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salineaEpisodes 2x11 to 2x16 (Resurrection Ship 1&2, Epiphanies, Black Market, Scar, Sacrifice)
Resurrection Ship 1&2
Brilliant episodes that give a gorgeous conclusion to the set up of Pegasus.
Loved Starbuck's startled defusion of the tension at the beginning, her bonding with Cain, and her uneasiness about the assassination order.
Roslin steps in at last. I really like that she's systematically the one to take the most ruthless choice in comparison with Adama. Loved the way the narrative paralleled their decision, the assassination plan's preparation and eventual canceling. Lovely framing. Cain's interesting, so obviously wrong in so many hideous way yet not entirely painted evil.
Liked Tigh providing intelligence via his drinking hobby.
The battle scenes were simply gorgeous, especially the ones with floating Lee on the foreground. Lee angsts, well, those people were overdue for some PTS symptoms.
Baltar follows through the awesomeness of Pegasus, and is actually quite helpful against the Cylons for once. Cain's killed. I cheer. Beautiful.
Epiphanies
Dear BSG writers,
When you set up your show's storyline I assume that you, like the Cylons, had a plan. That when you decided one of your character had six month left to live due to cancer and had it be a plot point due to prophecies, you already knew were you were going with it. Apparently you didn't, or your plan was just stupid, because magical cylon-human foetus blood cure is STUPID. Let me repeat, this is idiotic, the worst plot development you've had yet. Yes, even if you have other shoes dropping from the "cure". And the sudden decision to abort Sharon because he baby is "weird" didn't make any sense either.
Not to mention the part where this episode made Bastille day look like a sharp political commentary : the peace activist could actually have made sense if the Colonies hadn't already tried to surrender to the Cylons and the answer hadn't already been more nukes.
Adar sounded like he was quite the ass. What's his deal about never negotiating with teachers? That sounds pretty idiotic as well. I didn't think Roslin had that much bad tastes.
On the plus side, lots of Baltar being great. I'm not surprised he doesn't look forward presidency (and given how out of the loop politically wise he's been let to be since his election as vice president). I did find his resolution to be Roslin's enemy sudden, although it works somewhat with his personality, underlining his fragility and how much that's what makes him dangerous. Of course being Baltar, I kind of expect him to change his mind by next week (and then again). And, see what I said about no good deeds going unpunished? XD
Black Market
That was so bad I want to pretend this episode never ever happened.
Only redeeming quality was the Lee/Zarek vibes, and the Roslin-Baltar confrontation. I assume the "devil you know" argument of the end of the episode is going to be Roslin's reason for not acting against Baltar at once.
Scar
Quality BSG is back, at last! Srsly, Military SF is what it does best and should stick to. No more Noir, pretty plz.
Loved the focus on the pilots and Starbuck, Scar as a legend among them, and the themes of the consequence of war onto survivor pilots, both Cylons and humans. Liked seeing Kat developed, she's hot, she's bitchy and she's got a lovely chemistry with Kara - almost makes up for the lack of Tigh-Starbuck bickering. The scene with Sharon were likewise brilliant, underlining the exact amount of humanity and alien-ness from her. The almost-sex with Lee was awesome. I may yet change my mind about them not being OTP material, they do have an appealing amount of screw-up and angst.
There's been a lot of 48hours before kind of narrative frame in the episodes ever since Resurrection Ship, and most of them were useless and gimmicky, but there the two timelines were interwoven in a great way.
Sacrifice
I assumed the episode would go all Die Hard on us, but then Lee and Starbuck made lousy Bruce Willis-type action heroes and it went all to hell and for this subversion alone, I rather liked this episode. Interesting, that Dee was the only one not trying to pull any heroic action, guess all the self defense lessons were only for the sexual tension. Then again, since the heroic stunts pulling were coded as BAD IDEA, that's not quite as bad as it could have been. Ellen was hilarious, although I was disappointed she didn't try to negotiate something directly with the hostage takers.
I was disappointed to see them do so very little with Billy all season long and then they go and kill him. :( And there goes my cute ship as well... I receive you loud and clear, BSG writers, not getting any cute ship from this show. Okay. I'm going to make a wild guess and assume there were a lot of Dualla bashing at this point in the fandom.
It would be nice if once, just once, people opposing Roslin & Adama's political decision weren't portrayed as way out of the loop. The writers do look like they want to have things somewhat gray, but anytime there's protests and actions from civilians it's totally undershoot by the fact they be total idiots about, working through outrageously violent means right away and without much of a point if you dig a little bit (or are Cylons). It gets old.
Resurrection Ship 1&2
Brilliant episodes that give a gorgeous conclusion to the set up of Pegasus.
Loved Starbuck's startled defusion of the tension at the beginning, her bonding with Cain, and her uneasiness about the assassination order.
Roslin steps in at last. I really like that she's systematically the one to take the most ruthless choice in comparison with Adama. Loved the way the narrative paralleled their decision, the assassination plan's preparation and eventual canceling. Lovely framing. Cain's interesting, so obviously wrong in so many hideous way yet not entirely painted evil.
