Not a Burden at All!
We're back! Whee! And with a totally great start to our next segment of the series. To get us back in the swing of things, all three moddies are attacking Lay Down Our Burdens, Part 1 tonight.
We start right off with things I don't need to see. Sweaty, hairy Chief rolling on deck.
Nix notes: When you can’t see the hands, drunk and jerking off are easily confused.
Why thank you, Moddy Nix! Now I need to wash my brain cells!
Things I should have seen, but apparently didn't. Laura commiserating about loss with Starbuck. Hmmm...Deleted scenes used for 'previously on' pisses me off.
Aussie: I think this was the ‘deleted’ scene that was never deleted on my version and we got confused on!
Who cares, cute debate coaching, HAPPENING!
Nix hugs herself with happiness: Mama Bear is on lockdown with Papa Bear and no one seems surprised. Obviously a common occurrence. Things I should have seen.
Random Thought #1: Laura wears panty hose. Where does she get more from?
Somewhere in there, Mom and Dad gave Starbuck permission to go pick up her boyfriend for the prom. I don't remember because I don't care, but I'll take the writers word for it that it happened.
Nix cattishly notes: Kara apparently needs to get some because that speech to the pilots is a little too over the top. They’ll go drag his ass back just to get her laid and chill her out.
But why does she need the Glowing Golden Sam? She has Lee right there! Oh, right, he can't slurp noodles like Dad. Run, Starbuck! Run!
Baltar's sobbing into his test tubes that Mommy's so mean, he's gonna lose, waa-waa, and his fancy girl of the brain cells continues to wax his balls with the extra high powered power sanders. Too bad he's not right. (That's a spoiler. Oops.)
Back at the Admiral's quarters, Laura turns to get a new card to tear and Bill totally checks out her ass. But ever the gentleman, the eyes are on the face when she turns back to explain her brilliant debate technique.
Nix works her thumb off: This has now become my favorite two seconds of the show. Can you wear out Netflix, ‘cause I think I’m trying.
Laura explains the method to her madness: "Let the pieces fall where they may. It helps."
Why is Bill so adorable sitting at the table with his glass of water? I don't know. He just is. And now he's going to share his childhood stuffy! And it's not going to be all angsty and slightly uncomfortable like when Lee does it!
Nix sighs happily: They both look, dare I say, so unburdened in this scene. Younger, happier, more relaxed. I wonder what could have happened?
Aussie gushes: She’s so at home in his quarters!
"Yeah, my father used to break pencils before he went into court, then borrow one from the clerk. Break preconceptions. Work with what you have."
Laura so adorably listens gravely and nods.
MM and EJO do two straight men comedy so well. I die here. Just die.
Laura snatches up a pencil to give it a try. Oh, these crazy carefree days when they could waste paper and pencils! Before they were using their old shoe-liners for toilet paper!
The grace when she tosses away that pencil! You know Bill's boybits clenched with desire.
Abbott/Laura asks, "Yeah, but what happens if the moderator doesn't have a pencil?"
Costello/Bill: "Then you're pretty screwed."
Along with us, Laura breaks. Something tells me this was one of the simplest scenes MM ever had to do. For poor EJO, having to keep the straight face, not so much. She does the containing/exploding giggle so well here.
Raise your hand, all here who suffer from inappropriate laughter at the worse times.
Poor Laura admits she used to get the giggles before debate team in high school, which totally makes Bill wish he was in school with her, wearing his letter sweater, so he could pin her, oh yeah...And his boybits do a backflip.
Poor Tory, in the terrible role of Ultimate Straight Guy, until of course, she becomes Psycho Killer Cylon Girl, announces it's time to to go.
Laura takes a deep breath, 'cause that ALWAYS works when you have the giggles and with great dignity, Bill offers his arm, which is a good thing,because poor Laura explodes with laughter, and needs something to hang onto desperately as she nearly collapses.
We get the great ass shot of Bill here too...Win/win!
DAMN WE CUT AWAY TO GAETA WHO CARES HE'S WORSE THAN UNHOLY TROIKA OF BALTAR/LEE/CHIEF OF THE I DON'T CARE DUDES ON THIS SHOW. But he does have the dreary task of info-dump line,which is sort of funny when you hit pause to type a rant: "What many of you (viewers) don't know is that the captured Cylon Heavy Raider is capable of much longer jumps than our Raptors."
