BSG 4.12 - "A Disquiet Follows My Soul"
Well, darn. That screwed up the fic I've been working on. ;) I was taking quite a different approach to Kara than "frak you and the horse you rode in on", though I can see why she'd be feeling that way. Not much to live for these days -- for her or anyone else. All the bridges have already been burned.
I kinda love the mutiny that has been a long time coming. (And on a mutiny note, I also liked the tyllium ship captain's resigned reply to Athena when the raptors found them.) This show does nihilism so very well. I was a bit surprised that Lee was a reluctant supporter of the Cylon alliance, but then it makes a strange sort of sense given his truce in "Revelations" and how he has been pragmatic as a politician (though not necessarily throughout his life). I also like the twistiness of Adama playing Zarek and vice-versa, with Gaeta sowing the mutiny -- that part felt very realistic. Obviously it won't be a complete success, because I'm pretty damn certain they're not going to kill off Adama before the final episode, but I'm still really eager to see the inevitable clusterfrak and who will choose which side in the fallout.
Did Tigh tell the others that Ellen is the final Cylon? Sounds like it, given Lee's "she" slip. I would've expected a stronger reaction, but then I suppose they're all so shellshocked that they just shrug at every new revelation now. Then again, only the higher-ups would know, since Gaeta accused Kara of being a Cylon.
This episode also had a few moments that were as close as BSG gets to something like "comedy". I laughed aloud at Caprica and Tigh cuddling over the ultrasound; granted, I have no experience looking at them, but the image on the screen seemed rather weird-looking. And then Cally/Hot Dog? Good lords of Kobol. That poor child is doomed.
Lovely to see Roslin/Adama at the end, though I was more touched by her scenes leading up to it.
I still think Lee looks hot as a Pilotician, and I was quite happy to see Ishay again!
Maybe it's just unconditional fangirl love, but I do think Kara feels intense guilt and pain over every single thing that Gaeta said, especially after what she learned last week. She's just been living with guilt (about that and a million other things) for so long that she has gotten very, very good at compartmentalizing and acting like she doesn't give a damn. And I'll admit that she is really bad at empathizing and doing the right thing when it comes to the guilt she feels toward others. She always copes in the worst possible ways. On the one hand, I like to think that her revelation last week would free her from some of it, but this is Kara. She ain't never gonna let herself be free. And some part of her really feeds on people piling it on her, especially Gaeta. If the frak-up-harbinger-of-death now comprises nearly the entire core of her soul, then his accusations just bolster it. (And, to be fair, she did deserve wha Gaeta said to her.)
If you didn't already know, this episode was the first to be directed by RDM himself. He did a fairly good job with the acting. Some of the blocking and camera angles were a bit too artsy, as if he was trying every little cool thing he'd ever seen onscreen, but many of them worked for me, like his use of long-shots and using an actor's physical movement to reveal something else.
Is it terrible that I finish every episode expecting to be the only one who really liked it? Ah, well. :) I'm trying to do insta-reactions this week instead of letting things sit for a few hours, so I'm sure I'll have more to say once I rewatch.
I kinda love the mutiny that has been a long time coming. (And on a mutiny note, I also liked the tyllium ship captain's resigned reply to Athena when the raptors found them.) This show does nihilism so very well. I was a bit surprised that Lee was a reluctant supporter of the Cylon alliance, but then it makes a strange sort of sense given his truce in "Revelations" and how he has been pragmatic as a politician (though not necessarily throughout his life). I also like the twistiness of Adama playing Zarek and vice-versa, with Gaeta sowing the mutiny -- that part felt very realistic. Obviously it won't be a complete success, because I'm pretty damn certain they're not going to kill off Adama before the final episode, but I'm still really eager to see the inevitable clusterfrak and who will choose which side in the fallout.
Did Tigh tell the others that Ellen is the final Cylon? Sounds like it, given Lee's "she" slip. I would've expected a stronger reaction, but then I suppose they're all so shellshocked that they just shrug at every new revelation now. Then again, only the higher-ups would know, since Gaeta accused Kara of being a Cylon.
This episode also had a few moments that were as close as BSG gets to something like "comedy". I laughed aloud at Caprica and Tigh cuddling over the ultrasound; granted, I have no experience looking at them, but the image on the screen seemed rather weird-looking. And then Cally/Hot Dog? Good lords of Kobol. That poor child is doomed.
Lovely to see Roslin/Adama at the end, though I was more touched by her scenes leading up to it.
I still think Lee looks hot as a Pilotician, and I was quite happy to see Ishay again!
Maybe it's just unconditional fangirl love, but I do think Kara feels intense guilt and pain over every single thing that Gaeta said, especially after what she learned last week. She's just been living with guilt (about that and a million other things) for so long that she has gotten very, very good at compartmentalizing and acting like she doesn't give a damn. And I'll admit that she is really bad at empathizing and doing the right thing when it comes to the guilt she feels toward others. She always copes in the worst possible ways. On the one hand, I like to think that her revelation last week would free her from some of it, but this is Kara. She ain't never gonna let herself be free. And some part of her really feeds on people piling it on her, especially Gaeta. If the frak-up-harbinger-of-death now comprises nearly the entire core of her soul, then his accusations just bolster it. (And, to be fair, she did deserve wha Gaeta said to her.)
If you didn't already know, this episode was the first to be directed by RDM himself. He did a fairly good job with the acting. Some of the blocking and camera angles were a bit too artsy, as if he was trying every little cool thing he'd ever seen onscreen, but many of them worked for me, like his use of long-shots and using an actor's physical movement to reveal something else.
Is it terrible that I finish every episode expecting to be the only one who really liked it? Ah, well. :) I'm trying to do insta-reactions this week instead of letting things sit for a few hours, so I'm sure I'll have more to say once I rewatch.