Battlestar Galactica

Drop The Pilot

By Jacob Clifton | Aired on 09.24.2020

The Plan - There's super-spooky music heading into the Universal logo -- superimposed over Caprica, not our Earth -- and past it into space, a white shot, and Raiders heading for the Colony. In space, nobody can hear you lying out your...

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Mondo Extra	Drop The Pilot The Plan - The Cylon demonstrate their administrative weaknesses while wearing various costumes; Brother John Cavil One finally explains himself.	09.24.2020	N/A	Jacob Clifton
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
4-20 Recap	When Will The Work Be Done? Daybreak, Part II - Pretty much All gets Revealed, just like they said. Maybe we should have been more specific.	03.20.2009 03.26.2009	C	Jacob Clifton
4-19 Recap	Naked Lunch Daybreak, Part I - Sides are chosen for the final journey; homes are invented and revisited; orphans make better survivors.	03.13.2009 03.20.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-18 Recap	All My Darling Daughters Islanded In A Stream Of Stars - Last episode before the finale. Galactica finally gives up, Bill makes some major decisions about his personnel, Boomer pulls it together, and a funeral brings up more answers than questions, for once.	03.06.2009 03.12.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-17 Recap	When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts Someone To Watch Over Me - Boomer returns, horribly, and there's another Hera Amber Alert; Kara gets a little closure.	02.27.2009 03.06.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-16 Recap	The Girl Who Fell To Earth Deadlock - Ellen's return and a bunch of yelling lead both the Cylon and human leaders to submit to the inevitable culture mashup, while the angels of God ramp up their war on Colonial society and Caprica pays for her first murder.	02.20.2009 02.25.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-15 Recap	Queen Me No Exit - Ellen's whereabouts, the history of the Final Five, the fate of the Thirteenth Colony, and the mysteries of Sam's brain. And a fair amount of talking.	02.13.2009 02.20.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-14 Recap	Blood On The Scales Blood On The Scales - The mutiny ends, the last act of the show begins.	02.06.2009 02.13.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-13 Recap	All Aboard The Battlestar Handbasket! The Oath - We've said it before, but this time we mean it: EVERYTHING GOES TO HELL. And a surprising amount of people use the mutiny to visit destruction on their ex-boyfriends.	01.30.2009 02.05.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-12 Recap	What Kind Of Father A Disquiet Follows My Soul - With Earth an irradiated mess, humanity descends into chaos, while Bill and Laura get it on.	01.23.2009 01.29.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
Mondo Extra	A List With Nothing On It BSG Webisodes: The Face Of The Enemy - A little bit of background on why Felix Gaeta is now completely crazy.	09.24.2020 01.29.2009	N/A	Jacob Clifton
4-11 Recap	The Stockdale Paradox Sometimes A Great Notion - "FRAK EARTH" pretty much covers it.	01.16.2009 01.22.2009	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-10 Recap	The Garden Of The Scar Revelations - The humans make peace with the Cylons, and find Earth. With ten episodes left for next year! Just kidding, but wouldn't that be so crazy?	06.13.2008 06.19.2008	B	Jacob Clifton
4-9 Recap	This Is Not A Love Story The Hub - Among our returning friends? Laura Roslin. Missed you.	06.06.2008 06.12.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-8 Recap	Because It Is Bitter Sine Qua Non - Everybody turns into something else.	05.30.2008 06.05.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-7 Recap	Things Fall Apart Guess What's Coming To Dinner? - Everything works out for like five seconds, but then Athena goes crazy; the Prez and Baltar go on an involuntary excursion; and Felix's ghostly leg serenades everybody the whole time.	05.16.2008 05.22.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-6 Recap	The Girl On The Pale Horse Faith - Demetrius comes home, bearing scary new friends; Roslin and the Admiral find hope in the strangest of places.	05.09.2008 05.14.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-5 Recap	All That We Are The Road Less Traveled - Starbuck invents new ways to be crazy, and as usual the universe plays along.	05.02.2008 05.08.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-4 Recap	There's Beauty In The Breakdown Escape Velocity - Gaius gets messianic, Tory gets weirder, the Colonel gets what he paid for, and everybody pays for what they get.	04.25.2008 04.28.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
