EVIL IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MOTIVATION, PEOPLE. You'd think Tricia Helfer had taught them SOMETHING by now. :p
She totally needs to start her own school. "Tricia Helfer's School for Motivationally Challenged Villainesses." She could like, teach them how to sekritly emote on camera when the writers weren't looking and stuff.
Your original idea is awesome! The only other way that immediately comes to mind to "save" it (I don't like assuming it'll need saving without having seen it) is if Eight's lying about having killed those people on New Caprica, and is just doing it to make it easier for Gaeta to kill her like she knows he has to because a) he knows she murdered everyone and b) she wants her sweet Gaeta to have more life-saving oxygen. Or something. Which kind of reduces her to yet another Eight desperately seeking LURVE because that's all women are GOOD FOR (arguably) but at the same time at least does so with complexity, instead of going with other easy tropes with no complexity.
Having finally seen the tenth webisode, I concur with your assessment. It didn't sound to me like it was a break-up but it did sound to me like it was a "I'm saddling up for WAR boy, and I can't take nobody with me, so keep your pretty head down and I'll come home to you. If I can (be bothered)."
Like, I'm still really happy that we have a healthy (well, at least pre-EVEN-MOAR-PTSD) homosexual relationship on the show, and that Gaeta got a nice significant other. However, I'm still concerned that both of the gay relationships we've seen have been metatextually closeted. :/
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She totally needs to start her own school. "Tricia Helfer's School for Motivationally Challenged Villainesses." She could like, teach them how to sekritly emote on camera when the writers weren't looking and stuff.
Your original idea is awesome! The only other way that immediately comes to mind to "save" it (I don't like assuming it'll need saving without having seen it) is if Eight's lying about having killed those people on New Caprica, and is just doing it to make it easier for Gaeta to kill her like she knows he has to because a) he knows she murdered everyone and b) she wants her sweet Gaeta to have more life-saving oxygen. Or something. Which kind of reduces her to yet another Eight desperately seeking LURVE because that's all women are GOOD FOR (arguably) but at the same time at least does so with complexity, instead of going with other easy tropes with no complexity.
Having finally seen the tenth webisode, I concur with your assessment. It didn't sound to me like it was a break-up but it did sound to me like it was a "I'm saddling up for WAR boy, and I can't take nobody with me, so keep your pretty head down and I'll come home to you. If I can (be bothered)."
Like, I'm still really happy that we have a healthy (well, at least pre-EVEN-MOAR-PTSD) homosexual relationship on the show, and that Gaeta got a nice significant other. However, I'm still concerned that both of the gay relationships we've seen have been metatextually closeted. :/