- How funny was Tyrol's confusion when trying to talk about the Cylons' and the humans' technology? "Our technology is far superior to ours. I mean..." I love Tyrol and It's good to have him back and snapped out of his really intense phase.
- It was somehow surprising seeing Tigh and Six being so...affectionate. And the same time surprisingly not that weird or icky. Their relationship, since I guess that's what it really is after all, didn't exactly get much development, and I'm assuming it's because the relationship itself isn't really the point. But they can actually be kind of cute.
- "We believe her to be dead." "OMGZ it's a her!" LOL. Lee.
- That scene with Laura running into Bill after jogging was so sweet. After a while I just had to yell at the screen, "Get married!" LOL. The way they handled finally getting these two together in every sense felt very right and earned. There's only so long that your sense of duty can give you enough to live for. You have to let yourself have something to help you feel like getting out of bed in the morning. And brushing your teeth. And getting dressed. And doing your log or whatever. When we see Laura jogging, she's already realized this and finally gotten up from the floor feeling some motivation to do something with the last days of her life, and meanwhile we see Bill stopping in the middle of brushing his teeth and just tiredly looking at his reflection like You know, I really, really just don't feel like it today.
And because I can't seem to do a post about any episode without mentioning the music, I didn't think it was possible for the Roslin/Adama theme to sound any more beautiful and moving than it has in the forms we've already heard it in, but how about that.
- It's interesting how the scene with Kara and Gaeta can be paralleled with that scene in season 3 when she sits with him in the mess and chews him out. He comes there and finds her sitting alone. After Gaeta was a supposed traitor, nobody wanted to eat with him either.
- So...what the hell is Anders up to these days?
- That surprise about Nicky was pretty crazy. As soon as Cottle told Tyrol this, my sister thought about it and said, "It's Hotdog. Nobody else works," and my friend and I looked at her like she was on crack. I don't know how the fuck she called that. LOL. So maybe when they wrote that hilariously random scene in "A Day In the Life" when Hotdog is complaining of a rash in a certain area and Helo says "Hope she was worth it, buddy," they were just giving us some establishment that Brendan does get around sometimes. Hahaha.
- Okay, if I was paying close enough attention and got the gist, Baltar is basically denouncing God now? Lately I've liked a lot of speculation I've seen about how a big theme in the end of the show will be free will winning over destiny, and I can see how this might eventually tie into that, though in more of a "We don't need God" than a "Frak God for abandoning us!" way. Is there much point to human existence if God is just going to intervene and give us a plan to follow? Isn't the essence of being human having the freedom to control our own destinies, even if it means we fuck things up so bad that every known habitable planet gets nuked and it's our fault? Is there some way we can survive and some reason to survive anyway?
I'm starting to think that quote used a lot about how parents have to die for their children to come into their own actually applies to the idea of God and all his children. If humans need a lucky break and some prophecy to save them every once in a while, are they really such an impressive creation? Were they raised that well? Am I just trying really hard to apply my own beliefs to this until it fits? Haha.
(And this is why Kara is going to choose Lee even though she and Sam are probably connected in some destined way that resounds through multiple cycles of tiiiime and blah blah. Ahem...)
- Why exactly is this one called "A Disquiet Follows My Soul"?
- This was a great episode, but already I'm a lot more excited about the next one. I've been rewatching a lot of old BSG lately and realized how much I miss when the show was sometimes optimistic enough for the characters to have those feel-good moments of being larger-than-life Big Damn Heroes. Kara flying herself off the red moon inside a Raider with her callsign written on the wings like a flag on a stolen pirate ship. Adama jumping the Galactica right into the atmosphere of New Caprica so they can launch Vipers while it falls like a rock. Apollo doing the Luke Skywalker routine to fly right into and blow up that Cylon base in "The Hand of God." So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for there to be a lot of general awesome ass-kicking by characters who haven't had the chance to be awesome in a while. If anything is going to call for Lee going back into Apollo mode, it's some asshole starting a mutiny on HIS DAD'S DAMN SHIP.