Mondo Extra	Ten Pounds of Geekiness Is a Five Pound Bag 2008 NYC Comic Con - The intrepid Lulu Bates braves starvation, swarms of rabid Star Wars fans and bad body odor to get the inside scoop on the annual geekfest.	09.24.2020 04.23.2008	N/A	LuluBates
4-3 Recap	The Girl On The Cliffside The Ties That Bind - Tory eliminates a threat to the Four, Lee fights Roslin over her growing tyranny, and Cavil silences his Cylon opposition.	04.18.2008 04.22.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-2 Recap	Six of One Six of One - Adama once again drops everything to help Starbuck out of a jam, Tory joins a cult, and there's a new Six killing everybody.	04.11.2008 04.17.2008	A+	Jacob Clifton
4-1 Recap	He That Believeth In Me He That Believeth In Me - Everything gets complicated for good old Starbuck.	09.24.2020 04.10.2008	A	Jacob Clifton
Mondo Extra	Cylons and Hotties and Writers… Oh My! Battlestar Galactica Press Conference/The 2008 Sci Fi Channel Upfront - For the love of Cylons, our coverage of the geekiest event on the planet: a Battlestar Galactica preview.	09.24.2020 04.02.2008	A+	Angel Cohn
Mondo Extra	Cylons and Hotties and Writers… Oh My! Battlestar Galactica Press Conference/The 2008 Sci Fi Channel Upfront - For the love of Cylons, our coverage of the geekiest event on the planet: a Battlestar Galactica preview.	09.24.2020 04.02.2008	N/A	Angel Cohn
Mondo Extra	The Girl Hanging By One Foot Razor - Major Kendra Shaw remembers Admiral Helena Cain, the Pegasus, the attacks and everything after. Then she kills herself, and God.	11.23.2007 11.27.2007	A	Jacob Clifton
3-20 Recap	Breakaway Song Crossroads, Part II - New alliances bust out like chicken pox and everybody's brains get radically realigned in the wake of the trial and God's mysterious ways. The Final Five are maybe revealed. Oh, and Earth!	03.24.2007 03.30.2007	C-	Jacob Clifton
3-19 Recap	That Old Song They Used To Play Crossroads, Part I - Everybody goes both politically and personally nuts as hallucinations abound, civil liberties take the long walk, Baltar's trial finally begins, and everything starts moving at once.	03.17.2007 03.24.2007	A	Jacob Clifton
3-18 Recap	You Are All A Lost Generation The Son Also Rises - Gaius Baltar's new defense attorney is a piece of work; Sam and Lee mourn Kara; a magical cat makes an appearance.	03.10.2007 03.16.2007	C+	Jacob Clifton
3-17 Recap	The Girl Kneeling By The River Maelstrom - Kara clears things up with Leoben, the Eye of Jupiter, Lee, Bill, and basically everybody but the Chief. Then she kills herself.	03.03.2007 03.08.2007	B-	Jacob Clifton
3-16 Recap	The Engine You've Built With Your Blood Dirty Hands - The Chief faces off with Roslin and Adama after an unofficial strike of worn-out workers leads to an official strike of everybody, and Cally almost pays the price for getting confused about the role of collective bargaining at the end of the world. But don't worry! She's fine!	02.24.2007 03.02.2007	B+	Jacob Clifton
3-15 Recap	Looking Up At The Admiral A Day In The Life - Cally and Chief work their stuff out while in mortal danger; the Circle is finally redeemed; Laura and Bill manage to outdo their kids' proficiency for cock-blocking each other; the trial tiptoes forward another inch or two.	02.17.2007 02.22.2007	B-	Jacob Clifton
3-14 Recap	The Helo Suit The Woman King - If you love Helo so damn much, why put him front and center in the worst episode of this or any other show in the history of television?	02.10.2007 02.16.2007	D	Jacob Clifton
3-13 Recap	States Of Union Taking A Break From All Your Worries - Everybody lies and everybody betrays everybody else but nothing really terrible happens. The trial of Gaius Baltar begins. Lee and Dee and Kara and Sam continue to do their thing, but now even the show's convinced it's a matter of global importance.	01.27.2007 01.31.2007	B+	Jacob Clifton
3-12 Recap	Nurture Girl Rapture (2) - The season starts with a bit of the old ultraviolence as Cylons and Colonists -- and the tiny cult of Baltar and Biers -- converge on the Temple of Five, resulting in Hera getting babynapped for the eighth time, Boomer turning her back on Galactica once and for all, and Three finally seeing the Five Cylons You Meet In Heaven, then getting boxed.	01.20.2007 01.26.2007	A+	Jacob Clifton
3-11 Recap	Once Had Love... The Eye Of Jupiter (1) - Only Chief and Cally's relationship survives part two of the Algae trilogy; everybody else is a pain in the ass. The Cylons and the Colonies converge on a planet with religious significance and a sun going nova.	12.14.2006 12.20.2006	C+	Jacob Clifton
