A Tale of Two Episodes

[danceswithwords]

Happy birthday 50mm! I hope the coming year is full of travel and fun, and I hope to see you again at least once this fall.

And happy birthday tzikeh!

*flings confetti*

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Comments

[laurashapiro]

I knew I recognized the song Sharon was humming, but I didn't make that connection! Oooh, awesome and creeptastic.

And thanks for reminding me about Caprica's pregnancy, about which I totally forgot while writing my own ep recap. I had thought that Cylons couldn't mate with other Cylons, but now I think I'm remembering it wrong: the critical element is love, as you mention. That's what Six has always said, anyway. I can just about buy Tigh knocking her up if he's thinking she's Ellen whenever he fraks her. That might be enough to work. It's still pretty icky, though.

LONDO! G'KAR! HOW I LOVE THEM!!!

[danceswithwords]

There is a world of ick in the whole situation. *shudder*

Londo! G'Kar! I just--GAH!

[sdwolfpup]

I haven't watched this week's BSG yet, so I'm here to comment on this:

Okay, back to work.

Oh noes! *comfort* Hang in there.

[danceswithwords]

The good (?) news is that I'm at the point where I Am Going To Do Something About This. (She said ominously.) That, at least, has been pretty clarifying, and that's nice.

[asta77]

When the military leadership exercises that much control over the civilian leadership, you do not have actual civilian leadership

The moral of the story is there is civilian leadership as long as the military commander respects and likes the civilian leader. It really is impossible for Adama to put his personal feelings aside no matter what the circumstance.

(It was refreshing, though ultimately unsurprising, to see someone finally get in trouble for a big, public shooting; Adama wasn't punishing Athena for killing Natalie, but for making Roslin disappear.)Again, very personal reasons for his actions. What's increasingly troublesome to me is not Adama's behavior, I just feel very sad for him at this point, but that Ron Moore doesn't seem to see Adama as most of fandom does

[raincitygirl]

Again, very personal reasons for his actions. What's increasingly troublesome to me is not Adama's behavior, I just feel very sad for him at this point, but that Ron Moore doesn't seem to see Adama as most of fandom does.

Yes, EXACTLY!

[danceswithwords]

What's increasingly troublesome to me is not Adama's behavior, I just feel very sad for him at this point, but that Ron Moore doesn't seem to see Adama as most of fandom does.

Yeah, I'm feeling an increasing disconnect between what I see and what the writers are trying to tell me about his behavior. The show is trying to validate a lot of things that actually are not so okay.

I also found it interesting that Adama, when talking about Natalie, refers to her as an unarmed woman, thus seeing her as something other than a Cylon. Yet, when he confronts Tigh about his relationship with Caprica he goes back to referring to her in terms of being a thing, a machine.

I wonder how much of that had to do with his porous attitude towards Cylons and how much of it had to do with trying to get as much under Tigh's skin as possible. Hm.

[pellucid]

OH LONDO!!! OH G'KAR!!!!!

I'm not sure I have anything else to add, except that it really just continues to get better from here on.

Also, it figures that right after I've been buying lots of peaches recently, gleeing in the fact that it's finally peach season again, I discover that they top the pesticide list. *sigh*

[danceswithwords]

I'm sure there's got to be local variation. But yeah, it doesn't look good. I'm very glad that I have such good access to relatively inexpensive organic produce.

[50mm]

Thank you! (Skipping past BSG parts because I'm *still* not caught up...) Bummer about working on the weekend.

[danceswithwords]

At least the end is in sight.

I hope you were able to do something fun.