I might be watching too much of this stuff

[salinea]

Episodes 3x11 to 3x16 (The Eye of Jupiter, Rapture, Taking a Break from all your Worries, The Woman King, A Day in the Life, Dirty Hands)


The Eye of Jupiter & Rapture

The religious treasure hunt is back on, yay! It's cheesy, kinda kitsch but it's load of fun and intriguing as well and I'm enjoying it ^_^ And there was a SUPERNOVA! How cool is that XD

However it does beg a few questions. The Final Five, how come they're such a myths to the Cylon societies if they, like themselves, evolved recently? Beyond the part where it's important to us watchers for plot reasons, why is seeing their face so important to d'Anna?
If all of this has happened before, who were the Cylons the first time around? When were the Cylons created by the human society, in fact? (How did their society recover from the sudden lack of that manual labor when they rebelled, too? XD)
I suppose if the Five are a whole independent faction they might be the ones behind Baltar's Vision!Six (and Six's Vision!Baltar) and the other stuff.
More people getting vision/intuitions like Chief and Starbuck, that's interesting. No Chamalla needed anymore (I need to look back at the S2 DVDs for Starbuck's paintings).
I suppose d'Anna's apology means there's one of the Five among the Galactica crew... and with them being separate from the other factions, there's the plot reason for no reveal previously. Apart from Adama, Lee, Roslin and Tigh (age and family reasons), it really could be anyone, I guess.

Otherwise I'm happy that Dee and Anders are back to having a personality, yay! I'd miss you Dee. I could live with more of Anders and Lee facing off while they are all sweaty and shiny, too :D

Wow, Boomer's impressively bitter and angry.

And Roslin's big second mistake is biting her back in the ass. Adama didn't know, fancy that.

It's funny how Baltar still doesn't get that everyone hates him.

Taking a Break from all your Worries

Baltar's back ♥ Loved the episode mindfuck and Baltar analysis. Roslin still utterly doesn't get him, expecting him to admit responsibilities, it's kind of hilarious. Gaeta's anger at Baltar is a thing of beauty.

And for all that I actually like the Lee/Kara's trainwreck of angst and shippiness, I was frustrated anytime they came onto screen, GET BACK TO THE BALTAR DAMNIT!

The Woman King

Subtlety, motherfuckers, do you write it?

(I'm not sure what it says about me that I partially liked this episode even if it was cringe worthily unsubtle)

(also, where the hell is Zarek? wasn't he from Sagittaron like Dee?)

A Day in the Life

Wait, that was an episode that was supposed to make me like Adama, right? I mean, it wasn't supposed to make me want to gouge his eyeballs out and rinse them with bleach, right?

Don't you flirt with him, Roslin, go and flirt with Zarek. Or Lee (do you remember when you used to talk to Lee? Those were the days), or Tory, or Baltar. Anything's better than the guy who tells his son to shut up when he's trying to tell him about being abused by his mother because he wants to keep a nice memory of her.

(I guess it was a pretty good episode, in terms of craft)

Dirty Hands

How very cute. I want to puke.

Never mind the manufactured for the express purpose of this episode problems, including the cute kid working in the factory.

Chief, I love you, but the right answer to Adama was "okay, shoot Cally and me and the others and then see who else you can find to fix your ship, vipers and raptors since we're so short handed we were just forced to keep Seelix", you imbecile. And don't be surprised that Roslin's so happy to deal with you as a Union leader what with being so fluffy, and nice, and salt of the earth guy which they know will bend for what they're asking. And of course they're willing to negotiate once you corrected your tone and asked very nicely instead of demanding from a position of strength.

(also the part about telling Baltar you're still in democracy might have been more convincing if Roslin had ever been, you know, democratically elected. Never mind that the democratically elected guy was such a trainwreck, it still shows the obvious flaws of your argumentation).

And where the fuck was Tom Zarek?

On Baltar's (supposed?) farmer upbringing I have only thing to say : what? O_o

Did the show managed to make me hate both Adama and Roslin in just two episodes? Right, I believe it did.

Comments

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

How very true about "Dirty hands". I hated hated HATED that episode. It was too cute, too unreal and too easily resolved. Not to mention the episode (which one was it again?) when Roslin expressly ordered Baltar tortured. She's becoming one scary woman.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I should not be enjoying your descent into madness, but I am (because I had to do it in real time as the episodes came out). :p

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

hahahaha. Yeah.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm not that disturbed with Roslin's ruthlessness, because she's always been pretty ruthless and willing to go to great length, and because the show actually addresses the moral issues of the Baltar torture (among other things via the Doc who, Woman King aside, has always been a consistent ethical voice on this show, and then when she admitted that she did want to see him suffer), the problem I had with Dirty Hands is that the show presents the ending as a good solution, as a happy ending. Everything's solved because the Chief was willing to give in to being threatened with his wife's death. Everything's solved because Roslin and Adama are just so damned good that they will condescend to listen to his points... as long as they're kept in power I guess. That's such a flagrant blindness to the actual power unequality that had (however hamfistedly) established that it just pisses me off.

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Word on what X-Ray said. You're going through in just a few days what we did over the course of months. Odd, how what appeared at the time to be the END OF BSG AS WE KNOW IT just turned out to be a few bad eps in a row. And you're past the worst of it now.

And the cycle of time/final 5/ancient Cylons versus new ones thing has been debated endlessly on the boards and no-one's really come with a good explanation for it (I just hope RDM has one!). Suffice to say this season has still got a few WTF? moments to come on this subject before the end. Enjoy ;-)

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I sort of liked Adama's hallucinations. I liked all the hallucinations and sort of feel like they are possibly the best part of the show sometimes. I think everyone should hallucinate their SO (Since we already have like 4 people who have done so).

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Which episode was Quincy BSG? Because that was the shittiest episode ever.

[werthead.livejournal.com]

C'mon, the cat was awesome. And I submit The Woman King as the shittiest episode of BSG ever. Beware the EVIL RACIST DOCTOR. He will kill you in your sleep because of his EVIL RACISM.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

No, that was the same episode. The one with the doctor, and Lee (?) had to figure out that he was killing his patients, and blah blah.

[werthead.livejournal.com]

Quincy was the post-mortem guy, not another HOTSHOT LAWYER who achieves his ends by NOT PLAYING BY THE RULES, wasn't he?

I fail at 70's American cop/medical/lawyer references :-(

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Adama's hallucinations were alright.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I actually still think Black Market was the worst. Because Woman King was just as bad, but it was against racism, while Black Market was bad AND sexist and racist.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

S3 just had a few mediocre episodes, yeah, no jumping the shark material.

(I just hope RDM has one!).
That's the thing I wonder about.

Finished watching S3. Wasn't WTF-ed by much.

[werthead.livejournal.com]

I think Woman King is worse because there's a fantastic missed opportunity there. What if Helo had been wrong? What if the doctor had been perfectly okay and Helo was cracking up? That would have been far more BSG to me than what happened in the ep, which could have happened in any TV show :-( I expect more from my Galactica.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I think I just really like the convention mostly.