BSG Twofer Tuesday

The Return of BSG (or: Why I Still Don't Like Helo)

Ok, "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", the short version. Dark. Incredibly well edited. Dark. Not funny. (It was meant to be The Funny One. Then they gave it to Eddie "Laugh Riot" Olmos to direct.) Good for Lee. Bad for Kara. I love Dualla's speech on why she married Lee. Stick with the mostly sane one, Lee. Just don't remember how she played with Billy's head until it killed him. Other than that she's very sweet. Poor Kara. We love you, but you're crazy. It'll be interesting to see where they go with Anders. If they remember him. (You brought THE Six on BOARD and couldn't remember to do more than a DELETED SCENE? Come ON guys!)

So... This week. "The Woman King". Or: "Why Helo is a Pain in the Butt".

Helo's a great guy. If it was about being a great guy, Helo would be my favorite. He's nice. He's... Well, he's nice. Really nice. I mean SOOOOO nice. And this week he saved a lot of lives and got to be the big strapping hero. Helo Hero Hera. Hoo hoo. But nice (nice nice) doesn't DO much if you can't trust him. And we still can't trust him. His scenes with EyeTigh rocked much. "Have the Doc see about that hand." Hee! Nice to see the Fighting Agathons have GMBS (Galactica Marital Bliss Syndrome). I would like to have known what Wild Bill would have done in the deleted scene where Helo says "I screwed the human race over because I'm nice."

Speaking of GMBS, Non-fat-Lee and ADA (Anastasia Dualla Adama) are getting along nicely, so that's good. And it's pissing off Starbuck. Also good. "Hey! YOU can't be happy without ME!" Heh, go have another one Chosen One.

THE RETURN OF THE BALTAR THAT LIVES IN SIX'S HEAD! My personal favorite. Huzzah. So are they giving the Real GB a shave? It would be so cool if they could make TBTLI6H have his old short hair as well as his Caprica suit, because that was Six's Ideal Gaius. Of course, we didn't see the "real" GB, 'cause he's still supposed to be swarthy and unkempt. Has anyone noticed that GB is having similar "conversations" with himself?

This was a Who-dunnit with an already known Who. It would have been more exciting if we didn't know from frame one that Helo Was Right and that Senator Kelly was Evil. (Or even better if Helo was really WRONG.) I mean, cast someone who is NOT known to the geek pop. for playing The Bad Guy. *yawn*. Hey, it can't always be The Sixth Sense.

Next Week: The Tyrol Family! In DAAAAAANGER! Yaaaay!