Liked Tigh providing intelligence via his drinking hobby.
The battle scenes were simply gorgeous, especially the ones with floating Lee on the foreground. Lee angsts, well, those people were overdue for some PTS symptoms.
Baltar follows through the awesomeness of Pegasus, and is actually quite helpful against the Cylons for once. Cain's killed. I cheer. Beautiful.
Epiphanies
Dear BSG writers,
When you set up your show's storyline I assume that you, like the Cylons, had a plan. That when you decided one of your character had six month left to live due to cancer and had it be a plot point due to prophecies, you already knew were you were going with it. Apparently you didn't, or your plan was just stupid, because magical cylon-human foetus blood cure is STUPID. Let me repeat, this is idiotic, the worst plot development you've had yet. Yes, even if you have other shoes dropping from the "cure". And the sudden decision to abort Sharon because he baby is "weird" didn't make any sense either.
Not to mention the part where this episode made Bastille day look like a sharp political commentary : the peace activist could actually have made sense if the Colonies hadn't already tried to surrender to the Cylons and the answer hadn't already been more nukes.
Adar sounded like he was quite the ass. What's his deal about never negotiating with teachers? That sounds pretty idiotic as well. I didn't think Roslin had that much bad tastes.
On the plus side, lots of Baltar being great. I'm not surprised he doesn't look forward presidency (and given how out of the loop politically wise he's been let to be since his election as vice president). I did find his resolution to be Roslin's enemy sudden, although it works somewhat with his personality, underlining his fragility and how much that's what makes him dangerous. Of course being Baltar, I kind of expect him to change his mind by next week (and then again). And, see what I said about no good deeds going unpunished? XD
Black Market
That was so bad I want to pretend this episode never ever happened.
Only redeeming quality was the Lee/Zarek vibes, and the Roslin-Baltar confrontation. I assume the "devil you know" argument of the end of the episode is going to be Roslin's reason for not acting against Baltar at once.
Scar
Quality BSG is back, at last! Srsly, Military SF is what it does best and should stick to. No more Noir, pretty plz.
Loved the focus on the pilots and Starbuck, Scar as a legend among them, and the themes of the consequence of war onto survivor pilots, both Cylons and humans. Liked seeing Kat developed, she's hot, she's bitchy and she's got a lovely chemistry with Kara - almost makes up for the lack of Tigh-Starbuck bickering. The scene with Sharon were likewise brilliant, underlining the exact amount of humanity and alien-ness from her. The almost-sex with Lee was awesome. I may yet change my mind about them not being OTP material, they do have an appealing amount of screw-up and angst.
There's been a lot of 48hours before kind of narrative frame in the episodes ever since Resurrection Ship, and most of them were useless and gimmicky, but there the two timelines were interwoven in a great way.
Sacrifice
I assumed the episode would go all Die Hard on us, but then Lee and Starbuck made lousy Bruce Willis-type action heroes and it went all to hell and for this subversion alone, I rather liked this episode. Interesting, that Dee was the only one not trying to pull any heroic action, guess all the self defense lessons were only for the sexual tension. Then again, since the heroic stunts pulling were coded as BAD IDEA, that's not quite as bad as it could have been. Ellen was hilarious, although I was disappointed she didn't try to negotiate something directly with the hostage takers.
I was disappointed to see them do so very little with Billy all season long and then they go and kill him. :( And there goes my cute ship as well... I receive you loud and clear, BSG writers, not getting any cute ship from this show. Okay. I'm going to make a wild guess and assume there were a lot of Dualla bashing at this point in the fandom.
It would be nice if once, just once, people opposing Roslin & Adama's political decision weren't portrayed as way out of the loop. The writers do look like they want to have things somewhat gray, but anytime there's protests and actions from civilians it's totally undershoot by the fact they be total idiots about, working through outrageously violent means right away and without much of a point if you dig a little bit (or are Cylons). It gets old.
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Date: 2 March 2008 10:31 pm (UTC)However, the very best episodes of the entire series are still to come for you. Press on! ;-)
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Date: 2 March 2008 11:12 pm (UTC)Yeah I got that feeling as well XD
Season 3 has an extended 'lame patch' lasting for the middle third of the season rather than just a couple of episodes.
Pooh.
Press on! ;-)
Just watched Download and am still reeling from its awesomeness XDDDD I need to secure the S3 DVDs and start downloading Razor!!
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Date: 2 March 2008 11:16 pm (UTC)Oh yeah, and I can now use my other BSG av since it's no longer a spoiler ;-)
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Date: 2 March 2008 11:27 pm (UTC)♥ the av!
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Date: 3 March 2008 03:38 am (UTC)I suspect between the partying there won't be much time for crash-watching of TV shows. I think something could be arranged for those interested though :-)
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EHK, is that you? Not that I don't agree with you 100%.
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