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Feb. 18th, 2006 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenOh God. Tonight's Battlestar Galactica managed to be everything I'd been missing and more! It made sense and tied off some of the weird directionless plotting of the last three episodes, and and and! Baltar in da house!!!!
Dee and Apollo, I am still meh to. I am kind of appalled at her, though, seeing as Billy just died. Yes, Apollo says it's been a month since, but still. I'd be a little weirded out that some guy I sorta liked and who asked me to marry him died, even a month after. Apollo's promotion to major...again, meh, I say. I am not sure what he's managed to do whilst mostly laid up recovering from being shot that means he's earned a major's stripes. However, I would be the first (and was!) to say he was so getting those commander pins after last night. I got chills when he took over in Pegasus CIC. Jamie Bamber and Edward James Olmos must really work at behaving just like each other. I think there was a scene in "Black Market" (::shudder::) where they were both slouching the same way. Amazing.
And I found out that Hotdog's actor actually is Edward James Olmos' son (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xannoside for the head's up). Get out! No wonder he's...uh...how to put this charitably? Goofy. Yes, Hotdog is goofy looking. I love him, don't get me wrong, but way goofy. He's still my favorite new pilot.
Speaking of new pilots, woo-hoo-hoo, has Pegasus got some pretties. The one girl working with Starbuck was really cute. Why couldn't Apollo go for her? I think Dualla's okay-ish, but I'd jump Kat (STRICTLY ON TERMS OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS, I ASSURE YOU--I was so glad Kat was absent this round) before her. When was Starbuck officially demoted as CAG of Pegasus by the by? When Cain was killed, I was sure she was still CAG. Maybe it was decided while she was hanging around Galactica during "Scar," while she was, you know, a filthy drunk. Oh and I am going to love Starbuck and Tigh together. Lee and Tigh were fantastic; Kara and Tigh are going to be dynamite.
AHHH!!! STARBUCK AND APOLLO MOMENTY GOODNESS! ANGRY AND HAPPY AND GUILTY AND FORGIVE-Y!!! This, this was what all the character introspection in the world couldn't do. They needed to clash in the midst of doing other things and come to respect one another anew for what they did best (I wanted to cry when Apollo called her the best pilot in the fleet--take that, Kat!). Then the hug. Oh, the hug. I am not a shipper. I hated all the shippy moments (and am still groaning over the headache of the Apollo/anonymous girl, Apollo/space whore, Apollo/Dualla/Billy fiasco of the last three episodes), which is why I really loved the failure to launch between Apollo and Starbuck (again,xannoside knows all: once they're together that way, the show's over). And they made up!!!! Awww!!!
HELLO, CHIEF!!! WELCOME BACK FROM EXPOSITION BANISHMENT LAND!!!!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! BALTAR, YOU ROCKED MY WORLD!!!! I missed you so much! You and crazy Six-bot! They needed to be in the last three episodes waaaaaaaaaay lots more than they were (seeing as it was, oh, let's see, a brief five minute thing in "Black Market" and then NOT AT ALL in the last two eps). And the way he did...oh God, that was...ZOUNDS! Is all I can say. Roslin looked a little shocked, but something tells me she knew all along (and, while I'm at it, the new assistant is no Billy, and I'm glad Adama said it for all of us). I love, love, love that Six-bot is actually impressed with him and yet able to convey her consternation at his cavalier dismissal of the Cylons as merciless freedom oppressors. She has just this little flicker of offense taken, but she remains proud of him. God, she has such a hard job. I was glad to see Baltar acting capable, but really, enough news gets around about his personal problems, his election is over. Sure, he's got charisma and the promise of the unknown, but one too many quirks, you ask me.
HOWEVER, I am all ready to jump ship, literally, for the fleet after what Zarek said. If the fleet is really looking for a leader grounded in hard science and cold fact instead of religious hokum, I will gladly trade my spot on Earth to any who wants it. I WANT A LEADER WHO ISN'T A RELIGIOUS NUTBALL AND WHO MAKES SCIENTIFIC REASONING THE BASIS FOR JUDGMENT!!!! SCREW YOU, GEMINON!
The pregnancy issue is a great one, too. It's setting up conflict that is not yet resolved, and Roslin fucking ROCKS for putting the Geminon emissary back in her place at the end of the ep. She's got stones, man, as if any of us forgot.
