BSG confuses me and perhaps scares me...
Today's ep: Taking a Break from All Your Worries. Gaius Baltar is back on the Galactica and is welcomed back with psychological torture.
First off: WTF? D: Since when did torture, even if it's "just" psychological, become okay? What are you people thinking? How can two good people (Adama and Roslin) not only sit there and let it happen, but decide to do it and carry it out themselves?
Second, the confusing part: Near the end of the ep, they were cutting back and forth between two scenes: Gaeta trying to be tricky and get Baltar to trust him and talk, and Lee/Dee talking about their marriage. The scene switches were fast, perhaps 10 seconds in each scene before switching to the other, over and over, so clearly the writers were trying to get us to see a connection... but what was that connection supposed to be? That a marriage could have no trust? That there shouldn't be trust? Or that it could be psychological torture?
This is the first ep that has made me want to stop watching the series. Not because it was bad, but because it left me so disturbed (and confused as to why). That torture is wrong is a clear enough reason, but the whole ep was just so... "fracked up" to borrow a phrase. Baltar's nightmare alone at the beginning of the ep was enough to turn me off it, and it just went downhill from there. :/
I feel like I need a shower. :/
First off: WTF? D: Since when did torture, even if it's "just" psychological, become okay? What are you people thinking? How can two good people (Adama and Roslin) not only sit there and let it happen, but decide to do it and carry it out themselves?
Second, the confusing part: Near the end of the ep, they were cutting back and forth between two scenes: Gaeta trying to be tricky and get Baltar to trust him and talk, and Lee/Dee talking about their marriage. The scene switches were fast, perhaps 10 seconds in each scene before switching to the other, over and over, so clearly the writers were trying to get us to see a connection... but what was that connection supposed to be? That a marriage could have no trust? That there shouldn't be trust? Or that it could be psychological torture?
This is the first ep that has made me want to stop watching the series. Not because it was bad, but because it left me so disturbed (and confused as to why). That torture is wrong is a clear enough reason, but the whole ep was just so... "fracked up" to borrow a phrase. Baltar's nightmare alone at the beginning of the ep was enough to turn me off it, and it just went downhill from there. :/
I feel like I need a shower. :/