'Battlestar:' Radio silence
I'm still waiting for Starbuck to turn up in goo -- or lounging at a resort on Earth; maybe she'll land in Jamaica! -- but I nonetheless enjoyed this week's installment of "Battlestar Galactica." Roslin is back to being a cancer-victim-slash-religious nut. Romo Lampkin makes for an intriguing quasi-villain. And I'm not sure if it was a sign of casting brilliance or a stroke of luck that the woman playing the prosecutor comes across as the sort of litigation hack that always plays second fiddle to Sam Waterston.
Quibbles: I wish that Jamie Bamber made a more credible angry son; he strikes me more as a petulant kid who's mad because he didn't get a cookie. And I could have done without Helo's stilted "the weather is changing" speech at the end, which sounded like something a writer wrote. Still, I thought this episode gave a lot of characters something to do, I love it when Tigh emotes from behind his eye patch, and I'm suitably intrigued by the idea that a retro '50s radio carries some sort of cosmic or Cylonish message.
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