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shallownessBinged BSG by my standards, i.e. I watched three episodes in one night. So, that was You Can’t Go Home Again, Litmus and Six Degrees of Separation, which highlighted the similarities between them.
What I really liked about ‘You Can’t Go Home’ was that I totally got the Adamas' drive not to leave Kara behind but could also see Tigh and Roslin’s very valid points about how they were using up fuel and potentially endangering the fleet of thousands for one person, even if she is their best pilot. Having Kara find the Cylon ship pushed things in her favour for the audience, setting aside the character’s likability, because that was valuable intel for the future.
It was also striking to me that some of Roslin’s arguments WRT searching for Kara reappeared from Adama in the next episode. He’s an onion, isn’t he, with the lawyer father, not just the military personified? And though he is a soft touch at times, the fact that Tyrol with all his experience etc was irreplaceable made more sense as Adama's motivation for not going after him. I don’t know if the master at arms was just really irked by Sharon/Tyrol (and she and Tyrol weren’t wrong, if breaking regulations meant an innocent kid felt bound to lie, let alone causing the security breach, Sharon and the Chief should quit breaking regulations for lurve. And all the while, Sharon probably doesn’t know if/why she left the hatch open) but it seemed personal. I’m not saying it was personal personal, but feelings about NCOs and officers getting it on when they shouldn’t. She was very shaken by the news that Cylons could pose as humans convincingly and that Adama and his inner circle had withheld that information.
The sense of a witchhunt returned in the next ep. Gaius is my least favourite character (the actor is clearly encouraged to go big), but I was interested in how Six believes in a monotheist God, while the Colonials have polytheistic beliefs. How she left Baltar’s head and turned up on the ship, a physical presence all could see is mindbending. I’ve got no definite theories, but you have to be open to it being supernatural.
I am still weary of Cylon sexbots from a male gaze, which seems to be Six and her fellow copies’ MO, ditto Sharon’s (REALLY interesting that Sharon could sense her copy was doing the red spine with poor Helo, and confused and distressed by it). It seems as if the Cylons are interested in testing human love and what it will make humans do. I thought ‘Shelley Godfrey’ went so too far with Adama that it was a relief to see him immediately get suspicious and put security on her (thought Galactica’s security is a joke after all the Cylon infiltration we’ve seen. But she was an old-fashioned ship about to be decommissioned that’s lucky to have as many competent personnel as it does.)
Is Tyrol still too in love to have sensed how off Sharon’s instinctual response to the Cylon ship was? As he got frustrated with working out how it worked, I did think ‘well, try a pilot.’ Kara worked it out.
Ghosts 2.04 The Thomas Thorne Affair
Some biggish world building in the middle of Alison finding out about Thomas’s death and everyone else finding out about spin, as Fanny observed, without Julian having to open his mouth. My first thought when we saw Thomas and his cousin riding up to the house was where was the carriage carrying their luggage and presumably their valets? Anyway, I did suspect the cousin from the off and was a bit sceptical of the rapturous response to Thomas’s reading of his poetry (though Baynham gave it a lot of oomph). I also wondered if the older ghosts had been around at the time. The Robin version of events was funny because of the dialogue, and the various POVs sly. It wasn’t that the lady really had loved him and that he’d spent nearly two centuries believing lies and carrying a lie around with him that touched me as much as that he died alone.
But the almost offhand mention of Annie and that ghosts can pass on (let’s pass over how Mary put it) was monumental, more so than Thomas’s discovery that he could never be rid of the letter. It is so silly (Thomas, you can’t have children with Alison becaue you’re dead) but laced with sadness. And a couple of incest jokes. Thematically tight, anyway.
And I wanted to say before the launch show that I have been watching the Strictly ‘Best of’ shows. Confession time: back in spring, it did occur to me that we might not have Strictly this year, because how could we? And my brain shied away from the thought. It feels like we need Strictly in whatever form we can (I’m not sure who all the celebs are, and as ever of those I now about, I only know who some of them are, but it that never matters.) These specials pushed my endurance of producer-assisted nonsense making the dancers entertain us, at times. And did we need to see Bruno and Craig in their pants? No. But then they’d throw in kids re-enacting routines in their back gardens and living rooms, with homemade outfits. And I liked the clips of old routine, not that they often let us see them from beginning to end. Perhaps there was a little too much reliance on the most recent contestants. The way it ended on a tribute to Caroline Flack was poignant. (It was a lot of other things I don’t want to really unpack.) Anyway, I so hope this show is COVID secure.
What I really liked about ‘You Can’t Go Home’ was that I totally got the Adamas' drive not to leave Kara behind but could also see Tigh and Roslin’s very valid points about how they were using up fuel and potentially endangering the fleet of thousands for one person, even if she is their best pilot. Having Kara find the Cylon ship pushed things in her favour for the audience, setting aside the character’s likability, because that was valuable intel for the future.