How coooonnnvveennienttt. 'cause we've got to do this whole dull B-story with Starbucks and her boyfriend and Caprica of the Golden Light, so despite a fleet of fleeing ships traveling a massive distance in two seasons of TV show, she'll be able to hop back in like a commercial break. Thanks for ignoring this stoopid plot point.
I do enjoy when Fancy Girl of the Head slams Baltar around. Humorously, she drives his skull into the tabletop just as Tom arrives. Oh Tom, Tom, Tom. You really thought you had your puppet to master, eh?
Okay, most crazy cross cuts evah. So Chief's just randomly lying on a completely empty deck in the middle of the day, sleeping? Laura/Bill are going to a debate at the exact moment the kids are planning the biggest military mission of the journey so far? You know what that means, don't you? Bill totally wanted to Be There for Laura and here's the keys to the car, Kara, don't bring it back dented!
"You just have to really try and think about something serious," he's advising Laura as they walk arm and arm through the corridors. Sure, Bill, as an uncontrollable laugher myself, that SO DOESN'T WORK!
Uh, arm and arm?
"That always works, all right?" he assures her. Oh, like when he's trying not to get all warm in the boybits around her, he thinks about Lee's attempts to exorcise all of his demons by squirting them out the end of his dick into the unsuspecting women of the fleet and worries that the tree won't fall too far from the acorn and that takes care of that.
"Like what?" she gasps.
Wrong question. He's lost too. "Well...Like...."
So Happy Nix: I love this moment because it’s so, “I know what you’re thinking so you don’t have to say it.”
Bill breaks himself, with the Big Toothy Bill Grin (tm)
Pretty much the best A/R's romance reaction shot evah here. Tory Eye roll and "great."
Nix points out: Clearly she is over this juvenile behavior. She puts up with a lot of shit, but apparently A/R goo-goo eyes and giggles pushes all of her buttons. It’s like she thinks she’s gonna have to go pull them out from behind the bleachers before the principal goes looking for them.
Does anyone know if this was written in the script or evolved on-set. 'cause I'm finding it hard to believe that the writers who typed in, Admiral and Madam Prez Hijinx.
Back to the planning of the Big Mission! Lee's killed the mood with his light, weak voice...."And so, fellow campers, be sure to put out your fires before tucking into your tents for sleepy-bye..."
Thank the gods, the debate is starting! Gaeta quickly turns up the volume on the wireless, cutting off Apollo.
Easy win this episode for Most Annoying Ship taking up airtime from would be Domestic Violence Poster Children, Callie and Chief.
Meanwhile, Laura arrives at the debate, her Seekrit Boyfriend no longer on her arm. You know he pulled her into an alcove for a good luck kiss before he left though.
EXACTLY! crows Nix.
Press introduction for Baltar: "...played a critical role in saving the human race from the Cylon threat."
Burn in Hades, you humanity setting up to die bastard.
And Laura's thinking the same thing, in that fabulous moment where she gives him a nice sincere smile and tells him, "I'm going to wipe the floor with you, Gaius."
Let's hope Bill gave her that little tip too.
"You must be losing your mind again." Snappy retort there, Doc. *yawn*
"If that the best you can come up with, you really are in trouble. Good luck."
Again, the cross-cutting goes wacky. Chief beats Callie to a pulp, has enough time to seek medical attention for her and spiritual guidance for himself, and Laura hasn't even broken her first pencil. Okay then.
Nix growls: Did all of the domestic abuse counselors perish in the attacks, because you think someone would have pulled this girl aside and said, “Yes, it’s common to identify with your abuser, but you need to get the frak away from the psychotic toaster lover.”
Oh wait, we don't need to see the debate because these other scenes are just so much more important. Uh...Okay.
Gods, Sad Sack Lee can drain any scene, can't he? He's the Big Bad Boss of Pegasus now, and he's got his own leather couch, his own bowl of noodles, his own unbuttoned tunic, but he can't hold a candle to dear ol' Dad.
Nix is on a roll: AS if Leemo could ever have the lips and tongue finesse of a man who can speak Spanish Tauron. Give it up Lee and get a frakking fork and knife, leave the oral acrobatics to the professionals.
