Comments | selenak: BSG 3.14 and travel announcement

selenak

BSG 3.14 and travel announcement

Feb 14, 2007 10:23

My Aged Parent, bless, has decided to on an impromptu visit of Venice during the Carneval, and actually got a hotel from Thursday to Friday, which, if ten years old memories are anything to go by, are the best days to observe the Venetian carneval. Expect photos and a report when I'm back.

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bimo February 14 2007, 09:59:39 UTC

I had to skip your episode review, because my own watching of Battlestar Galactica hasn't that far progressed yet, but most important of all...

Have a fantastic trip to Venice!

selenak February 14 2007, 10:22:06 UTC

Grazie!

kathyh February 14 2007, 10:38:13 UTC

I'm not envious of the Venice trip, no, not at all :) Have a great time.

selenak February 14 2007, 12:11:07 UTC

Thank you, oh unenvious one! *g*

shezan February 14 2007, 15:46:02 UTC

Yayyyy Venice! Want to meet the Gazzettino's fashion editor?

selenak February 14 2007, 15:51:13 UTC

Alas, it would be wasted on unfashionable me. If my mother was coming along, sure, but otherwise...

skywaterblue February 14 2007, 16:21:55 UTC

Well, I have this theory that this episode should mostly be viewed as a responsa to "A Measure of Salvation", in which Helo kills the Cylons to prevent the Fleet from using them to commit genocide. At least in the States, there were a significant portion of the viewing audience with blogs who would gladly have seen Helo airlocked for that. (In fact, one of the disturbing things about the show here, in the States, was that up until the Occupation arc, a lot of its most ardent supporters were from the Neo-Con wing of American politics.)

selenak February 17 2007, 12:12:09 UTC

I could see that, and the Sagiterrons are definitely paralleled with the Cylons in this episode by Helo asking Sharon the "...so they stop for five minutes hating you" question.

I think this line's mostly filler likeadeuce February 14 2007, 18:03:17 UTC

Apparently this episode was rebuilt in the editing room, which has something to do with why it doesn't make much sense.

Speaking of Star Trek, I was online with inlovewithnight as I watched this, rhapsodizing about how awesome it would be if Bones McCoy was there instead of Dr. Plot Device. Though arguably Cottle basically is Bones (he just needs a Spock, sigh. . .)

I'm not sure what the point was of Zarek being in this episode at all, and I wasn't sure that I bought his argument that the trial would be so divisive. Still, I'm not one to complain about a Zarek appearance, and I like you're point about people making the choices they never would have thought they'd make.

I didn't especially miss the Love Rhombus, though wouldn't this ep also have been a good chance to do a non-love plot with Lee? We know he's got a history of sympathy with the Sagitarron movement, plus he's married to one (and would have been really interesting to see him come out more sympathetic to their position than Dee was).