It's Monday - Must be BSG
Bob: Quit reading and go start watching these. If you catch up quickly, you can get this season on iTunes for three or four bucks.
Well. Wasn't that just a heck of a ride? As in: Battlestar jumps to about 5 or 6 thousand feet above ground and FALLS while spitting out Vipers kind of ride? Whoooo! Never saw that coming even a little bit. They even showed the burning Galactica in the Boom Boom Booms. See? The BBBs are good for you.
We all knew Pegasus was going to ride in to the rescue, but they waited to show it to us until the very MOMENT that we all changed our minds and figured we were wrong. (C'mon - this show WILL kill off Bill or Lee Adama some day, I have almost no doubt of that.) THEN we see the Beast's missiles. And there was much rejoicing. (Wasn't it Blake's Seven that ran the last few seasons without Blake? No reason why Battlestar Galactica has to have the Battlestar Galactica in it.)
I'm told that the "Next Week" actually showed the Pegasus getting blown up. That's it, I have foresworn the "Next Weeks". You poor suckers. That was one of the best moments of the show.
As the Warthog asked (and I'll be very disappointed if the show doesn't): Why does Laura get to be president again? I can see it now: "The campaign of the illegitimate Roslin presidency is politicizing the occupation of and escape from New Caprica to further its own ends." Of course, it was nice to see Tom Zarek call her "the President". I want the body count on the white board back.
The Tighs - He's the new Galen Tyrol - i.e. the character who's life sucks the most. He holds the whole resistance together at horrendous personal and physical cost. And when they get back on the deck of the Galactica everyone ignores him. Ahhhhh. SWIMW still hates him. I'll miss Ellen. She's the sort of character who makes this show terrific (I've become a big Gaius Baltar fan too). Nobody is black or white in this show (Bill A. comes close). During the occupation she was the character who did the most good and the most evil, often simultaneously. I think it says everything about their relationship that he waited until she was unconscious to say "I love you".
Thank heavens that Bill Adama got rid of the lip rat. Although, by all rights he should have had a beard. And Lee is still fat for a while. Poor Jamie Bamber. A few more hours a day in makeup for you. (So, what, is Lee taking ALL the food in the Adama quarters? Does Anastasia Adama get up and run laps while Lee sleeps in? 'Cause she's still a stick.) We all dream of the first time that Kara and Lee meet up again so she can torture him over his weight. Poor Lee. Heh.
Nice to see Hot Dog back and saving the day along with the Bucket crew. Heck, Captain Kelly (CiC guy, he was in the mini and few eps after that) even showed up.
Kara - Well, I guess Casey isn't short for Kara's Cylon after all. How was THAT for a kick in the head? Love these guys. But otherwise it was another plot thread that went nowhere, alas. Moore wants you to wonder if Kara didn't go a little Stockholm, and that was clearly the intent, and it would have been fun. But he never gave it to us. It never played out. Kara falling for Casey felt mostly real. She's kind of wired for that. (Wired? Kara's a Cylon!!) Her having anything other than loathing for Leoben didn't. There was no ambivalence, no "maybe it's real". She played along with him to save Casey and then stuck (another) knife in him. Which is too bad. Of all the plot threads left from last season, Leoben showing up at the end looking for Kara was the most exciting. And they did almost nothing with it. Just like they didn't do much with "Sad Lee" last year. The first time around, Leoben thought Kara was special (had a destiny). This time around he just thought HE was special. None of the head games really went anywhere. He wasn't trying to tell Kara anything, he was just trying to break her (and that old chestnut has been done much much better on other shows). *sigh* Ah well, Flesh and Bone is still one of my favorite eps.
Interestingly none of the significant others got axed. There are still three shiny new MARRIAGES in the fleet. (Maybe four? What's the Agathon / Valerii situation?) How often do you see that? I'm sure we'll see triangles of Whedonesque proportions.
Speaking of Triangles Built for Two: I'm wondering where Baltar and Six end up. Or Three for that matter. (And who IS number one? Or the new number two?) Of course Three has Hera now (those pesky prophesies). Baltar with the Cylons could be interesting but for some reason I would be more looking forward to seeing Baltar and Six on their own. We'll see. In all of the occupation (and Baltar now being the Hated Collaborator) it never did come to light that it was Baltar that gave Six all of the defence codes to begin with. Baltar got a few nice scenes. But nothing as interesting as what they should have been able to come up with. At least he and Felix had their last throw down. Felix Gaeta is still the coolest.