Kara's slightly uncomfortable because he's trying to guilt her into loving him, but like, sorry dude. Hmmm...gosh, dude, should have like taken one of your one hundred opportunities to nail her over your dead brother's body, but now, too late. At least for a few months when she'll give you that goodbye frak before dancing on your shattered heart.
Anyway! Laura's gloating in a wonderfully unseemly manner about kicking Baltar scrawny ass before shoving one of those pencils up it.
Nix observes: And she eats the sole bite of food that will sustain her for the next two years.
HAHAHHAHAA.. Pouty Baltar looks at a Glamor Shot Laura on the front page of The News-Review and sighs. ('cause that's what my closed caption says) As he and Tom fuss and fume, Daddy wishes his girl a safe journey back to Caprica, and Helo and Sharon angst dully.
Nix sneers: Is that the heavy raider guidance doodad? I think that’s just a side of beef with some rope light going into it. Weak, props department, weak.
FFing!
Sharon is literally the deus ex machina to get them back to Caprica! I don't get the point, but anyway, OF COURSE, one Raptor goes astray. Doesn't one Raptor, ALWAYS go astray?
And they find a planet and Laura is totally screwed. *sigh*
Nix muses: Not that I really care but what was the point with all of this Chief crap, just to have an excuse to introduce Cavil? And don’t say foreshadowing because you know RDM et. al. had no clue Tyrol was a Cylon at this point.
Shallow note #1: Love the fluffy feathering of Bill's hair, not so thrilled with the Red Squirrel #5 color.
Random Note #2: I think Dee's pic of Lee is the bit that Kara kept folded back behind her 'other' boyfriend. Uh, really stalkerish, girlfriend.
It is too bad that Tom Zarek's own pwning of himself by coming up with this brill idea to populate New Caprica through his Puppet President isn't explored more fully on New Caprica. I could have taken a few scenes of that, fewer scenes of random guest stars licking their palms grossly.
Nix shudders: Why do I feel like Hatch got a woody to hear TH call him smart and sexy.
I mean, if anything shows he's BSC, it's Tom suggesting they settle NC, not to save humanity, but to win an election. Who really thinks like that! Only crazy people! Oh, er...
Laura's poo-pooing the whole idea, but we're all wondering where she got the second white boob shirt of win.
Nix suggests: Oh poor idealistic, Laura. She could steal a baby but couldn’t tell a little white lie. Tell them you’ll settle and cross your fingers behind your back if it makes you feel better.
"Madam President, in my opinion, people vote with their hopes, not their fears."
Okay, I'm just going to let that thought lie there for a moment and move on...
These endless Emmy reels/Acting Studio exercise scenes with Cavil and Chief Just. Keep. Going.
Aussie tries some logic: LOL! And of course the Plan made all this make more sense. *snort*
Nix yawns: I would say on rewatch, knowing what we know, these Cavil/Chief scenes are so fascinating, but I can’t.
FF!!
Whee, the kids break through the Caprican atmosphere and into the orange light!
But Poor Laura, even if the boob shirt of win, is having tough going in the second debate. And is that...a puka shell necklace? Gods! Oh no, fresh water pearls, thank goodness...
Nix is relieved as well: Sorry...Pearl necklace. *snort* I guess Bill gave her a gift before this debate as well. How did I never notice that before?
Random Question # Lost Count: The moderator had a yellow jacket in the first debate and now he has an orange one? Really? This is your wardrobe after the apocalypse?
Laura's parting shot is perhaps not her wittiest, but one I whole-heartedly agree with: 'Why don't you go frak yourself," to Baltar.
Gloomily, Laura and her gang sit around Bill's quarters, licking their wounds after the debate. Is she perhaps plotting a little something behind that steely gaze?
Nix makes an obscure X-files reference: Laura just had her, “Oh shit moment.” I think that was her panic face. But my, her team looks right at home in Bill’s quarters.
FFing through the Golden Light scenes, a couple of thoughts. Vancouver is always Vancouver, and everyone looks dorky in those helmets. And Sharon doesn't get one? Nice. Doesn't matter, because the Cylons open a can of whoop-ass, and it's To Be Continued!
It's late in Nixland: Seriously any scene on Caprica is like mixing alcohol and pain kill....zzzzz.
