Yeah, I'm completely on the same page as you regarding the Cylon Alliance. And for me, that's not so surprising because I love the Cylon and always wanted there to end up being some kind of Alliance/co-mingling, etc. but I also never wanted the actual war to be forgotten. By having a splinter group of Cylon who defected, I kind of get the best of both worlds. But it does reassure me a lot that you feel the same way since I know that you're not quite as full on Team Cylon! as I am... :p
I expect the payoff to be good, if not, then I can bitch. :p
*BITES NAILS*
I agree. I was flailing about Lee until ‘The Son Also Rises’ and ‘Crossroads Pt 1 & Pt 2’, then I was given back the Lee Adama I know and love. AND they gave us back Lee/Laura to boot!
It was the same in seasons one and two as well. In season two the last four episodes were The Captain's Hand which was a real step up in terms of nuanced political military storytelling (since we'd just had to sit through Black Market and Sacrifice) and saw Lee too charge of Pegasus, followed by the MetaType Downloaded (analogous to Maelstrom and STWOM in S3 & S4), and then the big clusterfrak of epic ending.
In season one we got Hand of God, Colonial Day and Kobol's Last Gleaming. This time they mixed the metaphysical up with the military episode rather than the political episode, but we still get two episodes about either political/military or mystical stuff preceeding an Epic Ending, and often, Lee flails around all season until in the last leg they remember he is a) principled and b) political. Here's hoping he gets some good stuff (WITH LAURA) soon.
Although I'm hoping the Canadian promo for next week looks more inspiring than the SciFi one (a common occurence) since it looks like we'll be subjected to YET ANOTHER episode of Adama drunkenly swaggering all over his dying "girl". And by "girl" thank the gods I mean Galactica.
Re: Caprica. Yeah, putting her as the quorum representative could have been really interesting. I'm not terribly upset that they didn't since I do think it'd be in character for her to be too devastated to do much right now, but again I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT, PLEASE.
I'm also kind of okay with Sonja being very "standard Six" because it kind of breaks down the idea that only the more visually individual Sixes have personality. But yes, different clothes would have been good.
I'm kind of disappointed we have no idea how Caprica is interacting with her people, if at all. She's always seemed such a reclusive, mythical hero figure to them. She wrenches their society apart in these shocking ways, and they all know her name; she was the first one to be so named, against her will. And yet. She doesn't seem to want the attention. D'anna takes over on New Caprica. She plays second string to her on the basestar. She helps rescue Hera and ends up sat in a prison cell for almost a year. She's finally reunited with her people because they followed her example, essentially, and she just...stays aboard Galactica like she wouldn't know what to say to them if she did meet them. And maybe she wouldn't. It doesn't feel hostile, like Athena's aversion, especially since she's all about the future of her race. But I do get the sense she doesn't know what they want from her or how to give it. Though that could simply be the show's continual and shocking tendency to ignore her character.
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Date: 2009-03-02 02:38 pm (UTC)I expect the payoff to be good, if not, then I can bitch. :p
*BITES NAILS*
I agree. I was flailing about Lee until ‘The Son Also Rises’ and ‘Crossroads Pt 1 & Pt 2’, then I was given back the Lee Adama I know and love. AND they gave us back Lee/Laura to boot!
It was the same in seasons one and two as well. In season two the last four episodes were The Captain's Hand which was a real step up in terms of nuanced political military storytelling (since we'd just had to sit through Black Market and Sacrifice) and saw Lee too charge of Pegasus, followed by the MetaType Downloaded (analogous to Maelstrom and STWOM in S3 & S4), and then the big clusterfrak of epic ending.
In season one we got Hand of God, Colonial Day and Kobol's Last Gleaming. This time they mixed the metaphysical up with the military episode rather than the political episode, but we still get two episodes about either political/military or mystical stuff preceeding an Epic Ending, and often, Lee flails around all season until in the last leg they remember he is a) principled and b) political. Here's hoping he gets some good stuff (WITH LAURA) soon.
Although I'm hoping the Canadian promo for next week looks more inspiring than the SciFi one (a common occurence) since it looks like we'll be subjected to YET ANOTHER episode of Adama drunkenly swaggering all over his dying "girl". And by "girl" thank the gods I mean Galactica.
Re: Caprica. Yeah, putting her as the quorum representative could have been really interesting. I'm not terribly upset that they didn't since I do think it'd be in character for her to be too devastated to do much right now, but again I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT, PLEASE.
I'm also kind of okay with Sonja being very "standard Six" because it kind of breaks down the idea that only the more visually individual Sixes have personality. But yes, different clothes would have been good.
I'm kind of disappointed we have no idea how Caprica is interacting with her people, if at all. She's always seemed such a reclusive, mythical hero figure to them. She wrenches their society apart in these shocking ways, and they all know her name; she was the first one to be so named, against her will. And yet. She doesn't seem to want the attention. D'anna takes over on New Caprica. She plays second string to her on the basestar. She helps rescue Hera and ends up sat in a prison cell for almost a year. She's finally reunited with her people because they followed her example, essentially, and she just...stays aboard Galactica like she wouldn't know what to say to them if she did meet them. And maybe she wouldn't. It doesn't feel hostile, like Athena's aversion, especially since she's all about the future of her race. But I do get the sense she doesn't know what they want from her or how to give it. Though that could simply be the show's continual and shocking tendency to ignore her character.