BSG: Blood on the Scales
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beccatoriaWell, that was okay. Not as good as last week, with some stellar moments and some parts that I think my reading of the show prevents me from fully appreciating.
In some ways, this episode was painful for me to watch because I love Laura more than pretty much any other fictional character and I just... Yes. Her yelling was awesome. Yes. Her teaming up with the Cylon to rain down terror and devastation upon Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta was awesome.
I did not appreciate the undercurrent of romance that permeated the entire thing.
I feel ungrateful because, let's just say that this episode played out in an AU where Laura was not, in fact, sleeping with Adama and we know for a fact there's nothing romancey going on. And this episode happens. I honestly don't think she would have done much, if anything, different.
She still would have expressed her belief that Adama would regain control of the Galactica. Adama's "death" would still have been a moment that impressed even further, even in this insanely frakked up situation, how much more awful things could get/had gotten. It would still have represented the death of any chance to end this quasi-peacefully; she still would have made her I WILL RAIN DOWN DEVASTATION ON YOU! speech (though wouldn't it have been awesome if that was precipitated by the Quorum massacre instead?) At the end, she still would have collapsed a little, into the arms of whoever was there, because something I love about Laura is how she still feels this crap. She is more hardcore than Kara Thrace, but when she's finished hardcoring, the weight of what she's done is never lost on her and she never tries to lie to herself about how much it hurt.
Maybe I unerestimated how much canon A/R would skew my reading of her motivations just through my own defensiveness. A lot of me felt like I was 'supposed' to read a lot of romantic motivation in her choices. I resented the beats that were clearly about her fearing for Adama's life rather than putting that aside and fearing for the entirety of her species' future survival. Like I was going to somehow forget that she's with Adama if for like, thirty seconds we don't see teary-eyed close-ups.
But then again, how much of this is my defensiveness? And also, even if this is what the show is doing, if it's succumbing to those sexist romantic cliches that now that she has a MAN all her decisions are secretly about her MAN, and that while she threatens to nuke her own Fleet into oblivion, it's still her MAN that saves things in the nick of time so she doesn't have to - even if this is a true reading, there's also me and my choice to see it that way (even if I hate it). These cliches will never stop being true until we stop giving them credence and choose to read other things into those situations.
Not that I'm trying to absolve the media of good representation by claiming it has no responsibility other than pandering to the lowest common denominator, I just...
I don't know.
I think I'm hurt because dude, Laura Frakking Roslin was wielding a basestar of nuclear woah and actually using her own civilian fleet for cover, and screaming vengeance and murderous awesome, and I kind of didn't love it as much as I would have otherwise because I spent half of it worried that maybe the reason she was doing all of it was the crap reason instead of the good reason?
And this isn't the person I want to be. I don't want to be the person whose ship or anti-ship trashes their enjoyment of the show. I want to be more comfortable reading against the text when I need to, but also, I find reading against the text about certain things really exhausting. So, I don't know.
To continue my very embarassing 'shipper craziness (really, I remember when these were NOT the first thoughts I had about an episode!) OMG TIGH AND CAPRICA you are hilarious and adorkable.
"I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF," (EVEN THOUGH I'M ONLY IN THIS EPISODE FOR ABOUT TWELVE SECONDS).
Yes, Caprica, yes you can. But I haven't quite forgiven you for not killing anyone with your stiletto heels. We had an agreement, woman. Let's just say, I'm assuming your journey to Baltar's Harem of Religious Crazy was punctuated by many mutinous extras who needed a stiletto to the temple.
I wonder if we'll see Helo and Hera and Caprica hanging out with Baltar's crazyfolks next episode or if we'll just skip forward an unspecified amount of time. I kind of hope we do, because that could be a WORLD of hilarious. And also, Baltar and Caprica have not actually seen each other or spoken since he and D'anna dumped her and that would be interesting and awkward.
