bsg 4x08, sine qua non
Good stuff :
1.) We got Worried!LikeFrakkin'Hell!Bill within like two minutes into the show. Which I've been looking forward to ever since the hybrid jumped last episode and which is my secret TV plot point weakness.
2.) Adama : 'You're not even the same man you were from New Caprica. You found out a lot about yourself.' Tigh : (Understatement of the millenium face)
3.) The A/R theme playing when Romo lawyerly defines 'sine qua non.'
4.) Declarations of love scattered throughout the episode.
5.) 'I can't live without her.' HELLO, SHIP. WELCOME TO CANON.
Bad Stuff :
1.) NATALIE NOOOO.
2.) Romo Frakkin' Lampkin. Why the hell was he in this episode in the first place? I couldn't stand him in Crossroads, and in this episode , I honestly couldn't even watch him onscreen when he absolutely had no use except to be a feeble device to push Lee into presidency. Which we all saw from a thousand bong hits away. And Head!Cat. And the crazy gun pointing and inspiring speech. I was really disappointed in the way they handled this. There were so many things they could've focused on instead of this frakked up shit, like
3.) Everyone else's reaction to the basestar being in tiny bloody bits in space. Tory? All fine with Zarek, even with the bitching and the guilt tripping she got from Laura an episode ago. Kara? Nothing. Isn't she supposed to be the least bit concerned, if not personally, then at the thought of the whole religion thing and the dying leader and the opera house thing that she told Laura in the first place? Or the many pilots who were supposed to be there with her? Hell, come on, Helo was there! And the idea is that they're all just dead. Ugh. It was all so wrong. I mean, I get that Bill's worried, but how come he's the only one? The rest of them are like, oooh. Pretty Cylon basestar bits. Let's go then.
Overall, a good shipper episode, but a disappointing plot one. Keeping my fingers crossed to have me some cool frakking Roslin next episode.
Lampkin : Sine qua non, as they say.
Adama : Without which not.
Lampkin : Yes. Those things we deem essential, without which we cannot bear living, without which life in general loses its specific value. Becomes abstract.