Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion
Meh.
1. Starbuck and Leoban: the bits where she burns her own corpse is kind of good. I laughed when Leoban flipped out. I think she's a clone now, a clone noooow...
2. Dee kills herself. I thought was really effecting and really well done, making it obvious she no longer desired to live. I don't really understand why people are so confused about it. It does piss me off though, because yet another example of a female character being badly written for seasons after hooking up with a main character, and then getting offed to give male characters angst on this show. Fuck that whole motif with a giant fork.
3. Other things I would be happy to never again see on BSG: any scene where Adama and Tigh drink a lot and make angsty manpain faces at each other. Yawn. Their chemistry is not THAT good and we can all tell you're just doing it for padding so you don't have to write the characters you're tired of writing.
4a. It-was-Earth-all-along: I can't believe there are people who are surprised that the 13th Colony was made up of Cylons. REALLY PEOPLE? You mean there are no real difference between Cylons and humanity? Whatever. The scene with Days-of-Future-Past-Tyrol in the marketplace were the most effecting in this episode to me, actually, because he was SUCH a hipster back then, eh? Everything looked pleasant. I wonder how they fucked up their own Eden and if we'll find out what caused it. And I've always been obsessed/messed up by Hiroshima blast silhouettes.
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again: our humans are all the descendants of the Cylons of Ancient Days, yes? Who eventually invent their own Cylons to continue the wheel of death and rebirth. Blah blah.
4b. There She Goes: I guess that makes D'anna Three a Bodhisattva. Suck on that.
5. I guessed wrong about the final Cylon. Ellen is a good choice, I guess, but doesn't add much to the conversation does she?
1. Starbuck and Leoban: the bits where she burns her own corpse is kind of good. I laughed when Leoban flipped out. I think she's a clone now, a clone noooow...
2. Dee kills herself. I thought was really effecting and really well done, making it obvious she no longer desired to live. I don't really understand why people are so confused about it. It does piss me off though, because yet another example of a female character being badly written for seasons after hooking up with a main character, and then getting offed to give male characters angst on this show. Fuck that whole motif with a giant fork.
3. Other things I would be happy to never again see on BSG: any scene where Adama and Tigh drink a lot and make angsty manpain faces at each other. Yawn. Their chemistry is not THAT good and we can all tell you're just doing it for padding so you don't have to write the characters you're tired of writing.
4a. It-was-Earth-all-along: I can't believe there are people who are surprised that the 13th Colony was made up of Cylons. REALLY PEOPLE? You mean there are no real difference between Cylons and humanity? Whatever. The scene with Days-of-Future-Past-Tyrol in the marketplace were the most effecting in this episode to me, actually, because he was SUCH a hipster back then, eh? Everything looked pleasant. I wonder how they fucked up their own Eden and if we'll find out what caused it. And I've always been obsessed/messed up by Hiroshima blast silhouettes.
All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again: our humans are all the descendants of the Cylons of Ancient Days, yes? Who eventually invent their own Cylons to continue the wheel of death and rebirth. Blah blah.
4b. There She Goes: I guess that makes D'anna Three a Bodhisattva. Suck on that.
5. I guessed wrong about the final Cylon. Ellen is a good choice, I guess, but doesn't add much to the conversation does she?