3-10 Recap	With Honors The Passage - Kat manages for the first time in this show's history to actually make redemption stick.	12.07.2006 12.13.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
3-9 Recap	Asking For It Unfinished Business - The Longest Mutual Apology In The History Of Space Travel continues as Kara volunteers to let Lee beat her up for ditching him naked on New Caprica. Ditto Bill, only with Chief and Cally. I think also he might have slept with Madam President. I know they at least got stoned and cuddled.	11.30.2006 12.04.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
3-8 Recap	Speaking Truth To Power Hero - A pilot from Adama's suddenly confusing past shows up and gets everybody all nervous and confused and mad, but some quick thinking from Roslin soon calms everybody down. Again.	11.16.2006 11.22.2006	B-	Jacob Clifton
3-7 Recap	When The Know-Nothings Get Control A Measure Of Salvation (2) - Roslin and Adama must make a hard choice when presented with the possibility of Cylon extinction. Helo and Sharon make counterintuitive choices, Apollo goes kill-crazy, and Three tortures Gaius right into a pervy threesome with his own imagination.	11.09.2006 11.13.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
3-6 Recap	The Girl With Her Hand In A Lion's Mouth Torn (1) - The Cylons and humans simultaneously locate the next step toward Earth, but a mysterious virus left behind by the Thirteenth Tribe may prove to be the end of the Cylon race for good. Also: Cylon basestars are ten times weirder than you might assume, Kara might be getting her soul back, and Saul Tigh is on the serious outs.	11.02.2006 11.06.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
3-5 Recap	The Truth About Reconciliation Collaborators - Laura takes back the office of President, and Zarek presents her with a bouquet of murders in order to win her favor. Adama's all, "She's mine!" and threatens a military coup unless Zarek hands her the reins once and for all, but Tigh is just thinking about his wife that used to cheat on him all the time, and is no help at all. It's just like Dawson's Creek with old people!	10.26.2006 11.01.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
3-4 Recap	Without Crutches Exodus, Part II - "Neither side is glorious. On either side they're just frightened men messing their pants and they all want the same thing -- not to lie under the earth, but to walk upon it -- without crutches." (Peter Weiss, In War) Pegasus is lost, but the colony of New Caprica is finally rescued from their captors, in various states of disrepair.	10.19.2006 10.25.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
3-3 Recap	Nature Girl Exodus, Part I - Sharon faces off with Three and somebody loses some kneecaps. Cally faces off with time and space and comes off victorious. Tigh faces off with his wife's bizarre ideas about fidelity, case pending. Pegasus takes off into the sky, and Galactica heads for the big rescue op.	10.12.2006 10.17.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
3-2 Recap	The Dictates Of Conscience Precipice - As the suicide bombings continue, the Cylons step up their campaign of attrition. Kara learns she has a daughter. Lee and the Pegasus are sent on a new mission, and Sharon becomes an officer of the Fleet. Roslin and Zarek are apparently executed.	10.05.2006 10.11.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
3-1 Recap	The Part That Stays Free Occupation - Everybody works overtime to find a way to survive and stay human, mostly failing or screwing it up; Gaeta and Chief finally make contact with the Fleet overhead; a rescue begins to take shape.	10.05.2006 10.07.2006	B-	Jacob Clifton
3-1 Extra	An Argument Against Foxholes The Resistance - A little taste of the hellish vichyssoise in store this season.	10.04.2006 10.06.2006	C-	Jacob Clifton
2-20 Recap	Nein Kampf Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II - President Gaius Baltar offers the surrender of mankind. The Cylons take over. We lose. The end.	03.09.2006 03.12.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
2-19 Recap	A Stupidly Tilting Planet Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I - The whole Fleet gives up on the scriptures for good after Gaius makes good on his bid for the elections using an accidentally discovered planet. Starbuck finally -- somehow -- gets leave to return to Caprica. Boomer does her wire trick again. Chief accidentally beats up Cally and then Al doesn't even need Ziggy to tell him it's because Chief's afraid he's a Cylon.	03.02.2006 03.08.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
