Tonight’s episode begins the two-part finale for Season Two. Next week’s closer will be ninety minutes long, if you hadn’t heard.
Beware, there’s a small cadre of GINO Jamokes trying to start an internet rumor that Sci-Fi has cancelled the show due to expense. Fear not: Season Three has been greenlighted and will premiere sometime this summer, probably in July if past scheduling is a guide. Like Season Two, it’ll be twenty episodes in length.
Okay, re tonight, let’s recap all the plot threads that will require attention:
Apollo has been promoted and is commanding Pegasus.
Which puts a crimp in his relationship with Petty Officer Dualla (2nd class).
Starbuck, new CAG for Galactica, has been itching to get back to Caprica to retrieve her hunka-hunka-cafe-explodin’ Anders.
The reincarnations of Caprica Six and Galactica Boomer have bonded over the crushed skull of Lucy Lawless and vowed to change their society’s direction for the better.
Momma Boomer thinks Doc Cottle killed her baby, that lousy chain-smoking dingo.
Baltar has stepped up as Roslin’s political rival, and is running against her in the election for President.
The wildly religious Gemenon faction is displeased with Roslin and wants to play spoiler in said election.
Tom Zarek, recognizing the unlikelihood of his own further political ascendance, has attached himself to Baltar.
Gina-Six, lest we forget, has a nuke. Wait, let me clarify: a nuclear frakkin’ warhead. There, that’s better.
And in other news, General Billy Keikeya is still dead.
From the preview: A habitable planet has been found, one the Cylons are somehow unlikely to know about (this part of the preview was unclear), creating yet another division in the already deeply riven rag-tag fleet.
Mmm, Galacticky goodness.
