Garoo

Huh.

I’m not sure what that was about… and I’m worried that there may be more of it where that came from.

You could imagine that the flashbacks were supposed to be a gripping way to show, right at the end of their journey, how happy and care-free the characters were before the Fall — à la Irréversible — but then they’re everything but happy and care-free, so that doesn’t really work. (Judging from the Television Without Pity recaplet and forums, it did work on some people, though.) What benefit were they supposed to bring? I couldn’t shake the feeling that Moore was pre-selling the Caprica spinoff… and/or amortizing the CG assets. Maybe the flashbacks will be going somewhere next week (or maybe not, as it would be even more contrived to have everyone’s backstory suddenly click together in a significant way), but as a stand-alone episode supposed to build anticipation for the finale, I rate this as a failure.

And I don’t really like where they’re taking the last fight, either: quite the cliché. With only a double episode left, I’m not very hopeful for a satisfying resolution, but there was never much of a chance of that anyway.

So let’s focus instead on the more essential questions: shouldn’t Caprican sushi be octogonal?