Watch Battlestar Galactica – Season 1, Episode 13 Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 2
Season 1, Episode 13
Aired: 4/1/2005
Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 2
The crew of Raptor One crashes on Kobol. Baltar and Number Six look upon the face of the future. Starbuck reaches Caprica and finds the Arrow of Apollo. Adama orders the arrest of the President over her ordering Starbuck to retrieve the Arrow, and Boomer goes on one final mission to destroy the Base Star orbiting Kobol. Old Alliances fall, and new ones are formed, and someone is shot by a Cylon agent…
Watch Battlestar Galactica – Season 1, Episode 13 Kobol’s Last Gleaming, Part 2
Watch Battlestar Galactica – Season 2, Episode 10 – Pegasus
Season 2, Episode 10
Aired: 9/23/2005
Pegasus
The Galactica crew is overjoyed when they encounter another Colonial battlestar, the Mercury-class Pegasus. The elation fades when Admiral Cain takes command of the fleet. The Galactica crew learn about the harsh practices onboard Pegasus. The tension boils over when Helo and Chief Tyrol learn about Lt. Thorne, the “Cylon Interrogator.”
Watch Battlestar Galactica – Season 2, Episode 10 – Pegasus
‘Battlestar Galactica’ returns with ‘The Plan’
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (Blu-ray)
Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood
Movie Rating: 5.5 out of 10
Extras Rating: 7 out of 10
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Rating: Not Rated
Starring:
Tricia Helfer as Number Six
Edward James Olmos as Commander William Adama
Grace Park as Lt. Sharon ‘Boomer’ Valerii
Callum Keith Rennie as Leoben Conoy
Dean Stockwell as Brother Cavil
Michael Hogan as Colonel Saul Tigh
Kate Vernon as Ellen Tigh
Michael Trucco as Samuel Anders
Rekha Sharma as Tory Foster
Alex Ferris as Boy
Aaron Douglas as Chief Galen Tyrol
Alisen Down as Jean Barolay
Maya Washington as Sue Shaun
Matthew Bennett as Aaron Doral
Colin Corrigan as Nowart
Special Features:
From Admiral to Director: Edward James Olmos and The Plan
The Cylons of The Plan
The Cylon Attack
Visual Effects: The Magic Behind The Plan
Deleted Scenes
Commentary with Director/Actor Edward James Olmos and Executive Producer/Writer Jane Espenson
Other Info:
Widescreen (1.78:1)
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish, French Subtitles
Running Time: 1 Hour 52 Minutes
The Details:
The following is the official description of the film:
“The Cylons began as humanity’s robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like us. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. ‘Battlestar Galactica: The Plan’ tells the story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task.”
“Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” is not rated.
Mini-Review:
I’m a big fan of “Battlestar Galactica” and I watched every episode of the series, but I was a bit disappointed by “The Plan.” I was expecting some greater insight into the workings of the Cylons, their origins, and other details of their attacks. This movie doesn’t really give any of that.
The real star of the movie is Dean Stockwell as Brother Cavil. We see him and his other copies inserted into numerous scenes from the original series. We see him on Caprica infiltrating Anders’ resistance. We see him on Galactica conspiring with the various Six models. We see him in several locations with the “Final Five” during the initial Cylon attack. The end result is a film that feels more like a lot of deleted scenes spliced together into a 2 hour film rather than a new story. It is also completely inaccessible to anyone other than those that watched the series.
That being said, they do add a couple of new storylines. We meet a new Six model who is a brunette prostitute. We’re also re-introduced to Lymari Nadal as Giana. She was in one episode of the series, but plays a major role in this film. We discover that somewhere along the way, she married Simon (Rick Worthy), one of the Cylon human models. Simon falls for Giana and her daughter and eventually comes to the conclusion that wiping out the humans is wrong. In fact, the main crisis that Cavil seems to have is all the Cylons on Galactica becoming sympathetic towards the humans. He’s definitely portrayed as the devil behind the scenes as he has to re-convince them of their mission. Cavil has an especially evil scene that is one of the most poignant scenes of the film. Unfortunately, those revelations aren’t quite the material you’d expect to see revealed in a major BSG movie.
