I'm wondering if the sketchy treatment of Laura is part of a larger pattern. Because to be honest, Laura has a habit of kicking insane amounts of ass during the first half of a season, and then getting lost in the background during the second half until the clusterfrak of a finale when she reclaims the crown of pure awesome. And most of the time, I end up having to retcon it by working out her motivations myself.
So for instance, S2 starts with her fomenting mutiny all the way through to pwning Cain, then until the whole election theft finale, she really doesn't do anything except wander around being vaguely Presidential (complex abortion banning notwithstanding, but even there it was a b-plot). Like, she's not the dying leader anymore, and all sorts of crap, and yet we don't...get inside her head; aren't allowed near her during her increasing dictatorial behaviour until suddenly we find out - pretty much after the fact - that she rigged an election.
Then we're back with her through New Caprica. But again, back half of season three we know that she's raging like a ragey thing against Baltar, and yeah, we see some of that in that one episode (which like the episode in S2 where she was dying wasn't as awesome as it should have been), but again, she's in the background being vaguely political, distant from us, being ridiculously dictatorial about labour disputes and racism without any real view into her head, until we discover, at the end, after the fact, she has cancer again.
So I wonder if it's the same deal here, just heightened because the fact we should be in her head is all the more clear?
S'not an excuse for it, just...an observation of a pattern.
I think Ellen's going to be quite enlightening next week. I do think that there were hints of her sensualist nature in this episode, very vaguely (she still wants a drink, and the way she bites into that apple; though obviously layers of metaphor there). And it's telling that she responds to having had sex with, well, her father-and-son very...measuredly, and then even uses it as a weapon against John later by mentioning it to Boomer: I'm wondering if that's relatable to Ellen1.0's more calculated or open attitude to sex?
But in this episode she was so confined and so necessarily focused on her immediate situation and, well, children, it's hard to tell what she's like as herself?
I'm not bothered by the downloading because we know from Eight's situation (in The Hub) that memories get catalogued with every download (and there's a cut scene where D'Anna mentions the Eights not automatically sharing memories on download which suggests a mechanism does exist to automatically download cached memories into the brain of a resurrecting Cylon.) So I guess I figure, there are records of Ellen's memories from the time John asphyxiated her before boxing her. Which he then removed when he set her up like a Boomer, but which she regained automatically when she resurrected a second time because the system downloaded all her memories to her?
It would even make sense for John to set it up that way since what he really wanted was an audience who knew what he meant; what's the point in keeping their spare bodies around for this eventuality if they're not going to know what's going on.
I want Cylon/Cylon Kara MORE THAN CAKE but I fear we will not get it. :(
I would also LOVE MORE SCENES FROM CAPRICA'S perspective. Next week looks pretty Caprica heavy actually, but given my fears for Flipper I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. :(
I'm not as invested in the Eights as I should be either but WORD OF YES about a Boomer/Athena scene.
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Date: 2009-02-18 05:53 pm (UTC)So for instance, S2 starts with her fomenting mutiny all the way through to pwning Cain, then until the whole election theft finale, she really doesn't do anything except wander around being vaguely Presidential (complex abortion banning notwithstanding, but even there it was a b-plot). Like, she's not the dying leader anymore, and all sorts of crap, and yet we don't...get inside her head; aren't allowed near her during her increasing dictatorial behaviour until suddenly we find out - pretty much after the fact - that she rigged an election.
Then we're back with her through New Caprica. But again, back half of season three we know that she's raging like a ragey thing against Baltar, and yeah, we see some of that in that one episode (which like the episode in S2 where she was dying wasn't as awesome as it should have been), but again, she's in the background being vaguely political, distant from us, being ridiculously dictatorial about labour disputes and racism without any real view into her head, until we discover, at the end, after the fact, she has cancer again.
So I wonder if it's the same deal here, just heightened because the fact we should be in her head is all the more clear?
S'not an excuse for it, just...an observation of a pattern.
I think Ellen's going to be quite enlightening next week. I do think that there were hints of her sensualist nature in this episode, very vaguely (she still wants a drink, and the way she bites into that apple; though obviously layers of metaphor there). And it's telling that she responds to having had sex with, well, her father-and-son very...measuredly, and then even uses it as a weapon against John later by mentioning it to Boomer: I'm wondering if that's relatable to Ellen1.0's more calculated or open attitude to sex?
But in this episode she was so confined and so necessarily focused on her immediate situation and, well, children, it's hard to tell what she's like as herself?
I'm not bothered by the downloading because we know from Eight's situation (in The Hub) that memories get catalogued with every download (and there's a cut scene where D'Anna mentions the Eights not automatically sharing memories on download which suggests a mechanism does exist to automatically download cached memories into the brain of a resurrecting Cylon.) So I guess I figure, there are records of Ellen's memories from the time John asphyxiated her before boxing her. Which he then removed when he set her up like a Boomer, but which she regained automatically when she resurrected a second time because the system downloaded all her memories to her?
It would even make sense for John to set it up that way since what he really wanted was an audience who knew what he meant; what's the point in keeping their spare bodies around for this eventuality if they're not going to know what's going on.
I want Cylon/Cylon Kara MORE THAN CAKE but I fear we will not get it. :(
I would also LOVE MORE SCENES FROM CAPRICA'S perspective. Next week looks pretty Caprica heavy actually, but given my fears for Flipper I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing. :(
I'm not as invested in the Eights as I should be either but WORD OF YES about a Boomer/Athena scene.
Finally, ABSURDITY FOR EVERYONE.
*breathes!*