Crossroads p.1

[lizardbeth]

- that opera house/theater sure is PURTY.

- new credit sequence, interesting

- Sam really is a nugget? BWAHAHAHA! Still not gonna fit all that in a Viper cockpit, no matter how much he might want to. But hi, Seelix. (so does this mean Sam had to sit an exam and an interview like she did? Because that I want to see..."yes, I really want to be a pilot. Why? because... See the Tattoo? TAKE A FRAKKIN GUESS, MORON!")

- that prosecutor chick is rocking so far. (I should point out that while training makes me able to see both sides, I have a professional bias for "the People", so it's not surprising at all that I think this! *g*) But she's prosecutorial -- not a grandstander like the defense gets to be.

- messiah!Baltar. "Mind how you go". *chortle*

- Caprica whacked Tigh! hee.

- Tigh could've pointed at Sam at the person who 'ordered' her death, since he basically did, but he didn't. But oh Saul, you should've shut up after you said you killed her.

- oo, civilian!Lee. Lee in a tie cracks me up. This is the 'turning against Laura' bit from the spoilers obviously. And why Dee leaves him. But since there are others who saw the death warrant attacking her credibility here isn't going to do a lot of good. If the Six on Caprica thing were going to be brought in, yes, but this? only in a very general sense. But still he had to bring it up, he's right.

- that cut to Helo when she mentioned Hera was a perfect reminder

- HELO IS XO (again)! (for this week and maybe next, but still....) Poor Helo has to look at the roster every day to see where his duty station is supposed to be.

- and the Cylons are out there, following them, and almost killed Racetrack and Skulls! YAY! (I mean, for the Cylons being all menace-y, not the 'track dying, because that would piss me off)


in sum, I like the set up for part 2.

Comments

[selmak.livejournal.com]

You know, I used to LOVE, LOVE, LOVE BSG... but lately, I feel like we need Dr. Phil to slap some sense into Lee Adama, Bill Adama and Laura Roslin. I mean, doesn't it get old?

Lee and Bill have a hissy fit. Why is Bill Adama sitting on the tribunal. conflict of interest, anyone?

Laura is having her own messiah delusions.

And I'm sorry, I have to confess this. Bill Adama/Saul Tighe are so slashy it's pathetic.

Can't wait until the 4 cyclons are revealed - though I read the spoilers. Just makes me anticipate it more. Though considering how much sex most of them were having, I'm surprised there weren't any glowing backbones seen before now. :D

So why do you think the 5 cyclons are those of which they do not speak?

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I thought about the conflict of interest thing for awhile, and I don't think it is, actually. Bill wasn't on New Caprica, so he wasn't directly affected by Baltar's presidency/collaboration. There's no one in the fleet who hasn't been affected in a general way, so there's no purely neutral party. It's sort of like trying to find jurors for the OJ trial, lots of luck finding people who had never heard of the case before the trial. But you don't have to find jurors who have never heard about it before, or even don't have an opinion already, they just have to swear to weigh the evidence as presented. And I think when he accepted the role, Bill genuinely believed he could.

So to be properly legal in our system he SHOULD recuse himself for failing to maintain his impartiality. But of course he's not gonna, and given next week's spoilers I don't think it'll matter.

And yeah, Lee and Bill desperately both need family counseling. Maybe Helo should go make an appointment for them with that shrink he mentioned to Kara. I didn't find Laura problematic in this ep, though. She's having funky dreams because of the chamalla, just like she did before.

"Glowing spines." heh. boy are they sorry somebody decided that would be a fun touch...

My theory on the Five is that they're holding themselves outside of the collective because they didn't agree with the decision to attack the colonies, and then they tampered with the Seven to hide themselves and work against The Plan. There aren't many copies of them though, so they have to work rather like Tok'ra, by infiltration and sabotage rather than in open conflict.

But I don't know... Ron and Co seem to be going for something more mystical, despite my knee-jerk resistance to that.

[selmak.livejournal.com]

Well, I just thought Laura Roslin was down right rude to Tori "Someone who can at least run a comb through her hair once a week"... It screams of a chew em up- spit em out philosophy of Laura Roslin. I mean, Laura is a chamalla induced Prophet who has rambled on and on (remember her in the cell and Tighe thinking it would be a good idea to show her as the rambling lunatic?)

I don't know. It's a good show because my character loyalties change as each twist and turn is revealed. Hate Starbuck at times. Lee is ruined. But Boy, Mike Hogan - Saul does a good crazy, doesn't he?

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

yeah, she wasn't very nice about it. But Tory had just frakked up the press conference, so she wasn't doing her job. I would've been pissed if I'd been Roslin too. (and I've witnessed bosses dressing down how employees look even more harshly, so that doesn't shock me at all. it was true, after all). So I just read that as Laura being the boss.

And Hogan is awesome. Everytime they give him something meaty to chew on, he knocks it out of the park. And he definitely does the crazy best.