Excellent two parter, one of the reasons this show still has the power to fascinate. Glenn A Larson wrote it so he blew the budget but the script is very good. It expands the world of the Galactic fleet - there's triad, a game that has gripped the population, and a party barge. The gang arrive - but don't crash! - on a planet where they rescue a mysterious count and bring him on board.
This isn't as derivative as some scripts on this show but one senses Larson has read Dracula because Patrick Macnee's Count Iblis is very much like a vampire, charming everyone, making Anne Lockhart's Sheba besotted with him, suggesting polygamy.
Excellent acting from Lockhart, Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch (who did a great tormented goody-goody), Dirk Benedict... this was a well acted show. There's lovely heart with Apollo-Adama scenes and Apollo-Sheba. (Admittedly the cast go a little OTT at the emotional scenes at the end.)
It's maybe not as good as The Living Legend because it relies on mumbo jumbo to get out of trouble (the lights are good! Adama can do mind control!) But still it's very good.
Athena just hangs around. Could they have used her more? In some episodes, yes, definitely. But the thing is she could never romance Apollo, just Starbuck and Starbuck had Cassiopea. She needed to go her own way. She worked on the flight deck but there were a lot of people on the deck. Cassie did medical. She could've been a pilot but Sheba was a pilot and could romance Apollo. If they wanted to keep her I think the best thing to do would've been to use her as Tigh's sidekick - Tigh issues orders, they are training Athena to take over from Adama, etc. There were two other Tigh sidekicks - Riedel and that guy, Athena could've done that.
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