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lizardbeth) wrote2007-03-04 11:02 pm
lizardbeth) wrote2007-03-04 11:02 pm
BSG: "Maelstrom"
ARRRGH! My sucky ass cable company could NOT get a decent feed. This whole episode was chopped up and pixelated and just GRRRRR. The whole sitting-under-Viper convo? I heard maybe every other word.
SO AGGRAVATED by that.
Needless to say I need to find a copy that isn't totally frakked up.
Otherwise.
um.
y'know, I was doing okay until the final scene. Being spoiled does occasionally have advantages, so that I was more prepared. But that ending bit with Adama and the ship? Killed me. Well, no, actually, the part where Socrata says that she kept all of Kara's childhood things and that she was looking at them on her deathbed? OMG. Dead. Because that gets me in the mommy place. (I have also been known to cry at diaper commercials, though, so I'm pretty easy if it touches that part, I have to admit)
Overall the Kara and her mother's abuse thing was not played quite as I expected, and I'm glad of that. But yes, I'll have to go with the Cylon here, that Socrata had the message ('you are special') and then chose a really crappy, stupid way to "prepare" Kara for it.
And cigarettes are OF THE DEVIL, yo. Sorry, just had to throw that in.
That paint scene? er, makes me want to try it, except the smell in real life nauseates me, so it probably wouldn't work. But hot... yes.
I quite liked the Kara and Lee interaction in this one, particularly the Hall of the Dead scene. (oh, Duck! I'm glad you're not forgotten) But I'm very fond of the image of Duck and Nora and Lee all playing cards in the afterlife. With Kat.
And Helo was doing his Kara Buddy thing. excellent.
Sam... oh yes, y'all knew I'd get to Sam, right? Well, besides the obvious point that there was not enough of him. Was he wearing her tag? Or was it something else? (again, bad picture - I could tell he was wearing some sort of pendant, when he was buttoning his shirt but not what it was). I'm pretty sure it's the same THING he's wearing in the promo pic for "TSAR", whatever IT is.
And awww. he wanted Kara to go away with him for awhile. And she didn't. poor Sammy.
In retrospect, thinking a bit more, interesting that he seems to believe in Kara's destiny too. Whether or not he ends up a Cylon, I can see how that belief is going to make him not accept that she's gone. Just like we the audience can't believe it, because we know the external markers of her importance as a character and her simply dying is not in the cards, because it would be a cheat on everything we've been told about her destiny. (not to mention things like this is the fourth episode from the end of the season and it's unreasonable in TV-Land to kill one of your leads in a non-sweeps, non finale episode) So Sam, if he really does believe that she has some destiny, isn't going to believe she's dead, either, no matter how many times Lee tells him she's gone.
So, anyway, me and Sam will be over here, clinging to our denial. yes.
I should however thank the gods that my migraine passed in time for me to watch it at all, so maybe I shouldn't bitch about the terrible picture quality. eep.
SO AGGRAVATED by that.
Needless to say I need to find a copy that isn't totally frakked up.
Otherwise.
um.
y'know, I was doing okay until the final scene. Being spoiled does occasionally have advantages, so that I was more prepared. But that ending bit with Adama and the ship? Killed me. Well, no, actually, the part where Socrata says that she kept all of Kara's childhood things and that she was looking at them on her deathbed? OMG. Dead. Because that gets me in the mommy place. (I have also been known to cry at diaper commercials, though, so I'm pretty easy if it touches that part, I have to admit)
Overall the Kara and her mother's abuse thing was not played quite as I expected, and I'm glad of that. But yes, I'll have to go with the Cylon here, that Socrata had the message ('you are special') and then chose a really crappy, stupid way to "prepare" Kara for it.
And cigarettes are OF THE DEVIL, yo. Sorry, just had to throw that in.
That paint scene? er, makes me want to try it, except the smell in real life nauseates me, so it probably wouldn't work. But hot... yes.
I quite liked the Kara and Lee interaction in this one, particularly the Hall of the Dead scene. (oh, Duck! I'm glad you're not forgotten) But I'm very fond of the image of Duck and Nora and Lee all playing cards in the afterlife. With Kat.
And Helo was doing his Kara Buddy thing. excellent.
Sam... oh yes, y'all knew I'd get to Sam, right? Well, besides the obvious point that there was not enough of him. Was he wearing her tag? Or was it something else? (again, bad picture - I could tell he was wearing some sort of pendant, when he was buttoning his shirt but not what it was). I'm pretty sure it's the same THING he's wearing in the promo pic for "TSAR", whatever IT is.
And awww. he wanted Kara to go away with him for awhile. And she didn't. poor Sammy.
In retrospect, thinking a bit more, interesting that he seems to believe in Kara's destiny too. Whether or not he ends up a Cylon, I can see how that belief is going to make him not accept that she's gone. Just like we the audience can't believe it, because we know the external markers of her importance as a character and her simply dying is not in the cards, because it would be a cheat on everything we've been told about her destiny. (not to mention things like this is the fourth episode from the end of the season and it's unreasonable in TV-Land to kill one of your leads in a non-sweeps, non finale episode) So Sam, if he really does believe that she has some destiny, isn't going to believe she's dead, either, no matter how many times Lee tells him she's gone.
So, anyway, me and Sam will be over here, clinging to our denial. yes.
I should however thank the gods that my migraine passed in time for me to watch it at all, so maybe I shouldn't bitch about the terrible picture quality. eep.