The other addition to “The Plan” is the nudity. While the TV series kept everything within the restrictions of censors, this movie throws in a few bare breasts and bare butts. We see Ellen Tigh in a strip club early in the movie with a few topless strippers, a scene in the pilot’s bathroom with a few naked female pilots strutting around, and a love scene where Lymari Nadal shows a lot. The TV series didn’t need the nudity to be great and it comes across as rather gratuitous here. It’s just something to get fanboys to buy the DVD. It will be interesting to see how it is edited when they eventually air it on TV in 2010.
One of the positive things about this movie is we get to see more of the Cylon destruction of the colonies. There are some impressive special effects showing the Cylon ships arriving and launching nuclear weapons. We get more scenes of the Battlestars being overridden by the Cylons. Then, of course, there’s the aftermath and all the destroyed cities. It’s all pretty cool.
It’s also worth mentioning that this movie is directed by Edward James Olmos. He did a fine job and managed to match the look and feel of the rest of the series. He should considering he knows it better than most directors.
I think if you go into “Battlestar Galactica: The Plan” expecting something more along the lines of an extra long TV episode rather than a major movie, you’ll enjoy it a lot more. It may make you want to go back and watch some of the old episodes knowing just how Cavil was manipulating everyone behind the scenes.
The bonus features are fairly standard on the Blu-ray. We get a commentary with Olmos and producer/writer Jane Espenson. There are also some deleted scenes, a ‘making of’ featurette on the visual effects, a featurette on the Cylons, and a featurette on Olmos directing the movie. The featurette on Olmos is the most interesting as we see all the cast and crew talking about him, we see his addiction to sunflower seeds, and we see him passionately directing the extras in their scenes.
Summer Glau, Battlestar Galactica Stars Join Dollhouse
She lost Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last spring but now petite action babe Summer Glau has gained a gig on Dollhouse. When the Fox series returns next month. Glau, a favorite of Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon from their work on the short-lived Firefly series, will portray Bennett, a sexy robot-for-hire who shares a secret past with lead Doll Echo, played by Eliza Dushku (pictured).
Additional to Glau, the series will add ex-Battlestar Galactica heroes Jamie Bamber and Michael Hogan. Alexis Denisof (Angel and Keith Carradine (Dexter) are also slated for guest appearances.
Dollhouse started off slow but built to a strong finish toward the end of its first season and picked up a surprise renewal from the network despite so-so ratings.
Dollhouse season two premieres Sept. 25 at 9 p.m. EST on Fox.
Battlestar Galactica TV Show Summary
In the distant future, intelligent robots known as Cylons were created to serve as slaves to the people of the Twelve Colonies on the planet Caprica and to fight humanity’s wars. Later, the Cylons would become sentient, rebelling against their mortal masters. As a result of the Cylon rebellion, man and machine engaged in a bloody war that would eventually end in stalemate, after which a treaty was signed. The Cylons subsequently withdrew into a remote region of deep space, and for the next 40 years, a tense, silent treaty existed between the Cylons and the Twelve Colonies.
Over the course of the next four decades, humanity would deploy an envoy to the neutral Armistice Station to meet with a Cylon envoy on each anniversary of the treaty’s signing. Though no Cylon envoy would show for the first 39 years, something terrible happened on the 40th anniversary: immediately after a beautiful Cylon in human form appeared on the Armistice Station, the neutral zone was vaporized and a devastating nuclear attack was launched on Caprica and the Twelve Colonies. As a result of the attack, the entire human race was nearly destroyed, and only those who were lucky enough to be aboard starships at the time were spared.
Led by the Colonial warship the battlestar Galactica and its commanding officer William Adama (Edward James Olmos), those survivors fled into deep space. But the Galactica was set to be commissioned at the time of the attack, and is hardly an ideal vessel to harbor humanity’s last hope. With only 50,000 humans left, the only hope for humankind is to locate the mythical “13th Colony” known as Earth before they fall prey to the Cylons.