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Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 7: Home Part 2 - Adama lands on Kobol to join the group looking for Athena's tomb and things get... a tad bit tense.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 6: Home Part 1 - A group goes down onto Kobol hoping to find a means to reach Earth, Adama tries to find a new CAG, Apollo becomes Vera's least favorite character, and she and Jessie go on about 40 minutes worth of tangents.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 5: The Farm - Roslyn tries to rally support among the fleet while back on Caprica, Starbuck is wounded and being tended to in a facility that she doesn't feel safe in.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 4: Resistance - Starbuck and Helo find they're not the only survivors on Caprica, while the allies of President Roslyn try to figure out a way to get her off of Galactica.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 3: Fragged - The show gives us a collage of characters cracking under pressure, and as a bonus Vera has a minor breakdown while Jessie tries to philosophize about it.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 2: Valley of Darkness - Starbuck and Helo try to their way around Caprica, while the survivors of the downed Raptor try to hold it together on Kobol, and Galactica is attacked from within.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 2, Episdoe 1: Scattered - Adama's life is on the line as Galactica is separated from the fleet and the survivors on both Caprica and Kobol have their own sets of troubles, and yet somehow we can't stop focusing on Adama's flashback mustache.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 2 - The first season wraps up trying to tie together at least part of the pile of loose ends left all over the place by the previous episode and set things up for the future.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 12: Kobol's Last Gleaming Part 1 - Practically every plot and character arc in the show takes a massive leap forward at the same time in a way that leaves you feeling like you missed and episode, and can somebody pump the dang breaks?!?

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 11: Colonial Day - Representatives of the 12 colonies come together for politics as usual, except with Tom Zarek there things will never be "as usual."

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 10: The Hand of God - As the fleet starts to run low on fuel, they find a massive deposit of the resource they need, except it's being heavily guarded by the Cylons. It's time to punch back, or go down swinging. 

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 9: Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down - Oh boy, an episode with a pun title! That's always a good sign. Welcome to Battlestar Galactica does low-key farce, as Col. Tigh's wife shows up and shenanigans ensue!

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 8: Flesh and Bone - A known Cylon is found mixed in with the fleet, and Starbuck is assigned the job of attempting to interrograte him.

Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 7: Six Degrees of Separation - Baltar is confronted by a familiar face who brings some very accusations it'll be hard for him to wriggle out of.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 6: Litmus - After a Cylon is able to sneak onto the ship and let off a bomb, it's no longer possible to hide the fact that Cylons can look like humans. Hard questions are asked of the ground crew, by a character who desperately needs more nuance than she's giv...

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 5: You Can't Go Home Again - Adama and Apollo lead the charge to recover Starbuck from the surface of the moon she crashed on, costs be damned. Meanwhile Boomer and Helo continue to hunker down on Cylon-occupied Caprica.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 4: Act of Contrition - Following a hanger bay accident, Starbuck is tasked with training up a batch of new pilots, all while the whole episode for some reason thought it'd really help the story telling to cut in a whole bunch of flashbacks and flashforwards.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 3: Bastille Day - The time has come to get the water the fleet needs, and it's going to be backbreaking work. Apollo strikes on the idea of offering reduced sentences (and possibly freedom) to prisoners, but when the offer is made a prisoner named Zarek compli...

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episdoe 2: Water - The water reserves on the Galactica are sabotaged and Boomer may be in the middle of it all, even though she can't remember doing anything. Meanwhile Baltar stalls while trying to run from his self imposed responsibility of developing a Cylon detect...

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Season 1, Episode 1, 33 - The first episode of the series proper has the Galactica being relentlessly pursued by the Cylons, who show up precisely 33 minutes after each FTL jump. And we welcome special guest Dr. Erin Macdonald to the show!

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Miniseries Part 2 - The fleeing civilians reach the Galactica as the starship restocks its munitions to get back into the fight. Can President Roslin and Commander Adama agree on a course of action? Can the Galactica stand and fight against a Cylon fleet, and if not can it get...

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender venture out on the Battlestar Galactica and take in the entire voyage one episode at a time. Miniseries Part 1 - Before it was a full show, the Battlestar Galactica reboot was a miniseries. And while rebroadcasts aired it as one complete piece, it originally aired as two. So let's take a look at the first half and get a sense for what we're in for as the human created...

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. We've finished all there is to see and now it's time to give our thoughts on the show as a whole before we move onto a new one.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. We've arrived at the (currently) final piece of Babylon 5 visual media, an animated time-hopping adventure that can't seem to decide if it's meant to be accessible to newcomers or just a greatest hits mix tape for the fans.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. When given the opportunity to make a Babylon 5 film for DVD, creator J. Michael Strazinski opted instead for a collection of two shorter stories. Fans appear not to have taken to them. Are these some overlooked gems? Let's find out.