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shallownessApparently I’m still ahead of BBC2. That isn’t why I only watched two episodes this week, this was more for my convenience.
BSG 3.1 Occupation
A previously with a ‘one year later’ and an exchange I definitely don’t remember being aired in it. Then we had an arty montage, with the artiness lasting longer than I expected and returning sporadically throughout the episode. I found it more confusing than anything, but that may just be where I’m at.
We learned via an angry!Roslin voiceover of her very secret diaries (she seemed very sure that no Cylons would see them,) that four more months had passed (with very few scenes, so it shouldn’t be jolting that Lee and Dee were married or that Tyrol and Kallie had a son as well as Kara getting hitched and all the revelations that had come at us thick and fast in the season 2 finale.)
Ellen did what she felt she had to to get Tigh freed (that was gracious of the clone who let him go, unless if they’ve all been spending time with Ellen…) Yet to be known what Saul will make of Ellen’s collaboration to get him out.
No such luck for Kara, who was locked in a horrific, unwanted pas a deux with CKR’s clone – the one who she’d interrogated/tortured before he got resurrected. Apart from the apparent captor-captive thing, and his torture was more insidious, we learned that Mr Religious With The Gift of Prophecy had developed the conviction that Kara would one day love him. It looked to me more like she saw him as a human-looking Scar, but the horror of sitting there with a dead body, waiting for the resurrected version to return, something she’d oviously done before, and later leaving the suite with its veneer of civilisation to show she was in a cell, far from everyone else, as well as Anderson’s despair did make me sorry for her. Good on her for keeping fighting, but murdering your captor only to have him come back over and over is even more trauma for her.
Having said that, after some consideration, I don’t remember his obsession with her being set up as so personal. (I could be wrong, I got burned on this with Scorpion, but it was brave in that we had seen nothing of this clone all last season.)
Anderson was using his resistance skillz to be an insurgent now, with his and Tyrol’s glee at blowing stuff up offset by the awareness of the cost.
No indication of whether Gaius and Resurrected!Six were seeing their lovers in their head still or if they’d retreated.
A bit obvious that Gaeta was the insider, though whether he’ll be able to talk himself out of retaliation for having been so associated with President Baltar who got them in this mess is another matter. Tighe was definitely on a personal vendetta against Gaius, although he also made a good point that the attack would be a distraction.
For Galactica was indeed trying to contact them, and Adama, with his silly moustache, was riding everyone hard. It took his new Favourite Daughter – how twisted is his relationship with Sharon now? She’s still a pisoner – to tell him some home truths. Ditto Dee to Lee (the fact their names are rhyming is tickling me.) Kat is CAG now – heh. So, the rescue is on and who knows if what pilots they have left can pull it off.
The whole Western world/terrorists or freedom fighters metaphor is well and truly blurred now, with the Cylons in charge and the humans doing suicide bombings. The more clear cut characters were in their stands, the more I felt obliged to go ‘eh, it’s complicated. Tighe and Roslin’s rage was understandable (I wondered if they were able to interact civilly.)
3.2 Precipice
With Kallie taken (from their baby son), enraged! Tyrol was both helpful and not. He guilted the secret policeman into freeing her, but it wasn’t entirely clear if everyone knew Gaeta was the insider or not now, including the cop.
Apparently I’m now crushing so hard on Gaeta (because we skipped over how he resigned his commission and went to work for Baltar, which feels more like a choice to get the character in place than character driven, because even though they’d worked together over science, he’d have got over the fanboy shine of working with Gaius Baltar with all the patronising, and there’d be a gap of top science boffin even if he was tired of being in the military and desperate enough to believe in New Caprica.)
Am not sure if the show is for real in the power of maternal love transforming even Kara or if she will kill CKR’s clone again soon. I’d have bought a more ambivalent response. Kaycee certainly was arresting. She’s both abomination and innocent, with Kara still referring to the Cylons as toasters, except Sharon, outcome of a conception Kara never consented to. And thus another Hera, and yet not the offspring of love. (So they did find a way.)
