Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10)
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Actor: Edward James Olmos, Jamie BamberBrand: NBC Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 438 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sci-Fi Channel, The
DVD Reviews of Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10)
DVD Review: An Improvement
Summary: 4 Stars
This renewed series settles down a bit in its second season. That doesn't mean there is any less action, excitement or story line but it does appear more coherent. The stories are easier to follow with slightly less reliance on flashbacks and fast cuts between story lines. The actors are learning more about their characters and everything is falling into a groove. It is an improvement over the first season.
Synopses of the Episodes appear below:
Scattered - The season opener for the second season picks up right where the finale of the first season ended. Kobol has been found but Adama has been shot by a Cylon sleeper agent. His condition is critical and a Cylon base star makes hanging around Kobol dicey. The order goes out for the fleet to jump. They do only to find that there has been an error. The fleet is not at the location where the Galactica has jumped. The coordinates for the emergency jump had not been passed along. To make matters worse, the ship's doctor is not aboard. He was visiting another ship and Adama needs surgery quickly. The only workable solution involves jumping back and recalculating the jump to figure out where the fleet has gone. This will be estimated to take 12 hours and there is no way the Galactica can survive in the hostile environment for that long. The only other option involves networking the ship's computers so that the calculations can be done faster. This will make them vulnerable to Cylon attack. There are no good choices.
Valley of Darkness - Things are looking grim. The Galactica has managed to find the fleet but there have been consequences. The Cylons managed to infect the Galactica's computers while they were networked to calculate the jump. To make matters worse, the Cylons also managed to land a boarding party which is working its way towards the Galactica's destruction. Things are not going to well on Kobol either. Those crew members who had to ditch there at the end of season one are still on the run and Baltar is being further and further seduced into the camp of the Cylons. Meanwhile, back on Caprica, Starbuck and Helo are stranded without a ship deep in enemy held territory; that consists of the entire planet and all surrounding space.
Fragged - Things remain ugly as the Galactica tries to mount a rescue mission for their raptor crew stranded on Kobol. In the first place, the president is under arrest for inciting a mutiny and is losing her mind. Other politicians are glad to stir things up further and the worst politician of all is Tigh's wife who sees the situation as an opportunity for her husband (and her) to gain in power. Adama is still unconscious and it is driving TIgh back to drink. Meanwhile, on the planet, an inept officer conceives a plan to attack a Cylon missile installation with his fellow strandees composed mostly of maintenance types and the Vice president. In a strange twist, the some of the military forces prove to be cowards and Baltar grows a set of cojones. It is one set of twists after another.
Resistance - Things are falling apart all over. Colonel TIgh declared martial law in the last episode and in this one the fleet is falling into mutiny. Tigh is not doing a good job in command and his social parasite wife just drives him on to make worse and worse decisions in the hope that her own start will rise. Some of the officers are getting edgy about Tigh also and an effort to spring the president comes to the fore with Starbuck taking the lead. Meanwhile, back on Caprica, Boomer and Helo encounter a real enclave of human resistance. Each suspects the other of being Cylon. There is hope. Adama is getting better and may even recover from his coma soon.
The Farm - While Adama tries to regain control of a mutinous fleet, he must contend with a son who has chosen to work with the opposition and a dying president who sets herself up as a religious zealot and savior. The president persuades a sizable portion of the fleet to jump with her back to Kobol and the Cylons waiting there. She is convinced by her religious beliefs that she will be able to save them. Starbuck, on the other hand, is still with the resistance on Caprica. During a raid she gets shot, left behind, captured by Cylons and faces the prospects of being used as a broodmare.
Home Part 1 - Starbuck finally makes it back to the fleet from Caprica and she has the mythical arrow with her. She also has the Cylon, Boomer, who in another incarnation, tried to assassinate Commander Adama. This does not make for good relations with Apollo. Nobody really trusts Boomer but she is allowed to live because she promises to lead the president to the tomb where the way to earth can be found. IT will be a dangerous mission and people will die. It is even more dangerous for Apollo because some of the rebels see him as an obstacle to their own power.
