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I wish Sci-Fi had not so diligently spoiled SO MUCH of the ep with promos (and that I was not so diligent about clicking on them, but it's a lot easier to blame Skiffy).
Dresden Files may grow on me. I'm not sure, yet. There's enough I like, that I'll keep checking it out, even though it forces me to watch Rome later. I've read one of the novels, and I suspect that contributed to my vague dissatisfaction, but I don't know. Maybe I'm just grumpy at Skiffy.
SPOILERS BELOW!
Go away, it's not too late!
Ok, now it's too late.
Well, it's awards season, so here I present THE LIZARDBETH AWARDS!
Best Surprise: Tyrol knocks out Baltar! Maybe now that he's on Galactica, they'll cut Baltar's damn hair!
Best Non-Surprise: Helo shoots Sharon. Even though that was in the promo, it was still an amazing scene. And her begging for him to do it was wrenching. I was surprised it was in the teaser, though in retrospect that was the only logical place for it.
Best Sweaty, Dirty, Smokin' Hot Male: Sam
Best Sweaty, Dirty, Smokin' Hot Female: Dee (with Runner up for Barolay. who had the advantage of also blowing shit up, but Dee had more to do)
Best Special Effects: the Centurions walking around. I love them. they're just cool. But there was some lovely Supernova effects as well, especially when the first wave hits the temple. I'm dubious of the science, but whatever.
Best use of non-drama: Thank you Ron for not spinning out the "OMG are they going to escape?" false drama for more than a scene. "We're going to rescue our people" and, next scene, the Raptors were coming aboard. Nice. It added to the rushed feeling, I think, but I preferred it.
Best use of a Matrix rip-off: the pull back on the Goo Bath to reveal a whole bunch of other ones made the visual point. Though now I understand how they could promise Lucy Lawless that her commitment would not be open ended.
Best Example of Lee being an Ass: He orders his wife to rescue his mistress. Though I do think there was a bit (BIT) of tactical relevance, since Sam made it abundantly clear that he wasn't sticking around and Lee needed him, he cut Sam's objection out from under him by sending Dee.
Best Line: Dee. Smackdown. Kara. And she slapped Kara too. Exactly what I wanted: still doing her job, but damn, making it clear that she knows and doesn't like it at all.
Best "Kara Who?" Moment: Lee and Sam sitting on the ramp of the raptor and Lee cuffs Sam's leg. OMGTRULUV!!!
Best Hug: Kara/Sam. clinging. Too bad it's all going to go back to hell next week. *sigh*
now, slightly more elaborate comments.
Helo/Sharon-Hera and Other Cylons:
I cannot love them more; really, I can't. Helo's anguish, Sharon's desperation in that first scene. Helo's devastation when they take Sharon's body away. In fact this entire scene, with his confrontation with Roslin, was fantastic; Tahmoh really sold it, beginning to end.
By the same token, I thought I couldn't hate Roslin any more. I was wrong. "I accept that I share some culpability for the situation?" WTF with that, bitch? The "situation" is entirely your fault. The only part that wasn't your fault was the Cylons rescuing baby Hera after you put her in danger by taking her away from her parents. I was so glad that Adama had his back to her at the end. If they're back to smokin' pot together in the next episode I'm gonna be so disappointed.
And while the "Helo-shoots-Athena-to-download her to the basestar" may have been obvious -- especially since it was in the frakkin' promo (SKIFFY, you're idiots) -- there were only so many ways that they could get Hera back. But Helo did offer to take a Raptor and do it (with even less likelihood of success). The rescue couldn't have happened without help, so it was certainly "fortuitous" that Caprica was there, for Sharon's sake. But Caprica's discontent already had foundation, so I liked it. She was planning to help from the moment she knew Sharon was downloading, since she arranged to be the only one with Sharon when Sharon awoke.
It was just awesome to see Caprica step into the doorway of the Raptor on Galactica.
Boomer. Sigh. poor thing. She was certainly at her wits' end with Hera, though. I can vouch for how annoying babies can be when they have been crying and crying and crying and won't stop, no matter what you do. Ten minutes is an eternity; days would be hell. That said, I think she committed suicide-by-proxy. Grace's line delivery was a bit oddly theatrical on the "Gonna kill her" bit and she waited to snap Hera's neck, where if she'd really meant to do it, she could have. (interesting parallel to Caprica's killing of the baby in the mini, too -- it really demonstrates how far Caprica's come).
This way Boomer could help without anyone suspecting her, but without also going back to Galactica either. There's nothing there for her anymore, and she knows it. In the end, it should be good for the Colonials that there's a Cylon who wants the two races to go their separate ways within the Cylon heirarchy.
(While I'm on the Cylons: I'm sorry, they're paying Rennie a chunk of change to be furniture. WHY? And what happened to the Leoben down on the planet from the promo pic?)
Sharon returns, with Hera, and reunion with Helo. *snuggles her happy couple* The way it should be.
Kara/Sam/Dee/Lee
And now for an example of how it should not be...
Dee confronted Kara, and she's set up to confront Lee next week. That is good. maybe at least one person can extricate themselves.
