I'll be waiting right here just to show you

[gamerchick]

We started watching season 2.5 of Battlestar Galactica last night and it was pretty good. Some of the cliffhangers were resolved a lot faster than I thought they were going to be, and I'm still not entirely sure what I think of what happened to Roslin at the end of the third episode (and yes I'm being deliberately vague to avoid spoilers), but it'

Comments

[michael_b_lee]

I'm still not entirely sure what I think of what happened to Roslin at the end of the third episode

I wasn't happy with it, to be honest, but I'm hoping that there will be consquences of some kind on down the line. I can already think of some interesting twists they could take her character as a result.

I gotta say, though, much as I loved Cain, she was a monster.

[gamerchick]

I gotta say, though, much as I loved Cain, she was a monster.

I really don't agree, nor do I think that it was the writers' intent to portray her as such. I got a strong vibe of "there but for the grace of god go I" from everything they did with the character. I could rant for a really long time about this, and probably will later on, but the short version of my position is that because there was such a strong effort made to draw parallels between Cain and Adama, I felt that the writers were arguing that Adama and his crew would have ended up the same as the crew of the Pegasus had they chosen to fight the Cylons directly instead of focus on humanity's survival, as they almost did in the pilot episode. By nature, Cain wasn't morally inferior to Adama or anybody else on the show, nor was she a monster. She simply made the morally inferior decision at a crucial moment and it was all downhill from there. I think it's a severe oversimplification of an impressively complex issue to say "she was a monster" and leave it at that.

[michael_b_lee]

Okay, sorry, I wasn't being clear.

By virtue of the choices Cain made, she became a monster. She committed atrocities against her cylon prisoner and against her fellow humans in her pursuit of her personal war with the cylons.

I got the same "there but for the grace of God go I" vibe that you did, or at least that every human has the capacity to commit monstrous acts in pursuit of what they believe to be noble ends.

[gamerchick]

Then we totally agree. (c: Those episodes inspired quite a bit of debate amongst my friends and I. That's one of the things I really like about BSG - it's normally more thought-provoking than a lot of the stuff on TV.

[ziabandito555]

I downloaded Resurection ship and the last three eps...

yeah they did move quickly through the big resurection ship thing... i wanted to see the ships get blown and stuff but thats not the point of the show... interesting stuff though... very very interesting.

Yeah Cain isn't a bad guy but i have my own opinions on her and what happened with Pegasus. 'll enjoy seeing BSG rant... for that is the fun stuff *wags* yay ranting!

*noses* woo game recaps!

[gamerchick]

We have 7 BSG episodes left. Look for the DVDs to be in the mail sometime within the month. I got the email with your address and will let you know when I sent them out. W00t!

[ziabandito555]

must not spoil the last three... no rush on the mailing of my three seasons *wags* I'm just glad you enjoyed them!