Which we shall do, next week, with Laura's Slump of Shame as the election happens and New Caprica is settled.
We start right off with things I don't need to see. Sweaty, hairy Chief rolling on deck.
Nix notes: When you can’t see the hands, drunk and jerking off are easily confused.
Why thank you, Moddy Nix! Now I need to wash my brain cells!
Things I should have seen, but apparently didn't. Laura commiserating about loss with Starbuck. Hmmm...Deleted scenes used for 'previously on' pisses me off.
Aussie: I think this was the ‘deleted’ scene that was never deleted on my version and we got confused on!
Who cares, cute debate coaching, HAPPENING!
Nix hugs herself with happiness: Mama Bear is on lockdown with Papa Bear and no one seems surprised. Obviously a common occurrence. Things I should have seen.
Random Thought #1: Laura wears panty hose. Where does she get more from?
Somewhere in there, Mom and Dad gave Starbuck permission to go pick up her boyfriend for the prom. I don't remember because I don't care, but I'll take the writers word for it that it happened.
Nix cattishly notes: Kara apparently needs to get some because that speech to the pilots is a little too over the top. They’ll go drag his ass back just to get her laid and chill her out.
But why does she need the Glowing Golden Sam? She has Lee right there! Oh, right, he can't slurp noodles like Dad. Run, Starbuck! Run!
Baltar's sobbing into his test tubes that Mommy's so mean, he's gonna lose, waa-waa, and his fancy girl of the brain cells continues to wax his balls with the extra high powered power sanders. Too bad he's not right. (That's a spoiler. Oops.)
Back at the Admiral's quarters, Laura turns to get a new card to tear and Bill totally checks out her ass. But ever the gentleman, the eyes are on the face when she turns back to explain her brilliant debate technique.
Nix works her thumb off: This has now become my favorite two seconds of the show. Can you wear out Netflix, ‘cause I think I’m trying.
Laura explains the method to her madness: "Let the pieces fall where they may. It helps."
Why is Bill so adorable sitting at the table with his glass of water? I don't know. He just is. And now he's going to share his childhood stuffy! And it's not going to be all angsty and slightly uncomfortable like when Lee does it!
Nix sighs happily: They both look, dare I say, so unburdened in this scene. Younger, happier, more relaxed. I wonder what could have happened?
Aussie gushes: She’s so at home in his quarters!
"Yeah, my father used to break pencils before he went into court, then borrow one from the clerk. Break preconceptions. Work with what you have."
Laura so adorably listens gravely and nods.
MM and EJO do two straight men comedy so well. I die here. Just die.
Laura snatches up a pencil to give it a try. Oh, these crazy carefree days when they could waste paper and pencils! Before they were using their old shoe-liners for toilet paper!
The grace when she tosses away that pencil! You know Bill's boybits clenched with desire.
Abbott/Laura asks, "Yeah, but what happens if the moderator doesn't have a pencil?"
Costello/Bill: "Then you're pretty screwed."
Along with us, Laura breaks. Something tells me this was one of the simplest scenes MM ever had to do. For poor EJO, having to keep the straight face, not so much. She does the containing/exploding giggle so well here.
Raise your hand, all here who suffer from inappropriate laughter at the worse times.
Poor Laura admits she used to get the giggles before debate team in high school, which totally makes Bill wish he was in school with her, wearing his letter sweater, so he could pin her, oh yeah...And his boybits do a backflip.
Poor Tory, in the terrible role of Ultimate Straight Guy, until of course, she becomes Psycho Killer Cylon Girl, announces it's time to to go.
Laura takes a deep breath, 'cause that ALWAYS works when you have the giggles and with great dignity, Bill offers his arm, which is a good thing,because poor Laura explodes with laughter, and needs something to hang onto desperately as she nearly collapses.
We get the great ass shot of Bill here too...Win/win!
DAMN WE CUT AWAY TO GAETA WHO CARES HE'S WORSE THAN UNHOLY TROIKA OF BALTAR/LEE/CHIEF OF THE I DON'T CARE DUDES ON THIS SHOW. But he does have the dreary task of info-dump line,which is sort of funny when you hit pause to type a rant: "What many of you (viewers) don't know is that the captured Cylon Heavy Raider is capable of much longer jumps than our Raptors."