You know, Eight still gets called Sharon or Boomer by all that knew her, most times against their better judgment. Why does Six never get called by her name? She had to have had one. She was with Baltar for two years. I know he's shallow, but he's not THAT shallow. (Nice to know that he still has a Six in his head, even though he's living with the real one again. Boy, is he crazy.)
Sharon - not in this episode really. But that will be an interesting fan to see get hit. Not only does she now know that Hera is alive, but now the baby is in the hands (literaly) of the Cylons. Oh, wait, she DOESN'T know. She's still in "Bill Adama would NEVER lie to us about Earth" land. Her and Kara can swap stories. Oh, and where is Sharon mk. 1? I know, this was a single ep that grew into two, so a lot of the characters got "moments" in one ep or the other, not both. Like the Tyrol family. Or Bro. Cavil.
I like how Cavil keeps going on about how the Cylons are now atheists because God is such a human thing to do. But the only Cylon we've seen that thinks this is... Cavil. Heh. Three certainly doens't think that (although she may be a bigger fan of Zeus after this week). Six sure doesn't. It would have been interesting to have seen Baltar and Cavil hang out together.
I have foresworn the "Next Weeks" (page back up) but I watched them this week. So I know that they're rounding up and disappearing the collaborators. I think an issue that doesn't get brought up enough (Adama knows it) is that there are not enough people left to be trying this nonsense. There will be enough dead people without doing the toaster's own work. (We're two years from the annihilation of the colonies. We should start seeing LOTS of little babies when we see the civ population. Especially on the Gemenon ships. That would be an interesting story if the Gemenons start out-breeding the other colonies.)
All in all a very very satisfying conclusion to the New Caprica epic. I'm a little surprised they wrapped it up so quickly. I figured this would be the new face of the show for at least a season. I gather that the intent was to wrap it up even faster. Heh. Silly Ron. (Both the seaon 1-2 and the 2.0-2.5 breaks were meant to wrap up in an episode. Kobol stretched to what? Five? And Pegasus went three.)
Well, on to Earth. Or maybe New Picon.
Well. Wasn't that just a heck of a ride? As in: Battlestar jumps to about 5 or 6 thousand feet above ground and FALLS while spitting out Vipers kind of ride? Whoooo! Never saw that coming even a little bit. They even showed the burning Galactica in the Boom Boom Booms. See? The BBBs are good for you.
We all knew Pegasus was going to ride in to the rescue, but they waited to show it to us until the very MOMENT that we all changed our minds and figured we were wrong. (C'mon - this show WILL kill off Bill or Lee Adama some day, I have almost no doubt of that.) THEN we see the Beast's missiles. And there was much rejoicing. (Wasn't it Blake's Seven that ran the last few seasons without Blake? No reason why Battlestar Galactica has to have the Battlestar Galactica in it.)
I'm told that the "Next Week" actually showed the Pegasus getting blown up. That's it, I have foresworn the "Next Weeks". You poor suckers. That was one of the best moments of the show.
As the Warthog asked (and I'll be very disappointed if the show doesn't): Why does Laura get to be president again? I can see it now: "The campaign of the illegitimate Roslin presidency is politicizing the occupation of and escape from New Caprica to further its own ends." Of course, it was nice to see Tom Zarek call her "the President". I want the body count on the white board back.
The Tighs - He's the new Galen Tyrol - i.e. the character who's life sucks the most. He holds the whole resistance together at horrendous personal and physical cost. And when they get back on the deck of the Galactica everyone ignores him. Ahhhhh. SWIMW still hates him. I'll miss Ellen. She's the sort of character who makes this show terrific (I've become a big Gaius Baltar fan too). Nobody is black or white in this show (Bill A. comes close). During the occupation she was the character who did the most good and the most evil, often simultaneously. I think it says everything about their relationship that he waited until she was unconscious to say "I love you".
Thank heavens that Bill Adama got rid of the lip rat. Although, by all rights he should have had a beard. And Lee is still fat for a while. Poor Jamie Bamber. A few more hours a day in makeup for you. (So, what, is Lee taking ALL the food in the Adama quarters? Does Anastasia Adama get up and run laps while Lee sleeps in? 'Cause she's still a stick.) We all dream of the first time that Kara and Lee meet up again so she can torture him over his weight. Poor Lee. Heh.