Speaking of, FASCINATING encounters either happened or were set up, Resurrected!first Sharon (calling hersef Boomer) and Kallie, who’d killed her, but was still making demands (heh) and now married to Sharon’s love Tyrol and the mother of his child. With Adama choosing to send his new favoured daughter to help the humans on New Caprica, it meant Sharon (ooh, she married Helo, while still a prisoner) got to wear the uniform. Almost said put it back on, but despite her memories, this Sharon didn’t. Could she count on the officers she was flying down with, I wondered. But of course Anderson only knew her though even he had to deal with the small matter of ladies with her face walking around. But what about when she meets Laura? Hera? That could be the thing that breaks her vows.
The ep ended with the question of whther the Cylons (I spotted some retconning about the robot versions/history of Cylons for storytelling needs) killed Kallie or Roslin, Varek and the rest. I think that Roslin wil survive and most of the prisoners will be executed.
Before that, resurrected!Sharon witnessed Resurrected!Six being shot dead callously. It occurred to me that the Cylon clones were a bit like colonies (even the doctor from the farm turned up, so that’s seven. I always thought there’d be twelve, an it’s extremely self-disciplined if they’ve limited themselves to the ones the humans know about if they’re planning to pull a later X is a Cylon.) Baltar learned that things could get worse. One shared the disdain of the Cylons trying to offload the guilt for what they were up to. Anyway, all this led to the return of Six to comfort/assist Gaius, suggesting she’d been lying low for a while. I want to see first Six being resurrected soon, for one thing we haven’t seen just her interact with Gaius – the resurrection facility must be close given CKR’s clone’s return. I’d have thought that would be the rebellion’s best, and least morally compromised, target.
All of the humans (apart from Tigh who is the most out there with the perpetual fag in his mouth) were struggling with having crossed a line with the suicide bombers even before the retaliations began. But Tigh got his way, and his argument about distractions was valid. Ellen learned that she really was a collaborator now, betraying Saul in order to save him. Another shade on the naifs who’d volunteered to be police officers, now being asked to abet summary executions in revenge for the suicide bombing (which had killed some of their fellow officers.)
There were some tensions up in the air over their plan and what Adama was going to do. I read too much into Lee quoting Roslin at him, but even setting aside the personal, she was the moral voice of the civilians. Lee was tasked with searching for Earth with the remnants of the fleet (but even if they get to Earth they have to deal with the Cylons, either by beating them or coming to the accommodation some of them are searching for. Every time the text that the Cylons have a plan comes up, I snicker.)
BSG 3.1 Occupation
A previously with a ‘one year later’ and an exchange I definitely don’t remember being aired in it. Then we had an arty montage, with the artiness lasting longer than I expected and returning sporadically throughout the episode. I found it more confusing than anything, but that may just be where I’m at.
We learned via an angry!Roslin voiceover of her very secret diaries (she seemed very sure that no Cylons would see them,) that four more months had passed (with very few scenes, so it shouldn’t be jolting that Lee and Dee were married or that Tyrol and Kallie had a son as well as Kara getting hitched and all the revelations that had come at us thick and fast in the season 2 finale.)
Ellen did what she felt she had to to get Tigh freed (that was gracious of the clone who let him go, unless if they’ve all been spending time with Ellen…) Yet to be known what Saul will make of Ellen’s collaboration to get him out.
No such luck for Kara, who was locked in a horrific, unwanted pas a deux with CKR’s clone – the one who she’d interrogated/tortured before he got resurrected. Apart from the apparent captor-captive thing, and his torture was more insidious, we learned that Mr Religious With The Gift of Prophecy had developed the conviction that Kara would one day love him. It looked to me more like she saw him as a human-looking Scar, but the horror of sitting there with a dead body, waiting for the resurrected version to return, something she’d oviously done before, and later leaving the suite with its veneer of civilisation to show she was in a cell, far from everyone else, as well as Anderson’s despair did make me sorry for her. Good on her for keeping fighting, but murdering your captor only to have him come back over and over is even more trauma for her.
Having said that, after some consideration, I don’t remember his obsession with her being set up as so personal. (I could be wrong, I got burned on this with Scorpion, but it was brave in that we had seen nothing of this clone all last season.)
Anderson was using his resistance skillz to be an insurgent now, with his and Tyrol’s glee at blowing stuff up offset by the awareness of the cost.
No indication of whether Gaius and Resurrected!Six were seeing their lovers in their head still or if they’d retreated.
A bit obvious that Gaeta was the insider, though whether he’ll be able to talk himself out of retaliation for having been so associated with President Baltar who got them in this mess is another matter. Tighe was definitely on a personal vendetta against Gaius, although he also made a good point that the attack would be a distraction.
