shallowness: Kira in civvies looking straight ahead (Vibrant Demelza Poldark)
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Because I only watched the one episode, I’m behind what’s aired on BBC2. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve got out of the habit of watching it on a certain night, or I’m not in the mood with the show (whereas I am with The West Wing, but that’s a rewatch, and there’s more fannish interaction with that, while I’m trying to avoid spoilers with BSG. Plus they have different tones.)

Anyway, 3.16 Dirty Hands

I’ll start by talking about what this episode didn’t, (unless if it was in one of the mumbly bits that I didn’t quite catch) which is that the Cylons must have replaced people doing necessary physical, difficult, dangerous jobs until they evolved and decided they weren’t having it any more. And then humans had to return to doing this, and the lack of opportunity in certain Colonies, but with a memory of a different time. Not a peep of that, except in individual examples of people in the current generation of young adults who hadn’t followed the expected paths – Tyrol, Dee and clever clogs Gaius.

But there was plenty to get into as was, the question of how long people can remain on a war footing when doing such arduous work as trillium refining and those people are all that’s left of humanity and forming a new pattern for their society. Some of this has been looked at on the Galactica itself, but not all. We had class tensions, industrial relations, workers’ rights and the military vs. civilian mindset. I was relieved that Roslin remembered her negotiating with unions past, and that she and Adama recognised that if TYROL was getting involved, this was not unreasonable, and when his points were good, they needed to yield. Adama had a point about military discipline, although way to make it personal for Tyrol, but Tyrol wasn’t wrong, and they were asking too much of the workers, what with the CHILD LABOUR and the dangers of entrenchment. But I also liked that Tyrol had to face the consequences of the compromises he’d brought about in the kid who wasn’t a farmer.

Meanwhile, I was possibly less touched by Gaius’s backstory or impressed by the accent, because every British actor should have a regional accent in their back pocket, or a posh English accent if their accent is regional. We’ve had two instances of characters not talking in a generic North American accent, that’s all. And his Mein Kampf class war stirring ignored all the things he’d done wrong.

I wish Tyrol and Callie had had a bit more discussion about what he was up to between the initial conversation where she’d admitted to reading Baltar’s book and her unwavering later support for whatever action he planned to take.
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