Home Part 2 - Adama takes his portion of the fleet back to Kobol in an attempt to reunite with the president and heal the divisions in the remnants of humanity. The president and her party are looking for the tomb and are being aided by the version of Boomer that did not try to assassinate the president. Still, the confrontation does not lead to a harmonious reunion. Meanwhile, the Cylon known as number six is still up to her mindgames with Baltar. He is becoming less tractable and subject to control. She still wants a baby but allows as how she does not necessarily have to be the mother. From there, she morphs to appear like Starbuck and really gets his hormones running at overtime. He is half convinced that he is going crazy. He is, of course, but not in the way he suspects. The tomb does get found but the answers found there are not as easy to understand as would have been hoped. It does seem, however, that political fences are being mended if one discounts the occasional betrayal, scheme and sudden plot twist.
Final Cut - I had watched all of the episodes of this new version of a venerable old series with a mild degree of interest but never with any sense of engagement. That changed with this episode. A muckraking reporter is allowed access to the Galactica. The access is virtually unfettered. It is obvious that the reporter intends a hatchet job and is a "typical" reporter in that the military is bad, always and without exception and that nothing is more important than the career of the reporter. That includes the survival of humanity. During the course of her investigation, though, she uncovers a lot of ugly stuff. She also uncovers some of what it is like to serve. In her final cut, she has not produced a hatchet job. She has produced a piece that shows the heroism as well as the failings of the fleet. All of that is for the good but that is not what hooked me. During the final viewing, I heard some familiar strains of music. This is music that has been in my memory since the 70s. After all of the pseudo-music (at least its not to my taste) of all the previous episodes, the triumphal strains of the theme from the original series begin to emerge just as it is clear that the warriors of the fleet are not going to have their lives, sacrifices and mission further compromised. That silly little bit hooked me. The hook was set when the identity of yet another Cylon agent was revealed in the final few moments of the episode.
Flight of the Phoenix - in an episode that is a bit more light hearted than usual, not a difficult task with such chaos being the norm, there are only two primary plot lines in this one. The first involves a Cylon computer virus set to disable the Galactica and leave her open to attack from a large Cylon task force. The only hope to beat them involves trusting Boomer the Cylon and making themselves completely defenseless. The other story line involves the crew chief. As an article of faith, he tries to build a viper from scratch. Everyone says he is crazy but, eventually, many of the crew get sucked into the project. When it is done, it has some previously undersigned capabilities.
Pegasus - In this season finale, a plot line is lifted from the original BATTLESTAR GALACTICA series. At least part of it is. The Galactica encounters another colonial Battlestar, the Pegasus, commanded by the legendary Admiral Kane. Needless to say, the Admiral outranks Commander Adama. Their command styles are...different. Adama is not known for his warm and fuzzy ways but is a teddy bear compared to the Admiral and the Admiral is not pleased with the way he has been running his command. Still, the two launch a combined reconnaissance against a Cylon task force. While the mission is away, however, the Admiral arrests two of the Galactica's crew, charges them with treason and issues a summary judgment of guilt and decrees execution. Adama will not accept that and commences an operation to get his crew back. The stage is set for a conflict and the episode and season end on that note.
Description of Battlestar Galactica - Season 2.0 (Episodes 1-10)
Sci-fi's hottest TV series returns as Battlestar Galactica 2.0 blasts onto DVD in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. As the epic second season begins, the fight to save humanity rages on - even as civil war looms within the fleet between the followers of President Roslin and Commander Adama. Relive all the intensity and excitement aboard the Galactica with a supernova of explosive bonus features, including deleted scenes and podcasts. It's a heart-pounding adventure you can't afford to miss! Starring: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Michael Rymer, Grace ParkBestsellers in DVD
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