For Galactica was indeed trying to contact them, and Adama, with his silly moustache, was riding everyone hard. It took his new Favourite Daughter – how twisted is his relationship with Sharon now? She’s still a pisoner – to tell him some home truths. Ditto Dee to Lee (the fact their names are rhyming is tickling me.) Kat is CAG now – heh. So, the rescue is on and who knows if what pilots they have left can pull it off.
The whole Western world/terrorists or freedom fighters metaphor is well and truly blurred now, with the Cylons in charge and the humans doing suicide bombings. The more clear cut characters were in their stands, the more I felt obliged to go ‘eh, it’s complicated. Tighe and Roslin’s rage was understandable (I wondered if they were able to interact civilly.)
3.2 Precipice
With Kallie taken (from their baby son), enraged! Tyrol was both helpful and not. He guilted the secret policeman into freeing her, but it wasn’t entirely clear if everyone knew Gaeta was the insider or not now, including the cop.
Apparently I’m now crushing so hard on Gaeta (because we skipped over how he resigned his commission and went to work for Baltar, which feels more like a choice to get the character in place than character driven, because even though they’d worked together over science, he’d have got over the fanboy shine of working with Gaius Baltar with all the patronising, and there’d be a gap of top science boffin even if he was tired of being in the military and desperate enough to believe in New Caprica.)
Am not sure if the show is for real in the power of maternal love transforming even Kara or if she will kill CKR’s clone again soon. I’d have bought a more ambivalent response. Kaycee certainly was arresting. She’s both abomination and innocent, with Kara still referring to the Cylons as toasters, except Sharon, outcome of a conception Kara never consented to. And thus another Hera, and yet not the offspring of love. (So they did find a way.)
Speaking of, FASCINATING encounters either happened or were set up, Resurrected!first Sharon (calling hersef Boomer) and Kallie, who’d killed her, but was still making demands (heh) and now married to Sharon’s love Tyrol and the mother of his child. With Adama choosing to send his new favoured daughter to help the humans on New Caprica, it meant Sharon (ooh, she married Helo, while still a prisoner) got to wear the uniform. Almost said put it back on, but despite her memories, this Sharon didn’t. Could she count on the officers she was flying down with, I wondered. But of course Anderson only knew her though even he had to deal with the small matter of ladies with her face walking around. But what about when she meets Laura? Hera? That could be the thing that breaks her vows.
The ep ended with the question of whther the Cylons (I spotted some retconning about the robot versions/history of Cylons for storytelling needs) killed Kallie or Roslin, Varek and the rest. I think that Roslin wil survive and most of the prisoners will be executed.
Before that, resurrected!Sharon witnessed Resurrected!Six being shot dead callously. It occurred to me that the Cylon clones were a bit like colonies (even the doctor from the farm turned up, so that’s seven. I always thought there’d be twelve, an it’s extremely self-disciplined if they’ve limited themselves to the ones the humans know about if they’re planning to pull a later X is a Cylon.) Baltar learned that things could get worse. One shared the disdain of the Cylons trying to offload the guilt for what they were up to. Anyway, all this led to the return of Six to comfort/assist Gaius, suggesting she’d been lying low for a while. I want to see first Six being resurrected soon, for one thing we haven’t seen just her interact with Gaius – the resurrection facility must be close given CKR’s clone’s return. I’d have thought that would be the rebellion’s best, and least morally compromised, target.
All of the humans (apart from Tigh who is the most out there with the perpetual fag in his mouth) were struggling with having crossed a line with the suicide bombers even before the retaliations began. But Tigh got his way, and his argument about distractions was valid. Ellen learned that she really was a collaborator now, betraying Saul in order to save him. Another shade on the naifs who’d volunteered to be police officers, now being asked to abet summary executions in revenge for the suicide bombing (which had killed some of their fellow officers.)
There were some tensions up in the air over their plan and what Adama was going to do. I read too much into Lee quoting Roslin at him, but even setting aside the personal, she was the moral voice of the civilians. Lee was tasked with searching for Earth with the remnants of the fleet (but even if they get to Earth they have to deal with the Cylons, either by beating them or coming to the accommodation some of them are searching for. Every time the text that the Cylons have a plan comes up, I snicker.)
