i am alive, i guess

[hooveraardvark]

hey dudes. i didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth, but this last month has been really busy with work and various other crap. by which i mean i spent most of this last month reading and sewing stuffed animals and feeling weepy for no particular reason. call it winter hibernation

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hahaha, that BSG clip is PERFECT

[danschank]

i'm loving it too, ever since they came back from that long break and started having each episode be more batshit than the last.

i'm also glad baltar's religion has kinda fallen apart. i might be the only person in the world who hates baltar. i also like the show way better when it's about crazed-mutiny-freakout instead of whether or not we should believe in the one true lord or whatever.

i hope more people die. it's awful to think this, but killing off characters is a surefire way to keep me interested in a tv show.

there are people who like baltar?

[hooveraardvark]

the maddening thing about battlestar is that your opinions on everyone change weekly. there is no character i have liked or disliked consistently. (well, ok, i am kind of in love with roslin, but that's just not rational.)

i'm positive more people will die! i'm hoping that will happen on heroes, since the only way to save the show is to kill off all the current characters and start over. and that probably won't work either.

i can't get into "heroes"

[danschank]

i agree that BSG plays with allegiances a WHOLE lot, but there are characters i always like (chief, roslin, bill adama, tigh, THE GRUMPY OLD DOCTOR) and characters i always hate (baltar, lee, any incarnation of tricia helfer, anders).

i also might be in the minority in that i like gaeta and zarek, through and through. i thought zarek was a really smart addition to the show.

i wish i hadn't gotten into it

[hooveraardvark]

i guess i pretty consistently hate lee and starbuck. though i mostly hate starbuck for being a fucking mary sue. maybe they fixed that, though.

haha, everyone loves cottle! except for that bizarrely bad episode that seemed like a star trek crossover, with all the anti-medicine sagitarrons, the crazy doctor going around killing people, and helo standing around making important pronouncements. i have to say that when bsg is bad, it really goes there.

oh, you are not the only one who likes gaeta. tiffany LOVES gaeta, if you know what i mean. he's gay and one-legged and sings, so . . .

Re: i can't get into "heroes"

[hooveraardvark]

do you ever play the game where you try to decide which characters have the most miserable lives on the show and rank them?

BSG's unofficial motto: It's Bad Now, But It Could Be Even Worse.

Re: i can't get into "heroes"

[danschank]

hahaha... tigh? callie?

and yeah, the bad episodes really blow. the one where everyone ends up boxing each other was particularly stupid. i kinda can't swallow the totally unexamined "equality" between genders on the show sometimes. like, we're supposed to accept lee and starbuck punching each other in the face because it's the future or whatever... i wish they had addressed that a bit more.

Re: i can't get into "heroes"

[hooveraardvark]

gaeta was winning recently. towards the beginning of the series it was definitely helo.

it is a little odd that they cut out all racial tension as well, especially since class is still addressed (like in the episode where they talk about jobs being inherited in the fleet). in the aforementioned bad episode, there's that really wince-inducing part where dualla is talking about "her people" (sagitarrons) being stubborn and dumb, which sounds pretty bad coming from the major african american character. i assume they wanted to concentrate on the human/cylon relationship and probably thought dealing with other inequalities was too complicated.

Re: there are people who like baltar?

[hooveraardvark]

i think roslin is my favorite.

Re: there are people who like baltar?

[sealwhiskers]

ooh, she's one of my favorites too, but that actress is fantastic, so...

Re: there are people who like baltar?

[hooveraardvark]

she is amazing. i hate grey's anatomy, but i actually considered watching it when i heard mary mcdonnell was going to guest star.