Comments | mystickeeper: BSG Live-Blogging: 4.1, "He That Believeth in Me"

mystickeeper

BSG Live-Blogging: 4.1, "He That Believeth in Me"

Apr 04, 2008 20:40

Check this spot throughout the hour, as I'll be live-blogging my watching of the season premiere of Battlestar Galactica.

( Obviously, spoilers lie behind the cut! )

tv: battlestar galactica

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mb2u April 5 2008, 03:36:53 UTC

Yes, Kara. Perfect way to convince everyone you're not an alien intent on destroying the fleet. Uhuh.

On the other hand, it's so typically Kara. Charge in headlong, make it up as we go along, get REALLY misunderstood...

mystickeeper April 6 2008, 16:33:23 UTC

Indeed! So stupid, and yet so Kara. I love her character, but my desire to slap her seems to be a recurring theme as the show progresses.

mystickeeper April 6 2008, 16:32:24 UTC

Yes, he is such a grease-bomb! Somebody in some BSG community posted a really funny picture spam, showing the evolving hairstyles of Gaius Baltar throughout the series, which I found exceedingly amusing. He was pretty attractive in the beginning, and even as his hair got a little bit longer. And then he got more and more disgusting. I guess it makes sense, given how repulsive his character is.

anonymous April 5 2008, 06:15:22 UTC

I actually think that the mystery of Starbuck's missing two months - and the associated weirdness (i.e. her freakouts whenever they jump) - are kind of intriguing, and make for an interesting arc for the final season (by the way, I think this is the first time in the whole series that we've ever seen a jump from INSIDE a ship. I don't know what to make of that, but there it is.). I like it. However, I think that last season's Cylon 'reveal' is retarded, partially for reasons that you mentioned earlier (if Tigh was a Cylon, how is it that he got to reach age 97 1/2, a full career in the military, a close relationship with Adama Sr, etc.?), as well as some of my own - like, think of all the ways that Eck, Moore & Co. have established previous characters' undisputable Cylon-hood: spontaneous behavior destructive to the fleet, the sudden appearance of doubles and so forth. After three seasons of fairly routine conventions for revealing who is and isn't a Cylon, we're supposed to accept that Tigh, etc. are on the other side because of ( ... )

anonymous April 5 2008, 06:20:28 UTC

Er, the previous comments were by Dan Erdman, by the way. I don't understand how you damn kids properly authorize your comments, because no one here in my nursing home will tell me. I'm so oooold...

mystickeeper April 6 2008, 16:37:21 UTC

OMF, Dan Erdman! Bwahaha, hey, we had a potluck lunch on Friday! All the staffers came down, and Miller's office brought a case of beer that people drank later in the afternoon. Thus, we fulfilled a lifelong dream of getting drunk at work.

LiveJournal has free accounts, but I do allow anonymous comments here. So, all you should have to do is sign them with some kind of alias, OR YOUR REAL NAME, since you already did!

mystickeeper April 6 2008, 16:41:28 UTC

That's a good catch, I don't ever remember seeing a jump from inside of the ship.

And yes, WTF, Bob Dylan song reveal was so lame. It was even more lame that the characters stared vacantly into mirrors, etc. while slowly saying the lyrics. I hope to God that we don't know who the final five are yet, but I'm still sort of afraid that they are. What scared me the most was the new opening - the writers no longer claim that the Cylons "have a plan," but they make it clear that the "four who live in secret" are Cylons. Of course, they have changed the opening to play with the audience before, like the end of last season, when Katee Sackhoff's name was taken out of the opening credits so that some suckers might believe she was actually dead.

Yeah, Baltar's funny lines almost make him tolerable, but I really found his harem of white, voluptuous, vacant women (and a few token androgynous boys) extremely troublesome! But then that girl almost beat someone to death with a pipe, so if shit like that keeps happening, I would be okay with

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mystickeeper April 6 2008, 16:35:41 UTC

Yeah. Given the way that Starbuck met Anders, etc., it does make sense. It just made me indignant because I don't really feel like Anders was a character that the writers intended to have from the beginning. I felt more like he was a random guy in the Caprican resistance that would give Starbuck angst about leaving him....and then when they needed something to happen in the show, it was like, "Hey, how about we go back and pick up all those resistance people, and make Anders a main character!"

I guess I like it better when it feels like a TV show has things planned from the start, even if it wasn't obvious to the viewer. This is probably a personal preference.