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shallownessBattlestar Galactica
1.3 33 & 1.4 Water
(following the Beeb's numbering)
It was borderline painful to watch everyone be sleep deprived, with Baltar slipping into the fantasy space of his old home increasingly. I was interested in the fact that time seems very much like Earth time, because how come? I know there are/were 12 colonies, but did they al rotate around their sun at exactly the same distance as Earth? Scarcely believe. Possibly it’s for convenience, of course – BSG has an eye to the ‘I don’t like science fiction, it’s childish’ crowd - but given that clocks analogue and digital, were such a big part of the ep’s visual language, not to mention all the references to 33 minutes, it was interesting
And like Roslin, we all needed the hope of a newborn at the end of the episode. But way to make everyone sympathetic, I know I wouldn’t have held it together that well after so little sleep.
They had to deal with the weight of the missing ship, and then it returned and the weight of the call they had to make. Baltar aside. The nuclear weapons seemed to make the call more necessary, I thought, and after leaving the sublighters behind, it was good that they continued to count the cost of survival.
The trouble with watching two episodes on one night – I am not a natural binger – is that I don’t remember exactly when what happened. On a minor note, was this the episode where Six came out of the tub, wrapping herself in a red towel? Special K Cylon. But it was in this ep that we returned to Halo, on his own on ‘Cylon-occupied Caprica.’
Kara, pulling faces to stay awake was very human, and how she reamed out Lee (and I think he listened because he adjusted his language in the next episode, which was a lovely little touch.) It felt like an unexpected but believable bit of interaction.
Striking, if confusing opening scene to the next ep. I wasn’t sure if was Sharon or not!Sharon, though it looked more like the Galactica. All wet, with lost time and bombs. MYSTERIOUS. And her struggles are going to be interesting, because we know more than she does. She skittered away from the possibility that it was her, or maybe on some level let Tyrrell (so compromised in his love) push her away from the worst possibility, and think there was AN Other setting her up. And she is good at her job (but last ep’s coping better with the lack of sleep was Cylon nature assisted), but that was some pretty major sabotage, and on it continued. But she fought and beat her programming to announce they’d found water.
Not!Six’s moves made me roll my eyes again, because I was over the femme fatale!cyborg in the miniseries, though I’m curious as to what the Cylons think they can do with Halo – beyond rounding up other Colonial officers because they’re the likely best resistance fighters. Obviously, his relationship with Not!Sharon is going to develop, and possibly she’ll develop contrastingly with Sharon, though it would be good to see different flavours of lady!Cylons.
I was glad they went after the question of supplies, because I remember thinking when Adama and Tigh were all ‘We need guns!’ that they were going to need the more basic survival stuff. And then cutting to actual Caprica, radioactive though it is, just highlighted the contrast of searching for a grain of salt on a beach.
I was fascinated by the further adjustments of leadership and governance, as Roslin and Adama circled each other, with Lee acting as an inadvertent bridge, who then got hired to be a more permanent edifice. The question about the need for differentiation between the military and the police was fair.
O f course, the fact they’re trusting Baltar is a pretty fatal flaw. I was delighted his ‘screening’ lie caught up with him so quickly. And with Gaeta and Kallie (sp? She’s already onto Boomer and the Chief), they’re broadening out the cast.
Ghosts
2.1 The Grey Lady
Hee! I liked that we started with the dead Pigeon waking Alison from her dream, (Spoiler from 2020: opening a hotel will not save your financial woes.) And then we had that nice introductory montage, showing them all doing their own thing harmoniously, with Alison as the lynch-pin of it all.
My favourite gag was Pat and Thomas doing Button FM as a way of trying to get the machine to record them. And then it didn’t, and Thomas offered blunt criticism of lovely Pat’s work.
Also, I’d forgotten that his full name was Pat Butcher. Hee. There was some slightly more schoolboy stuff with names going on.
But yeah, typical that (some of) the ghosts’ self-interest worked against them, until it didn’t – well Captain did do the right thing, and Alison and Mike were quite rightly shown up for trying to fleece their vistors.
Lady Button having to interact with the plague victims (I’d wondered how they’d play in this year of 2020 AD) was promising amid the rancour caused by the archaeologists’ discoveries.
