I'm so moved by how you've written about these characters with such beauty and emotion and love. I don't really have anything intellectual to add, because it's not really an intellectual analysis,
Wow, well...thank you. But yes, you're right and touched on something I couldn't articulate in my own mind. It's definitely not an intellectual review: it's a love-letter. I feel...better about how unwieldily large it got in that context. What came unstuck was perhaps my heart, but either way, the show caught something in me that made me want to gasp and reach for it.
I've been thinking a lot lately about "deadlyseriouscrack" and how what I think I actually mean by that is bravery, which is unmeasurable, but I think this epsiode had in inordinate amounts.
of course Natalie is exactly the sort of person it seems Laura is searching for, and vice versa (she's stepping into Three's position in S3, essentially). so moving on...
Oddly I didn't think of comparing Natalie to Three. But...yeah, that works. Although, as a Six and not a Three, Natalie has a gentleness and a horror to her that D'Anna never had. The emotion is the same, but thinking about the way Six snapped a baby's neck with such a delicately complicated look, and thinking about the way D'Anna smeared blood over Cottle's smock...they're different people. Perhaps that's why I didn't hit on the comparison, because what struck me most about Natalie was her capacity to understand the horrific nature of what she'd just done, and be shocked by it, if not regret it? HMMM! *thinks*
it turns out I made my TORY TORY TORY comments on runawaynun's post.
Sadly I fear it is flocked! But thanks for the recap. I too want it to be hilariously deadpan, because, dammit, I can pretty much ship Tory with anyone EXCEPT Baltar. And because crying because she doesn't want to be doing it is 100 times braver than...that other option.
let me just take a moment to celebrate Rekha's overall STRONG ACTING and AMAZING GAY SAD FACE. her faces just slay me.
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Date: 2008-04-18 01:20 pm (UTC)Wow, well...thank you. But yes, you're right and touched on something I couldn't articulate in my own mind. It's definitely not an intellectual review: it's a love-letter. I feel...better about how unwieldily large it got in that context. What came unstuck was perhaps my heart, but either way, the show caught something in me that made me want to gasp and reach for it.
I've been thinking a lot lately about "deadlyseriouscrack" and how what I think I actually mean by that is bravery, which is unmeasurable, but I think this epsiode had in inordinate amounts.
of course Natalie is exactly the sort of person it seems Laura is searching for, and vice versa (she's stepping into Three's position in S3, essentially). so moving on...
Oddly I didn't think of comparing Natalie to Three. But...yeah, that works. Although, as a Six and not a Three, Natalie has a gentleness and a horror to her that D'Anna never had. The emotion is the same, but thinking about the way Six snapped a baby's neck with such a delicately complicated look, and thinking about the way D'Anna smeared blood over Cottle's smock...they're different people. Perhaps that's why I didn't hit on the comparison, because what struck me most about Natalie was her capacity to understand the horrific nature of what she'd just done, and be shocked by it, if not regret it? HMMM! *thinks*
it turns out I made my TORY TORY TORY comments on runawaynun's post.
Sadly I fear it is flocked! But thanks for the recap. I too want it to be hilariously deadpan, because, dammit, I can pretty much ship Tory with anyone EXCEPT Baltar. And because crying because she doesn't want to be doing it is 100 times braver than...that other option.
let me just take a moment to celebrate Rekha's overall STRONG ACTING and AMAZING
GAYSAD FACE. her faces just slay me.YES.
LET THERE BE MANY MORE OF THEM.
SEE MATCHING ICON.