But on the other hand, if they did that scene (and here comes the insane shipperness, really, I recognise my nutsness) it would FILL ME WITH FEAR that they were trying to get Baltar and Caprica back together again. Especially with his recent revelation to Gorgeous Six (for real, I hope she sticks around, her hair is PRETTY) that his faith really is hollow. I loved that he admitted that, and honestly, am not against Baltar making some changes and becoming a better person, as long as he does it in ways that seem genuinely perspecacious and about understanding his own flaws and addressing them (unlike, say, The Hub).
Once upon a time (i.e. at the start of season three), I would have loved seeing Caprica and Baltar get back together. At that point in the story, that relationship had a lot of what I now love about Caprica and Tigh. This sense of two deeply damaged people fumbling to put some kind of life back together, and with this sense that whatever life they could put together would always be haunted by what came before, that there was no clean slate, no getting rid of baggage. Just this messy, quiet desperation and chance that they could save each other.
But in season three Baltar and Caprica didn't save each other. They didn't save each other spectacularly.
And now it's Caprica and Tigh who give me that sense of unbelievable baggage and damage and yet, oddly, hope that I used to get from Caprica and Baltar. And from this perspective, having Caprica get back together with Baltar, or, indeed, having Tigh get back together with Ellen, feels very false. Like going back to "the good old days," when that shouldn't ever be possible. Like a fake second chance.
And I guess that also, being involved with the Caprica/Baltar relationship far more from her POV than his, if they got back together, no matter how much he'd repented and become a better person, I'd always feel that he didn't deserve it and that it somehow meant that it was okay to treat someone that badly repeatedly because there's always time to be sorry later. I actually want to see Baltar become a better, more whole person and less of a godawful excuse for a human being. I also honestly believe he's always loved Caprica in this difficult, confused, selfish way. And I think that he missed his chance with her, and that if he realises that, the poignancy could be heartbreaking. For both of them. Because they still love each other, but it's...too late.
And then he can get together with someone else. A fill-in for a lost love who he can maybe learn to actually love if he learns about compromise and reality. The same way that Tigh was Caprica's "I'll love anyone I can save," and Caprica was Tigh's "Not-Quite Ellen," and Baltar and Caprica were each other's pale immitations of respective Head!Characters. Together all three (four, really, with Ellen) of them form a beautiful, lost, broken dance, but I want them to keep moving forward, in new steps, rather than backward repeating old ones.
AHAHAAHA, that could lead to Gaius/Ellen. Actually... No, please someone stop me before accidentally I hurt myself.
Lastly, politics.
I feel bad - I've always enjoyed Gaeta but I've never loved him. I think that his deicisions here were understandable given the story and that it was effective to make Gaeta the character they used for this.
Probably the most affecting moment for me was when he found out Zarek had murdered the Quorum. Everything about why he did it was there - including his anger. They had the truth on their side, and now, they have massacres to cover up that make them as bad as the people he wants to fight against. And Zarek, claiming that the truth is whatever the winners claim, just broke Gaeta's heart because the truth, the objective truth as he could understand it, was the only reason he did any of this.
In many ways I'm still completely confused by Zarek's attitudes. I find myself minding less about my inability to really understand him as I consider his tenure across the show. I thought when he was introduced, he was just there to simplistically reverse the stereotype of terrorist freedom fighters. Well, not simplistically because to be fair to the show (and to the most excellent episode Bastille Day), they never ever uncomplicated the reasons for his imprisonment or his attitudes. But I did think that they were trying to show complexity in his actions and the politics surrounding them while making the man himself very idealistic, in a "not all terrorists are evil, m'kay?" kind of way. At that point, if they'd suddenly revealed that Zarek was, in fact, just another powerhungry piece of dirt who had big words for murdering the government, it would have been dumb, and suddenly turned the whole thing into, "oh oops, terrorists ARE evil, m'kay?" But I think four years later, maybe that's enough time passed that it's just interesting. Enough time that the "noble terrorist," is in itself a cliche reversal of a cliche.
