Yes - I found Chaila's reading to be a real reassurance that thematically these flashbacks do fit in. But I also still worry about next week. At this rate, we'll get an entire hour of them PLANNING the assualt, and entire hour OF the assault, and no answers about anything. I'm gonna look like a fool when next week blows me away and they answer EVERYTHING, but I can't help it. *bites nails* Five years, man. All ending next weekend.
And yeah, I totally agree that she'll have Stuff to Do, but I guess I just meant, I liked that no one tried to stop her with practical arguments like, you don't know how to fire a gun and you'll slow us down because you can't even walk at more than a mile an hour.
(Oh, random point, I really loved the detail that the volunteers had to be over 15. In some ways perhaps it shouldn't resonate so much with me, since in the UK we are legal adults at barely more than that - 16. But at the same time, it was a really stark reminder of how young people are adults now, of how few there are left, of how standards slide. One thing I have appreciated about 4.5 is the sense of entropy, decay, hopelessness and loss, and...community at the bottom of that because there's nothing else left. I really do feel they're adrift in a sea of stars, clinging to a few life rafts and hoping the waves don't rip them apart, in a way I never really felt before. Even though they were always refugees, on the run, one way or another.)
I think you're right about the pointless Baltarism device, though. Which is frustrating because there are so many better ways they could have done it. Off the top of my head, petitioning for some legal religious status, or, frak, arguing that the civilian population of Galactica should have a "captain" too. (OMG DUDE, if they all moved to the basestar, Sonja the Six would represent all the human civilians as well, maybe!)
I'm confused about Gaius' choice though. Because staying behind didn't immediately ping to me as selfless, since he's kind of doing the same thing he did during the mutiny - picking the safest place for Gaius to be - even if in this instance that also coincides with staying with his cultists. I know he was staring at Caprica and stuff, and I think maybe he wanted to volunteer to impress her. But I was honestly unsure if his failure to do so was down to self-preservation or a sense of duty. I don't really know what to think at this point.
I do know that I kind of hope he goes just because he seems like the last shot I have of giving Caprica some kind of happy ending, even if it's just a sense of closure with him. It doesn't thrill me, but I know that under the right circumstances, they CAN sell me on it and...well...Caprica. *waves arms ineffectually* I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND!
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Date: 2009-03-15 12:25 am (UTC)And yeah, I totally agree that she'll have Stuff to Do, but I guess I just meant, I liked that no one tried to stop her with practical arguments like, you don't know how to fire a gun and you'll slow us down because you can't even walk at more than a mile an hour.
(Oh, random point, I really loved the detail that the volunteers had to be over 15. In some ways perhaps it shouldn't resonate so much with me, since in the UK we are legal adults at barely more than that - 16. But at the same time, it was a really stark reminder of how young people are adults now, of how few there are left, of how standards slide. One thing I have appreciated about 4.5 is the sense of entropy, decay, hopelessness and loss, and...community at the bottom of that because there's nothing else left. I really do feel they're adrift in a sea of stars, clinging to a few life rafts and hoping the waves don't rip them apart, in a way I never really felt before. Even though they were always refugees, on the run, one way or another.)
I think you're right about the pointless Baltarism device, though. Which is frustrating because there are so many better ways they could have done it. Off the top of my head, petitioning for some legal religious status, or, frak, arguing that the civilian population of Galactica should have a "captain" too. (OMG DUDE, if they all moved to the basestar, Sonja the Six would represent all the human civilians as well, maybe!)
I'm confused about Gaius' choice though. Because staying behind didn't immediately ping to me as selfless, since he's kind of doing the same thing he did during the mutiny - picking the safest place for Gaius to be - even if in this instance that also coincides with staying with his cultists. I know he was staring at Caprica and stuff, and I think maybe he wanted to volunteer to impress her. But I was honestly unsure if his failure to do so was down to self-preservation or a sense of duty. I don't really know what to think at this point.
I do know that I kind of hope he goes just because he seems like the last shot I have of giving Caprica some kind of happy ending, even if it's just a sense of closure with him. It doesn't thrill me, but I know that under the right circumstances, they CAN sell me on it and...well...Caprica. *waves arms ineffectually* I KNOW YOU UNDERSTAND!