garbage of a show. I predict it will be off the air either before the next season or shortly after. S1 and S2 were good but S3 was terrible, at least the first three I watched till I had enough.
Bill says
I don’t think a true fanboy would start whining about shark jumping with every turn of the plot. A true FB (like me) is THRILLED that Ron Moore, etc. have the guts to take us on a wild, imaginative ride!
Even at its worst (and I think it’s at its best at the moment), BSG still beats 99% of the shows on TV for writing, acting, directing, plotting, etc.
Kyle Nin says
dingosatemybaby said:
“The writers have done nothing in the way of foreshadowing this, no clues, no hints, NOTHING.”
Um, they wouldn’t be very good sleepers if they gave themselves away so obviously.
Does anyone think that the reason they have their current positions (either in government or military) has something to do with the fact that they’re Cylons? As if subconsciously their Cylon “programming” pushed them into positions that made them more likely to stick around and still be alive for when they reveal themselves. That’s what I think, anyway.
I didn’t have too much hope for this show when it started (in fact, I thought the first season was a waste of time), but after this last season, I’m starting to enjoy it more. And I do look forward to Season 4.
Elizar says
Interview with BSG executive producer discussing the season ender.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07085/770732-352.stm
Summer Brooks says
I’m actually now wondering if Lee is the 5th one.
Leoben said “Adama is a Cylon”. We only assumed he meant the Old Man. Now Lee has this vision of Kara? Any reason why it can’t be Kara or Lee? Since Tigh aged over the years that Adama’s known him…
Yes, I’m reaching. And I haven’t even seen Crossroads yet.
And Tyrol puts a whole new spin on the relationship with the previous Sharon, doesn’t it? And dang, was the hint there in the conversation that he had with Cavil way back?
Bob says
Two Words: Cyclical Time
“all of this has happened before, all of this has happened again”
Explains beacons, maps, cylons from last time left among the colonists whose descendants are genetically programmed to activate at a certain point…
Joe says
And, of course, if the song they’re hearing is an actual transmission that doesn’t mean they’ll find Earth in the 1960’s — it just means that they’re now intercepting a radio wave front that left the planet in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. The “current” time on Earth would depend on how far out they are when they hit the wave front.
Of course, this would also seem to imply that Bob Dylan is a Cylon . . .
GazerBeam says
I’m with Summer. If it turns out to be a cyclical time/matrix-type kinda thing, I’ll go ballistic.