It's always darkest before the dawn, but that light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train
It is well past time for me to admit that, despite my best efforts, the final push for this release is going to occupy every waking moment of my time for the next week and a half. I watched the BSG mid-season finale on Friday night; I had a lovely dinner with some lovely company on Saturday; both of those things did me a world of good, but they were the last of the slack in my schedule. I'll resume commenting and posting sometime after I've shipped my books, and once I have scotch taped the remaining shreds of my sanity back together. I have some things to say about Babylon 5, when I have the time.
My extremely brief reaction to BSG 4.09 - 4.10, mostly for my own record:
As the show has become progressively more driven by looming destiny and mysticism, I've become progressively more disconnected from it. I've found the plotting and the themes intellectually interesting, but it's hard for me to connect with characters who are acting out pre-defined parts in a larger play. On the other hand, characters who cling to a plan because it's their only way of holding on to a purpose through a series of devastating events, and then actually achieving the goal and finding out that it's not what they wanted, not what they signed up for, that they're holding ashes and death in their hands instead? That is something that hits me where I live. (See also: Farscape.) So I was absolutely, 100% delighted by the end of "Revelations," and the possibility it raises that they've played their parts in the pre-written script and the place it brought them to isn't the end. I want them to have to figure out the next part for themselves; I want them to do that as people, not figures in a prophecy. If all of this has happened before--a massive armageddon, planets left in ruins--and the way out is to break the cycle, I want them to do that as individuals making decisions about their own future. And I'm also very pleased that the rest of the fleet knows about the four Galactica Cylons now, and that we have a number of episodes to watch the characters absorb the news and forge new relationships with them, even though I could have done without Adama's emo breakdown/Olmos's Emmy reel.
[Disabling comments because I'm not sure when I'll be able to answer them.]
My extremely brief reaction to BSG 4.09 - 4.10, mostly for my own record:
As the show has become progressively more driven by looming destiny and mysticism, I've become progressively more disconnected from it. I've found the plotting and the themes intellectually interesting, but it's hard for me to connect with characters who are acting out pre-defined parts in a larger play. On the other hand, characters who cling to a plan because it's their only way of holding on to a purpose through a series of devastating events, and then actually achieving the goal and finding out that it's not what they wanted, not what they signed up for, that they're holding ashes and death in their hands instead? That is something that hits me where I live. (See also: Farscape.) So I was absolutely, 100% delighted by the end of "Revelations," and the possibility it raises that they've played their parts in the pre-written script and the place it brought them to isn't the end. I want them to have to figure out the next part for themselves; I want them to do that as people, not figures in a prophecy. If all of this has happened before--a massive armageddon, planets left in ruins--and the way out is to break the cycle, I want them to do that as individuals making decisions about their own future. And I'm also very pleased that the rest of the fleet knows about the four Galactica Cylons now, and that we have a number of episodes to watch the characters absorb the news and forge new relationships with them, even though I could have done without Adama's emo breakdown/Olmos's Emmy reel.
[Disabling comments because I'm not sure when I'll be able to answer them.]