2-18 Recap	Six Of One... Downloaded - The Six who died in the miniseries and the Sharon who shot Adama download on Caprica and get into a whole mess of trouble with their bosses. Galactica Sharon finally has her baby, but Roslin creepily trades it for a dead newborn and sends the living child off to be raised by Tory-approved Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru analogues.	02.23.2006 03.01.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
2-17 Recap	Citizen Rya The Captain's Hand - A young pregnant girl from a politically-conservative Colony sparks a debate that puts Gaius -- and Zarek -- on top of the upcoming elections. Lee becomes a Major, then leapfrogs to Commander of the Pegasus. Doc Cottle is non-partisan awesome. Roslin gets played utterly and completely, and will be going through her own Starbuck-level ego-destruction stuff soon as a result.	02.16.2006 02.22.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
2-16 Recap	Hi, Billy... Sacrifice - It's a long weekend indeed as Dana Delany holds Billy and Dee and Apollo hostage on Cloud 9, Starbuck shoots Apollo right in the chest, Boomer acts incredibly creepy (to where like even Tigh picks up on it), Ellen runs around all crazy, and Billy...dies for no reason whatsoever.	02.09.2006 02.15.2006	B	Jacob Clifton
2-15 Recap	Meet The Fokker Dreidecker Scar - It's all Viper pilots, all the time as we focus on Starbuck and her increasibly heavy bag of bullshit. Creepy morbid talk and even creepier, even more morbid sex characterize the endpoint of Starbuck's total Barfly freakout post-Cain, and the mythical, eponymous Raider finally goes down.	02.02.2006 02.08.2006	B+	Jacob Clifton
2-14 Recap	BattleNoir Redactica Black Market - Apollo investigates a black market bigwig after Colonel Fisk is murdered; he dispatches the guy, but Zarek seems to have inherited control. The hooker he's suddenly dating dumps him, and we learn about the sudden ex he dogged on Caprica. Roslin is displeased with everyone and everything. She is right.	01.26.2006 01.31.2006	D	Jacob Clifton
2-13 Recap	Can't Stop The Signal Epiphanies - As Roslin lies dying, we flash back to the last day of humanity. A needle of Cybrid blood cures her cancer, just in time to threaten the leaders of the new Gina-led terrorist group, but too late to get back a mean letter written to one Dr. Gaius Baltar, Idiot At Large, who retaliates by handing the terrorists a nuclear bomb.	01.19.2006 01.25.2006	C+	Jacob Clifton
2-12 Recap	Take Me Out Resurrection Ship, Part II - Nobody gets the death they want, even as suicidal ideation rips through the Fleet. The Battle of the HMS Ernestine goes swimmingly, Lee goes swimming, neither assassination attempt goes through, and Gaius trades his imaginary girlfriend for a real one, who then takes out Cain. Starbuck gives Cain one hell of a eulogy, Chief backs off Boomer and Helo, Adama kisses Roslin, and the Pegasus joins the Fleet.	01.12.2006 01.18.2006	A+	Jacob Clifton
2-11 Recap	The Divine Right Of Cain Resurrection Ship, Part I - Roslin tells Adama to just kill Cain and get it over with. Cain chooses Starbuck for her new CAG, and demotes Apollo. Both Battlestars agree to put their war off long enough to take on a Cylon Fleet, and Cain and Adama plan each other's assassinations. Adama's choice of killer? Starbuck.	01.05.2006 01.11.2006	A	Jacob Clifton
2-10 Recap	Admiral Cain, She Dead Pegasus - In this season-ending cliffhanger, our crew gets a free pass on past toaster abuse when we meet the evil crew of the Battlestar Pegasus, a ship whose Cylageddon escape strains more credence even than Galactica's. Headed by the cracked Admiral Cain and crewed by monsters, it also boasts a surprising extra passenger: a broken and horrifically abused Cylon, model Six.	09.22.2005 09.28.2005	A	Jacob Clifton
2-9 Recap	Blackbird Singing In The Dead Of Night Flight Of The Phoenix - Relations among Helo, Chief, and Boomer come to a crisis point. A Cylon virus has spent all season burning its way into the ship's systems, and it's up to a dangerous alliance to keep it from destroying the entire fleet right this second. Roslin gets a new prognosis, Dualla and Apollo get horizontal, Chief builds a fighter ship from scratch, and everybody freaks out, but the end brings great big hugs.	09.15.2005 09.20.2005	B+	Jacob Clifton
2-8 Recap	KodaChrome Final Cut - In the tradition of Season 1, the eighth episode features people talking a lot, but nothing much happening.	09.08.2005 09.14.2005	C-	Strega