1.3 33 & 1.4 Water
(following the Beeb's numbering)
It was borderline painful to watch everyone be sleep deprived, with Baltar slipping into the fantasy space of his old home increasingly. I was interested in the fact that time seems very much like Earth time, because how come? I know there are/were 12 colonies, but did they al rotate around their sun at exactly the same distance as Earth? Scarcely believe. Possibly it’s for convenience, of course – BSG has an eye to the ‘I don’t like science fiction, it’s childish’ crowd - but given that clocks analogue and digital, were such a big part of the ep’s visual language, not to mention all the references to 33 minutes, it was interesting
And like Roslin, we all needed the hope of a newborn at the end of the episode. But way to make everyone sympathetic, I know I wouldn’t have held it together that well after so little sleep.
They had to deal with the weight of the missing ship, and then it returned and the weight of the call they had to make. Baltar aside. The nuclear weapons seemed to make the call more necessary, I thought, and after leaving the sublighters behind, it was good that they continued to count the cost of survival.
The trouble with watching two episodes on one night – I am not a natural binger – is that I don’t remember exactly when what happened. On a minor note, was this the episode where Six came out of the tub, wrapping herself in a red towel? Special K Cylon. But it was in this ep that we returned to Halo, on his own on ‘Cylon-occupied Caprica.’
Kara, pulling faces to stay awake was very human, and how she reamed out Lee (and I think he listened because he adjusted his language in the next episode, which was a lovely little touch.) It felt like an unexpected but believable bit of interaction.
Striking, if confusing opening scene to the next ep. I wasn’t sure if was Sharon or not!Sharon, though it looked more like the Galactica. All wet, with lost time and bombs. MYSTERIOUS. And her struggles are going to be interesting, because we know more than she does. She skittered away from the possibility that it was her, or maybe on some level let Tyrrell (so compromised in his love) push her away from the worst possibility, and think there was AN Other setting her up. And she is good at her job (but last ep’s coping better with the lack of sleep was Cylon nature assisted), but that was some pretty major sabotage, and on it continued. But she fought and beat her programming to announce they’d found water.
Not!Six’s moves made me roll my eyes again, because I was over the femme fatale!cyborg in the miniseries, though I’m curious as to what the Cylons think they can do with Halo – beyond rounding up other Colonial officers because they’re the likely best resistance fighters. Obviously, his relationship with Not!Sharon is going to develop, and possibly she’ll develop contrastingly with Sharon, though it would be good to see different flavours of lady!Cylons.
I was glad they went after the question of supplies, because I remember thinking when Adama and Tigh were all ‘We need guns!’ that they were going to need the more basic survival stuff. And then cutting to actual Caprica, radioactive though it is, just highlighted the contrast of searching for a grain of salt on a beach.
I was fascinated by the further adjustments of leadership and governance, as Roslin and Adama circled each other, with Lee acting as an inadvertent bridge, who then got hired to be a more permanent edifice. The question about the need for differentiation between the military and the police was fair.
O f course, the fact they’re trusting Baltar is a pretty fatal flaw. I was delighted his ‘screening’ lie caught up with him so quickly. And with Gaeta and Kallie (sp? She’s already onto Boomer and the Chief), they’re broadening out the cast.
Ghosts
2.1 The Grey Lady
Hee! I liked that we started with the dead Pigeon waking Alison from her dream, (Spoiler from 2020: opening a hotel will not save your financial woes.) And then we had that nice introductory montage, showing them all doing their own thing harmoniously, with Alison as the lynch-pin of it all.
My favourite gag was Pat and Thomas doing Button FM as a way of trying to get the machine to record them. And then it didn’t, and Thomas offered blunt criticism of lovely Pat’s work.
Also, I’d forgotten that his full name was Pat Butcher. Hee. There was some slightly more schoolboy stuff with names going on.
But yeah, typical that (some of) the ghosts’ self-interest worked against them, until it didn’t – well Captain did do the right thing, and Alison and Mike were quite rightly shown up for trying to fleece their vistors.
Lady Button having to interact with the plague victims (I’d wondered how they’d play in this year of 2020 AD) was promising amid the rancour caused by the archaeologists’ discoveries.
