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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, SEASON 3 PREMIERE
If you stopped watching this series during the second half of season 2, please know that it has gotten over its slump. There were a few episodes of almost absolute crap there. Better than most of the stuff that's on television, but still. I can see why people would give up. If you are one of those people, you should start again.
I really, really love how this show makes me change my opinions about the characters. My favorite people are different. My questionable feelings regarding people are different. Everything is different, and usually once I pick out a favorite character in a movie, a book series, an anime series - it remains constant. Not so here.
My write-up here is pretty random and all over the place, but it *is* a lot more coherent than what I had immediately after the episode, which was basically 40 sentences of OMG _________!!!! I tried, :)
I really liked Brother Cavil in this episode. At the end of last season, I found him as kind of a bizarre throw-in, and I really didn't appreciate his psycho-analysis scene with the Chief because it was a total rip-off of the "Noel" episode from The West Wing, but he was really very funny in this episode. His comment to Baltar about how the Cylons were worried about "their existential asses" - so funny. It's so silly, and yet it's so true in the real world. "We have to do this horrific thing....I know! If the person in charge says that it's okay, then it must be okay! It can't be all our fault!" Sick and naive, yes, but so many people think that way.
I think this goes without saying, as she is my favorite character (sorry, Lee. Maybe if you could reclaim your "edge" and break up with Dualla and start leading rebellions with Roslin again....otherwise I'll just watch you in horror), but I loved the storyline with Kara. I loved how she is just totally creepy in the first scene. You look at her, watch her half-smile to Leoben when he cuts his meat for her, and the expression on her face is definitely saying, "Oh, you fucker....I'm totally going to kick your ass."
But then in the next scene, I just feel horrible and awful for her - she's stuck in that room. And no matter how many times she finds a way to kill him in cold blood, it will never make a difference because she can't get out.
The stuff with the Crouton (baby toast, credit for the word goes to Alanna/wisteria_) was brilliant. I've been waiting for that since the episode "The Farm," just like I spent all of the end of last season going, "Where the hell is the nuke?!" I still find my theory more amusing (if they had somehow been able to clone Kara....and make her and everybody else think she was a Cylon - seriously, so sick. And so funny), but this was still fun. Do I think that Casey's injury was staged? Yeah, I kind of do. I mean, the Cylons are obviously trying to completely fuck with Kara's mind, and she was a victim of child abuse. What to screw her up? Make her think she's responsible for injuring her own child.
Okay, and at first I was horrified when they showed her going for Leoben's hand, but upon reflection, I think that she's really going to try and play him. Her feelings for Casey are genuine, but Kara would never, ever care about a Cylon. I know she wouldn't. They might lead us on, but don't believe it!
This show is SO GOOD at being emotionally manipulative to its characters. It's just pure fucking around for the sake of fucking around, and I love it.
The Tighs. I'll admit - a lot of people have always been really gung-ho about Colonel Tigh and before these two episodes, I just never really cared for him. But boy, did I fall in love with him now. When I was in the 5th grade, I became obsessed with the American Civil War, and read countless books about it. After that I got more into Sci-Fi stuff, but there are still a lot of those books about war. Needless to say....normally I get all moral about issues such as these - suicide bombings and using your own people like that.
But Tigh is SO HARDCORE in these episodes, and I love it. He's one of the few willing to do anything to win. He's not going to sit around and moralize about it. He's going to do anything - literally anything - that will get them closer to Adama and the fleet. It's nice seeing Tigh in command like this. On the ship, he's just not as good at it. On the ground, with no one else to fall back on, his leadership shines through and I finally understand why Adama loves and trusts him so much.
Also, his reaction upon discovering that Sharon was in charge of the Galactica mission was priceless.
In regards to Ellen Tigh, I also never really cared for her. I appreciated her comedic value in episodes such as "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" and found her hilarious, but never really cared for her as a person. In these episodes, though, I finally realized that she really does love Saul. She's being incredibly stupid, obviously, but I like how the show is saying, "Look. Love makes you do really stupid things." And it's all over this episode, not just in Ellen.
I really love the friendship that has blossomed between the Chief and Anders. It's really cute. Also, Anders is another character that I didn't care for at all last season. But I like him now. He really does love Kara. But he also doesn't just sit around and get mopey when she's gone - he's upon his feet, fighting with everything he's got. And that's probably why Kara loves him.
Sort of likewise: I have to say that for all the much that I despise Lee/Dee, I did like the scene they shared on Pegasus where she gave it to him straight. I *loved* the things that Adama said to Lee. They were true and they needed to be said, just as much as Dualla's comments. I think it will be interesting to watch Lee get it back into gear. I wish they would show us a little bit more about how he's probably pretty effed up emotionally right now. I mean, showing his weight-gain is a good way of saying, "Look, the guy just doesn't care any more," but there have to be a lot of wheels turning up there.
I loved President Roslin in these episodes, although she didn't change much - she's just as awesome as she has been in the past. I cheered when she slapped Tigh. I loved her dripping hatred when she said "President Gaius Baltar" as she wrote it in her journal. She has to be so mad at herself for not winning that election. It's really sad. I'm going to love watching her rise back to power.