BSG is always better when confusing boundaries than when simplistically reversing them. It's always better when the gender-swap, the religion-swap, the racial-swap, the political-swap that puts you on the "other" side to the one you're usually one, is a messy and very imperfect fit.
My bloodthirst from last week isn't totally quenched.
I'm really glad that Gaeta and Zarek got executed.
Not glad in the sense that I, as a viewer, enjoyed watching him get his comeuppance, but just...satisified. It was the right ending. It was pointless and hollow and the only way it could possibly end. And no, I'm not blind to the irony that the response to a coup whose defining attribute was execution without trial, is...execution probably without trial. It doesn't make things equal because circumstances are different, but I'm not blind to it either, and it certainly adds to my feeling that this didn't resolve or fix anything. Compare this to Adama, Roslin, Lee, Starbuck and Billy having a picnic in a tent on Kobol.
What I don't know is what the hell's going to happen to everyone else. Knowing Adama and his unsurprising attitude to the marines who were about to kill him, in just assuming that now they'll follow him to CIC (which like, of COURSE they will because they don't want to die in a firing squad and because they've been captured and because a lot of people are basically sheep) is to just assume that now that the leaders have been killed, they can all go back to serving under him, and we'll see some bitching in the rec room as Starbuck punches Racetrack a few times and that'll serve for continuity regarding that HILARIOUS TIME she helped murder people.
(Note: I have chosen, for the sake of my sanity, to view Racetrack laughing at Zarek's jokes as a canny bit of self-preservation on her part. Because really, if Zarek had told me a joke at that point, I would have laughed too. If only from nervous adrenaline.)
But yeah, that scenario is what I don't want. I no longer know if I want these people put up against a wall and shot for similar reasons to Gaeta (because, you know, I never wanted that for any of them, I just think/thought the story demanded it). Maybe not. Maybe my bloodlust is cooling a little. But...I want something.
Because I disagree with everything Narcho did and think he's kind of a jerk, but he said it very succinctly when he said, "I've always respected you, but I hate the Cylons. And I can't take orders from a leader who won't fight them."
Now, I also think this is a ridiculously short-sighted view of the fact that Adama is still fighting, or at least actively defending the fleet from, the Cylon, just...you know, the ENTIRE REST OF THE SPECIES rather than this one rag-tag half-destroyed basestar that committed next-generation genocide on their own species as an indication that maybe, just maybe, they are a tiny bit trustworthy in terms of a mutual defense treaty.
So maybe the government needs better frakking PR or something because I know it's a weird concept, but it's also a pretty simple one. When the enemy defects, you use that resource.
But still. People think like Narcho. This will not change. It needs to be addressed.
As, to be honest, does the fact that the heads of the civilian government and the military are literally in bed with each other. I don't necessarily think this is illegal, or whatever, and given the circumstances, even if it were, well, I'm also aware how loose the frat regs are in the military these days. But I can see why it worries people. To be honest, it kind of worries me, though I'm obviously not unbiased.
I don't mind hardline Roslin and her somewhat sketchy political ethics. But I will mind if they don't rebuild the Quorum.
Random Other Things:
- Not a single Agathon got to kill Gage or Vireem. I find this disappointing.
- Hera? Still creepy. "Ouch." Where, "Ouch," comes with an expression that looks a little like, "You know what? Human flesh looks TASTY." Subsequently, I continue to adore her.
- NO! NOT SAM! I DEMAND THAT YOU SURVIVE!
- I'm not entirely sure why I'm not getting horrific flashbacks to the quadrangle of doom, but I think it's the lack of melodrama or attempt to say, use a horrifically brutal mutiny as background to some relationship angst, and instead there's just...this complicated situation where no one's really the bad guy and no one's getting drunk and losing wedding rings. Probably the fact I like the quasi-platonic not-quite-sibling vibe that Starbuck and Apollo have reclaimed since Maelstrom also helps.