How coooonnnvveennienttt. 'cause we've got to do this whole dull B-story with Starbucks and her boyfriend and Caprica of the Golden Light, so despite a fleet of fleeing ships traveling a massive distance in two seasons of TV show, she'll be able to hop back in like a commercial break. Thanks for ignoring this stoopid plot point.
I do enjoy when Fancy Girl of the Head slams Baltar around. Humorously, she drives his skull into the tabletop just as Tom arrives. Oh Tom, Tom, Tom. You really thought you had your puppet to master, eh?
Okay, most crazy cross cuts evah. So Chief's just randomly lying on a completely empty deck in the middle of the day, sleeping? Laura/Bill are going to a debate at the exact moment the kids are planning the biggest military mission of the journey so far? You know what that means, don't you? Bill totally wanted to Be There for Laura and here's the keys to the car, Kara, don't bring it back dented!
"You just have to really try and think about something serious," he's advising Laura as they walk arm and arm through the corridors. Sure, Bill, as an uncontrollable laugher myself, that SO DOESN'T WORK!
Uh, arm and arm?
"That always works, all right?" he assures her. Oh, like when he's trying not to get all warm in the boybits around her, he thinks about Lee's attempts to exorcise all of his demons by squirting them out the end of his dick into the unsuspecting women of the fleet and worries that the tree won't fall too far from the acorn and that takes care of that.
"Like what?" she gasps.
Wrong question. He's lost too. "Well...Like...."
So Happy Nix: I love this moment because it’s so, “I know what you’re thinking so you don’t have to say it.”
Bill breaks himself, with the Big Toothy Bill Grin (tm)
Pretty much the best A/R's romance reaction shot evah here. Tory Eye roll and "great."
Nix points out: Clearly she is over this juvenile behavior. She puts up with a lot of shit, but apparently A/R goo-goo eyes and giggles pushes all of her buttons. It’s like she thinks she’s gonna have to go pull them out from behind the bleachers before the principal goes looking for them.
Does anyone know if this was written in the script or evolved on-set. 'cause I'm finding it hard to believe that the writers who typed in, Admiral and Madam Prez Hijinx.
Back to the planning of the Big Mission! Lee's killed the mood with his light, weak voice...."And so, fellow campers, be sure to put out your fires before tucking into your tents for sleepy-bye..."
Thank the gods, the debate is starting! Gaeta quickly turns up the volume on the wireless, cutting off Apollo.
Easy win this episode for Most Annoying Ship taking up airtime from would be Domestic Violence Poster Children, Callie and Chief.
Meanwhile, Laura arrives at the debate, her Seekrit Boyfriend no longer on her arm. You know he pulled her into an alcove for a good luck kiss before he left though.
EXACTLY! crows Nix.
Press introduction for Baltar: "...played a critical role in saving the human race from the Cylon threat."
Burn in Hades, you humanity setting up to die bastard.
And Laura's thinking the same thing, in that fabulous moment where she gives him a nice sincere smile and tells him, "I'm going to wipe the floor with you, Gaius."
Let's hope Bill gave her that little tip too.
"You must be losing your mind again." Snappy retort there, Doc. *yawn*
"If that the best you can come up with, you really are in trouble. Good luck."
Again, the cross-cutting goes wacky. Chief beats Callie to a pulp, has enough time to seek medical attention for her and spiritual guidance for himself, and Laura hasn't even broken her first pencil. Okay then.
Nix growls: Did all of the domestic abuse counselors perish in the attacks, because you think someone would have pulled this girl aside and said, “Yes, it’s common to identify with your abuser, but you need to get the frak away from the psychotic toaster lover.”
Oh wait, we don't need to see the debate because these other scenes are just so much more important. Uh...Okay.
Gods, Sad Sack Lee can drain any scene, can't he? He's the Big Bad Boss of Pegasus now, and he's got his own leather couch, his own bowl of noodles, his own unbuttoned tunic, but he can't hold a candle to dear ol' Dad.
Nix is on a roll: AS if Leemo could ever have the lips and tongue finesse of a man who can speak Spanish Tauron. Give it up Lee and get a frakking fork and knife, leave the oral acrobatics to the professionals.
