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beccatoriaI love Six. I must hunt for a Six icon, since I've still got, like, five icon spaces free.
Anyway, the point is, any episode that focuses on Six is going to win me over. And this one did.
I should probably explain that Six (rather, Tricia Helfer) is what sold me on Battlestar Galactica. The boy (who is as awesome a boyfriend as Helo) took me on a shopping spree (cos what else are you going to do when the government gives you £300 pounds more grant than you expected?) and said, "Hey, you should buy that," and I said, "Dude, I've heard really bad things and it's got a supermodel on the front," and he said, "But if it's crap at least we can laugh and there might be flaming extras," and I said, "Okay."
So we're watching, and in walks Tricia Helfer in the red suit, and I think, "Here we go," and then she does something really cheesy. The sexy spacebot walks up to the military man and says, "Are you alive," and then kisses him, for no reason. But somehow, the way she delivered the line, it gave me shivers. I *believed* it. The whole scene screamed quality. I don't remember breathing for the next three hours.
(And the boy was happy too because yes, there were flaming extras. In space.)
But anyway, now that all y'all (all two) of you know the genesis story of my mad Six love (and one day you'll have to listen to my mad Roslin love too), I'll get on to the episode stuff:
This is the second week in a row that Roslin has managed to do something I can't agree with (because I get her reasons, but now Sharon is never going to help anyone again), but managed to maintain my personal sympathy.
Her tone when she said that if she'd wanted to airlock the baby she'd say so and her attitude during the adoption scene have me convinced that she's got nothing against the kid. She seems tender towards it, and I believe her when she says to Doctor Cottle that this will be (in her opinion) safest for the child.
Ironically, if Sharon hadn't told people that the Cylons *weren't* desperate to keep her kid alive, they might have been more inclined to keep it around in a high profile way. Sort of like, "Don't blow us up, we've got your messiah hostage!"
And I understand about not wanting to let Sharon raise it. I mean, I don't, because it's heartbreaking, and Helo is just...*so* *sad*, and I don't actually believe that Sharon is going to do something spectacularly sneaky and screw everyone over. But I can afford to believe that, because if I'm wrong, no one dies. If Roslin's wrong, the entire remnants of humanity might pay. And it's *wrong* to do it, and, like last week, I don't agree, and it makes me want to shout, "You're the society that refused to give up democracy in the face of genocide and terrorism, and you believe that there are freedoms more important than safety, what are you doing?!"
But it also makes me want to hug the President and tell her it'll be okay. And it makes me love the episode that I feel this way.
And again, I believe that Roslin believes she's keeping that kid safe. And you know what else? She very well may be. Okay, yeah, Hera could live in a cell her whole life. Be subject to racial hatred and cruelty. Get Jack Rubied by someone with Cally or Sesha-like anger by the time she's four.
Still, taking bets on how long it is before all this blows up spectacularly. I call mid to late season three.
Anyway, on to the *important* bit of the episode - SIX!
This was not Grace Park's episode, it was Tricia Helfer's.
Grace Park has improved immesurably as an actress during the second season, but Tricia Helfer just *owns* the screen. And she made up for the couple of times when Park dropped the ball slightly (like during the yelling scene. Which may have been partly due to the direction, but I keep thinking it would have been more powerful had she whispered it, *then* exploded with the throwing of stuff.)
Oh, oh, and *oh* I love conflicted, wounded Caprica!Six.
For a long time I thought that the Six in Baltar's head was Caprica!Six downloaded to his body not another of her own after her death at his house. Since Home II, I've thought she really was just a part of his subconscious. This confirms that for me. It shows us an idealised Baltar in Six's head and a one-dimensional Six in Baltar's head, both serving as subconscious guides, but neither really *there*.
The Baltar in Six's head is a poor copy of the real one. While it's nice to be reminded that he was once clean-cut, suave and witty, he would never have expressed his love for her like that.
It took six months, an apocalypse, constant psychotic haunting and a tortured and raped copy of her before Baltar would admit he loved her. And even then, he couldn't do it to her "face" (Hallucination!Six's face), he had to admit it to Gina; broken, bruised, betrayed Gina. Cylon!God, that's dark and fascinating.
Similarly, for a second at the end of the episode, I thought Six was going to comfort Gaius in his grief, but instead he slammed him into a wall. Because she's not real. She's him, punishing himself because he believed he needed punishing.
Gaius can't cope with what he's done, and what he continued to do to secure his own survival. He can't cope with his selfishness, but he can't change either, because he's afraid, *all* the time. He's finally started feeling confident enough to act instead of react. To begin to try and protect the people he loves and feels loyalty to - Gina, Sharon, Hera - and here he is, failing spectacularly.
Hera would have been his redemption. And he failed. No wonder he feels weak and worthless and deserving of wall-slamming.
I'm desperate for Caprica!Six and Gaius to meet again. Firstly, a scene with both of them and both of their hallucinations? Oh, what I'd give to see that.
And secondly, I find myself rooting for those crazy kids (um, yeah, literally crazy this time). I want them to work it out and fall into each other's arms and get married and have lots of half-breed children and perhaps a dog. And I could go around for dinner and get freaked out by all the half-conversations and jerky movements and see how often Six reached for imaginary martini glasses and how often Baltar dropped them. *sigh*
Finally, Tricia Helfer has amazing body language. She kept acting with her hands. When Gaius is "caught out" by his hallucination, it's usually verbal - he speaks a sentence that doesn't make sense then has to convert it into another. When Six is caught out by Hallucination!Gaius, it's usually physical - reaching for him, for a glass that's not there, and she has to convert her movements.
Oh, Six. I don't know about your god, but I love you.
Now, back to working on the vid-in-progress before bed. It's going pretty well. This week's footage is helping lots. It should be done by tomorrow evening, I think.
