I am similarly exhausted by 4.5's peculiar blend of awesomeness that doesn't FEEL awesome BECAUSE GIRLS DON'T TALK TO EACH OTHER.
UGH I KNOW. It's like season one all over again. Except in season one we didn't really realise (at least not until Flesh and Bone how much more awesome things would immediately get if the girls were just allowed to talk to each other).
The thing that makes me saddest about Tigh is, while I still love him, and still love that he's relevant in ways Adama is not, I love Tigh best when he's not actually being BFFs with Adama.
The barriers that existed between the two of them and allowed Tigh to develop on his own, that started in season three, crumbled away after 4x12, and crumbled further once Liam died and Saul went running back to Bill's arms. Now they're BFFs again and while I find it hilarious that the OTP of the show, as explicated by Ellen is really the OT3 of Galactica/Bill/Saul, I'm tired of seeing them get drunk together.
I'm miss the angry, bitter, capable Tigh of New Caprica. The broken, insane Tigh of late season three. The brave, honest and lost Tigh of 4.0, who stood in an airlock with no regrets.
I don't want the Tigh who harps on about Bill's friendship meaning more than 2,000 years of marriage and apparently dumps his ex for weeks in the sick bay without so much as a goodbye. I mean...I would love that Tigh too, if the toxic presence of Adama didn't taint him with the same, "Old Man Angst makes Everyone Else Wrong and You Right," brush.
GIVE ME BACK TIGH, YOU BASTARDS.
(Note: I am actually okay with his characterisation; I'm just sad about it.)
Laura is DYING and we see the whole thing from ADAMA'S POV. yes, I am a man-hating lesbian.
UGH YES. I mean, I am 100% sure I'd be coping better with Caprica's character treatment (since it's par for the course) if they'd just LET ME KEEP LAURA.
Can I be an honourary man-hating lesbian in the context of this show, please? I think I would fit in better in your commune. Other people show an alarming tendency to like That Man.
if we don't want to attribute it to the uselessness of the boys in general we could certainly say that the absence of Laura in particular leaves an absence at the show's core.
It's alternate readings like these that basically keep me sane.
I hate that I think the show's asking me to view Laura's backseat role as "happiness" but at least I have the satisfaction of watching the entire fleet fall apart as soon as she "leaves".
And also, I think I can hack this as a fanwanky way to still love bits of it because it's true. Even if the writers didn't realise it, even if they didn't intend it, just look at the damn show. It's hollow when that mythic aspect (which is so tied up with the women) is absent.
I loved Adama's irrelevance in 4.0. I also love it in 4.5; I'm glad the writers didn't try to make him cosmically relevant. I just wish they weren't trying to compensate by showing us a million shots of his toothbrushing, goo-staring angst.
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Date: 2009-03-07 06:46 pm (UTC)UGH I KNOW. It's like season one all over again. Except in season one we didn't really realise (at least not until Flesh and Bone how much more awesome things would immediately get if the girls were just allowed to talk to each other).
The thing that makes me saddest about Tigh is, while I still love him, and still love that he's relevant in ways Adama is not, I love Tigh best when he's not actually being BFFs with Adama.
The barriers that existed between the two of them and allowed Tigh to develop on his own, that started in season three, crumbled away after 4x12, and crumbled further once Liam died and Saul went running back to Bill's arms. Now they're BFFs again and while I find it hilarious that the OTP of the show, as explicated by Ellen is really the OT3 of Galactica/Bill/Saul, I'm tired of seeing them get drunk together.
I'm miss the angry, bitter, capable Tigh of New Caprica. The broken, insane Tigh of late season three. The brave, honest and lost Tigh of 4.0, who stood in an airlock with no regrets.
I don't want the Tigh who harps on about Bill's friendship meaning more than 2,000 years of marriage and apparently dumps his ex for weeks in the sick bay without so much as a goodbye. I mean...I would love that Tigh too, if the toxic presence of Adama didn't taint him with the same, "Old Man Angst makes Everyone Else Wrong and You Right," brush.
GIVE ME BACK TIGH, YOU BASTARDS.
(Note: I am actually okay with his characterisation; I'm just sad about it.)
Laura is DYING and we see the whole thing from ADAMA'S POV. yes, I am a man-hating lesbian.
UGH YES. I mean, I am 100% sure I'd be coping better with Caprica's character treatment (since it's par for the course) if they'd just LET ME KEEP LAURA.
Can I be an honourary man-hating lesbian in the context of this show, please? I think I would fit in better in your commune. Other people show an alarming tendency to like That Man.
if we don't want to attribute it to the uselessness of the boys in general we could certainly say that the absence of Laura in particular leaves an absence at the show's core.
It's alternate readings like these that basically keep me sane.
I hate that I think the show's asking me to view Laura's backseat role as "happiness" but at least I have the satisfaction of watching the entire fleet fall apart as soon as she "leaves".
And also, I think I can hack this as a fanwanky way to still love bits of it because it's true. Even if the writers didn't realise it, even if they didn't intend it, just look at the damn show. It's hollow when that mythic aspect (which is so tied up with the women) is absent.
I loved Adama's irrelevance in 4.0. I also love it in 4.5; I'm glad the writers didn't try to make him cosmically relevant. I just wish they weren't trying to compensate by showing us a million shots of his toothbrushing, goo-staring angst.