I can't believe they're ending this season with THIS!
I saw Crossroads Pt. 1 last night and deferred the urge to write about it then and there. Firstly, because I am without doubt frustrated with Ron Moore. If he, in his finite wisdom, doesn't find it in his heart to make the writing and storyline as tight as Heroes (or he probably just doesn't have the talent) and not WTFJustHappenedThatWasTheUgliestEpEver?!...I'm going to be a pathetic little frakker because I'll watch his show anyway. This is one television series that manages to make me hate it, and still watch it, in spite of bad, BAD writing.
Because of one thing. (Oh, okay! A FEW things!)
The actors. The gay subtext. The community that basically makes it a gazillion times more interesting than it's turning out to be.
So, before I get all Lee!emo on all of ya, onto my rambling thoughts about this episode.
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3, episode 19, "Crossroads Pt. 1"
I'm very interested on what Saul, Anders, and Tory are hearing; sounds strangely like radio plus a melody of strings. Speaking of strings, the theme is akin to a basestar's musical repertoire and if these three are Cylons, then I do believe our team just got stronger. Yes, Cylons = queer = femslash mafia (hope none of ya are offended!).
It doesn't help that Saul's been drinking and that the writing brought his drunken ass on the stand, or that Tory hasn't been getting enough sleep and snarked protectively at the media. You don't quite see Tory lose it that way for the El Presidente and it was quite...HOT. In defense of the President, you are allowed such disasters once in a while though if humanity's numbers hadn't been so small, I would've fired her (then had hate!sex!). Tory shared this very (in the words of ana-khouri) I'm-a-secret-pyramid-cheerleader look with Anders, too, which deserves its own backstory.
The Tory/Roslin in this episode seeped to the floors, bathed the ceilings, drowned my muse and left me intoxicated! Need I say more? Those two are sleeping with each other! It's so frakkin' obvious! And the dom in the relationship? Well, she's the one who smokes 'em cigarettes and screams at Baltar, and apparently screams at the one person who adores her enough that her eyes say it all. Oh, Tory/Laura! I'm a FAN, d'you hear? I want more loving from you two! Hopefully, some lip-lock on-screen, but that's asking too much of Ron Moore's pathetic ass.
But we'll give Moore some credit for putting Lee in a suit. DroolsOMGNoWords!
The court-trial writing absolutely threw me off my already debunk ILoveMeSomeBSG cart. Though the acting was done perfectly and it broke my Lee/Roslin heart, I had rolled my eyes at Lambkin's lines, at Lee's lines, at the prosecuter's lines, at Bill's lines...and drooled over the woman judge's monosyllables. How bad could it possibly get? I mean, it would've been better if they all hadn't spoken and merely mimed their way through the episode! Saul's actor blew me away; that guy deserves an award and he makes Saul so interesting that to hate him would be to love him, too.
Character development was absolutely and completely shot! What happened to Bill? Sure, I like Bill playing in Laura's sandbox, but his man pain is getting to me and he's the frakkin' Admiral. I'm sure he -as pragmatic as they've made him look the past few eps -could've done something instead of snarked at Lee.
Actually, they all could've done something instead of snarked at each other. It's as though the episode wasn't dynamic enough and simmered into emotions more than it carried the plot forward.
I do laud Dee for leaving her husband (at last!) and I especially love her comment on how the system is broken, how it should be taken apart and put together again. Do I hear revolution in what you're saying, Dee?
I don't like Lee for making the issue of Laura's chamalla treatment very personal or the fact that he remained blind to the sentiments of those he has been serving with. If he had been friend, which I rather hoped he was; if he at all had been honorable, he would have investigated beforehand because pushing that issue to her face was below-the-belt, and sleazy.
He knew why she was taking it before; he would've concluded why she was taking it now but noooo...the logic in this ep's all screwed! Maybe this is how he's dealing with his grief; alienating himself from the life he knew and stepping from his father's shadow.
In response to others' criticism of the ep, I also don't know why they didn't put Callie or Tyrol on the stand. Perhaps they'd save that for the next episode? The trial set-up disappointed me, as did Lambkin's opening remarks (if that's what you call it). WTF?
Acting-wise, this episode was a gem. Technically, it's alright, sure with the very monotony of lighting and texture (to contribute to a feeling of stagnation). Thematically, plot-wise and the writing...oh gods, so not even there or worth my salt. I wanna puke.
