While last year was defined by internal threats, this year is more ambiguous – internal division. It’s no coincidence that the phrase “on the outside looking in” and its variations are used multiple times throughout the season – Zarek doesn’t want to be outside Roslin’s new government, Helo enjoys being outside, Caprica Six is afraid of being left out by Baltar and Three – too often to simply be a coincidence. Because of this weird combination of answers and deeper questions, the show somehow manages to increase its complexity and its fascination year-after-year. Battlestar Galactica, seemingly afraid of the potential comfort that giving those answers would offer, instead opts to delve even deeper into the rabbit hole – picking answers to questions suggested by earlier events and then using that to move the show forward in a fascinating momentum.

The problem is, as many shows have found out, answering questions isn’t nearly as fun as posing them. This is the point where mythology-based shows typically come apart, crushed under their own weight – the point where they have to start answering at least some of their own questions, rather than simply posing them to the audience. The series continues to be one of the most interesting television phenomenon of the last decade as it enters what is, technically at least, it’s penultimate season.

– The “Mysterious” Song, Crossroads, Part II “There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief.” “There must be some way out of here,” said the joker to the thief,

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