Becka.
Anyway, the point is, any episode that focuses on Six is going to win me over. And this one did.
I should probably explain that Six (rather, Tricia Helfer) is what sold me on Battlestar Galactica. The boy (who is as awesome a boyfriend as Helo) took me on a shopping spree (cos what else are you going to do when the government gives you £300 pounds more grant than you expected?) and said, "Hey, you should buy that," and I said, "Dude, I've heard really bad things and it's got a supermodel on the front," and he said, "But if it's crap at least we can laugh and there might be flaming extras," and I said, "Okay."
So we're watching, and in walks Tricia Helfer in the red suit, and I think, "Here we go," and then she does something really cheesy. The sexy spacebot walks up to the military man and says, "Are you alive," and then kisses him, for no reason. But somehow, the way she delivered the line, it gave me shivers. I *believed* it. The whole scene screamed quality. I don't remember breathing for the next three hours.
(And the boy was happy too because yes, there were flaming extras. In space.)
But anyway, now that all y'all (all two) of you know the genesis story of my mad Six love (and one day you'll have to listen to my mad Roslin love too), I'll get on to the episode stuff:
This is the second week in a row that Roslin has managed to do something I can't agree with (because I get her reasons, but now Sharon is never going to help anyone again), but managed to maintain my personal sympathy.
Her tone when she said that if she'd wanted to airlock the baby she'd say so and her attitude during the adoption scene have me convinced that she's got nothing against the kid. She seems tender towards it, and I believe her when she says to Doctor Cottle that this will be (in her opinion) safest for the child.
Ironically, if Sharon hadn't told people that the Cylons *weren't* desperate to keep her kid alive, they might have been more inclined to keep it around in a high profile way. Sort of like, "Don't blow us up, we've got your messiah hostage!"
And I understand about not wanting to let Sharon raise it. I mean, I don't, because it's heartbreaking, and Helo is just...*so* *sad*, and I don't actually believe that Sharon is going to do something spectacularly sneaky and screw everyone over. But I can afford to believe that, because if I'm wrong, no one dies. If Roslin's wrong, the entire remnants of humanity might pay. And it's *wrong* to do it, and, like last week, I don't agree, and it makes me want to shout, "You're the society that refused to give up democracy in the face of genocide and terrorism, and you believe that there are freedoms more important than safety, what are you doing?!"
But it also makes me want to hug the President and tell her it'll be okay. And it makes me love the episode that I feel this way.
And again, I believe that Roslin believes she's keeping that kid safe. And you know what else? She very well may be. Okay, yeah, Hera could live in a cell her whole life. Be subject to racial hatred and cruelty. Get Jack Rubied by someone with Cally or Sesha-like anger by the time she's four.
Still, taking bets on how long it is before all this blows up spectacularly. I call mid to late season three.
Anyway, on to the *important* bit of the episode - SIX!
This was not Grace Park's episode, it was Tricia Helfer's.
Grace Park has improved immesurably as an actress during the second season, but Tricia Helfer just *owns* the screen. And she made up for the couple of times when Park dropped the ball slightly (like during the yelling scene. Which may have been partly due to the direction, but I keep thinking it would have been more powerful had she whispered it, *then* exploded with the throwing of stuff.)
Oh, oh, and *oh* I love conflicted, wounded Caprica!Six.
For a long time I thought that the Six in Baltar's head was Caprica!Six downloaded to his body not another of her own after her death at his house. Since Home II, I've thought she really was just a part of his subconscious. This confirms that for me. It shows us an idealised Baltar in Six's head and a one-dimensional Six in Baltar's head, both serving as subconscious guides, but neither really *there*.
The Baltar in Six's head is a poor copy of the real one. While it's nice to be reminded that he was once clean-cut, suave and witty, he would never have expressed his love for her like that.
It took six months, an apocalypse, constant psychotic haunting and a tortured and raped copy of her before Baltar would admit he loved her. And even then, he couldn't do it to her "face" (Hallucination!Six's face), he had to admit it to Gina; broken, bruised, betrayed Gina. Cylon!God, that's dark and fascinating.
Similarly, for a second at the end of the episode, I thought Six was going to comfort Gaius in his grief, but instead he slammed him into a wall. Because she's not real. She's him, punishing himself because he believed he needed punishing.
Gaius can't cope with what he's done, and what he continued to do to secure his own survival. He can't cope with his selfishness, but he can't change either, because he's afraid, *all* the time. He's finally started feeling confident enough to act instead of react. To begin to try and protect the people he loves and feels loyalty to - Gina, Sharon, Hera - and here he is, failing spectacularly.
Hera would have been his redemption. And he failed. No wonder he feels weak and worthless and deserving of wall-slamming.
I'm desperate for Caprica!Six and Gaius to meet again. Firstly, a scene with both of them and both of their hallucinations? Oh, what I'd give to see that.
And secondly, I find myself rooting for those crazy kids (um, yeah, literally crazy this time). I want them to work it out and fall into each other's arms and get married and have lots of half-breed children and perhaps a dog. And I could go around for dinner and get freaked out by all the half-conversations and jerky movements and see how often Six reached for imaginary martini glasses and how often Baltar dropped them. *sigh*
Finally, Tricia Helfer has amazing body language. She kept acting with her hands. When Gaius is "caught out" by his hallucination, it's usually verbal - he speaks a sentence that doesn't make sense then has to convert it into another. When Six is caught out by Hallucination!Gaius, it's usually physical - reaching for him, for a glass that's not there, and she has to convert her movements.
Oh, Six. I don't know about your god, but I love you.
Now, back to working on the vid-in-progress before bed. It's going pretty well. This week's footage is helping lots. It should be done by tomorrow evening, I think.
Becka.
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