Long story short, this is probably the best episode since the "Resurrection Ship" arc was played out.
Dee and Apollo, I am still meh to. I am kind of appalled at her, though, seeing as Billy just died. Yes, Apollo says it's been a month since, but still. I'd be a little weirded out that some guy I sorta liked and who asked me to marry him died, even a month after. Apollo's promotion to major...again, meh, I say. I am not sure what he's managed to do whilst mostly laid up recovering from being shot that means he's earned a major's stripes. However, I would be the first (and was!) to say he was so getting those commander pins after last night. I got chills when he took over in Pegasus CIC. Jamie Bamber and Edward James Olmos must really work at behaving just like each other. I think there was a scene in "Black Market" (::shudder::) where they were both slouching the same way. Amazing.
And I found out that Hotdog's actor actually is Edward James Olmos' son (thanks,
xannoside for the head's up). Get out! No wonder he's...uh...how to put this charitably? Goofy. Yes, Hotdog is goofy looking. I love him, don't get me wrong, but way goofy. He's still my favorite new pilot.Speaking of new pilots, woo-hoo-hoo, has Pegasus got some pretties. The one girl working with Starbuck was really cute. Why couldn't Apollo go for her? I think Dualla's okay-ish, but I'd jump Kat (STRICTLY ON TERMS OF PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS, I ASSURE YOU--I was so glad Kat was absent this round) before her. When was Starbuck officially demoted as CAG of Pegasus by the by? When Cain was killed, I was sure she was still CAG. Maybe it was decided while she was hanging around Galactica during "Scar," while she was, you know, a filthy drunk. Oh and I am going to love Starbuck and Tigh together. Lee and Tigh were fantastic; Kara and Tigh are going to be dynamite.
AHHH!!! STARBUCK AND APOLLO MOMENTY GOODNESS! ANGRY AND HAPPY AND GUILTY AND FORGIVE-Y!!! This, this was what all the character introspection in the world couldn't do. They needed to clash in the midst of doing other things and come to respect one another anew for what they did best (I wanted to cry when Apollo called her the best pilot in the fleet--take that, Kat!). Then the hug. Oh, the hug. I am not a shipper. I hated all the shippy moments (and am still groaning over the headache of the Apollo/anonymous girl, Apollo/space whore, Apollo/Dualla/Billy fiasco of the last three episodes), which is why I really loved the failure to launch between Apollo and Starbuck (again,
xannoside knows all: once they're together that way, the show's over). And they made up!!!! Awww!!!HELLO, CHIEF!!! WELCOME BACK FROM EXPOSITION BANISHMENT LAND!!!!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! BALTAR, YOU ROCKED MY WORLD!!!! I missed you so much! You and crazy Six-bot! They needed to be in the last three episodes waaaaaaaaaay lots more than they were (seeing as it was, oh, let's see, a brief five minute thing in "Black Market" and then NOT AT ALL in the last two eps). And the way he did...oh God, that was...ZOUNDS! Is all I can say. Roslin looked a little shocked, but something tells me she knew all along (and, while I'm at it, the new assistant is no Billy, and I'm glad Adama said it for all of us). I love, love, love that Six-bot is actually impressed with him and yet able to convey her consternation at his cavalier dismissal of the Cylons as merciless freedom oppressors. She has just this little flicker of offense taken, but she remains proud of him. God, she has such a hard job. I was glad to see Baltar acting capable, but really, enough news gets around about his personal problems, his election is over. Sure, he's got charisma and the promise of the unknown, but one too many quirks, you ask me.
HOWEVER, I am all ready to jump ship, literally, for the fleet after what Zarek said. If the fleet is really looking for a leader grounded in hard science and cold fact instead of religious hokum, I will gladly trade my spot on Earth to any who wants it. I WANT A LEADER WHO ISN'T A RELIGIOUS NUTBALL AND WHO MAKES SCIENTIFIC REASONING THE BASIS FOR JUDGMENT!!!! SCREW YOU, GEMINON!
The pregnancy issue is a great one, too. It's setting up conflict that is not yet resolved, and Roslin fucking ROCKS for putting the Geminon emissary back in her place at the end of the ep. She's got stones, man, as if any of us forgot.
Long story short, this is probably the best episode since the "Resurrection Ship" arc was played out.