Kara admitted she loved and hated both Lee and Sam, which is progress. The curious thing is hating Lee -- hating Sam, I understand psychologically, because of her Leoben experience, she can resent him for not rescuing her But why Lee? Because he needs her too much? Because she doesn't want to love him at all? I also think that she admits that cheating is her way of handling the emotional confusion she's under right now (which in turn suggests that she was NOT cheating on Sam on NC, because those pressures weren't there.)
Sam and Kara? HUG of "OMG YOU'RE ALIVE!" yay. Though I thought it was rather heart-breaking the way he hesitated, wondering what she was going to do. Oh yes, there's love there, but hurt too. But she embraced him without hesitation, and they met in the middle. The sad part is that she's probably never going to know how desperate he was to rescue her.
Whereas, Dee and Lee? Not so much in the middle. Rather tardy and perfunctory on his part, and it certainly didn't help soothe her any.
Lee and Sam were extremely hot in the battle sequence. mmm... Shirtless would've been better, but I'll take what I can get.
Dirty!Sweaty!Sam shooting Centurions and blowing shit up? BEST THING EVER! *thud*
The Five
Well, anyone who thought the Final Five were in the promo pic -- HAHAHAHA! pwned! It was a pre-FX shot. That's why they didn't care who was in those robes or what their expressions were, they were never going to be identifiable anyway.
But, I think the scene did reveal one.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
samanthamarie88, you're right. Sam's one of them, I'm now certain.
D'Anna seemed to recognize at least two -- not surprising, since she was on both Galactica and New Caprica. She's met lots of humans. But the last one -- she said "you!" (in recognition; which could be anyone, but it seemed to take a moment for her to place the face, so I don't think it's Adama or anyone she just saw). Then she said pentitently, "Forgive me, I had no idea." She would only say that to someone she personally tried to harm, seems to me, and the only person I can think of is Sam, from when she was going to kill him in "Downloaded". I don't see how her dialgue makes sense if it was Gaeta or Tyrol or Cally or Roslin. (If that scene was not scripted to within an inch of its life --words, reactions, lighting... everything -- I'll be hugely surprised.)
Which Josses/Ronns my future!fic something fierce. DAMN IT!
I would like it not to be true, but I think it is. *unhappy face*
Destiny and other lame mystical crap
Dear Ron, your audience originally tuned in because BSG was gritty. Realistic(ish). It was The Shield-in-Space. It was the show where you proudly said you used regular jeeps because weird funky flying ships would make the audience realize it was sci fi.
Congratulations, you've now skipped right past sci-fi. Your show is now Passions-in-Space.
Please fix. thank you.
Dresden Files may grow on me. I'm not sure, yet. There's enough I like, that I'll keep checking it out, even though it forces me to watch Rome later. I've read one of the novels, and I suspect that contributed to my vague dissatisfaction, but I don't know. Maybe I'm just grumpy at Skiffy.
SPOILERS BELOW!
Go away, it's not too late!
Ok, now it's too late.
Well, it's awards season, so here I present THE LIZARDBETH AWARDS!
Best Surprise: Tyrol knocks out Baltar! Maybe now that he's on Galactica, they'll cut Baltar's damn hair!
Best Non-Surprise: Helo shoots Sharon. Even though that was in the promo, it was still an amazing scene. And her begging for him to do it was wrenching. I was surprised it was in the teaser, though in retrospect that was the only logical place for it.
Best Sweaty, Dirty, Smokin' Hot Male: Sam
Best Sweaty, Dirty, Smokin' Hot Female: Dee (with Runner up for Barolay. who had the advantage of also blowing shit up, but Dee had more to do)
Best Special Effects: the Centurions walking around. I love them. they're just cool. But there was some lovely Supernova effects as well, especially when the first wave hits the temple. I'm dubious of the science, but whatever.
Best use of non-drama: Thank you Ron for not spinning out the "OMG are they going to escape?" false drama for more than a scene. "We're going to rescue our people" and, next scene, the Raptors were coming aboard. Nice. It added to the rushed feeling, I think, but I preferred it.
Best use of a Matrix rip-off: the pull back on the Goo Bath to reveal a whole bunch of other ones made the visual point. Though now I understand how they could promise Lucy Lawless that her commitment would not be open ended.
Best Example of Lee being an Ass: He orders his wife to rescue his mistress. Though I do think there was a bit (BIT) of tactical relevance, since Sam made it abundantly clear that he wasn't sticking around and Lee needed him, he cut Sam's objection out from under him by sending Dee.
Best Line: Dee. Smackdown. Kara. And she slapped Kara too. Exactly what I wanted: still doing her job, but damn, making it clear that she knows and doesn't like it at all.
Best "Kara Who?" Moment: Lee and Sam sitting on the ramp of the raptor and Lee cuffs Sam's leg. OMGTRULUV!!!
Best Hug: Kara/Sam. clinging. Too bad it's all going to go back to hell next week. *sigh*
now, slightly more elaborate comments.
