BSG Monday - A Day in the Life

I read the news today, oh boy. Wow. That was an almost fantastic episode. My only quarrel would be Non-Fat-Lee's rather over the top performance about his mother. Kind of came out of no-where. Not as bad as Wild Bill's secret past in "Hero", but he went from reserved and hesitant to full on "YOU were the good one Dad, YOU!" in nothing flat. Not sure if I blame the writing or Bamber, but up until the meltdown it was the kind of Bill and Lee scene that we've been missing since season 1. Unfortunately it took me out of it a bit.

Otherwise, what a great ep. (Minimal Helo. Yay! BAD Helo.) Something about the hum-drum people stuff that this show used to be so good at. (Is there anyone on Galactica who DOESN'T have an imaginary person in their head? No wonder no-one noticed Baltar.)

The explosive decompression got a lot more right than any sci-fi since 2001, so bully for them. They did break the blood vessels in Cally's eyes, so that was cool. Nice story for the Not-So-Fighting Tyrols. (Here's a good artcle on space exposure.)

It was nice seeing the married couples being somewhat ordinary. No hyper-drama this week. I almost thought ADA wasn't going to be in the ep.

Starbuck raising her hand in the boom boom booms made SWIMW and I laugh out loud.

I like that Mary McDonnell is playing Airlock so giddy around Wild Bill. It's cute. But Bill's going to have none of it. Also good. When WB was telling airlock how she was always welcome I wanted her to say "I just got Starbuck to mutiny again. That ok?"

EyeTigh - What a sweetheart. Seriously. HE remembers the annual date that Wild Bill tortures himself, but NFL doesn't. Awwwww. What timeline are we looking at here? How long has it been since New Caprica? Since the holocaust? I'm trying to figure out how many anniversary's Wild Bill has been through since The Big Day. One? Two? Before New Cap? After?

BTW, The Fetching Mrs. Tallguy (sorry Hugh) and I took the BSG quiz on Sci-Fi. We missed one question. (How many raptors flew back to Caprica? Hey, the pressure maintenance hatch on the trash compactor in Star Wars was 3263827. Cut me some slack.) The categories are Simple, Easy, Tricky, and Hard. They are represented by Tyrol, Kara, Lee, and Bill, respectively. Those Sci-Fi folk are just mean. But funny.

Next weeks ep: Tyrol's going to get shot, but Helo walks free? FRAUD!