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You know, after watching episodes for a while, they tend to blur into each other. The first few are very clear, and then the rest are...fuzzy. OR maybe that's just my head beginning to ache from so much watching.
On the other hand, I'd hate to be wondering about this storyline from week to week!
Escape Velocity and The Road Less Travelled
I'm doing these together because I'm writing this in the break between this episode and Faith, and they've kinda blurred together. Nothing particularly clear in them, so many storylines intertwining.
You know, Baltar's little cult freaks me the heck out. Other than the fact that it's mostly women, they're all relatively young, and he's got this 'sex god' status going, the whole perspective of everyone being perfect little princes and princesses creeps me the heck out. "God only loves what is perfect and he loves you, so you must be perfect." No improvement necessary! No red marker for anyone! No being wrong, ever!
Ugh.
The reactions to Baltar from the main characters is fascinating: Lee is revulsed but listens, Roslin just wants it broken up and put down, Tory takes it to heart, Tyrol is curious, almost drawn against his will, but ultimately rejects it, and Tigh is distasteful.
Tigh and Caprica Six/Ellen...that was both freaky and amusing, and oddly predictable. He's definitely losing it.
Tyrol's little rant in the bar saddened me. Given his words and behaviour in The Road Less Travelled, though, I'm going with him lashing out at Cally for dying and him dealing with it that way. He didn't want her - he settled, so it doesn't matter that she's dead - he's glad of it. He's burning through his bridges pretty fast, though.
I...don't really remember much about this episode. Moments, maybe. Laura's conversation with Baltar about her dying and not really caring so much anymore. Which gives a new perspective regarding Lee's idealism and his persistence and push towards transparent forms of government. I wonder how much Zarek is using Lee to promote his agenda: he's always seemed like a very clever puppetmaster behind Lee's idealist.
Ooh, Leoben! On one hand, I love Leoben and what he does to Kara, on the other, he is kinda creepy and stalkerish. I love that Kara actually has a moment of clarity amidst her obsessiveness when Mathias dies. And that Helo rebels. He's always such a good little soldier, is Helo, so it's rather nice to see him kick at the traces for once. Although I'm wondering how much of it is Athena's prompting.
We're about to watch Faith, so I'm very curious to see how they resolve the mutiny.
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Faith
Heh. As my friend commented, "They mutiny, then they mutiny the mutiny, then they reach an agreement on the mutiny..."
The hybrid freaks me the heck out. Which is probably the point. I love the 'life for a life' distinction that Natalie-Six makes about the Six who was killed on Caprica. I love that Anders was that close to sticking his hand in the water to interface with the systems. I love that Athena told the other Eights that she wasn't going to be their heroine, and that cutting and running all the time meant you had nowhere to stand. I wonder where she learned that lesson - in Colonial fleet? Or further back in the mental childhood that was given to all of them? Why did Athena take to the lesson of picking a side and sticking to it, when the other Eights don't seem to have managed it? And what about Boomer (who I presume is the individual that sided with Cavil)? Is she picking her side and sticking to it?
Are the Final Five single models? The only ones of their kind, vs. the others that all have multiples. And why were the others taught not to talk or think or even wonder about it?
So many questions. But this episode was pretty awesome - not only for Roslin's understanding of Emily's situation and her confession of her own mother's death, but also for the interactions and conflicts between the fleet crew on the Demetrius, and between the fleet and the cylons on the basestar.
And Helo and Athena's farewell and return greeting were beautiful. I really don't want these two to break up - everyone else is crashing and burning big-time, can't we have one unspoiled ship? Pretty please?
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I don't know if it's just that I haven't watched these episodes enough to really remember everything that's happening in them, or that I'm watching them in huge blocks of screening all at once, but I feel like a lot of the story isn't sinking in. I don't remember enough of it.
And while I'm glad I don't have to watch it on a week-to-week basis, I regret all the lost opportunities for getting into online discussions with others about it.
On the other hand, I'd hate to be wondering about this storyline from week to week!
Escape Velocity and The Road Less Travelled
I'm doing these together because I'm writing this in the break between this episode and Faith, and they've kinda blurred together. Nothing particularly clear in them, so many storylines intertwining.
You know, Baltar's little cult freaks me the heck out. Other than the fact that it's mostly women, they're all relatively young, and he's got this 'sex god' status going, the whole perspective of everyone being perfect little princes and princesses creeps me the heck out. "God only loves what is perfect and he loves you, so you must be perfect." No improvement necessary! No red marker for anyone! No being wrong, ever!
Ugh.
The reactions to Baltar from the main characters is fascinating: Lee is revulsed but listens, Roslin just wants it broken up and put down, Tory takes it to heart, Tyrol is curious, almost drawn against his will, but ultimately rejects it, and Tigh is distasteful.
Tigh and Caprica Six/Ellen...that was both freaky and amusing, and oddly predictable. He's definitely losing it.
Tyrol's little rant in the bar saddened me. Given his words and behaviour in The Road Less Travelled, though, I'm going with him lashing out at Cally for dying and him dealing with it that way. He didn't want her - he settled, so it doesn't matter that she's dead - he's glad of it. He's burning through his bridges pretty fast, though.
I...don't really remember much about this episode. Moments, maybe. Laura's conversation with Baltar about her dying and not really caring so much anymore. Which gives a new perspective regarding Lee's idealism and his persistence and push towards transparent forms of government. I wonder how much Zarek is using Lee to promote his agenda: he's always seemed like a very clever puppetmaster behind Lee's idealist.
Ooh, Leoben! On one hand, I love Leoben and what he does to Kara, on the other, he is kinda creepy and stalkerish. I love that Kara actually has a moment of clarity amidst her obsessiveness when Mathias dies. And that Helo rebels. He's always such a good little soldier, is Helo, so it's rather nice to see him kick at the traces for once. Although I'm wondering how much of it is Athena's prompting.
We're about to watch Faith, so I'm very curious to see how they resolve the mutiny.
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Faith
Heh. As my friend commented, "They mutiny, then they mutiny the mutiny, then they reach an agreement on the mutiny..."
The hybrid freaks me the heck out. Which is probably the point. I love the 'life for a life' distinction that Natalie-Six makes about the Six who was killed on Caprica. I love that Anders was that close to sticking his hand in the water to interface with the systems. I love that Athena told the other Eights that she wasn't going to be their heroine, and that cutting and running all the time meant you had nowhere to stand. I wonder where she learned that lesson - in Colonial fleet? Or further back in the mental childhood that was given to all of them? Why did Athena take to the lesson of picking a side and sticking to it, when the other Eights don't seem to have managed it? And what about Boomer (who I presume is the individual that sided with Cavil)? Is she picking her side and sticking to it?
Are the Final Five single models? The only ones of their kind, vs. the others that all have multiples. And why were the others taught not to talk or think or even wonder about it?
So many questions. But this episode was pretty awesome - not only for Roslin's understanding of Emily's situation and her confession of her own mother's death, but also for the interactions and conflicts between the fleet crew on the Demetrius, and between the fleet and the cylons on the basestar.
And Helo and Athena's farewell and return greeting were beautiful. I really don't want these two to break up - everyone else is crashing and burning big-time, can't we have one unspoiled ship? Pretty please?
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I don't know if it's just that I haven't watched these episodes enough to really remember everything that's happening in them, or that I'm watching them in huge blocks of screening all at once, but I feel like a lot of the story isn't sinking in. I don't remember enough of it.
And while I'm glad I don't have to watch it on a week-to-week basis, I regret all the lost opportunities for getting into online discussions with others about it.
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