WebHash: Battlestar Galactica Season Four Premiere

Her name might be Summer, but the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’s breakout star Summer Glau is representing April in Vanity Fair’s year-long “Vanity’s Girls” series, which takes up-and-comers and shoots them as 50’s-style pinups. What did she think about trying out to be the new Connor?

“I was reluctant to audition because I knew who they had cast as the girl Terminator in the last movie, she’s statuesque and really striking.”

Go to VF for the full photo spread of previous pinups, and go here to see Glau in all her bot-kicking glory.

WebHash is a survey of opinions from around the blogosphere on a particular show or subject, in this case, Friday night’s season four premiere of sci-fi favorite Battlestar Galactica. Here’s what’s buzzing on the web:

While a lot of the high concept philosophical stuff remains vague, Moore gives us a neat take on Cylon-Human relations: when Starbuck comes back from the dead, it may prove she’s a Cylon. But would that matter? As Apollo puts it to his father, “What if Zack had come back to us in that Viper? If my brother had climbed out of that cockpit? Would it matter if he were a Cylon? If he always had been? When all is said and done, would that change how we really feel about him?” It shows how deftly Moore and his team can explore the love/genocide relationship between humans and Cylons, and how they might come around to accepting each other as equal life forms with a right to survive. Either that, or Apollo’s trying to tell his dad that Zack was gay. The AV Club

Battlestar has packed brilliant post-9/11 parallels into certain episodes, but not lately, and not on Friday’s show — unless you count Baltar’s hiding out in the lair of cultlike female worshipers. Manson and Koresh come to mind, but the plotline’s probably paving the way for Baltar, a man of science, to adopt the Cylons’ one-god edict (hence, “He That Believeth in Me”). NY Magazine

Is Starbuck a priestess, a toaster, or just a trick? Where is Apollo going to land? Maybe the next president? What will our gang of four do now that the President knows that the final five Cylons are in the fleet? Star Pulse

The CGI at the beginning should be especially commended as absolutely stunning and the stories of Starbuck and the newly revealed Cylons were as surprising as they were intriguing. Den of Geek