I want my space opera-licious fight scenes, the non-convoluted plots which don't create holes bigger than anybody's butt, and the CYLONS! I want me some Cylons! And their gayness! Oh, did love the head!Six and head!Gaius, no matter how tiny those scenes were.
In all, I'd give this episode a nasty 5 out of 10 because it left me more confuzzled and angry then "Maelstrom" did.
Because of one thing. (Oh, okay! A FEW things!)
The actors. The gay subtext. The community that basically makes it a gazillion times more interesting than it's turning out to be.
So, before I get all Lee!emo on all of ya, onto my rambling thoughts about this episode.
Battlestar Galactica: Season 3, episode 19, "Crossroads Pt. 1"
I'm very interested on what Saul, Anders, and Tory are hearing; sounds strangely like radio plus a melody of strings. Speaking of strings, the theme is akin to a basestar's musical repertoire and if these three are Cylons, then I do believe our team just got stronger. Yes, Cylons = queer = femslash mafia (hope none of ya are offended!).
It doesn't help that Saul's been drinking and that the writing brought his drunken ass on the stand, or that Tory hasn't been getting enough sleep and snarked protectively at the media. You don't quite see Tory lose it that way for the El Presidente and it was quite...HOT. In defense of the President, you are allowed such disasters once in a while though if humanity's numbers hadn't been so small, I would've fired her (then had hate!sex!). Tory shared this very (in the words of ana-khouri) I'm-a-secret-pyramid-cheerleader look with Anders, too, which deserves its own backstory.
The Tory/Roslin in this episode seeped to the floors, bathed the ceilings, drowned my muse and left me intoxicated! Need I say more? Those two are sleeping with each other! It's so frakkin' obvious! And the dom in the relationship? Well, she's the one who smokes 'em cigarettes and screams at Baltar, and apparently screams at the one person who adores her enough that her eyes say it all. Oh, Tory/Laura! I'm a FAN, d'you hear? I want more loving from you two! Hopefully, some lip-lock on-screen, but that's asking too much of Ron Moore's pathetic ass.
But we'll give Moore some credit for putting Lee in a suit. DroolsOMGNoWords!
The court-trial writing absolutely threw me off my already debunk ILoveMeSomeBSG cart. Though the acting was done perfectly and it broke my Lee/Roslin heart, I had rolled my eyes at Lambkin's lines, at Lee's lines, at the prosecuter's lines, at Bill's lines...and drooled over the woman judge's monosyllables. How bad could it possibly get? I mean, it would've been better if they all hadn't spoken and merely mimed their way through the episode! Saul's actor blew me away; that guy deserves an award and he makes Saul so interesting that to hate him would be to love him, too.
Character development was absolutely and completely shot! What happened to Bill? Sure, I like Bill playing in Laura's sandbox, but his man pain is getting to me and he's the frakkin' Admiral. I'm sure he -as pragmatic as they've made him look the past few eps -could've done something instead of snarked at Lee.
Actually, they all could've done something instead of snarked at each other. It's as though the episode wasn't dynamic enough and simmered into emotions more than it carried the plot forward.
I do laud Dee for leaving her husband (at last!) and I especially love her comment on how the system is broken, how it should be taken apart and put together again. Do I hear revolution in what you're saying, Dee?
I don't like Lee for making the issue of Laura's chamalla treatment very personal or the fact that he remained blind to the sentiments of those he has been serving with. If he had been friend, which I rather hoped he was; if he at all had been honorable, he would have investigated beforehand because pushing that issue to her face was below-the-belt, and sleazy.
He knew why she was taking it before; he would've concluded why she was taking it now but noooo...the logic in this ep's all screwed! Maybe this is how he's dealing with his grief; alienating himself from the life he knew and stepping from his father's shadow.
In response to others' criticism of the ep, I also don't know why they didn't put Callie or Tyrol on the stand. Perhaps they'd save that for the next episode? The trial set-up disappointed me, as did Lambkin's opening remarks (if that's what you call it). WTF?
Acting-wise, this episode was a gem. Technically, it's alright, sure with the very monotony of lighting and texture (to contribute to a feeling of stagnation). Thematically, plot-wise and the writing...oh gods, so not even there or worth my salt. I wanna puke.
I want my space opera-licious fight scenes, the non-convoluted plots which don't create holes bigger than anybody's butt, and the CYLONS! I want me some Cylons! And their gayness! Oh, did love the head!Six and head!Gaius, no matter how tiny those scenes were.
In all, I'd give this episode a nasty 5 out of 10 because it left me more confuzzled and angry then "Maelstrom" did.