Kara's slightly uncomfortable because he's trying to guilt her into loving him, but like, sorry dude. Hmmm...gosh, dude, should have like taken one of your one hundred opportunities to nail her over your dead brother's body, but now, too late. At least for a few months when she'll give you that goodbye frak before dancing on your shattered heart.
Anyway! Laura's gloating in a wonderfully unseemly manner about kicking Baltar scrawny ass before shoving one of those pencils up it.
Nix observes: And she eats the sole bite of food that will sustain her for the next two years.
HAHAHHAHAA.. Pouty Baltar looks at a Glamor Shot Laura on the front page of The News-Review and sighs. ('cause that's what my closed caption says) As he and Tom fuss and fume, Daddy wishes his girl a safe journey back to Caprica, and Helo and Sharon angst dully.
Nix sneers: Is that the heavy raider guidance doodad? I think that’s just a side of beef with some rope light going into it. Weak, props department, weak.
FFing!
Sharon is literally the deus ex machina to get them back to Caprica! I don't get the point, but anyway, OF COURSE, one Raptor goes astray. Doesn't one Raptor, ALWAYS go astray?
And they find a planet and Laura is totally screwed. *sigh*
Nix muses: Not that I really care but what was the point with all of this Chief crap, just to have an excuse to introduce Cavil? And don’t say foreshadowing because you know RDM et. al. had no clue Tyrol was a Cylon at this point.
Shallow note #1: Love the fluffy feathering of Bill's hair, not so thrilled with the Red Squirrel #5 color.
Random Note #2: I think Dee's pic of Lee is the bit that Kara kept folded back behind her 'other' boyfriend. Uh, really stalkerish, girlfriend.
It is too bad that Tom Zarek's own pwning of himself by coming up with this brill idea to populate New Caprica through his Puppet President isn't explored more fully on New Caprica. I could have taken a few scenes of that, fewer scenes of random guest stars licking their palms grossly.
Nix shudders: Why do I feel like Hatch got a woody to hear TH call him smart and sexy.
I mean, if anything shows he's BSC, it's Tom suggesting they settle NC, not to save humanity, but to win an election. Who really thinks like that! Only crazy people! Oh, er...
Laura's poo-pooing the whole idea, but we're all wondering where she got the second white boob shirt of win.
Nix suggests: Oh poor idealistic, Laura. She could steal a baby but couldn’t tell a little white lie. Tell them you’ll settle and cross your fingers behind your back if it makes you feel better.
"Madam President, in my opinion, people vote with their hopes, not their fears."
Okay, I'm just going to let that thought lie there for a moment and move on...
These endless Emmy reels/Acting Studio exercise scenes with Cavil and Chief Just. Keep. Going.
Aussie tries some logic: LOL! And of course the Plan made all this make more sense. *snort*
Nix yawns: I would say on rewatch, knowing what we know, these Cavil/Chief scenes are so fascinating, but I can’t.
FF!!
Whee, the kids break through the Caprican atmosphere and into the orange light!
But Poor Laura, even if the boob shirt of win, is having tough going in the second debate. And is that...a puka shell necklace? Gods! Oh no, fresh water pearls, thank goodness...
Nix is relieved as well: Sorry...Pearl necklace. *snort* I guess Bill gave her a gift before this debate as well. How did I never notice that before?
Random Question # Lost Count: The moderator had a yellow jacket in the first debate and now he has an orange one? Really? This is your wardrobe after the apocalypse?
Laura's parting shot is perhaps not her wittiest, but one I whole-heartedly agree with: 'Why don't you go frak yourself," to Baltar.
Gloomily, Laura and her gang sit around Bill's quarters, licking their wounds after the debate. Is she perhaps plotting a little something behind that steely gaze?
Nix makes an obscure X-files reference: Laura just had her, “Oh shit moment.” I think that was her panic face. But my, her team looks right at home in Bill’s quarters.
FFing through the Golden Light scenes, a couple of thoughts. Vancouver is always Vancouver, and everyone looks dorky in those helmets. And Sharon doesn't get one? Nice. Doesn't matter, because the Cylons open a can of whoop-ass, and it's To Be Continued!
It's late in Nixland: Seriously any scene on Caprica is like mixing alcohol and pain kill....zzzzz.
Which we shall do, next week, with Laura's Slump of Shame as the election happens and New Caprica is settled.