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Battlestar Galactica: Baltar's Escape [VHS]

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As a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica, I prefer "Baltar's Escape" to many of the other episodes. This story about terrorists and hostages is more suitable to what the show was all about. Baltar makes an effective villain and the Nomen and Enforcers are great at his side. The ending is both unpredictable and funny. Not the best episode, but better than most.

Baltar busts out of the prison ship with a little help from his friends. Lorne Greene's character gets hassled by the civilian government who want to make nice with the bad guys. This episode is wonderfully acted by John Colicos, who plays Baltar as so mean and oily, its a pleasure to watch the bad guy make our heroes lives unpleasant! This is well-paced adventure that the whole family can watch and enjoy...its not a heavy effects episode, but with the story going from plot twists to jokes to action and back again, you wont mind!

When the original "Battlestar Galactica" series aired, I was totally hooked on the show. I was fascinated by the special effects and the evil Cylons, I lived from one week to the next to see the next episode. However, over time I found it grew too formulaic, with an entire universe to consider, the producers made it much too focused on humans and their conditions.
The introduction of the fascistic Eastern Alliance and the Boorelean Nowmen were consequently a welcome addition to the series. When the soldiers of the Eastern Alliance were discovered, it demonstrated a basic fact about the universe, the grass on the other side may be hostile and armed. The introduction of the mysterious Nowmen also demonstrated that the producers understood how people would adapt to the differences in climate on the many worlds in the universe, including the area of the colonies.
When Adama's authority has been usurped by an edict of the Council of the Twelve he is forced to release the Enforcers from the Eastern Alliance. However, with the aid of Baltar and the Nowmen, they stage a prison break and take most of the Council of the Twelve hostage. They place charges on the shuttle and demand that they be allowed to fly to the nearest Alliance base.
There is a bit of silliness in the solution to the problem, yet the action is tense and the solution is plausible, making this one of the best episodes in the series.