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teachlikeroslin

Revelations

Jun 13, 2010 15:01

Okay, you can virtually flog me. I was determined to finish season 4.0 on Friday and here it is on Sunday and I'm only just now putting up my review for Revelations. Sorry. Please don't flog too hard. You see, I was set to write it on Friday but I got an unexpected dinner invitation that kind of took the time I was going to use. And yesterday I had ( Read more... )

d'anna's special brand of crazy, battlestar galactica, zomg anders is hott, i love saul tigh, tory's not messing with you, i kind of like lee today. huh., bill's fortress has been penetrated, i'd make out with lucy lawless, i'd totally do bear mccreary, 5 airlocks

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pandj1958 June 13 2010, 22:34:04 UTC

I had such a hard time listening to Diaspora Oratorio. For the longest time I couldn't listen to it because the memories of the ending of that episode were so visceral, it actually depressed me to listen to it. Ahh the power of this show and its great score never ceases to surprise me. Now, however, its kinda taken on a life of its own and I just love it, its such a beautiful, uplifting piece. Its right up there amongst my favourites from this show.

Also, I kinda don't want you to hurry to finish these episode reviews, it'll be really sad when you are done with them.

teachlikeroslin June 13 2010, 23:22:18 UTC

You are way too nice. But thank you! I need to finish soon, though. I can't really bear the idea of having to stop in the middle of season 4.5 while I'm out of the country. It makes me cringe. It's probably the whole OCD thing.

I'm still kind of bad with So Much Life. I can listen to it now without tearing up but it definitely still makes me . . . I don't know. Depressed? It definitely says something about the power of music, how it can total alter your mood, good and bad, and it definitely says something about how good Bear McCreary is.

pandj1958 June 14 2010, 07:55:08 UTC

I'm still kind of bad with So Much Life. I can listen to it now without tearing up but it definitely still makes me . . . I don't know. Depressed?

Oh I hear you on this. It really does depend on the day i'm having, sometimes I can listen to it and just appreciate what a beautiful piece of music Bear has produced, but other times I can be out walking my dog and it'll come on and it can still have me in tears. There is still one piece from the soundtrack I nearly almost always skip past because it does invariably upset me and thats The Heart of the Sun, I just picture the scene of everything flying into the sun and i'm mentally wrecked. (I have a feeling people who didn't watch BSG would tell me to man up or something. LOL)

astreamofstars June 22 2010, 10:42:37 UTC

Sorry for the lack of comments recently. Being busy with work and then being away is my excuse! So you're getting a ton of commentary today. Might be shorter than usual though, so you won't need to wade through too much waffle.

#3 - I adore the expression on Bill's face when she tells him to blow the basestar up. It's just completely "WTF?!" Ah Bill, do you not know this woman by now?

#7 - The one thing I remember about the cylon introduction is just how short Tory looks in comparison. And the other cylons looking at her with these kind of "Really? Her? Are you sure?" expressions on their faces.

#9 - I think the reveal of Tory to Laura just shows how distant their relationship is (which I wish it hadn't been). Bill just cannot cope with the idea of Saul as a cylon at all and has a huge breakdown, but Laura spends about ten seconds processing Tory's cylonhood, and then starts figuring out how to deal with it. She doesn't really seem upset at all, and that's a bit sad, I think.

#10 - does she actually execute anyone? I've never ( ... )

teachlikeroslin June 25 2010, 03:35:28 UTC

9) Laura seems, to me I guess, resigned to the fact that Tory is a cylon. Like, "Well, yeah. Because my life couldn't suck enough. My closest assistant and adviser is one of the Final Five. Yep. Sounds about right when talking about the pattern my life is going in ( ... )

gracent_dic June 25 2010, 03:21:43 UTC

Oh, is that potato salad over there?"

Ohhh, that made me laugh for real. awesome.

This episode is SO heart wrenching. From the start, with Laura pretty much telling Bill to kill her after he's JUST gotten her back.... the elation of finding it... the horror of reality. It's just painful.

And also, the first time I watched this, I was catching up on the series on DVD and I just knew there was a final 4th season and didn't realize it was split into 4.0 and 4.5, so I was like 'WHAT THE SHIT THAT'S THE ENDING WHAT?!?' My life held NO MEANING for about 5 minutes there till I looked it up and saw there was a 4.5.

teachlikeroslin June 25 2010, 03:37:46 UTC

Ha! I would have had a panic attack if I were you, too! But, wait. I did have a panic attack because it was like, "Wait. Writer's strike? Holy frak, NO!" And then when the writer's strike was resolved and we still had to wait, like, a year . . . I wanted to bash someone's face in. Can you imagine living with that cliffhanger for nearly a year?

I wouldn't wish that anticipation and anxiousness on my worst cylon enemy.

gracent_dic June 25 2010, 03:41:23 UTC

Yeeeeah. I still can't decide which is worse, the 'catch up on DVD after the fact' approach, or watching in real time. I got to miss things like waiting THAT long for the answers (I only had to wait a couple days!), but I also probably missed out on all kinds of awesome fandom-happenings.

teachlikeroslin June 25 2010, 04:18:28 UTC

I wasn't obsessed enough with the show at that point to have been involved with fandom. I was too deep in The Office fandom and I can really only handle one fandom at a time, so I was offline for BSG. So the wait was excruciating. I'm sure that had I been online and been part of the fandom, it would have been more pleasant. Maybe.