Helo/Sharon-Hera and Other Cylons:
I cannot love them more; really, I can't. Helo's anguish, Sharon's desperation in that first scene. Helo's devastation when they take Sharon's body away. In fact this entire scene, with his confrontation with Roslin, was fantastic; Tahmoh really sold it, beginning to end.
By the same token, I thought I couldn't hate Roslin any more. I was wrong. "I accept that I share some culpability for the situation?" WTF with that, bitch? The "situation" is entirely your fault. The only part that wasn't your fault was the Cylons rescuing baby Hera after you put her in danger by taking her away from her parents. I was so glad that Adama had his back to her at the end. If they're back to smokin' pot together in the next episode I'm gonna be so disappointed.
And while the "Helo-shoots-Athena-to-download her to the basestar" may have been obvious -- especially since it was in the frakkin' promo (SKIFFY, you're idiots) -- there were only so many ways that they could get Hera back. But Helo did offer to take a Raptor and do it (with even less likelihood of success). The rescue couldn't have happened without help, so it was certainly "fortuitous" that Caprica was there, for Sharon's sake. But Caprica's discontent already had foundation, so I liked it. She was planning to help from the moment she knew Sharon was downloading, since she arranged to be the only one with Sharon when Sharon awoke.
It was just awesome to see Caprica step into the doorway of the Raptor on Galactica.
Boomer. Sigh. poor thing. She was certainly at her wits' end with Hera, though. I can vouch for how annoying babies can be when they have been crying and crying and crying and won't stop, no matter what you do. Ten minutes is an eternity; days would be hell. That said, I think she committed suicide-by-proxy. Grace's line delivery was a bit oddly theatrical on the "Gonna kill her" bit and she waited to snap Hera's neck, where if she'd really meant to do it, she could have. (interesting parallel to Caprica's killing of the baby in the mini, too -- it really demonstrates how far Caprica's come).
This way Boomer could help without anyone suspecting her, but without also going back to Galactica either. There's nothing there for her anymore, and she knows it. In the end, it should be good for the Colonials that there's a Cylon who wants the two races to go their separate ways within the Cylon heirarchy.
(While I'm on the Cylons: I'm sorry, they're paying Rennie a chunk of change to be furniture. WHY? And what happened to the Leoben down on the planet from the promo pic?)
Sharon returns, with Hera, and reunion with Helo. *snuggles her happy couple* The way it should be.
Kara/Sam/Dee/Lee
And now for an example of how it should not be...
Dee confronted Kara, and she's set up to confront Lee next week. That is good. maybe at least one person can extricate themselves.
Kara admitted she loved and hated both Lee and Sam, which is progress. The curious thing is hating Lee -- hating Sam, I understand psychologically, because of her Leoben experience, she can resent him for not rescuing her But why Lee? Because he needs her too much? Because she doesn't want to love him at all? I also think that she admits that cheating is her way of handling the emotional confusion she's under right now (which in turn suggests that she was NOT cheating on Sam on NC, because those pressures weren't there.)
Sam and Kara? HUG of "OMG YOU'RE ALIVE!" yay. Though I thought it was rather heart-breaking the way he hesitated, wondering what she was going to do. Oh yes, there's love there, but hurt too. But she embraced him without hesitation, and they met in the middle. The sad part is that she's probably never going to know how desperate he was to rescue her.
Whereas, Dee and Lee? Not so much in the middle. Rather tardy and perfunctory on his part, and it certainly didn't help soothe her any.
Lee and Sam were extremely hot in the battle sequence. mmm... Shirtless would've been better, but I'll take what I can get.
Dirty!Sweaty!Sam shooting Centurions and blowing shit up? BEST THING EVER! *thud*
The Five
Well, anyone who thought the Final Five were in the promo pic -- HAHAHAHA! pwned! It was a pre-FX shot. That's why they didn't care who was in those robes or what their expressions were, they were never going to be identifiable anyway.
But, I think the scene did reveal one.
samanthamarie88, you're right. Sam's one of them, I'm now certain. D'Anna seemed to recognize at least two -- not surprising, since she was on both Galactica and New Caprica. She's met lots of humans. But the last one -- she said "you!" (in recognition; which could be anyone, but it seemed to take a moment for her to place the face, so I don't think it's Adama or anyone she just saw). Then she said pentitently, "Forgive me, I had no idea." She would only say that to someone she personally tried to harm, seems to me, and the only person I can think of is Sam, from when she was going to kill him in "Downloaded". I don't see how her dialgue makes sense if it was Gaeta or Tyrol or Cally or Roslin. (If that scene was not scripted to within an inch of its life --words, reactions, lighting... everything -- I'll be hugely surprised.)
Which Josses/Ronns my future!fic something fierce. DAMN IT!
I would like it not to be true, but I think it is. *unhappy face*
Destiny and other lame mystical crap
Dear Ron, your audience originally tuned in because BSG was gritty. Realistic(ish). It was The Shield-in-Space. It was the show where you proudly said you used regular jeeps because weird funky flying ships would make the audience realize it was sci fi.
Congratulations, you've now skipped right past sci-fi. Your show is now Passions-in-Space.
Please fix. thank you.