The Good and the Bad, and We must take Them as they come...
Okay, I'm trying to calm down, so BSG squeeing shall come later in this entry under a cut... (^^)" Anyways, this week, has not... *sigh* I should rephrase that: it has been one of the harder weeks since before break. (--)" I had a huge paper due Monday, and then two midterms, which were BAD, and I mean quite literally bad. The LifeSciences one was quite possibly, personally, one of the worst tests I have ever taken. My mind had so much trouble working through it, and I just simply, figuratively and literally, didn't have enough time to even think. The Physical Sciences one was just... (-_-)' Anyways, enough of the blah stuff.
Now focusing on the good: Despite a research paper for LS and a ton of Latin, I have a small break in the seemingly endless stream of work, and I've spent my first relaxed day in a long while relatively happy. Latin class in the morning, came back and read a bit, took a three hour nap, woke up and read a bit more, went for an hour walk and brought some CD's which I shall be listening to. Then I played one of my friend's computer games called "Portals" which really tweaks the mind, but is pretty fun. (^_^) Finally, there was BSG.
The acting in this epi was superb. Katee really knocked it out of the ballpark, EJO was wonderful, and Mary... Gosh Mary... (; _ ;)
First of all the opening was visually entrancing with the eight dancing, and the music! I recognized that music! And I was almost absolutely sure it was Chopin (whom I adore), so I just went searching my iTunes, and if my auditory memory serves me right, it was his Nocturne Opus 9 No. 1 in b flat minor. Then that entire scene between Katee and Mary was stunning, and when she took that gun, and everything that led up to it... Kara's hysterics and Laura's trembling, and it was just a fantastic scene between two fantastic actresses. Both the Admiral's and Lee's individual meetings with Kara was pretty gosh darn great too.
But I have to say, the scene that sort of left me heartbroken, left me shaking, and crying (a bit), was the confrontation between Laura and Bill. I will have to settle that the Admiral makes sort of a... mean drunk really. His words bit and cut into me, and I wasn't even the person he was directing them towards, and Laura... Her perception and understanding in the way people's minds work has always drawn me in, and her particular honesty in this scene was very telling for me, and the fact that Bill himself told her to get out of his mind in particular made me... well *shrug*. Baltar talking to himself was hilarious, and I have to say, Tory and Baltar... could actually work. To a certain extent, when Baltar isn't a self-preserving, egotistical, lying coward, he can actually be quite sensitive and insightful. He can empathize.
And I find the conflict among the cylons quite intriguing, and once again I am struck by the parallels. How wholly 'human' their conflicts are. In particular, I find the six's obsession with the final five being among the humans particularly interesting, and also the hybrid's words: "They will not help..." Hmm... Also, does anyone else notice the parallels with democracy in the show? I just found it entertaining and ironic. We, as the viewers, know that the sixes, eights, and sevens have it right, that the Final Five are in the fleet, and everything is changing. They lost the vote. We found out that the President was right about New Caprica being a disaster, and she lost the vote. Both parties tried to usurp the vote after losing it. (^^)" Or maybe, it's just that I'm looking far too deeply into it.
Okay, now that actual analysis of the epi is done: *breathes*
I want to hug MM/Laura so badly, and I wanted to, severely, for a few short moments slap Bill upside the head. Really, just... everything was... (;_;)... If it weren't for some *cough* relatively happy promo piccies, I would be crying and dead right now. As it was, I left the TV room practically hyperventilating and muttering "FRAK" to myself. I don't know if I can wait a week. All I can say is that I certainly hope that bullet in the picture isn't a sign for things to come. That better NOT be foreshadowing... (-_-)
Edit: Now that I've calmed down somewhat (^^)" I've decided that despite everything, this scene was actually very much necessarily for them to move on, so *shrugs*... writing fic also helped... XD It cleared the atmosphere with not only contextual but emotional honesty as well, but no, I still hold with the fact that Bill is a mean drunk, even if he was pushed into a confrontation by Laura, but I think that she did it deliberately to release the tension surrounding them. I still want to hug Laura though. Her irritability just shows how exhausted she really is, her self-control lacking as everything seem to be spiraling out of her control what with the illness, the treatments, the gun-crisis and Kara, and Bill, and just everything is closing in on her. RDM did say that she was going to be alone and isolated... (;_;). And finally, that scene with her hair and her crying like that... My heart remains shattered despite everything... because that scene was just... Gah, Mary was too great for words.