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Battlestar Galactica - The Hand of God
episode 21
USA 1979
produced by David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive), Donald P. Bellisario (supervising) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/ABC
directed by Donald P. Bellisario
starring Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Herbert Jefferson jr, John Colicos, Laurette Spang, Tony Swartz, Anne Lockhart, Terry Carter, David Greenan, Marneen Fields
written by Donald P. Bellisario, created by Glen A. Larson, music by Stu Phillips, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series Battlestar Galactica, Classic Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica (original series)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rather by coincidence, Apollo (Richard Hatch) captures some
undecipherable message on a long unused communications channel, and when
he and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) go investigating, they discover a Cylon
battlestar hiding behind a not too far off planet - but can escape
undetected. Now Battlestar Galactica is out of detection range of the
Cylon battlestar and could just continue its way undisturbed, but
Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) decides he's tired of running and wants to
take the battle to the enemy. Thing is, the Galactica is outgunned by the
Cylon battleship and on top of that the Cylons have twice as many fighter
jets as the Galactica. But Apollo comes up with a plan to sabotage the
Cylon battlestar from the inside, and to find their way around on the
Cylon ship, Apollo and Starbuck get directions from their imprisoned arch
enemy Count Baltar (John Colicos), who's promised freedom in return for
his help. Now of course, Apollo and Starbuck's respective girlfriends
Sheba (Anne Lockhart) and Cassiopeia (Laurette Spang) don't want them to
go on the mission, but they still do, and it ends up an explosive success
...
The last episode of the original Battlestar Galactica
(though the series would soon be followed by the earth-bound Galactica
1980), this one sees the welcome return of the Cylons after the
series meandered around the last few entries without a clear enemy or
agenda, and with it again more of a reliance of the series' quite solid
special effects work - and that's really something this episode badly
needs as its story is a bit too straight-forward and without any real
conflict (other than Galactica vs Cylons) to create much narrative tension
or excitement. In all, maybe not the best episode for the series to go
out, but nevertheless it has its moments.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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