Any fan of the newly reinvented BSG knows that each season is different and we also know that this, season four, is to be the final conclusion to the story. We know that all but one of the final five cylons were revealed in somewhat silly finale of last season with one left to be revealed. Baltar escapes conviction in his genocide trial, only to go into hiding with a group of fanatical followers who believe he is some kind of prophet. Oh, and Starbuck turns up claiming she’s found Earth.
Again, we are in a new and strange area with season four. Baltar does appear (at least in outwardly) to be some kind of healer and is now a believer in the one true god, but that doesn’t mean he averse to sleeping with his beautiful female followers. Starbuck is believed to be a cylon and claims that the continued jumping away from the nebula is taking the feeling away from her to find Earth again. Her ship is in pristine condition and thinks she’s only been away six hours (when in fact, she’s been believed dead for two months.)
By the time we get to episode two, the cylon raiders are refusing to attack the fleet and there is a division in the ranks of the seven cylon models whether or not to lobotomize them. In the end, Caprica Six decides to take matters into her own hands and turns the centurions to their cause and, it appears boxes the lines of a few of the models.
Like all seasons of BSG, there is a lot of moral ambiguity surrounding our characters and situations. Furthermore, there is the constant shifting of allegory (last season saw allusions to Iraq and “The Great Escape” with some rather unsettling twists.) Baltar as a Jesus figure is probably going to be one of the series’ most enduring contradictions. What will the remaining season bring is, frankly, anyone’s guess. However, I deeply suspect that the revelation of the final cylon will not be as truly interesting as what happens in the overall scheme of the plot.
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