'Disquiet' is one word for it
BSG 4.12 ‘A Disquiet Follows My Soul’
‘Hello,’ I thought as the previouslies rolled, ‘are you going to address some of the things I’ve been whinging about?’ And it did a little, with glimmers of genuine tension, with a lot of legitimately difficult situations with no good answers, although Adama steamed ahead and picked a lot of really bad ones. They successfully set a hare running as to who Mikey’s biological father was (although I think it’s fairly clear Tyrol is still his dad.) The reveal resolved the issue of Hera being so special and none of the Cylons being interested in Mikey, at a time when Caprica rejoiced over the first fully Cylon offspring (I feel obliged to add ‘that they know about’.) But it feels like retconning that’s been rather mean to the deceased Kalleigh by having her be unfaithful, and as they didn’t linger over many problems at that point in Tyrol and Kalleigh’s relationship, it was ‘pick a random human male’ time. As he was getting a lot of attention, I presumed Felix, but fine, Hotdog. As random a choice as any the writers have made. (But Kalleigh seemed pretty convinced her baby was half-Cylon, so it’s a total retcon.)
Roslin was still refusing to be the President, though she was sorely needed as Lee’s power waned and Varek raised some not unreasonable issues with Adama’s plan. Forcing an alliance with Cylons was problematic, especially when people were understandably not impressed by having them on their ships to upgrade their FTL, but Adama was all ‘military smash’ (because that’s always worked well.)
On the other hand, Tyrol was asking for Cylons to be given citizenship and representation, which was not unreasonable from their perspective, if understandably unpalatable to Felix and many civilians.
And that was glossing over issues - apparently the rebel Cylons (including egomaniac D’Anna, Cylons who hadn’t interacted much with Tyrol, Tori?) were fine with Tyrol speaking for them? Well, that’s convenient for the show’s budget (although they could have got a Six or an Eight to do it.) And overall, this was where I took issue with a lot of characters who had got hung up on Tighe and Tyrol and Sam’s Cyloness. I suppose this is a case of the audience being privy to more information, but I kept thinking ‘no evidence’ in response to some of the bitterest questions and accusations about them. It’s more complicated than this storyline was making out, is all.
Anyway, Adama was ignoring the fact that Tighe, Tyrol and indeed Athena were potentially aggravating the situation. Some of that was pragmatism, but some of it was emotion. Another emotionally driven bad call was acceding to Laura Roslin on her extended Day Off. Having said that, I throroughly enjoyed learning that he’d got Verek to yield the trillium ship’s location through a total bluff.
Less entertaining was watching Adama get ready for the day (very boring TV) even if the pay-off was him and Laura definitively sleeping together, ignoring that she’s off her treatment and he may well be sickening for something.
And speaking of illness, acute kidney failure doesn’t sound like a small thing. Poor Mikey. The prioritisation of Cylon babies over Felix was shown as part of the aggravation. Dr Cottle smoked on (bad doctor).
We didn’t get much of Caprica beyond clucking and not really engaging with Tighe, Reluctant Dad. Baltar was back to preaching, though he was now telling his followers to blame God, to build up a religious element to the civilian dissent (so Six has been very quiet around him. In fact, we haven’t seen Six, let alone Gaius in Caprica’s head, for a while.) And Helo, Athena and Lee got little to do apart from their jobs, at least Kara was clearly in a stew about everything (I laughed more than I should have about how horrible she was to Felix, and the language used, probably because he wasn’t holding back either.)
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/466200.html.
‘Hello,’ I thought as the previouslies rolled, ‘are you going to address some of the things I’ve been whinging about?’ And it did a little, with glimmers of genuine tension, with a lot of legitimately difficult situations with no good answers, although Adama steamed ahead and picked a lot of really bad ones. They successfully set a hare running as to who Mikey’s biological father was (although I think it’s fairly clear Tyrol is still his dad.) The reveal resolved the issue of Hera being so special and none of the Cylons being interested in Mikey, at a time when Caprica rejoiced over the first fully Cylon offspring (I feel obliged to add ‘that they know about’.) But it feels like retconning that’s been rather mean to the deceased Kalleigh by having her be unfaithful, and as they didn’t linger over many problems at that point in Tyrol and Kalleigh’s relationship, it was ‘pick a random human male’ time. As he was getting a lot of attention, I presumed Felix, but fine, Hotdog. As random a choice as any the writers have made. (But Kalleigh seemed pretty convinced her baby was half-Cylon, so it’s a total retcon.)
Roslin was still refusing to be the President, though she was sorely needed as Lee’s power waned and Varek raised some not unreasonable issues with Adama’s plan. Forcing an alliance with Cylons was problematic, especially when people were understandably not impressed by having them on their ships to upgrade their FTL, but Adama was all ‘military smash’ (because that’s always worked well.)
On the other hand, Tyrol was asking for Cylons to be given citizenship and representation, which was not unreasonable from their perspective, if understandably unpalatable to Felix and many civilians.
And that was glossing over issues - apparently the rebel Cylons (including egomaniac D’Anna, Cylons who hadn’t interacted much with Tyrol, Tori?) were fine with Tyrol speaking for them? Well, that’s convenient for the show’s budget (although they could have got a Six or an Eight to do it.) And overall, this was where I took issue with a lot of characters who had got hung up on Tighe and Tyrol and Sam’s Cyloness. I suppose this is a case of the audience being privy to more information, but I kept thinking ‘no evidence’ in response to some of the bitterest questions and accusations about them. It’s more complicated than this storyline was making out, is all.
Anyway, Adama was ignoring the fact that Tighe, Tyrol and indeed Athena were potentially aggravating the situation. Some of that was pragmatism, but some of it was emotion. Another emotionally driven bad call was acceding to Laura Roslin on her extended Day Off. Having said that, I throroughly enjoyed learning that he’d got Verek to yield the trillium ship’s location through a total bluff.
Less entertaining was watching Adama get ready for the day (very boring TV) even if the pay-off was him and Laura definitively sleeping together, ignoring that she’s off her treatment and he may well be sickening for something.
And speaking of illness, acute kidney failure doesn’t sound like a small thing. Poor Mikey. The prioritisation of Cylon babies over Felix was shown as part of the aggravation. Dr Cottle smoked on (bad doctor).
We didn’t get much of Caprica beyond clucking and not really engaging with Tighe, Reluctant Dad. Baltar was back to preaching, though he was now telling his followers to blame God, to build up a religious element to the civilian dissent (so Six has been very quiet around him. In fact, we haven’t seen Six, let alone Gaius in Caprica’s head, for a while.) And Helo, Athena and Lee got little to do apart from their jobs, at least Kara was clearly in a stew about everything (I laughed more than I should have about how horrible she was to Felix, and the language used, probably because he wasn’t holding back either.)
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/466200.html.