I liked the Cylon debates. And wow, I love how Ron Moore sticks in the political references all over the everywhere. Brother Cavil wanting to "instill fear into their hearts and minds" - wow! The line that the Bush Administration kept using was "winning the hearts and minds" of the citizens of Iraq, which apparently get won by making war in their country. Nicely done, Ron Moore. Very nicely done.
Another character I suddenly like? Felix Gaeta. I never cared for him much in the past because he didn't do much of anything, but he does now. I really liked his scene with the Chief, although now I'm afraid that he's going to do something really stupid because the Chief told him to just do "something." :/
The relationship between Cally and Chief still creeps me out. I always thought she was like a daughter or a sister to him, so it's just....bizarre to me.
I really like how they make this show socially relevant without being obscene about it. Why would a man strap bombs to his chest and blow up 200+ people, including his best friend? Duck is why. Wow. How much does this show make you think about what's going on in the present? It turns issues on their head, and I love it.
"Nobody has been tortured." What has Gaius been telling himself for the last year? How does he sleep at night? So weasely.
What else did I love about the Cylons? I loved when they were sitting in a circle and the camera just rotated around the circle. "That 70's Show," anyone?? Hehe.
I liked the continual denial of responsibility - on Baltar's part, on Gaeta's part, on Boomer's (I keep Galactica/Caprica Sharons differentiated by referring them to Boomer and Sharon, respectively) part. "Oh, I don't have anything to do with that department, I'm sorry. I'm just internal security," or whatever. I mean, how often does that happen in real life? You don't want to accept the fact that the work you're doing, even if you're not directly killing somebody or torturing somebody, is contributing to the success of people being destructive to your own kind.
My favorite quote from tonight's episode? There are many, but this one won me over:
"How do you know? How do you really know that you can trust me?"
"I don't. That's what trust is."
This is probably my favorite show in television right now. I watch Studio 60, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, and Battlestar Galactica. All of which are intelligent shows with good dialogue and good characterization. But Battlestar Galactica has to be my favorite because I honestly can *never* predict what's coming. I can try, but I'm usually wrong. I just love it. I love how rich it is when you've seen every episode that comes before, but that you can still jump in the middle.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, SEASON 3 PREMIERE
If you stopped watching this series during the second half of season 2, please know that it has gotten over its slump. There were a few episodes of almost absolute crap there. Better than most of the stuff that's on television, but still. I can see why people would give up. If you are one of those people, you should start again.
I really, really love how this show makes me change my opinions about the characters. My favorite people are different. My questionable feelings regarding people are different. Everything is different, and usually once I pick out a favorite character in a movie, a book series, an anime series - it remains constant. Not so here.
My write-up here is pretty random and all over the place, but it *is* a lot more coherent than what I had immediately after the episode, which was basically 40 sentences of OMG _________!!!! I tried, :)
I really liked Brother Cavil in this episode. At the end of last season, I found him as kind of a bizarre throw-in, and I really didn't appreciate his psycho-analysis scene with the Chief because it was a total rip-off of the "Noel" episode from The West Wing, but he was really very funny in this episode. His comment to Baltar about how the Cylons were worried about "their existential asses" - so funny. It's so silly, and yet it's so true in the real world. "We have to do this horrific thing....I know! If the person in charge says that it's okay, then it must be okay! It can't be all our fault!" Sick and naive, yes, but so many people think that way.
I think this goes without saying, as she is my favorite character (sorry, Lee. Maybe if you could reclaim your "edge" and break up with Dualla and start leading rebellions with Roslin again....otherwise I'll just watch you in horror), but I loved the storyline with Kara. I loved how she is just totally creepy in the first scene. You look at her, watch her half-smile to Leoben when he cuts his meat for her, and the expression on her face is definitely saying, "Oh, you fucker....I'm totally going to kick your ass."
But then in the next scene, I just feel horrible and awful for her - she's stuck in that room. And no matter how many times she finds a way to kill him in cold blood, it will never make a difference because she can't get out.
The stuff with the Crouton (baby toast, credit for the word goes to Alanna/wisteria_) was brilliant. I've been waiting for that since the episode "The Farm," just like I spent all of the end of last season going, "Where the hell is the nuke?!" I still find my theory more amusing (if they had somehow been able to clone Kara....and make her and everybody else think she was a Cylon - seriously, so sick. And so funny), but this was still fun. Do I think that Casey's injury was staged? Yeah, I kind of do. I mean, the Cylons are obviously trying to completely fuck with Kara's mind, and she was a victim of child abuse. What to screw her up? Make her think she's responsible for injuring her own child.
Okay, and at first I was horrified when they showed her going for Leoben's hand, but upon reflection, I think that she's really going to try and play him. Her feelings for Casey are genuine, but Kara would never, ever care about a Cylon. I know she wouldn't. They might lead us on, but don't believe it!
This show is SO GOOD at being emotionally manipulative to its characters. It's just pure fucking around for the sake of fucking around, and I love it.
