BSG 4.01: The Awesomeness Cannot Be Contained

[boomqueen]

1. Friday nights are sooooo much better than Sunday nights because I can watch and squee with buddies. Watching with buddies is sooooo much better than watching by myself!

2. Holy frakking shit that was awesome!

Teh recap:

I think I've officially become as much of an Anders!girl as I am a Kara!girl. When did that happen? I was just as emotionally invested in everything that happened to him and so unbelievably delighted to see his character getting so much plot and attention.

Favorite Sam moments: The eye-scan thing was insane and awesome! The freak-outs with his fellow final fours! The half-hug brush-off from Kara when she got out of her viper just killed me (especially compared to the amazing hug she gave Lee)! And then the gut-wrenching tenderness and pain of the memorial hall scene with Kara where he says he'd still love her as a cylon and she says she wouldn't--gahhhhhhhhhhh!

Also! The little intimate eye glance thing between Lee and Anders when they first realized Kara didn't know how long she'd been gone. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE SEX, PEOPLE. The slashy subtext is still there between them loud and proud!!!

Speaking of Lee: damn he looks good as a civvie! I was thinking I would miss him a flight suit but he looked so good with the scruff and the sweater and it was all just too yummy for words. I loved the scene with him and his dad in the briefing room where they're trying to process how they feel about Kara, and Lee pretty much says he would ALSO love Kara even if she were a cylon. My girl has the bestest boy-toys evar!

Why was Lee allowed to be around for all the important conversations about Kara and the fleet, etc. when he is no longer a military or civilian official? I get why his character was there, because he knows Kara and he witnessed her death, but wouldn't his security clearance have been revoked or something?

And the Lee/Kara vibe was on strong for this whole episode. That hug at the beginning was very intense and intimate and Home-like, and Lee basically pledged his devotion to Kara regardless of her cylon status to his dad and the president.

(How can I be so shippy about both Kara/Anders and Kara/Lee AND Lee/Sam? Oh my OT3, how you like to frak with my brain!)

But WTF is my girl thinking going all rambo on Sam and the guards and charging in on the president with a gun? Bzuh? To be continued=my brain falling out!!!

There are so many little moments that I loved that I'm forgetting about. When Sharon walked up during the Tyrol/Anders peptalk and asked who else Anders would be if not himself. When Tigh freaked out and fantasy-killed Adama. When Baltar prayed for that little kid (votes on whether he knew everyone was listening? I thought he was putting on a show but the Mr and amaleka_crone but thought it was a genuine prayer...). When Baltar's throat was slit and he was talking in his low sexy Aerilon accent again. When Gaeta got all huffy with Kara. All of Tigh's big-one-eyed 'woah' faces. And so many more that I can't think of!

In conclusion, I love my show to itty bitty pieces and I'm so damn happy it's back on the air!!!

Comments

[supershineygirl.livejournal.com]

*flails* I have no words for the awesomeness that was this episode. I was into it that I wasn't even watching the time and then it stopped and I was wahhh it's over already. Poor Sam Kara just knocked his ass out and brushed him off. First she had the hug of death with Lee and then she told him that regardless of his love if he was a toaster she'd kill his ass and then she knocked him out. Notice how when she talks about the people that care about he she always names him last? "I would have thought the Old Man, Lee or even you Sam. Would have taken it down." About her pic on the memorial wall.

And Anders in the viper with the raider *ee* it all scanned him and then Sam's eye blinked red (reminded me of morse code) and then the raider and all the other cylons left. It was so Anders that made them leave. Guess since the raiders and walking toaster aren't verbal they are allowed to know the final 5.

I don't think that Baltar knew the others were awake when he started to pray, as the woke up as he was praying. I think that he was just overcome with self loathing.

It'll be interesting to see the angst the final four of five go through dealing with their secret identities.

Also I think that Kara got to earth, like the original Starbuck did in the original series with those crystal and white people who rescued him and then gave him the knowledge of how to find earth or was it revive him, hmmm

Anyway I think that some entity planted the knowledge in Kara's head. Kinda the wormhole knowledge in Crichton's brain in Farscape. It's buried in her subconscious and she can only interpret it as intuition.

Is it next Friday yet?

[vash137.livejournal.com]

I agree, Kara's so not a Cylon. She went through a wormhole which can easily explain the time discrepancy, and it's pretty apparent that divine intervention (from whatever sources) are at work in this series. That said, the scene from the trailer where Adama slugs her, now I know where it comes from--oh so much love!

I agree on Baltar too. It's so easy to forget that he does have feelings of guilt and self loathing (and generally a level of depth when he's forced to slow down enough). Like in my favorite Baltar emo scene, with Gina in Adm. Kane's brig, and him having that single tear when he's talking about how he loved a cylon who looked just like her.

Can't wait for next Friday either.

[boom-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you on the 'poor sam' for all the things you mentioned, and particularly for that point about naming him last--I hadn't even thought about it but she TOTALLY did that. Hugged him last, mentioned him last--poor Sam is like an afterthought for her right now.

I'm really curious about how the raider could sense who/what Anders is but the humanoid cylons can't/haven't. I hope they spell that out a little more explicitly.

I'm SO excited for the final-four angst over the next several episodes. I'm really invested in each of their experiences, and their fear of being activated as sleepers. It's gonna be freakin fascinating!

Interesting idea about how Kara got to Earth and doesn't have the memory, just the intuition, of how to get back there. I could totally buy into that theory. You're such a smarty pants Sage!

I'm seriously bouncing with excitement for next Friday. Can't wait!

[supershineygirl.livejournal.com]

^^IconLOVE^^ *g*

I think the humanoid cylons can't sense the four because they are programmed not to think about them. Like the 6 in the cell said. But the none humanoid ones can because they can't talk kinda like a dog can tell his owner. Also didn't the humanoid cylons say something about them not being as intelligent or something as them when Baltar was on the basestar. Like they don't have independent reasoning? Ack idk.

Hmm I just thought of something, for Kara it's been a few hours and when she left she and Anders were split up and she was all kinda crazy. So for her she's still treating him like she did before Maelstrom. Where as for the rest of them it's been months.

I wonder how she's going to react to all the changes in her guys. Cuz to her it probably seems overnight. I mean Lee and Sam are defiantly different people as they've gone through a ton of crap since she left.

An an Ander's has been sexin it up with the ladies and getting his drunk on and flying. Not to mention HE'S A TOASTER.

It's like she's getting thrown in bizarro world lol

Okay I'll stop now as I could go on and on and on my friends. *whoops sorry about that hope the tune didn't get into your head :p *

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