This is how I choose to cope with the impending doom of papers/midterms.
In lieu of no SciFi Friday, I snuggled up with a certain set of DVDs. BETCHA CAN'T GUESS WHICH ONES.
1. You know what's amazing? How one deleted scene kind of changes the entire tenor of BSG S2.
First of all, I was impressed when I discovered that the deleted scenes of the S1 DVD release weren't simply all the scenes available from SciFi. Like, Boxey had an entire, semi-important storyline in "Water," did you know that?! He keeps turning up and then BEING CUT OUT. If I were the child actor playing Boxey, I would be sort of pissed.
But, anyway.
There's a deleted scene - I believe it falls right after the raptor has crashed on Kobol - and everyone's in Adama's ready room (?) panicking and trying to figure out what to do. And Adama mentions that they're going to use the Cylon raider to jump to eliminate the basestar and Roslin says "and it'll be destroyed in the process?" and Adama says yes, and Roslin looks really pissed, and then everyone moves on.
DUDE! That's, like. That's majorly major.
Because, all right, I suppose that it was sort of implied that Adama's military use of the raider might get it blown up, but when he flat-out tells her that he is the one that gets to play with their new toy first and he's going to permanently break it in the process and never give her a chance, that so totally puts Roslin's crappy decision in context! It's not just that she's second-guessing Adama about military vs. civilian matters: she knows she's never going to have another decent shot at jumping to Caprica... unlike the Galactica, which from her point of view has Raptors to jump to Kobol at its disposal and thus has a theoretical shot at exploding the basestar without the raider's help.
'Course, Roslin's decision still wasn't that smart, but it MAKES SENSE now. At least to me. And I can be sort of slow and have to have my hand held at times when it comes to leaps of logic of this sort.
(Guys, it really creeps me out that I am this obsessed with the Adama/Roslin/power OT3. I have now justified both sides of the fight! ohnoes.)
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2. Other things that keep bothering me/didn't seem to get answered/I enjoy spectulating about:
- Who wrote "Cylon" on Sharon's locker?
- The photo of Kara, Zack, and Lee - whose is it? I suppose it would all depend on where her flashbacks in "Act of Contrition" are taking place, which didn't seem to be that clear to me.
- Was Ellen really that drunk in "Tigh Me Up...", or it is all an act? Tigh certainly was, but I had my doubts about Ellen's too-perfect performance.
- Was it Ellen who killed the prisoner in "Colonial Day," or was she just Zarek's go-to woman on board to get the job done?
- Am I absolutely insane for thinking that there may have been plans between Ellen and Zarek to stage a coup of their own and gain both military and civilian control? (You could even bring up Zarek and not!Richard's plot to kill Lee into this argument, too.)
- Does Adama even know about Roslin's cancer, even now? Seriously. (A personal theory of mine is that Tigh doesn't tell this to Adama after he wakes up because he knows that Adama will be preoccupied with Lee, and hey, probably figures that he already knows.)
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And one Atlantis thought, although I warn you it's a mild spoiler for an unaired episode, "The Long Goodbye," but trust me when I tell you that if you're spoilerphobic about the idea of John Sheppard carrying a gun, then... oops?
I think I've read enough about this episode (which, admittedly, isn't that much) to figure out what/whom he's shooting at. And, just. I flail and squee, all at the same time. OMGOMGOMG.
(Have you seen that weapon before? It looks familiar. But I'm also a whore for shows with shiny guns, so my recognition could be completely unfounded.)
1. You know what's amazing? How one deleted scene kind of changes the entire tenor of BSG S2.
First of all, I was impressed when I discovered that the deleted scenes of the S1 DVD release weren't simply all the scenes available from SciFi. Like, Boxey had an entire, semi-important storyline in "Water," did you know that?! He keeps turning up and then BEING CUT OUT. If I were the child actor playing Boxey, I would be sort of pissed.
But, anyway.
There's a deleted scene - I believe it falls right after the raptor has crashed on Kobol - and everyone's in Adama's ready room (?) panicking and trying to figure out what to do. And Adama mentions that they're going to use the Cylon raider to jump to eliminate the basestar and Roslin says "and it'll be destroyed in the process?" and Adama says yes, and Roslin looks really pissed, and then everyone moves on.
DUDE! That's, like. That's majorly major.
Because, all right, I suppose that it was sort of implied that Adama's military use of the raider might get it blown up, but when he flat-out tells her that he is the one that gets to play with their new toy first and he's going to permanently break it in the process and never give her a chance, that so totally puts Roslin's crappy decision in context! It's not just that she's second-guessing Adama about military vs. civilian matters: she knows she's never going to have another decent shot at jumping to Caprica... unlike the Galactica, which from her point of view has Raptors to jump to Kobol at its disposal and thus has a theoretical shot at exploding the basestar without the raider's help.
'Course, Roslin's decision still wasn't that smart, but it MAKES SENSE now. At least to me. And I can be sort of slow and have to have my hand held at times when it comes to leaps of logic of this sort.
(Guys, it really creeps me out that I am this obsessed with the Adama/Roslin/power OT3. I have now justified both sides of the fight! ohnoes.)
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2. Other things that keep bothering me/didn't seem to get answered/I enjoy spectulating about:
- Who wrote "Cylon" on Sharon's locker?
- The photo of Kara, Zack, and Lee - whose is it? I suppose it would all depend on where her flashbacks in "Act of Contrition" are taking place, which didn't seem to be that clear to me.
- Was Ellen really that drunk in "Tigh Me Up...", or it is all an act? Tigh certainly was, but I had my doubts about Ellen's too-perfect performance.
- Was it Ellen who killed the prisoner in "Colonial Day," or was she just Zarek's go-to woman on board to get the job done?
- Am I absolutely insane for thinking that there may have been plans between Ellen and Zarek to stage a coup of their own and gain both military and civilian control? (You could even bring up Zarek and not!Richard's plot to kill Lee into this argument, too.)
- Does Adama even know about Roslin's cancer, even now? Seriously. (A personal theory of mine is that Tigh doesn't tell this to Adama after he wakes up because he knows that Adama will be preoccupied with Lee, and hey, probably figures that he already knows.)
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And one Atlantis thought, although I warn you it's a mild spoiler for an unaired episode, "The Long Goodbye," but trust me when I tell you that if you're spoilerphobic about the idea of John Sheppard carrying a gun, then... oops?
I think I've read enough about this episode (which, admittedly, isn't that much) to figure out what/whom he's shooting at. And, just. I flail and squee, all at the same time. OMGOMGOMG.
(Have you seen that weapon before? It looks familiar. But I'm also a whore for shows with shiny guns, so my recognition could be completely unfounded.)