I'm really glad, actually, that an A/R shipper kind of agrees with me that this was not...all cuddles and romance and LIGHT and stuff because, yeah. She's barely holding it together.
And you're very right that it's not entirely like Dee. Because for Dee death was more imminent and she was more brutally and thoroughly broken out of her cycle and into just...that space where she could forget everything. Laura's trying to do that, but like you said (whoever said), you can tell it's a facade. It's what makes it so painful. When she's jogging through the corridors, she looks...manic and also like she's on the verge of tears.
Or like she's two steps away from actually going stark raving mad. Not like emo poetry reading mad, but tearing off all her clothes, and running shrieking through the corridors losing every last shred of dignity mad and I find that absolutely fucking terrifying.
Yes! They did so much with that scene. Lots of showing rather than telling.
The bit where they got me was Katee Sackhoff's perfectly delivered, "Okay," when Gaeta demands she pay attention whatever her mood. It's like...scared, defiant, angry and exhausted all at once and you can actually see her putting on her Starbuck mask.
CAPRICA AND TIGH AND THE FLIPPERBABY ON THE SONOGRAM!!!!!!!! I am slightly ashamed to admit that when I realized what was happening in that scene I squealed out loud! WHY DO I LOVE THEM SO????? Oh, who cares. I DOOOOOO!!!!!
*JOINS YOU IN MAD INEXPLICABLE CAPSLOCK LOVE!*
And I'm glad we're on the same page about the way Ellen's cylonicity brought him some amount of peace. And...it's weird because in many ways I'm in this for Tigh's breakdown. Throughout season three I was desperate for him to just completely go off the rails. But now I think I just didn't want him built back up in a boring way. And building him back up as Adama's best alcoholic friend, or a human or with Ellen...building him back up in the same way he was when he was broken down is boring. Building him back up as the same man in completely different circumstances is more interesting.
In some ways, though, I still just want him to break. So we'll see what happens once he has his life sorted again and Ellen shows up.
While I'm convinced she will show up again, I'm at least relieved to see that the fleet and Tigh are assuming she's dead.
*smushes Caprica and Saul together*
*makes kissing sounds*
ETA: Forgot to add. I'm actually on board with the "they've been sleeping together for a while," interpretation even though it makes it less sketchy and you'd think I'd be on that sketchy as a method to slam the entire thing like white on rice.
But if it's the first time they've slept together then that scene can potentially be simply interpreted as a reveal. Like, okay, the purpose of this scene is to let you know that they're now in a sexual relationship. And okay, that involves a lot of overtones about why, and why now too but not as many as your version of events where they're already sleeping together. Which means the "why do we see this now?" question is a lot more pertinent? As in, what about the context of this episode means that this is a scene we need to see, if it's not here purely for expository pruposes? And with the context being as dark as it is, well, it's clearly not a good thing that they're running around frakking while the world's going to hell around them?
Am I even making any sense with my run-on sentences?
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Date: 2009-01-25 01:45 pm (UTC)And you're very right that it's not entirely like Dee. Because for Dee death was more imminent and she was more brutally and thoroughly broken out of her cycle and into just...that space where she could forget everything. Laura's trying to do that, but like you said (whoever said), you can tell it's a facade. It's what makes it so painful. When she's jogging through the corridors, she looks...manic and also like she's on the verge of tears.
Or like she's two steps away from actually going stark raving mad. Not like emo poetry reading mad, but tearing off all her clothes, and running shrieking through the corridors losing every last shred of dignity mad and I find that absolutely fucking terrifying.
Yes! They did so much with that scene. Lots of showing rather than telling.
The bit where they got me was Katee Sackhoff's perfectly delivered, "Okay," when Gaeta demands she pay attention whatever her mood. It's like...scared, defiant, angry and exhausted all at once and you can actually see her putting on her Starbuck mask.
CAPRICA AND TIGH AND THE FLIPPERBABY ON THE SONOGRAM!!!!!!!! I am slightly ashamed to admit that when I realized what was happening in that scene I squealed out loud! WHY DO I LOVE THEM SO????? Oh, who cares. I DOOOOOO!!!!!
*JOINS YOU IN MAD INEXPLICABLE CAPSLOCK LOVE!*
And I'm glad we're on the same page about the way Ellen's cylonicity brought him some amount of peace. And...it's weird because in many ways I'm in this for Tigh's breakdown. Throughout season three I was desperate for him to just completely go off the rails. But now I think I just didn't want him built back up in a boring way. And building him back up as Adama's best alcoholic friend, or a human or with Ellen...building him back up in the same way he was when he was broken down is boring. Building him back up as the same man in completely different circumstances is more interesting.
In some ways, though, I still just want him to break. So we'll see what happens once he has his life sorted again and Ellen shows up.
While I'm convinced she will show up again, I'm at least relieved to see that the fleet and Tigh are assuming she's dead.
*smushes Caprica and Saul together*
*makes kissing sounds*
ETA: Forgot to add. I'm actually on board with the "they've been sleeping together for a while," interpretation even though it makes it less sketchy and you'd think I'd be on that sketchy as a method to slam the entire thing like white on rice.
But if it's the first time they've slept together then that scene can potentially be simply interpreted as a reveal. Like, okay, the purpose of this scene is to let you know that they're now in a sexual relationship. And okay, that involves a lot of overtones about why, and why now too but not as many as your version of events where they're already sleeping together. Which means the "why do we see this now?" question is a lot more pertinent? As in, what about the context of this episode means that this is a scene we need to see, if it's not here purely for expository pruposes? And with the context being as dark as it is, well, it's clearly not a good thing that they're running around frakking while the world's going to hell around them?
Am I even making any sense with my run-on sentences?