Sleep-speaker

Real thoughts and updates and such forthcoming. I liked this episode and decided to cheer myself up by making THIS:

A Cylon Family Tree, because I thought perhaps they might need a chart to keep track of it all. Cut-tag because it's a big image and also because it has...implied spoilers from Someone to Watch Over Me.

( It's not REALLY incest, though, if we're GODS, right? )

And now none of you have any excuse to be confused about who is related to whom.

/Public Service Announcement.

So, yeah, I caved and watched it. I was right and it was better to just get it over with. It was both better and worse than I was expecting. Worse because it broke my heart and better, no wait, perhaps also worse because...there was some good, heartbreaking stuff in here but for reasons I cannot narratively comprehend.

Anyway, this isn't a proper review cus I'm basically only talking about one thing.

( I'm sure you can all guess what that one thing is. D: )

Also this icon is now officially the saddest thing in the universe. I kind of want to change it, even though I love it, but I have no other Caprica icons.

I shall be AWAY for the next 4 DAYS. I know, I know, as an internet-powered cylon from the future, this is a dicey choice at best, but I think I should be okay.

I'll probably get online for like ten minutes or something to check my email tomorrow, nominally in case I have Job Info from a Temp Agency, but obviously I have OTHER PRIORITIES.

I'd be really, really grateful if any of you could leave comments to this post after BSG tonight relaying any plot points that you think I'd find awesome/awful/interesting? I don't need extremely detailed blow-by-blows, just a quick summary of things that I'll care about would be awesome?

In some ways this is probably for the best: I'm horribly nervous about this episode so getting people to pre-watch it for me is possibly the best plan anyway.

I'm pretty sure you all know me well enough to know what I care about, but in case, I am specifically interested in the following:

- Cylon Intra-Familial Drama
- Laura Roslin's reclaimation (or lack thereof) of her own awesome.
- Starbuck and that whole thing about how she came back from the dead and whether I'm psychic.
- FLIPPER.

Thank you!

Right, proper long rambling review time. It's kinda odd since I've already been over this with most of y'all, but...habits are habits and I haven't said everything I want to say.

( Ain't nothin' behind this cut but a summary of what I think the timeline is. )

RIGHT. MOVING ON.

( What I actually THINK of the retcon. )

( Lee & Laura & Galactica & Adama & wasn't there some kind of mutiny? )

Now. What this episode was REALLY about.

( Anders! (And Kara.) )

( FLIPPER. I FEAR FOR FLIPPER. )

( DANIEL. OMG. DANIEL. OMG. DUDES IF I TURN OUT TO BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS FLIPPING OUT DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO COVER IT. )

( Cavil & Ellen. OH MY GODS. )

( Random Other Thoughts. )

*DEEP HUGE BREATH*

Aaaaaand, I think I'm done.

( OMGWTF they'd better not be messing with me... )

REALLY. SHOW YOU SHOULD NOT TEASE ME LIKE THIS. IT IS CRUEL.

Well, that was okay. Not as good as last week, with some stellar moments and some parts that I think my reading of the show prevents me from fully appreciating.

( I will start, as it is always best to do, with Laura Roslin. )

( Since I STARTED with the shipping, I might as well own it: Caprica & Tigh & Caprica & Baltar & Tigh & Ellen. )

( THE POLITICAL POLITICSES OF TOM ZAREK! )

( I imagine you're all dying to know if my bloodthirst has been quenched? )

( Random Other Things! )

So, there's that. I liked it. Not as much as last week's and I'm still - and this is painful to admit - getting to grips with Laura Roslin again.

OMG SRSLY PEOPLE WHY ARE YOU ALL STILL ASLEEP SO THERE IS NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THIS EPISODE?

Basically, my entire reaction is that it made me ENORMOUSLY blood-thirsty. I now want like, everyone to die horribly. Next episode. Not because I dislike them or anything. Just because they need to die. But probably I have other thoughts too. I shall try to find them.

( Laura is always a good place to start. Let's get the A/R out of the way first. )

( And now, Laura: the Awesome Edition (With Added Baltar.) )

( The brig is CYLONTACULAR! )

( KARA AND LEE! )

( LEE! )

( SIDETRACK TO RACETRACK! )

( KARA! )

( The Mutiny, or, The Moment when Galactica became Pegasus and Why I Now Want Death. )

And dammit, really, I don't know what's gotten into me to make me this bloodthirsty.

I feel weird posting this much. I blame my state of permanently wired hyperactivity which appears to be a bizarre mental response to life being stupidly and pointlessly stressful right now.

The point is. Kara. ( In which I argue that Kara Thrace IS STILL a Cylon Hybrid! NO RLY! (Spoilers for Sometimes a Great Notion.) )

And now that I've spent far too much time on this, I will go back to my stupid SRS ADAMA VID which is taking about five times longer than ANY OTHER VID EVER because he's such a douchebag.

Help me.

Really.

I'm actually getting worried about myself.

I should probably wait and let this episode settle before posting my big reaction, but frak it, I don't want to.

( The Final Cylon! )

( Speaking of D'Anna, if she isn't allowed to be a drunken Israelite, I at least hope that... )

Moving on to:

( Kara and Leoben. )

( Lee. Will no one give this man a hug? )

( Oddly prescient and fleeting thoughts from season two. )

( What happened to Dualla. )

( Bill Adama: You are a ridiculous human being. Find someone to punch you. )

( And OF COURSE I'm going to talk about Laura. )

( The APTLY NAMED IT SEEMS Dylan Four. )

( In sum, I am proud of my brain's resiliance. )

Oh wait - totally random comment: what was with everyone (i.e. emo extras) suddenly being emo and hanging around in the corridors. They didn't used to do that. Did Galactica shrink or something?

Now I just have to wait for someone to upload next week's trailer onto YouTube because scifi.com won't let me watch it from my location. PERHAPS NEXT WEEK SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER CAPRICA EXISTS.

( No, really, my pipes froze so I had no water on TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS; also on two separate occasions, angry Korean men yelling things at us. )

On the more positive side, I came home to this:

We Didn't Start the Fire by chaila43

It's an AWESOME vid. Go watch it. (Warning: it has historical spoilers! But only up to 1990.)

It's an epic cycle-of-time, everything-that's-happened-in-the-show vid. To Billy Joel. It's wonderful. I can't really parse why it works so well, but I'll try. The vidder categorises it as "crack (sort of)" which I think is along the lines of what I call "deadly serious crack".

Sometimes ideas are crazy but work if you commit to them. I think the reason this vid works despite a song choice many would assume could only work for comedy (although there are some hilarious moments. Srsly. Laura Roslin is Elvis. WHO KNEW), is that it underscores the absurdity of, well, everything.

And absurdity is just as good for poignancy as humour.

And yes, I do believe that BSG is absurd. In the philosophical sense that they all live in a world where things just happen and therefore things are meaningless. Which might sound entirely contradictory considering my deep affection for the cycle of time, both in the show and this vid, but I don't think it's contradictory at all. What's more meaningless, arbitrary and absurd than being trapped in a giant cycle of events? Just because it's happened before doesn't empower it with a special gravity of meaning. It doesn't mean it'll count for something extra special later.

Oh. Yay! I think I just found my zen if they decide to do anything truly insane or disappointing in the last half of S4! Also. Again, this will help me handle any and everything to do with Bill Adama.

And now I am finished.