Jim Connelly's Recaps of Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5

From January - March 2009, I recapped the Season 4.5 of Battlestar Galactica for a site called Screen Junkies. Here is an easy way to find those recaps.

Note: there is some discrepancy as to the episode numbers for this Season. Because some guides count Razor as the first two episodes of Season 4.5 and some don't. I fall into the camp of those who don't, so I follow the chronology of episodes as laid out by IMDB.

NB: the dates below refer to the date that they were published on the site, NOT the original air date. And the "refresher" is essentially a recap of season 4.0, not the whole series.

• Battlestar Plot Refresher - January 13, 2009



• Face of the Enemy Webisodes - January 16, 2009



• Ep 4.10: Sometimes A Great Notion - January 18, 2009



• Ep 4.11: A Disquiet Follows My Soul - January 25, 2009



• Ep 4.12: The Oath - February 1, 2009



• Ep. 4.13: Blood on the Scales - February 8, 2009



• Ep. 4.14: No Exit - February 15, 2009
  Sadly, I think that Screen Junkies lost this one, which is amazingly ironic, since it got the most amount of traffic of any of my BSG recaps thanks to the handy-dandy "Cylon Flow Chart" I created for it.



• Ep 4.14: Deadlock - February 22, 2009



• Ep 4.15: Someone To Watch Over Me - March 1, 2009



• Ep. 4.16: Islanded in a Stream of Stars - March 8, 2009



• Ep. 4.17: Daybreak, Part 1 - March 15, 2009



• Ep. 4.18: Daybreak, Part 2 - March 22, 2009

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Musical Moments from:
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Doomed But Loved: Chuck

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Week in and week out, Chuck is the most fun you can possibly have watching TV. This is a show that has something for everyone: spy missions; wacky sidekicks; hot chicks; quippy action guys, family drama and an evil organization with designs — admittedly fuzzy at this point — on the world.

NBC Says "Screw You" to Friday Night Lights Fans

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What baffles me, though, are the truncated, edited NBC versions of the episodes going down on the DVD as the final canonical versions. How does that work? Do these people not understand that fans consider the DVD the final word on a show? Apparently not. Whatever the reasons for this decision, by treating the DVD as the syndicated version of the show, it comes out as NBC punishing the very people who love it.

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Now, with the new Home Page, Facebook has broken its own back. It currently lays on the ground like a wounded bird, reduced to retardedly chirping over and over again: “What’s on your mind? What’s on your mind? What’s on your mind? What’s on your mind?”

But it can be fixed. Easily. And I know how.

Battlestar Galactica Recap: Daybreak, Part 2

On Screen Junkies. Battlestar Galactica Recap: Daybreak, Part 2

All of that is a roundabout way of saying that while I get why people might not have liked certain aspects of the Finale – especially that last, last bit of silliness – I think that, on the whole, it doesn’t really matter. Battlestar Galactica is beyond the damage that any single episode – even the last – can do it it.

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Idol, of course, isn’t so much about musical expression, per se, — which is why I love music — as it is about outdoing the other person. Just as Baseball players as naturally great as Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez compelled to do steroids because that was the culture, or Nadia Suleman “wins” because she had eight babies at one time, this version of “Ring of Fire” epitomizes the Idol culture of “the more notes you sing, the better it is.”