2-7 Recap	Planetarium Of The Apes Home, Part II - There aren't actually any apes, but c'mon. The Prez takes everyone on a field trip to Kobol. Zarek and Meier try to put the "pee" back in "spelunking."	08.25.2005 08.31.2005	B-	Strega
2-6 Recap	Chrome Is Where The Heart Is Home, Part I - The Prez plans a journey to Kobol, and Adama finally gets some counseling.	08.18.2005 08.24.2005	B+	Strega
2-5 Recap	The Parent Trap The Farm - How're you gonna keep Starbuck down on the farm after she's snuck into the Cylon maternity ward?	08.11.2005 08.17.2005	C+	Strega
2-4 Recap	True Chromance Resistance - "Is that gunfire, or just my heart beating? Ow! Guess it was gunfire."	08.04.2005 08.10.2005	B-	Strega
2-3 Recap	Paths Of Glory Fragged - Normally, the phrase "drunk with power" isn't meant literally.	07.28.2005 08.03.2005	B-	Strega
2-2 Recap	Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots Valley Of Darkness - It's a little bit of Die Hard, a bit of Alien, just a pinch of The Haunting, and a whole lot of screaming when the Cylons get up close and personal.	07.21.2005 07.27.2005	B	Strega
2-1 Recap	Lost In Space Scattered - Remember how bad things were going at the end of last season? Well, Murphy's Law is still in operation.	07.14.2005 07.20.2005	A	Strega
1-13 Recap	Kobol & Chains Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II - Apollo's in handcuffs, the Prez is behind bars, one Boomer's pregnant, and the other one just shot Adama. Aren't season finales fun?	03.31.2005 04.06.2005	A	Strega
1-12 Recap	Sex, Drugs, And New Age Music Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I - Hook-ups, shoot-'em-ups, break-ups, and crack-ups.	03.24.2005 03.30.2005	A+	Strega
1-11 Recap	Let Baltar Be Baltar Colonial Day - Zarek runs for office, Helo runs away, and Strega runs on very little sleep.	03.17.2005 03.23.2005	C+	Strega
1-10 Recap	Kick; Splode; Robot The Hand Of God - It's role-reversal time when Starbuck has to use her head while Apollo tries out the action-hero shtick.	03.10.2005 03.16.2005	B+	Strega
1-9 Recap	Secrets And Tighs Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - Tigh's wife returns, and wackiness ensues.	03.03.2005 03.09.2005	B-	Strega
1-8 Recap	The Starcrossed Flesh And Bone - Starbuck meets Leoben, gives him dinner, washes his hair, and then wishes him the best when she says her prayers that night. It's sweet.	02.24.2005 03.02.2005	A	Strega
1-7 Recap	Murder By Number Six Degrees Of Separation - Baltar's framed for a crime that...he did commit, actually. But in a different way.	02.17.2005 02.23.2005	B+	Strega
1-6 Recap	The Chrome Scare Litmus - It turns out that witch hunts are bad. Now we'll never be rid of the Halliwells.	02.10.2005 02.16.2005	F	Strega
1-5 Recap	Way Hay, And Up She Rises... You Can't Go Home Again (2) - What do you do with a Cylon Raider that you find crashed in a crater? Turn its guts into inhalers while the crew's in mourning!	02.03.2005 02.07.2005	B-	Strega
1-4 Recap	Maybe If Robert Culp Had Narrated... Act Of Contrition (1) - Meet Starbuck, a twentysomething pilot. After a hard day of training civilians to fly Vipers, she finds herself crashing down onto a strange planet.	01.27.2005 02.01.2005	C	Strega
1-3 Recap	Riot In Spaceship 11 Bastille Day - While Apollo tries to find a diplomatic solution to a prison riot, Strega comes up with several theories to explain the Cylon attack. And makes an inexcusable pun.	01.20.2005 01.24.2005	C+	Strega
1-2 Recap	Lovers Walk (When They Should Run) Water - Tyrol thinks that he's rescuing Boomer, and Helo thinks that he's been rescued by Boomer. Baltar's relationship with Six seems relatively healthy in comparison.	01.13.2005 01.16.2005	B-	Strega
1-1 Recap	Stress Test 33 - Ever have one of those weeks where millions of angry robots try to kill you every half-hour or so?	01.13.2005 01.15.2005	A+	Strega
1-2 Extra	The Day After Battlestar Galactica, Part II - The last remnants of humanity gather in a remote corner of the galaxy to engage in interminable philosophical discussions, incredibly cheesy fist-fights, inappropriate preening, and, of course, the requisite giant space battle. It's a testament to mankind's strength in the face of impossible odds, but all in all, I'd still rather be on the beach.	12.07.2003 12.26.2003	B	Aaron
1-1 Extra	Disco Inferno Battlestar Galactica, Part I - The human race is obliterated in a wave of pretty, pretty mushroom clouds in part one of this postmodern remake of the '70s sci-fi.classic? Cult favorite? Show that no one has gotten around to remaking yet? If you like mediocre sci-fi, this is the show for you. If you like Battlestar Galactica, however, you should probably just go buy the DVDs.	12.07.2003 12.22.2003	B-	Aaron