Show Return Updates: Battlestar Galactica

Sci Fi has started airing a teaser promo, called "Future," for the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica, now slated to return in March (exactly when in March is still unclear). Unlike the teaser released in October, "Destiny," this teaser shows no footage, consisting of the heads of some of the main characters morphing into each other as shadows pass across their faces. Each has a line in voice-over (Admiral Adama: "No one's asking anyone to forget, but we have to look to the future").

The lines from Laura Roslin and Kara Thrace hint at the story direction for the premiere, following Kara's sudden reappearance at the end of last season claiming to know the way to Earth: President Roslin swears she's not going to trust "her" (i.e., Kara) with the fate of the fleet, and Kara says, "Shoot me. I'm not afraid to die." Been there, done that, right, Starbuck? We've already heard Kara screaming that the fleet is "going the wrong way," but that sounded slightly out of context. Nonetheless, Kara's role and message in the final season will clearly be divisive.

Interestingly, the online version of this promo linked above, matching the first one I saw on Sci Fi itself, omits Lee Adama. But the second time I saw the promo on TV, Lee had been inserted into it (or perhaps more accurately, not edited out of it), with a line about making their own laws and justice. So why is Lee being shown in some promos and not others? Also: even though he took to a viper to help defend the fleet in the last episode of season 3, Lee is shown in his pinstriped lawyer's suit, which makes me itch every time I see it. Lee Adama does not belong in a pinstriped lawyer's suit. (That said, having Lee walk away from the military was a striking way to underline the ethical deterioration that's been eating away at everyone since the occupation of New Caprica.)