Nice to see Hot Dog back and saving the day along with the Bucket crew. Heck, Captain Kelly (CiC guy, he was in the mini and few eps after that) even showed up.
Kara - Well, I guess Casey isn't short for Kara's Cylon after all. How was THAT for a kick in the head? Love these guys. But otherwise it was another plot thread that went nowhere, alas. Moore wants you to wonder if Kara didn't go a little Stockholm, and that was clearly the intent, and it would have been fun. But he never gave it to us. It never played out. Kara falling for Casey felt mostly real. She's kind of wired for that. (Wired? Kara's a Cylon!!) Her having anything other than loathing for Leoben didn't. There was no ambivalence, no "maybe it's real". She played along with him to save Casey and then stuck (another) knife in him. Which is too bad. Of all the plot threads left from last season, Leoben showing up at the end looking for Kara was the most exciting. And they did almost nothing with it. Just like they didn't do much with "Sad Lee" last year. The first time around, Leoben thought Kara was special (had a destiny). This time around he just thought HE was special. None of the head games really went anywhere. He wasn't trying to tell Kara anything, he was just trying to break her (and that old chestnut has been done much much better on other shows). *sigh* Ah well, Flesh and Bone is still one of my favorite eps.
Interestingly none of the significant others got axed. There are still three shiny new MARRIAGES in the fleet. (Maybe four? What's the Agathon / Valerii situation?) How often do you see that? I'm sure we'll see triangles of Whedonesque proportions.
Speaking of Triangles Built for Two: I'm wondering where Baltar and Six end up. Or Three for that matter. (And who IS number one? Or the new number two?) Of course Three has Hera now (those pesky prophesies). Baltar with the Cylons could be interesting but for some reason I would be more looking forward to seeing Baltar and Six on their own. We'll see. In all of the occupation (and Baltar now being the Hated Collaborator) it never did come to light that it was Baltar that gave Six all of the defence codes to begin with. Baltar got a few nice scenes. But nothing as interesting as what they should have been able to come up with. At least he and Felix had their last throw down. Felix Gaeta is still the coolest.
You know, Eight still gets called Sharon or Boomer by all that knew her, most times against their better judgment. Why does Six never get called by her name? She had to have had one. She was with Baltar for two years. I know he's shallow, but he's not THAT shallow. (Nice to know that he still has a Six in his head, even though he's living with the real one again. Boy, is he crazy.)
Sharon - not in this episode really. But that will be an interesting fan to see get hit. Not only does she now know that Hera is alive, but now the baby is in the hands (literaly) of the Cylons. Oh, wait, she DOESN'T know. She's still in "Bill Adama would NEVER lie to us about Earth" land. Her and Kara can swap stories. Oh, and where is Sharon mk. 1? I know, this was a single ep that grew into two, so a lot of the characters got "moments" in one ep or the other, not both. Like the Tyrol family. Or Bro. Cavil.
I like how Cavil keeps going on about how the Cylons are now atheists because God is such a human thing to do. But the only Cylon we've seen that thinks this is... Cavil. Heh. Three certainly doens't think that (although she may be a bigger fan of Zeus after this week). Six sure doesn't. It would have been interesting to have seen Baltar and Cavil hang out together.
I have foresworn the "Next Weeks" (page back up) but I watched them this week. So I know that they're rounding up and disappearing the collaborators. I think an issue that doesn't get brought up enough (Adama knows it) is that there are not enough people left to be trying this nonsense. There will be enough dead people without doing the toaster's own work. (We're two years from the annihilation of the colonies. We should start seeing LOTS of little babies when we see the civ population. Especially on the Gemenon ships. That would be an interesting story if the Gemenons start out-breeding the other colonies.)
All in all a very very satisfying conclusion to the New Caprica epic. I'm a little surprised they wrapped it up so quickly. I figured this would be the new face of the show for at least a season. I gather that the intent was to wrap it up even faster. Heh. Silly Ron. (Both the seaon 1-2 and the 2.0-2.5 breaks were meant to wrap up in an episode. Kobol stretched to what? Five? And Pegasus went three.)
Well, on to Earth. Or maybe New Picon.
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