Battlestar Galactica – Season 3

Archived review – My thoughts on the first 10 episodes of the season:

This is a hard one to comment on, since everyone's sick and tired of me saying how uber-amazing and superior this show is compared to anything else currently on TV. Even I'm tiring of it. The trouble with Season 3 is that its first few episodes were fantastic. Too fantastic. The occupation of New Caprica, complete with its thinly veiled allegory with Iraq, was perhaps the most gripping storyline I've seen from a TV show. Everyone had important parts to play, and I was completely surprised that my favourite scene (a death scene, no less) was between two actors/characters I previously had not much sympathy/liking for. It speaks volumes for the show that such a moment between two unlikeable characters can bring a (mostly) grown man to tears; Nothing this side of the death of Buffy's mother has done that! But sadly, that was where the show peaked. Once everyone was back in space and on the run from the Cylons, the reset button may not have been pressed, but the format and quality has reverted back to how it was in Season 2 - still amazing, but with occasional faults and slow-burners. The midseason finale was excellent, but didn't pack quite the same punch as previous finales. So in summary, still the greatest show on TV, but possibly harming itself by becoming too good :-)

I didn't get around to reviewing the second half of the season. Bad James, no Monster Munch for you! However, I do remember at the time being highly interested in Baltar's trial (and seriously impressed by Lee's heartfelt testimony), but not a whole lot else.