BSG 4x01 he that believeth in me
Due to various circumstances we saw 4x01 twice yesterday (and akzseinga saw some parts even thrice!). nashirah summed it up with a "LOLOLOL", but I seem to have a little more to say.
First of all, Kara. It's obvious what a relief is to finally have her back. It's kinda hard to believe I waited more than a year to finally see her step off that Viper. But when she did... Some of you are right that it's a different Kara - she seems to have found some kind of inner peace, something to lean on, and I think it's actually her destiny, the fact that she will lead the fleet to Earth. She really believes she was there and is absolutely desperate to prove that to everyone. wisteria_ is right in what she writes here: that for Kara Maelstrom is just a couple of hours away, and she's just been through a massive nervous breakdown. She can't let anybody take that goal from her - not even Laura Roslin, so she reacts in a typically Starbuck fashion - she strikes out. We know she's not doing the right thing, but she doesn't think in such categories, and it's not the first time she does something crazy - hello, jumping to Caprica in Kobol's Last Gleaming? Who in his right mind does that?
In Maelstrom Lee called her a raving lunatic, yet he is the only person (save Sam, but that's a different matter altogether) to believe her straightaway. I'll skip all the shipper-squeeing parts and just say that I'm very happy with the direction in which this plot seems to be going. I'm just wondering if they'll make everybody believe that Kara is a Cylon and make them accept that only to reveal at the end that she's just a "special" human or if they'll actually make her one of the Final Five... but I doubt that, the final Cylon is going to be somebody that's going to really surprise us. I loved the "what if it was Zak stepping off that Viper?" line, and the whole scene set in the briefing room. Lee really seems to be past caring who - or what - came back. He only cares that it's Starbuck. Adama still struggles - and he's right with the not affording part. He's the commander. He really can't afford to make a mistake based on his feelings - he already did that when Starbuck crashed on the Red Moon in S1. Now he knows what's at stake.
Now on to Sam - I really loved him in the cockpit! But how the hell did he fit in there? Did they build a specially issued line of XL Vipers? All size-related jokes aside, the first scenes with Anders were a win - the conversation he had with Chief, the way he repeated his name to himself, and then the startling recognition of the Raider, the red gleam in Sam's blue eye. I'm really curious about what are they going to do with our Final Four - do they have clones? Are they programmed to sabotage the fleet the way Boomer did? Do their spines glow red too? :D
I kinda loved how they messed with us in the beginning, showing Tigh shooting Adama. I held my breath for the entire duration of that scene.
About Baltar - hee! This is so much better than the Gaius-on-a-Basestar plotline. I think it was something novin_ha said about Baltar being the villain and the comic relief at the same time - and here he's both at the same time and in full swing. I even liked that cracky and a little over-the-top decorations of whatever that place was where that weird cult stayed. I cheered when that girl started smiting the Baltar-haters and laughed out loud at the "Do you feel God's presence?" line. Honestly. It started a long line of breast-size related jokes at our place. I wonder what's going to happen to Baltar now, I think it's going to get really interesting in a while.
Roslin was so bitchy I'm glad she didn't decide to throw Starbuck out of the airlock straightaway.
Now how long until 4x02? Only six days? Man, I won't even be able to digest this until then.
First of all, Kara. It's obvious what a relief is to finally have her back. It's kinda hard to believe I waited more than a year to finally see her step off that Viper. But when she did... Some of you are right that it's a different Kara - she seems to have found some kind of inner peace, something to lean on, and I think it's actually her destiny, the fact that she will lead the fleet to Earth. She really believes she was there and is absolutely desperate to prove that to everyone. wisteria_ is right in what she writes here: that for Kara Maelstrom is just a couple of hours away, and she's just been through a massive nervous breakdown. She can't let anybody take that goal from her - not even Laura Roslin, so she reacts in a typically Starbuck fashion - she strikes out. We know she's not doing the right thing, but she doesn't think in such categories, and it's not the first time she does something crazy - hello, jumping to Caprica in Kobol's Last Gleaming? Who in his right mind does that?
In Maelstrom Lee called her a raving lunatic, yet he is the only person (save Sam, but that's a different matter altogether) to believe her straightaway. I'll skip all the shipper-squeeing parts and just say that I'm very happy with the direction in which this plot seems to be going. I'm just wondering if they'll make everybody believe that Kara is a Cylon and make them accept that only to reveal at the end that she's just a "special" human or if they'll actually make her one of the Final Five... but I doubt that, the final Cylon is going to be somebody that's going to really surprise us. I loved the "what if it was Zak stepping off that Viper?" line, and the whole scene set in the briefing room. Lee really seems to be past caring who - or what - came back. He only cares that it's Starbuck. Adama still struggles - and he's right with the not affording part. He's the commander. He really can't afford to make a mistake based on his feelings - he already did that when Starbuck crashed on the Red Moon in S1. Now he knows what's at stake.
Now on to Sam - I really loved him in the cockpit! But how the hell did he fit in there? Did they build a specially issued line of XL Vipers? All size-related jokes aside, the first scenes with Anders were a win - the conversation he had with Chief, the way he repeated his name to himself, and then the startling recognition of the Raider, the red gleam in Sam's blue eye. I'm really curious about what are they going to do with our Final Four - do they have clones? Are they programmed to sabotage the fleet the way Boomer did? Do their spines glow red too? :D
I kinda loved how they messed with us in the beginning, showing Tigh shooting Adama. I held my breath for the entire duration of that scene.
About Baltar - hee! This is so much better than the Gaius-on-a-Basestar plotline. I think it was something novin_ha said about Baltar being the villain and the comic relief at the same time - and here he's both at the same time and in full swing. I even liked that cracky and a little over-the-top decorations of whatever that place was where that weird cult stayed. I cheered when that girl started smiting the Baltar-haters and laughed out loud at the "Do you feel God's presence?" line. Honestly. It started a long line of breast-size related jokes at our place. I wonder what's going to happen to Baltar now, I think it's going to get really interesting in a while.
Roslin was so bitchy I'm glad she didn't decide to throw Starbuck out of the airlock straightaway.
Now how long until 4x02? Only six days? Man, I won't even be able to digest this until then.