The key to a successful series is pacing.
The key to a really successful series is really great pacing.
In the final season of this astonishing show, in the earlier episodes, the writers took their time building and positioning their characters.
For a payoff. Or possibly a series of payoffs.
I will say this -- having seen the entire series and movie spinoffs end to end, the most nail-biting sequence to date was the first 10 minutes of this episode, when there is a problem syncing the two ships that are returning to Fleet at the same time.
That sequence alone makes this episode a 10.
But the fun does not stop there. That is just the teaser. Next up we get the issue of whether "the final five" really want to be found...? More fun.
Then, before the audience can get bored, we have major surgery with the patient awake done in way that viewer can feel each cut.
Then we have the all too human power struggle between the civilian and military governments.(Love that the civilian government was called "12 perpetually unhappy representatives" -- sharp writing here!) Michael Hogan gives his best performance ever even though he is mostly off camera.
Note to reviewers of the future -- there are more closeups in this episode than possibly any other in the series, Consider that.
The strange singing between cuts by Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gata, the unwilling amputee, only adds power to a series already acknowledged for its superb use of music to develop mood.
The episode ends with a half-dozen cliffhangers and mysteries, metaphysics, unexpected violence, and puzzles.
Possibly the busiest episode in the series.
Finally, and I say this for the historical record since, as I have said before, I expect IMDb reviews to still be in circulation literally hundreds of years after this is written and digitized, if any spaceman were to accidentally stumble on a ship chock full of Tricia Helfers and Grace Parks, I suspect the very last thing they would be want to do is blow it out of the sky.
The key to a really successful series is really great pacing.
In the final season of this astonishing show, in the earlier episodes, the writers took their time building and positioning their characters.
For a payoff. Or possibly a series of payoffs.
I will say this -- having seen the entire series and movie spinoffs end to end, the most nail-biting sequence to date was the first 10 minutes of this episode, when there is a problem syncing the two ships that are returning to Fleet at the same time.
That sequence alone makes this episode a 10.
But the fun does not stop there. That is just the teaser. Next up we get the issue of whether "the final five" really want to be found...? More fun.
Then, before the audience can get bored, we have major surgery with the patient awake done in way that viewer can feel each cut.
Then we have the all too human power struggle between the civilian and military governments.(Love that the civilian government was called "12 perpetually unhappy representatives" -- sharp writing here!) Michael Hogan gives his best performance ever even though he is mostly off camera.
Note to reviewers of the future -- there are more closeups in this episode than possibly any other in the series, Consider that.
The strange singing between cuts by Alessandro Juliani as Felix Gata, the unwilling amputee, only adds power to a series already acknowledged for its superb use of music to develop mood.
The episode ends with a half-dozen cliffhangers and mysteries, metaphysics, unexpected violence, and puzzles.
Possibly the busiest episode in the series.
Finally, and I say this for the historical record since, as I have said before, I expect IMDb reviews to still be in circulation literally hundreds of years after this is written and digitized, if any spaceman were to accidentally stumble on a ship chock full of Tricia Helfers and Grace Parks, I suspect the very last thing they would be want to do is blow it out of the sky.