Happy Battlestar Galactica Season 4 DVD Release Day! It’s like Christmas all over again for me.
I spent part of my evening watching the first episode and its deleted scenes – oh, and admiring my Starbuck dog tags! As if this day wasn’t BSG-tacular enough, this morning SciFi Wire posted a clip from an upcoming episode. And that’s where the happiness comes screeching to a halt.
What can I say? It’s bleak. After an epic journey, they’ve finally found Earth, and it’s not what they expected. They’ve scoured the planet in search of life, but no souls remain. The only glimmer of hope is Laura Roslin’s silent discovery of a flower. Last summer at FanExpo in Toronto, Edward James Olmos mentioned that these remaining episodes were hard to film, and will be hard for fans to watch. I’ve braced myself for the impending gloom of the final episodes. Watching this scene left me both excited for BSG’s return, and dismayed by the inevitable course the series is on toward its end.
Have you watched this clip yet? What are your thoughts? And have you picked up the S4 DVDs as of yet?
BSG returns on Friday, January 16 at 10 pm on SciFi in the US, and Space in Canada.
Melissa, aka The Televixen, is a Toronto-based TV blogger and podcaster with a weakness for vampires and viper pilots. After freelancing with print and online magazines for several years, she founded 