- They give Roslin the big, emotional romantic moment of "OMG HE'S DEAD," about Adama. But for Adama? Yeah. Tigh. IJS.
- I think Chief's "It wouldn't have mattered," was in response to Kelly's hypothetical warning that Cally was trouble. But...I kind of like it more expansively, also in response to his kid not being a Cylon. That ultimately, he would have been okay with that because he loved Cally and loves Nicky. I'm not wild that this yet again underlines this show's somewhat weird obsession with filandering women and the stoic men who love them anyway, but it's better than just pissing all over her again. I still think it's the stupidest retcon ever, but I'm a tiny bit mollified that RDM apparently said in an interview his intention wasn't to make Cally seem like a cheater but more like Cally and Chief didn't get together straight after the jaw incident and that was a lot later, and she'd been seeing Hot Dog but then Chief suddenly proposed out of the blue or something. Which, really, HOW would we have assumed that? But also, better than nothing. Also I really like "your kid's not a cylon," because it doesn't assume that Nicky is no longer his kid. Because THEY ARE ADORABLE.
- NO! GALACTICA! DON'T FALL APART NOW! WE HAVE SIX EPISODES TO GO!
- I am a bad, bad, feelingless human being. I found Gaeta's "It stopped," about his leg right before they got shot to be a) cheesy and b) something that really pulled me out of the moment.
- SHOW. IT IS VERY CRUEL TO TEASE ME WITH SCENES OF WILLIAM ADAMA GETTING SHOT TO DEATH BEFORE REVEALING IT WAS ALL A BIG DREAM.
So, there's that. I liked it. Not as much as last week's and I'm still - and this is painful to admit - getting to grips with Laura Roslin again.
In some ways, this episode was painful for me to watch because I love Laura more than pretty much any other fictional character and I just... Yes. Her yelling was awesome. Yes. Her teaming up with the Cylon to rain down terror and devastation upon Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta was awesome.
I did not appreciate the undercurrent of romance that permeated the entire thing.
I feel ungrateful because, let's just say that this episode played out in an AU where Laura was not, in fact, sleeping with Adama and we know for a fact there's nothing romancey going on. And this episode happens. I honestly don't think she would have done much, if anything, different.
She still would have expressed her belief that Adama would regain control of the Galactica. Adama's "death" would still have been a moment that impressed even further, even in this insanely frakked up situation, how much more awful things could get/had gotten. It would still have represented the death of any chance to end this quasi-peacefully; she still would have made her I WILL RAIN DOWN DEVASTATION ON YOU! speech (though wouldn't it have been awesome if that was precipitated by the Quorum massacre instead?) At the end, she still would have collapsed a little, into the arms of whoever was there, because something I love about Laura is how she still feels this crap. She is more hardcore than Kara Thrace, but when she's finished hardcoring, the weight of what she's done is never lost on her and she never tries to lie to herself about how much it hurt.
Maybe I unerestimated how much canon A/R would skew my reading of her motivations just through my own defensiveness. A lot of me felt like I was 'supposed' to read a lot of romantic motivation in her choices. I resented the beats that were clearly about her fearing for Adama's life rather than putting that aside and fearing for the entirety of her species' future survival. Like I was going to somehow forget that she's with Adama if for like, thirty seconds we don't see teary-eyed close-ups.
But then again, how much of this is my defensiveness? And also, even if this is what the show is doing, if it's succumbing to those sexist romantic cliches that now that she has a MAN all her decisions are secretly about her MAN, and that while she threatens to nuke her own Fleet into oblivion, it's still her MAN that saves things in the nick of time so she doesn't have to - even if this is a true reading, there's also me and my choice to see it that way (even if I hate it). These cliches will never stop being true until we stop giving them credence and choose to read other things into those situations.
Not that I'm trying to absolve the media of good representation by claiming it has no responsibility other than pandering to the lowest common denominator, I just...
I don't know.