It was also striking to me that some of Roslin’s arguments WRT searching for Kara reappeared from Adama in the next episode. He’s an onion, isn’t he, with the lawyer father, not just the military personified? And though he is a soft touch at times, the fact that Tyrol with all his experience etc was irreplaceable made more sense as Adama's motivation for not going after him. I don’t know if the master at arms was just really irked by Sharon/Tyrol (and she and Tyrol weren’t wrong, if breaking regulations meant an innocent kid felt bound to lie, let alone causing the security breach, Sharon and the Chief should quit breaking regulations for lurve. And all the while, Sharon probably doesn’t know if/why she left the hatch open) but it seemed personal. I’m not saying it was personal personal, but feelings about NCOs and officers getting it on when they shouldn’t. She was very shaken by the news that Cylons could pose as humans convincingly and that Adama and his inner circle had withheld that information.
The sense of a witchhunt returned in the next ep. Gaius is my least favourite character (the actor is clearly encouraged to go big), but I was interested in how Six believes in a monotheist God, while the Colonials have polytheistic beliefs. How she left Baltar’s head and turned up on the ship, a physical presence all could see is mindbending. I’ve got no definite theories, but you have to be open to it being supernatural.
I am still weary of Cylon sexbots from a male gaze, which seems to be Six and her fellow copies’ MO, ditto Sharon’s (REALLY interesting that Sharon could sense her copy was doing the red spine with poor Helo, and confused and distressed by it). It seems as if the Cylons are interested in testing human love and what it will make humans do. I thought ‘Shelley Godfrey’ went so too far with Adama that it was a relief to see him immediately get suspicious and put security on her (thought Galactica’s security is a joke after all the Cylon infiltration we’ve seen. But she was an old-fashioned ship about to be decommissioned that’s lucky to have as many competent personnel as it does.)
Is Tyrol still too in love to have sensed how off Sharon’s instinctual response to the Cylon ship was? As he got frustrated with working out how it worked, I did think ‘well, try a pilot.’ Kara worked it out.
Ghosts 2.04 The Thomas Thorne Affair
Some biggish world building in the middle of Alison finding out about Thomas’s death and everyone else finding out about spin, as Fanny observed, without Julian having to open his mouth. My first thought when we saw Thomas and his cousin riding up to the house was where was the carriage carrying their luggage and presumably their valets? Anyway, I did suspect the cousin from the off and was a bit sceptical of the rapturous response to Thomas’s reading of his poetry (though Baynham gave it a lot of oomph). I also wondered if the older ghosts had been around at the time. The Robin version of events was funny because of the dialogue, and the various POVs sly. It wasn’t that the lady really had loved him and that he’d spent nearly two centuries believing lies and carrying a lie around with him that touched me as much as that he died alone.
But the almost offhand mention of Annie and that ghosts can pass on (let’s pass over how Mary put it) was monumental, more so than Thomas’s discovery that he could never be rid of the letter. It is so silly (Thomas, you can’t have children with Alison becaue you’re dead) but laced with sadness. And a couple of incest jokes. Thematically tight, anyway.
And I wanted to say before the launch show that I have been watching the Strictly ‘Best of’ shows. Confession time: back in spring, it did occur to me that we might not have Strictly this year, because how could we? And my brain shied away from the thought. It feels like we need Strictly in whatever form we can (I’m not sure who all the celebs are, and as ever of those I now about, I only know who some of them are, but it that never matters.) These specials pushed my endurance of producer-assisted nonsense making the dancers entertain us, at times. And did we need to see Bruno and Craig in their pants? No. But then they’d throw in kids re-enacting routines in their back gardens and living rooms, with homemade outfits. And I liked the clips of old routine, not that they often let us see them from beginning to end. Perhaps there was a little too much reliance on the most recent contestants. The way it ended on a tribute to Caroline Flack was poignant. (It was a lot of other things I don’t want to really unpack.) Anyway, I so hope this show is COVID secure.
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Date: 2020-10-17 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-18 08:29 am (UTC)Yes, it is. Such a different tone to most modern sictoms. I tend to talk about moments particular characters get to me, but it's also the group interactions: the sense of all the ghost being trapped together, and this episode emphasised that it was for years, forced to have social meetings like Julian's talk - and it suddenly occurs to me that it was the 'younger' ghosts who were most enthused about that. But the games they have to come up with to pass the time during the longest house party imaginable. The way they all piled in to tell/hear Thomas's story, and the moment where Thomas passed and saw the other ghosts, his companions for the next few centuries.