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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 02:54 pm
Invited a friend over today, catch up with BSG S3 which neither of us have watched. I always enjoy having someone else to talk with about shows - someone that gets it.

BSG: Torn
- Baltar is always fascinating in his unabashed self-protectionism.
- the error of logic in cylon causality thinking: the cylons not getting that just because A happens and B follows shortly after doesn't mean that A caused be.
- the hybrid is freaky

BSG: Measure of Salvation
- I liked how they used Sharon's cylon-ness and her tendency to phase out when in the presence of cylons
- Cylon torture. Human genocide. It's interesting that while each side decries their likeness to the other: "We're not like you!" And yet the apple never seems to fall too far from the tree. It comes full circle: what the Pegasus did to Gina, the Cylons do to Baltar; what the Cylons tried to do to the Colonies, the Fleet tries to do back to the Cylons.
- yay Helo for making the hard choice and doing the right thing.

BSG: Hero
- that's a heavy burden for Adama to bear: that he caused the Cylon invasion, although I really love Laura's no-nonsense approach to Adama - that the admiralty were loooking for an excuse
- this episode more than the others is making me think I'd like to write BSG fanfic again.

BSG: Unfinished Business
- with the knowledge that I already have about the Chief, the fight between Adama and the Chief takes on new angles.
- Laura and her boxing knowledge and the way she tells Adama how to win. "You're crazy, you know that?" And then gets down to tin tacks.
- I haven't seen past this episode, so I don't know if Adama gets tough on his people.
- I do love the frakked-upness of Kara/Lee - I mean, I don't know if they'd work out, they're both pretty screwed personalities in their own ways; but I do love them whether together or fighting each other.
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008 11:54 pm (UTC)
Helo's quiet morality is one of the things I most love about him. He knows who he is and where he stands. He's not going to back down because someone orders him to do so. It is but one reason he is one of my favorite characters on the show.
Sunday, September 28th, 2008 11:54 pm (UTC)
Helo's quiet morality is one of the things I most love about him. He knows who he is and where he stands. He's not going to back down because someone orders him to do so. It is but one reason he is one of my favorite characters on the show.