I think I'm hurt because dude, Laura Frakking Roslin was wielding a basestar of nuclear woah and actually using her own civilian fleet for cover, and screaming vengeance and murderous awesome, and I kind of didn't love it as much as I would have otherwise because I spent half of it worried that maybe the reason she was doing all of it was the crap reason instead of the good reason?
And this isn't the person I want to be. I don't want to be the person whose ship or anti-ship trashes their enjoyment of the show. I want to be more comfortable reading against the text when I need to, but also, I find reading against the text about certain things really exhausting. So, I don't know.
To continue my very embarassing 'shipper craziness (really, I remember when these were NOT the first thoughts I had about an episode!) OMG TIGH AND CAPRICA you are hilarious and adorkable.
"I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF," (EVEN THOUGH I'M ONLY IN THIS EPISODE FOR ABOUT TWELVE SECONDS).
Yes, Caprica, yes you can. But I haven't quite forgiven you for not killing anyone with your stiletto heels. We had an agreement, woman. Let's just say, I'm assuming your journey to Baltar's Harem of Religious Crazy was punctuated by many mutinous extras who needed a stiletto to the temple.
I wonder if we'll see Helo and Hera and Caprica hanging out with Baltar's crazyfolks next episode or if we'll just skip forward an unspecified amount of time. I kind of hope we do, because that could be a WORLD of hilarious. And also, Baltar and Caprica have not actually seen each other or spoken since he and D'anna dumped her and that would be interesting and awkward.
But on the other hand, if they did that scene (and here comes the insane shipperness, really, I recognise my nutsness) it would FILL ME WITH FEAR that they were trying to get Baltar and Caprica back together again. Especially with his recent revelation to Gorgeous Six (for real, I hope she sticks around, her hair is PRETTY) that his faith really is hollow. I loved that he admitted that, and honestly, am not against Baltar making some changes and becoming a better person, as long as he does it in ways that seem genuinely perspecacious and about understanding his own flaws and addressing them (unlike, say, The Hub).
Once upon a time (i.e. at the start of season three), I would have loved seeing Caprica and Baltar get back together. At that point in the story, that relationship had a lot of what I now love about Caprica and Tigh. This sense of two deeply damaged people fumbling to put some kind of life back together, and with this sense that whatever life they could put together would always be haunted by what came before, that there was no clean slate, no getting rid of baggage. Just this messy, quiet desperation and chance that they could save each other.
But in season three Baltar and Caprica didn't save each other. They didn't save each other spectacularly.
And now it's Caprica and Tigh who give me that sense of unbelievable baggage and damage and yet, oddly, hope that I used to get from Caprica and Baltar. And from this perspective, having Caprica get back together with Baltar, or, indeed, having Tigh get back together with Ellen, feels very false. Like going back to "the good old days," when that shouldn't ever be possible. Like a fake second chance.
And I guess that also, being involved with the Caprica/Baltar relationship far more from her POV than his, if they got back together, no matter how much he'd repented and become a better person, I'd always feel that he didn't deserve it and that it somehow meant that it was okay to treat someone that badly repeatedly because there's always time to be sorry later. I actually want to see Baltar become a better, more whole person and less of a godawful excuse for a human being. I also honestly believe he's always loved Caprica in this difficult, confused, selfish way. And I think that he missed his chance with her, and that if he realises that, the poignancy could be heartbreaking. For both of them. Because they still love each other, but it's...too late.
And then he can get together with someone else. A fill-in for a lost love who he can maybe learn to actually love if he learns about compromise and reality. The same way that Tigh was Caprica's "I'll love anyone I can save," and Caprica was Tigh's "Not-Quite Ellen," and Baltar and Caprica were each other's pale immitations of respective Head!Characters. Together all three (four, really, with Ellen) of them form a beautiful, lost, broken dance, but I want them to keep moving forward, in new steps, rather than backward repeating old ones.
AHAHAAHA, that could lead to Gaius/Ellen. Actually... No, please someone stop me before accidentally I hurt myself.
Lastly, politics.
