Battlestar Galactica - Still good, but dragging a bit.

Last night I watched Battlestar Galactica, A Day in the Life. It was a fairly good episode. It explored the relationship between Chief and Cally as it’s progressed (or not) since their child was born, as well as some life history of Adama’s. At the end there was also some good hinting at the fact that Adama and Roslin are going to “get together” (I suddenly feel like I’m talking about Grey’s Anatomy).  It was cool to get to know Adama a bit more, and to see into his past. Cally and Chief’s story was interesting as well, even though I find Cally to be quite irritating. (Is that just me or is her character just supposed to be annoying?)

While it was a good episode, I’ve gotta’ say: it’s not as good as the season started out.

Season 3 started out with some amazing episodes. Occupation, Precipice, and both parts of Exodus were absolutely excellent. I think every fan of BSG probably still remembers when Galactica dropped into orbit, launched the Vipers, and then jumped out again; it was a pretty cool moment. While the show is still pretty good, the past few episodes (and really, this season as a whole after the huge bang of a beginning) have kind of been dragging. The episodes themselves aren’t bad, it’s just I’m starting to feel like the creators of the show don’t know where to go with it now. The humans have gotten away from the Cylons for now, and it has been 49 days since the last contact. They’ve captured Baltar, but haven’t yet started his trial. It seems we’re just kind of jumping from one stand alone plot to another: Chief and Cally in the airlock, the racist doctor who was killing patients, the Colonial Pilot who escaped from the Cylons. What ever happened to that guy, Bulldog? He escaped from the Cylons, he damn near killed Adama, and then, apparently, he disappeared. A whole episode devoted to him just for him to never be seen again? Bleh, I say.

I wish the makers of the show would get back to how the storyline was moving in Season 2: lots of fighting between the humans and Cylons, and lots of major plot developments. While Season 3 is coming along alright, the main plot is dragging, or perhaps just.. stuck, completely. Where are they on finding Earth? When is the trial for Baltar going to begin? What’s the deal with Starbuck’s past, which was hinted at very briefly, a few episodes back? Quit introducing new, mostly extraneous stuff and give us some juicy plot bits, folks. Please.