I certainly take your point about how nothing happened here. I really enjoyed the flashbacks, and I like them even more after reading Chaila's take on how they're all about choices and destiny, the things people planned to do and didn't, the decisions they made to bring them to where they were at the end of the world. Is it choice? Is it fate? Does it matter? Action and reaction, as Anders said in his own flashback. So I found a lot to enjoy here, but I was a little frustrated that it didn't even feel like this was proper set-up. And how in the world they're going to do what they need to do in the finale I have NO IDEA!!!
(I AM BECOME LEEMO, DESTROYER OF PIGEONS!)
Bwahahahahaha!!!
I was so damn relieved to have Laura back. With hair. And no Adama. Giggling.
I KNOW!!!!!!!! I almost cried because I was JUST SO HAPPY TO SEE HER!!!!! Oh, LAURA!!!!!
I really did love Laura volunteering for the mission. I mean, okay, practically, what exactly is a terminally ill cancer patient gonna do for the mission, but dude, she almost felt like my Laura again. And I just love, love, loved the way Starbuck put her arm around her and held her up.
YES! I loved what she did and I lovedlovedlovedomg! the little scene between her and Kara. And I think that this particular terminally ill cancer patient might have quite a lot to do for this mission, given that the dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House and all that good stuff!!! (I hope I'm not getting my hopes up again...)
Caprica was SO AWESOME in the flashbacks!!!!!! LOVE!!!!
And I agree that Baltar's representation argument just seemed really stupid. If Paulla was right that the followers made up the majority on a number of ships, it seems like they'd be in a stronger political position if they went through their respective captains/ship representatives, like Lee's new system calls for, than if they had one single representative. If the new representatives really are supposed to be speaking on behalf of their constituents on the ship, and the majority of the constituents on multiple (half?) the ships are Baltarians, doesn't that result in a lot of clout?
I have a feeling, though, that the entire thing was a pointless device so that we'd get the confrontation between Lee and Gaius in which Gaius admits that he doesn't even live up to his own standards, so that consequently he would stay behind from the mission. So that he can then play whatever role he's supposed to play next week that he could only have done from back in the fleet. I'm rather frustrated with the sense that they're just moving the chess pieces into place at this point rather than thinking about whether it makes any sense, but whatever. Not much I can do at this point except handwave.
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Date: 2009-03-14 09:33 pm (UTC)(I AM BECOME LEEMO, DESTROYER OF PIGEONS!)
Bwahahahahaha!!!
I was so damn relieved to have Laura back. With hair. And no Adama. Giggling.
I KNOW!!!!!!!! I almost cried because I was JUST SO HAPPY TO SEE HER!!!!! Oh, LAURA!!!!!
I really did love Laura volunteering for the mission. I mean, okay, practically, what exactly is a terminally ill cancer patient gonna do for the mission, but dude, she almost felt like my Laura again. And I just love, love, loved the way Starbuck put her arm around her and held her up.
YES! I loved what she did and I lovedlovedlovedomg! the little scene between her and Kara. And I think that this particular terminally ill cancer patient might have quite a lot to do for this mission, given that the dying leader will know the truth of the Opera House and all that good stuff!!! (I hope I'm not getting my hopes up again...)
Caprica was SO AWESOME in the flashbacks!!!!!! LOVE!!!!
And I agree that Baltar's representation argument just seemed really stupid. If Paulla was right that the followers made up the majority on a number of ships, it seems like they'd be in a stronger political position if they went through their respective captains/ship representatives, like Lee's new system calls for, than if they had one single representative. If the new representatives really are supposed to be speaking on behalf of their constituents on the ship, and the majority of the constituents on multiple (half?) the ships are Baltarians, doesn't that result in a lot of clout?
I have a feeling, though, that the entire thing was a pointless device so that we'd get the confrontation between Lee and Gaius in which Gaius admits that he doesn't even live up to his own standards, so that consequently he would stay behind from the mission. So that he can then play whatever role he's supposed to play next week that he could only have done from back in the fleet. I'm rather frustrated with the sense that they're just moving the chess pieces into place at this point rather than thinking about whether it makes any sense, but whatever. Not much I can do at this point except handwave.