I feel bad - I've always enjoyed Gaeta but I've never loved him. I think that his deicisions here were understandable given the story and that it was effective to make Gaeta the character they used for this.
Probably the most affecting moment for me was when he found out Zarek had murdered the Quorum. Everything about why he did it was there - including his anger. They had the truth on their side, and now, they have massacres to cover up that make them as bad as the people he wants to fight against. And Zarek, claiming that the truth is whatever the winners claim, just broke Gaeta's heart because the truth, the objective truth as he could understand it, was the only reason he did any of this.
In many ways I'm still completely confused by Zarek's attitudes. I find myself minding less about my inability to really understand him as I consider his tenure across the show. I thought when he was introduced, he was just there to simplistically reverse the stereotype of terrorist freedom fighters. Well, not simplistically because to be fair to the show (and to the most excellent episode Bastille Day), they never ever uncomplicated the reasons for his imprisonment or his attitudes. But I did think that they were trying to show complexity in his actions and the politics surrounding them while making the man himself very idealistic, in a "not all terrorists are evil, m'kay?" kind of way. At that point, if they'd suddenly revealed that Zarek was, in fact, just another powerhungry piece of dirt who had big words for murdering the government, it would have been dumb, and suddenly turned the whole thing into, "oh oops, terrorists ARE evil, m'kay?" But I think four years later, maybe that's enough time passed that it's just interesting. Enough time that the "noble terrorist," is in itself a cliche reversal of a cliche.
BSG is always better when confusing boundaries than when simplistically reversing them. It's always better when the gender-swap, the religion-swap, the racial-swap, the political-swap that puts you on the "other" side to the one you're usually one, is a messy and very imperfect fit.
My bloodthirst from last week isn't totally quenched.
I'm really glad that Gaeta and Zarek got executed.
Not glad in the sense that I, as a viewer, enjoyed watching him get his comeuppance, but just...satisified. It was the right ending. It was pointless and hollow and the only way it could possibly end. And no, I'm not blind to the irony that the response to a coup whose defining attribute was execution without trial, is...execution probably without trial. It doesn't make things equal because circumstances are different, but I'm not blind to it either, and it certainly adds to my feeling that this didn't resolve or fix anything. Compare this to Adama, Roslin, Lee, Starbuck and Billy having a picnic in a tent on Kobol.
What I don't know is what the hell's going to happen to everyone else. Knowing Adama and his unsurprising attitude to the marines who were about to kill him, in just assuming that now they'll follow him to CIC (which like, of COURSE they will because they don't want to die in a firing squad and because they've been captured and because a lot of people are basically sheep) is to just assume that now that the leaders have been killed, they can all go back to serving under him, and we'll see some bitching in the rec room as Starbuck punches Racetrack a few times and that'll serve for continuity regarding that HILARIOUS TIME she helped murder people.
(Note: I have chosen, for the sake of my sanity, to view Racetrack laughing at Zarek's jokes as a canny bit of self-preservation on her part. Because really, if Zarek had told me a joke at that point, I would have laughed too. If only from nervous adrenaline.)
But yeah, that scenario is what I don't want. I no longer know if I want these people put up against a wall and shot for similar reasons to Gaeta (because, you know, I never wanted that for any of them, I just think/thought the story demanded it). Maybe not. Maybe my bloodlust is cooling a little. But...I want something.
Because I disagree with everything Narcho did and think he's kind of a jerk, but he said it very succinctly when he said, "I've always respected you, but I hate the Cylons. And I can't take orders from a leader who won't fight them."
Now, I also think this is a ridiculously short-sighted view of the fact that Adama is still fighting, or at least actively defending the fleet from, the Cylon, just...you know, the ENTIRE REST OF THE SPECIES rather than this one rag-tag half-destroyed basestar that committed next-generation genocide on their own species as an indication that maybe, just maybe, they are a tiny bit trustworthy in terms of a mutual defense treaty.
