BSG 4.something - Escape Velocity
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boomqueenThis episode just confused the hell out of me. It was disjointed and all over the place--split between too many different character arcs and sub-plots.
Good stuff:
Chief--sorry, SPECIALIST--Tyrol needs me to protect him and cuddle him. Seriously.
His storyline was the only part of this ep that really got me. Well, that and Baltar's crazy God stuff.
The funeral at the beginning was AWESOMESAUCE. Especially in light of Galen's religious upbringing, and how that must mess with his head: performing a memorial service that he thinks he remembers but doesn't actually know if those memories are real. Whoaaaaaaaaa mindfrak.
So, do we think that Tyrol provoked Adama into demoting him because he's really that angry about his lot in life, in not getting Boomer and being stuck with Cally instead, or because he wanted to be demoted to remove his potential for sleeper/negligent sabotage from the deck? I could see it either way...
Watching Racetrack/Skull's raptor almost bite it really wowed me. With all the deaths lately I wasn't sure if they were going to make it.
James Callis sure is acting the shit out of Baltar right now. He's still just as crazy and squirrelly and self-serving as ever but I'm FASCINATED by him.
Not so good stuff:
NOT NEARLY ENOUGH KARA.
I'm over Roslin/Adama reading each other books in sickbay. I thought the first visual of Ellen/Caprica was cool, but it got way old by the third and fourth time they used that same visual transition.
Was it just me or was this one of the most casually girl-bashing eps so far? All the Cally!hating and harem!beating and random careless denigration of women. WTF show.
Bzuh stuff:
Why was my Sammy just hovering over Kara all concerned and/or creepy-like? What are you doing Sam!?!
...So, I totally agree with Alanna: Wonderful episode from a philosophical and political standpoint, but it needed more Kara. Hmph. Word.
(SPOILERS FOR NEXT EP) Stuff from the preview:
Leoben, my first cylon boyfriend (before those cute and distracting sleepers came along...), is back and the Demetrius is gonna be in trouble! Hey la hey la my boyfriend's back!
Paint!sex 2.0! Mutiny! Jealous!Sam! CAN'T WAIT.
Would this be the opportune time to ask for that Sam/Leoben sandwich fic that people were hinting about on my last post? I'll bribe or trade or do whatever, JUST WRITE IT LADIES.
Good stuff:
Chief--sorry, SPECIALIST--Tyrol needs me to protect him and cuddle him. Seriously.
His storyline was the only part of this ep that really got me. Well, that and Baltar's crazy God stuff.
The funeral at the beginning was AWESOMESAUCE. Especially in light of Galen's religious upbringing, and how that must mess with his head: performing a memorial service that he thinks he remembers but doesn't actually know if those memories are real. Whoaaaaaaaaa mindfrak.
So, do we think that Tyrol provoked Adama into demoting him because he's really that angry about his lot in life, in not getting Boomer and being stuck with Cally instead, or because he wanted to be demoted to remove his potential for sleeper/negligent sabotage from the deck? I could see it either way...
Watching Racetrack/Skull's raptor almost bite it really wowed me. With all the deaths lately I wasn't sure if they were going to make it.
James Callis sure is acting the shit out of Baltar right now. He's still just as crazy and squirrelly and self-serving as ever but I'm FASCINATED by him.
Not so good stuff:
NOT NEARLY ENOUGH KARA.
I'm over Roslin/Adama reading each other books in sickbay. I thought the first visual of Ellen/Caprica was cool, but it got way old by the third and fourth time they used that same visual transition.
Was it just me or was this one of the most casually girl-bashing eps so far? All the Cally!hating and harem!beating and random careless denigration of women. WTF show.
Bzuh stuff:
Why was my Sammy just hovering over Kara all concerned and/or creepy-like? What are you doing Sam!?!
...So, I totally agree with Alanna: Wonderful episode from a philosophical and political standpoint, but it needed more Kara. Hmph. Word.
(SPOILERS FOR NEXT EP) Stuff from the preview:
Leoben, my first cylon boyfriend (before those cute and distracting sleepers came along...), is back and the Demetrius is gonna be in trouble! Hey la hey la my boyfriend's back!
Paint!sex 2.0! Mutiny! Jealous!Sam! CAN'T WAIT.
Would this be the opportune time to ask for that Sam/Leoben sandwich fic that people were hinting about on my last post? I'll bribe or trade or do whatever, JUST WRITE IT LADIES.
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Date: 2008-04-26 07:46 am (UTC)Tyrol broke me. I almost cried during that funeral service. The scene with Adama though was fraking nuts. Nobody has spoken that way with him and I loved it. I had my hands over my mouth the entire time.
I was ignoring the Baltar stuff until Roslin visited him and the scene was just so bizarre in an awesome way that by the end I was really digging prophet Baltar there.
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Date: 2008-04-29 12:38 pm (UTC)Totally true. Other than the awesome battle scene stuff in the first ep, and the subsequent freaking out, we don't really know what/if/how Sam's potential sleeper programming works. All the other ones have had obvious hallucinations at this point, or just gone batshit crazy in Tory's case, so I'm kind of simultaneously excited and anxious about my Sammy!
That funeral service was hardcore. And the bar scene was just insane. Also, Tyrol should wear civvie clothes more often, yes/yes? That black suit with the pinstripe shirt was just made of YUM. And I kind of love how there is gray flecking through in the chief's hair right now.