The Tighs. I'll admit - a lot of people have always been really gung-ho about Colonel Tigh and before these two episodes, I just never really cared for him. But boy, did I fall in love with him now. When I was in the 5th grade, I became obsessed with the American Civil War, and read countless books about it. After that I got more into Sci-Fi stuff, but there are still a lot of those books about war. Needless to say....normally I get all moral about issues such as these - suicide bombings and using your own people like that.
But Tigh is SO HARDCORE in these episodes, and I love it. He's one of the few willing to do anything to win. He's not going to sit around and moralize about it. He's going to do anything - literally anything - that will get them closer to Adama and the fleet. It's nice seeing Tigh in command like this. On the ship, he's just not as good at it. On the ground, with no one else to fall back on, his leadership shines through and I finally understand why Adama loves and trusts him so much.
Also, his reaction upon discovering that Sharon was in charge of the Galactica mission was priceless.
In regards to Ellen Tigh, I also never really cared for her. I appreciated her comedic value in episodes such as "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" and found her hilarious, but never really cared for her as a person. In these episodes, though, I finally realized that she really does love Saul. She's being incredibly stupid, obviously, but I like how the show is saying, "Look. Love makes you do really stupid things." And it's all over this episode, not just in Ellen.
I really love the friendship that has blossomed between the Chief and Anders. It's really cute. Also, Anders is another character that I didn't care for at all last season. But I like him now. He really does love Kara. But he also doesn't just sit around and get mopey when she's gone - he's upon his feet, fighting with everything he's got. And that's probably why Kara loves him.
Sort of likewise: I have to say that for all the much that I despise Lee/Dee, I did like the scene they shared on Pegasus where she gave it to him straight. I *loved* the things that Adama said to Lee. They were true and they needed to be said, just as much as Dualla's comments. I think it will be interesting to watch Lee get it back into gear. I wish they would show us a little bit more about how he's probably pretty effed up emotionally right now. I mean, showing his weight-gain is a good way of saying, "Look, the guy just doesn't care any more," but there have to be a lot of wheels turning up there.
I loved President Roslin in these episodes, although she didn't change much - she's just as awesome as she has been in the past. I cheered when she slapped Tigh. I loved her dripping hatred when she said "President Gaius Baltar" as she wrote it in her journal. She has to be so mad at herself for not winning that election. It's really sad. I'm going to love watching her rise back to power.
I liked the Cylon debates. And wow, I love how Ron Moore sticks in the political references all over the everywhere. Brother Cavil wanting to "instill fear into their hearts and minds" - wow! The line that the Bush Administration kept using was "winning the hearts and minds" of the citizens of Iraq, which apparently get won by making war in their country. Nicely done, Ron Moore. Very nicely done.
Another character I suddenly like? Felix Gaeta. I never cared for him much in the past because he didn't do much of anything, but he does now. I really liked his scene with the Chief, although now I'm afraid that he's going to do something really stupid because the Chief told him to just do "something." :/
The relationship between Cally and Chief still creeps me out. I always thought she was like a daughter or a sister to him, so it's just....bizarre to me.
I really like how they make this show socially relevant without being obscene about it. Why would a man strap bombs to his chest and blow up 200+ people, including his best friend? Duck is why. Wow. How much does this show make you think about what's going on in the present? It turns issues on their head, and I love it.
"Nobody has been tortured." What has Gaius been telling himself for the last year? How does he sleep at night? So weasely.
What else did I love about the Cylons? I loved when they were sitting in a circle and the camera just rotated around the circle. "That 70's Show," anyone?? Hehe.
I liked the continual denial of responsibility - on Baltar's part, on Gaeta's part, on Boomer's (I keep Galactica/Caprica Sharons differentiated by referring them to Boomer and Sharon, respectively) part. "Oh, I don't have anything to do with that department, I'm sorry. I'm just internal security," or whatever. I mean, how often does that happen in real life? You don't want to accept the fact that the work you're doing, even if you're not directly killing somebody or torturing somebody, is contributing to the success of people being destructive to your own kind.
My favorite quote from tonight's episode? There are many, but this one won me over:
"How do you know? How do you really know that you can trust me?"
"I don't. That's what trust is."
This is probably my favorite show in television right now. I watch Studio 60, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, and Battlestar Galactica. All of which are intelligent shows with good dialogue and good characterization. But Battlestar Galactica has to be my favorite because I honestly can *never* predict what's coming. I can try, but I'm usually wrong. I just love it. I love how rich it is when you've seen every episode that comes before, but that you can still jump in the middle.
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You know, I've been wondering what would happen if it turned out that someone had an identical twin. That would kinda suck.
Your favorite quote was also my favorite quote. :)
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Starbuck was brilliant in that first scene. I love and hate how she just casually eats her dinner afterward.
I don't know if Casey is really Starbuck's, but I do absolutely think Leoben caused her injury. Kara cannot be tricked so easily - they should know that by now.
I think we'll get to see why Lee lost that edge and became unmotivated/depressed. At least I hope so. I want to know what happened with him and Starbuck.