This teaser image released last year in Entertainment Weekly drove us BSG fans utterly batshit with speculation ... but it’ll be nothing compared to how we’ll all feel after tonight’s episode.
After almost a year of waiting, Battlestar Galactica’s fourth and final season begins tonight with "He That Believeth in Me", an episode that promises to, in the long-standing tradition of BSG, provide few answers to the burning questions left last season and add a whole bunch of new questions to the new mix. This is, after all, how you keep an already-rabid fanbase hooked. The fact that there were so many plot threads left dangling at the end of Season Three makes it logistically impossible to wrap them all up in one hour of television without short-changing almost all of them, and the audience in the process, and that is something the writers and producers of BSG simply do NOT do. The transition from Seasons Two to Three is a good example--the many story threads left hanging at the end of Season Two, with it’s one-year-later jump and cliffhanger ending with the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, took the first seven episodes of Season Three to resolve. No, nothing will be resolved or explained tonight--we’ll simply have more narrative, more story to chew on and speculate and obsess over, more Adama, Roslin, Apollo, Starbuck, and Cylon drama to drive us crazy.
Which is, of course, exactly what we’ve been wanting all this time. Bring it on, RDM. We’re ready, or at least we think we are.
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