Battlestar Galactica: Sometimes a Great Notion

[skywaterblue]

Meh.



1. Starbuck and Leoban: the bits where she burns her own corpse is kind of good. I laughed when Leoban flipped out. I think she's a clone now, a clone noooow...

2. Dee kills herself. I thought was really effecting and really well done, making it obvious she no longer desired to live. I don't really understand why people are so confused about it. It does piss me off though, because yet another example of a female character being badly written for seasons after hooking up with a main character, and then getting offed to give male characters angst on this show. Fuck that whole motif with a giant fork.

3. Other things I would be happy to never again see on BSG: any scene where Adama and Tigh drink a lot and make angsty manpain faces at each other. Yawn. Their chemistry is not THAT good and we can all tell you're just doing it for padding so you don't have to write the characters you're tired of writing.

4a. It-was-Earth-all-along: I can't believe there are people who are surprised that the 13th Colony was made up of Cylons. REALLY PEOPLE? You mean there are no real difference between Cylons and humanity? Whatever. The scene with Days-of-Future-Past-Tyrol in the marketplace were the most effecting in this episode to me, actually, because he was SUCH a hipster back then, eh? Everything looked pleasant. I wonder how they fucked up their own Eden and if we'll find out what caused it. And I've always been obsessed/messed up by Hiroshima blast silhouettes.

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again: our humans are all the descendants of the Cylons of Ancient Days, yes? Who eventually invent their own Cylons to continue the wheel of death and rebirth. Blah blah.

4b. There She Goes: I guess that makes D'anna Three a Bodhisattva. Suck on that.

5. I guessed wrong about the final Cylon. Ellen is a good choice, I guess, but doesn't add much to the conversation does she?

Comments

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

I love hipster Chief with his little glasses!

All I kept thinking throughout this episode was SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! Felt appropriate somehow.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Soylent Green is always relevant.

[eh-notsomuch.livejournal.com]

I just love Chief/Aaron Douglas in any way, shape or form. (Except scary skinhead Chief, that was a little disturbing.) Boy, he's aged most drastically since the show began. We watched that little commercial for the series from Sunday night, with clips from the first season, and he looks like a BABY in comparison.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

It's true.

[rosmar.livejournal.com]

I'm so tired of Adama angst, I could puke. I've started mentally skipping over those scenes. And word on the female-characters thing: that's really burning me up, the longer this (and every other show I hear about) goes on. 'Cause life ain't nothin' but bitches and hos, or something.

Otherwise, it was a "yay!" episode for me.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I space them out too.

Except for Roslin and Starbuck, there are no non-Cylon women left in the cast, yeah? And Roslin's been knock-knocking for the last half season, and Starbuck's not-that-human anymore and was never terrifically femme to start with. It's okay when there are lots of other women of her age group, but it's somewhat blatant now.

[ahkna.livejournal.com]

Part of me hates Dee's suicide and part of me loves it. It is a bit WTF but at the same time, there was something really beautiful and stark about it. But there was no hesitation, no indication. I found that scene better than the final Cylon reveal.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Someone read up on the studies on how people successfully commit suicide. The calmness will always be striking.

[orbitaldiamonds.livejournal.com]

I think she's a clone now, a clone noooow...

There's another one'a me just a-hangin' arou-ound... ^_^