Two More Reviews

Scott Collura in Now Playing Magazine reviews Lay Down Your Burdens Part 2, saying, "Battlestar Galactica finishes its second season with an extended 90-minute episode that is as unwieldy as it is impressive. Plot-wise, showrunner Ron Moore and his team continue to chart new territory that other genre shows, or even most A-list dramatic television series for that matter, dare not enter. The willingness to move these characters forward, to not “reset” story and plot to the status quo each week, has never been as clear as it is here, particularly in the final 30 minutes or so of the episode (which we will not spoil for our readers… yet – check back after the episode airs on Friday for a chat with Moore about the finale, and where the show is going in year three). ...The extra 30 minutes or so added on to this episode only further complicate matters, rather than answer questions, so divergent and radical are they from the prior 60 minutes – from the entire preceding two seasons of episodes, in fact."

Dave Mason of the Scripps Howard News Service writes, "Battlestar Galactica proves it's almost too big for the small screen as it takes viewers on an epic-making 90-minute season finale. ...But nothing else on TV compares to Battlestar. It is an epic with unexpected twists. The surprises in the season finale are woven together to make this episode feel like a book you can't put down."