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The Shield: Back in the Hole (2005)
User score of 5.4?! Madness. Amazing episode
This could be the best episode in the entire show, definitely the most tense and with the highest stakes. Plot lines and character arcs collided, there was plenty of catharsis, it was fantastic. It is truly bizarre that it has such a low score, especially on a site whose users generally overrate everything, although that's more of a new thing, not back when The Shield was on. The dawn of the fan boys had not yet come. At least it has a 9.4 on TV.com and the user reviews there share my positivity. Season 4 has been good so far, but with Back in the Hole, it stepped up a notch or three and elevated the entire season. Seeing the Captain push Antwon's buttons, Shane too, it was glorious. I've never enjoyed an interrogation of a suspect on this show more than in this particular episode. I never review episodes but I had to here, what the hell guys!?!?
Battlestar Galactica: The Oath (2009)
The first great episode of S4, but still hampered by less than stellar writing
This is the first episode from Season 4 that I actually really enjoyed, it took me back to previous seasons in that way. It's also the first episode I'd give 8/10 this season, as it's been a disappointing season.
The situation came to a climax here but it was still hampered by the unbearable and ridiculous sense of moral superiority that the pro-Cylons have (Adama and the gang). First of all, this season has sidelined all of them or made them annoying, so I don't honestly care about any of them anymore, Starbuck, Lee, Adama, Roslin, Tigh, they all kinda suck now. Secondly, allowing the Cylons ACCESS to the fleet's hyperdrives?!?!?! That's insane!!! They annihilated over 50 billion people, all that remains is less than 0.0000001% of humanity and just because some Cylons are playing nice, all of humanity is supposed to let their guard down?! It's just idiocy. Especially after Cylons played nice on New Caprica and... abducted and tortured people. As well as kidnapping and executing humans on their ship just an episode or two before this one! History shows that Adama should have more sense and it's yet another example of the bad writing that has plagued season 4. The writers' strike really did a number on BSG.
And the fact that they didn't actually acknowledge that (well, Lee did for 10 seconds but that wasn't nearly enough and it seemed shoehorned in rather than natural), and thought that they were right and we had to follow them as they stupidly and predictably fought free, weakened the overall episode. I want to see them all sentenced and executed if I'm honest, how awesome would that be!! To show how much has happened and how far they've fallen. It's not like they're likable anymore, Starbuck has been annoying as hell for over an entire season, Lee's political direction has been completely uninteresting and his betrayal of Roslin ruined his likability, Adama hasn't really done anything this season, nor Roslin, and Tigh has been given far too much time, to the point of irritation on the part of the viewer. How many times has he given that same shocked look in this season lol? If a drinking game were invented around that, swift death would overcome all that play it.
This episode could have been greater if the pro-Cylons acknowledged that okay, maybe it's not right to let the Cylons near their technology but the cold blooded murder of innocent men and women on Galactica is wrong, so then we can kind of root for both sides, even though we want Felix to win because he's so clearly right.