Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Review

You know what, I'm way to lazy to come up with another SyFy channel joke, so lets just get to the review already.

In A Nutshell:
Starbuck is back from the dead, Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, and Vicki are all Cylons, Lee has to decided to become a politician, and Baltar is leading a cult. At least that's how it is at the start of the season, and things progress from there. It all ties in to the quest for Earth, which involves forming some uneasy alliances and doing a lot of things most of the crew usually wouldn't. Along the way, we get some damned answers, but, obviously, are still left hanging on a few counts.

The Good:
The season starts off with a bang in the premier, with plenty of mysteries and explosions to go around. The mysteries were pretty much the backbone of the season, when you get down to it, especially with Starbuck and the Final Five, and for the most part, I liked that, especially when it adds up to the pretty mind-bending twist mid-season. I also thought that Baltar's story line and transformation into, gasp, an actual pretty good guy, was interesting. Baltar is one of those characters who you love yet hate at the same time, but this season, you genuinely like him a little bit. There was also a political mini-arc mid-season that was absolutely one of the highlights, bringing the show back to action-packed drama that made us like it in the first place. And then you've got the series finale; it's polarizing, I get that, but I'm on the end that liked it. I won't spoil it, but it's 90 minutes long, and the first hour or so is this frakking epic battle, and then the last half of it is resolution that involves deus ex machina, or act of God. I actually think that, when done well, acts of God can really good, which is what it was here. Some of you will want a more tangible conclusion then what was on the table, some will get confused, and some of you are so pissed of by the very existence of religion that you'll want to vomit. But, some of you will, like me, think that what they did was kind of epic and makes you look at the series as a whole in completely different way. And of course, the final scene, which I personally thought couldn't have been a better combo of awesome and mind-bend.

The Bad:
I won't lie, this season was VERY inconsistent. It starts out good, and then it's bad, and then it's good, and then it's bad again, and then it ends good. The lows were honestly pretty crushing, with some episodes feeling like a soap opera, others feeling like answers to overarching questions that Ron Moore wrote on a crumpled-up piece of paper and unceremoniously threw at a TV, and others being just poorly written. The inconsistency led to watching it feel like a chore more then once. I had my finger on fast forward quite a bit. Another thing was, some of the directions they decided to take characters were, at times, hard to watch.

Final Rating: 86%