So maybe the government needs better frakking PR or something because I know it's a weird concept, but it's also a pretty simple one. When the enemy defects, you use that resource.
But still. People think like Narcho. This will not change. It needs to be addressed.
As, to be honest, does the fact that the heads of the civilian government and the military are literally in bed with each other. I don't necessarily think this is illegal, or whatever, and given the circumstances, even if it were, well, I'm also aware how loose the frat regs are in the military these days. But I can see why it worries people. To be honest, it kind of worries me, though I'm obviously not unbiased.
I don't mind hardline Roslin and her somewhat sketchy political ethics. But I will mind if they don't rebuild the Quorum.
Random Other Things:
- Not a single Agathon got to kill Gage or Vireem. I find this disappointing.
- Hera? Still creepy. "Ouch." Where, "Ouch," comes with an expression that looks a little like, "You know what? Human flesh looks TASTY." Subsequently, I continue to adore her.
- NO! NOT SAM! I DEMAND THAT YOU SURVIVE!
- I'm not entirely sure why I'm not getting horrific flashbacks to the quadrangle of doom, but I think it's the lack of melodrama or attempt to say, use a horrifically brutal mutiny as background to some relationship angst, and instead there's just...this complicated situation where no one's really the bad guy and no one's getting drunk and losing wedding rings. Probably the fact I like the quasi-platonic not-quite-sibling vibe that Starbuck and Apollo have reclaimed since Maelstrom also helps.
- They give Roslin the big, emotional romantic moment of "OMG HE'S DEAD," about Adama. But for Adama? Yeah. Tigh. IJS.
- I think Chief's "It wouldn't have mattered," was in response to Kelly's hypothetical warning that Cally was trouble. But...I kind of like it more expansively, also in response to his kid not being a Cylon. That ultimately, he would have been okay with that because he loved Cally and loves Nicky. I'm not wild that this yet again underlines this show's somewhat weird obsession with filandering women and the stoic men who love them anyway, but it's better than just pissing all over her again. I still think it's the stupidest retcon ever, but I'm a tiny bit mollified that RDM apparently said in an interview his intention wasn't to make Cally seem like a cheater but more like Cally and Chief didn't get together straight after the jaw incident and that was a lot later, and she'd been seeing Hot Dog but then Chief suddenly proposed out of the blue or something. Which, really, HOW would we have assumed that? But also, better than nothing. Also I really like "your kid's not a cylon," because it doesn't assume that Nicky is no longer his kid. Because THEY ARE ADORABLE.
- NO! GALACTICA! DON'T FALL APART NOW! WE HAVE SIX EPISODES TO GO!
- I am a bad, bad, feelingless human being. I found Gaeta's "It stopped," about his leg right before they got shot to be a) cheesy and b) something that really pulled me out of the moment.
- SHOW. IT IS VERY CRUEL TO TEASE ME WITH SCENES OF WILLIAM ADAMA GETTING SHOT TO DEATH BEFORE REVEALING IT WAS ALL A BIG DREAM.
So, there's that. I liked it. Not as much as last week's and I'm still - and this is painful to admit - getting to grips with Laura Roslin again.
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Date: 2009-02-07 06:12 pm (UTC)I like that your rabid fangirl tendencies include Bear McCreary. :)
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Date: 2009-02-07 06:53 pm (UTC)Hahahahahaha. Yeah...Movie/Film music has always been a niche passion of mine, and, well, what can I say? O:-) One day he's going to stand on that big Academy stage and win his first Oscar for Best Original Score and I'm going to be watching and weeping with joy and pride. *G*
I shall take your optimism about Sammy to heart. *hugs him*
Do you watch Big Bang Theory? Michael Trucco guest starred in their Christmas episode, and for a show about a huge bunch of nerds (that very often makes BSG jokes) they didn't make one single cylon reference!!! I was so disappointed. But still seeing him there was beyond awesome, especially since I totally wasn't expecting it.
Friending, if that's okay. :-)