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trinityvixenDisturbing things times whoa:
1) Lee sending Dee to rescue Kara on Sam's behalf.
This was the compelling bit that would have been better were it not for the obnoxious Apollo/Starbuck in the previous weeks. As with the episodes in the second half of season two, the problem lay in focusing too narrowly on the parties at the center and ignoring the ripples outward. People cheating on spouses? Not a big deal. Trusting the life of a mistress to your in-the-know wife? Eep. Also scary: Anders face when he listens to Apollo order Dee out after Starbuck. There, for the first time, Sam falls apart with regards to his otherwise canny knowledge about the BSG adrenaline twins. It's a measure of respect being granted that Sam had never credited to Lee for obvious reasons that have nothing to do with jealousy or hurt pride (like I've said before: Sam gets that Kara doesn't remain faithful but she remains committed; his problem with Apollo is that Apollo doesn't get that and thinks he can have Kara to himself and take her away). Suddenly, he watches Lee put himself in a shit position that will, guaranteed, cost him dearly (either with Dee's life or the favors she will extract in return, carved out of his guilt) on Anders' behalf. No surprise at all that everything--militarily--falls right into line. Fuck if Anders and Apollo together aren't as scary a guerilla team as Starbuck and Apollo are in space.
2) Helo shooting Athena.
I don't think this even needs to be said, but damn. I didn't find his eventual confrontation with Roslin less compelling as his anger is so twisted up with his obvious psychosis from having just suicided his wife for her. It's so weird to see Helo even acknowledge the fucked up things his wife can do, as he's been trying so hard to make her as good as human to have her fit in with him on Galactica. He screams after she's gone and it's not pain; it's insanity. It's Baltar-worthy. He is married to the monster, and even though she is tame, she will never be any other than what she is. I feel it's a cheat to have him just take her back in her new body. Yes, same person (hell, the Doctor manages!), but think about the clues we use about a person's physical presence, the memories we make of them from touch and taste and smell--senses that are more primal and go a longer way towards assuaging our fears or doubts than memory can. A lot of Athena's inclusion comes from her maintaining as human a profile as possible--the woman, in mind and body and spirit, that Helo survived with and fell in love with has never changed. Now she comes with a body untouched by him, her pregnancy--the dissociation, my God! How disturbing it might have gotten yet.
3) Boomer threatening Hera.
It has always been a self-interested impulse that led Boomer to establish human-Cylon contact in the form of New Caprica. Her disappointment with not being able to re-insert peaceably or play middleman between opposed interests has led her here, and finally she acknowledges it to herself in the form of explosive hatred. She hates not getting to be as human as Athena, hates that she is a corrupted Cylon who cannot find mystical destiny in the hybrid. And finally the DEMAND LOVE movement comes to its natural end, imploding, self-eating, as Caprica breaks Boomer's neck. Caprica, who began her duties by blinking out the life of a child, sacrifices herself to preserve that spark in another baby. Caprica, the infiltrator, stands exposed on Galactica's hanger deck and goes to a cell. They have switched places now, Boomer the baby killer, Caprica the human wannabe. As if Caprica couldn't get any more heartbreaking. I wonder if her Chip!Gaius will help her weasel out of trouble like his Chip!Six drove him nuts.
4) Three apologizing to one of the final five Cylons.
It makes the revelation incredibly pointed. The other four are unimportant to D'Anna which means nothing, but that she knows the one and says "sorry" to it might mean even less even as it appears to be more. D'Anna met everyone on board Galactica, she stepped on toes that aren't any less sore for her being exposed as a Cylon on New Caprica. It's maddening to think that she might have been sincere, humbled for the first time ever (her madness has been surprisingly prideful thus far). It's like seeing Six left behind by both her lovers on a quest more insane than her own. How insane or inane the final five end up being will determine how upsetting it is that her reaction is so penitent after so long a period of crazy headstrongness.
She doesn't know two of them, looks right past them. She half-smiles at the third, as you might at an acquaintance of no real import. The fourth she does a sort of double take, as if she has to really believe that it's really that person in this place (more interesting still than her reaction to the fifth). "Forgive me, I had no idea." Said with wonder, with sadness and apology. To someone wronged, someone scorned, someone brushed off with snark? Anders, Lee, Gaeta, respectively?
5) Baltar in a body bag.
Just. So. Weird. Because I believe Gaius has firmly sold his sanity to make room for his ego and to crowd out his sense of personal responsibility and that this need to be a Cylon is a tragic pipe dream. And if he's dead--he is never coming back. That's very upsetting. In the way that outing Baltar ruined the duplicity he operated under, only much, much worse.
God, Anders and Lee carried him out to the stretcher together. Wow, okay, that was kind of hot, actually. In another life, they were friends. In another life, Lee and Kara were enemies. In this other life, things were better for both those reasons.
This is not my beautiful house...
1) Lee sending Dee to rescue Kara on Sam's behalf.
This was the compelling bit that would have been better were it not for the obnoxious Apollo/Starbuck in the previous weeks. As with the episodes in the second half of season two, the problem lay in focusing too narrowly on the parties at the center and ignoring the ripples outward. People cheating on spouses? Not a big deal. Trusting the life of a mistress to your in-the-know wife? Eep. Also scary: Anders face when he listens to Apollo order Dee out after Starbuck. There, for the first time, Sam falls apart with regards to his otherwise canny knowledge about the BSG adrenaline twins. It's a measure of respect being granted that Sam had never credited to Lee for obvious reasons that have nothing to do with jealousy or hurt pride (like I've said before: Sam gets that Kara doesn't remain faithful but she remains committed; his problem with Apollo is that Apollo doesn't get that and thinks he can have Kara to himself and take her away). Suddenly, he watches Lee put himself in a shit position that will, guaranteed, cost him dearly (either with Dee's life or the favors she will extract in return, carved out of his guilt) on Anders' behalf. No surprise at all that everything--militarily--falls right into line. Fuck if Anders and Apollo together aren't as scary a guerilla team as Starbuck and Apollo are in space.
2) Helo shooting Athena.
I don't think this even needs to be said, but damn. I didn't find his eventual confrontation with Roslin less compelling as his anger is so twisted up with his obvious psychosis from having just suicided his wife for her. It's so weird to see Helo even acknowledge the fucked up things his wife can do, as he's been trying so hard to make her as good as human to have her fit in with him on Galactica. He screams after she's gone and it's not pain; it's insanity. It's Baltar-worthy. He is married to the monster, and even though she is tame, she will never be any other than what she is. I feel it's a cheat to have him just take her back in her new body. Yes, same person (hell, the Doctor manages!), but think about the clues we use about a person's physical presence, the memories we make of them from touch and taste and smell--senses that are more primal and go a longer way towards assuaging our fears or doubts than memory can. A lot of Athena's inclusion comes from her maintaining as human a profile as possible--the woman, in mind and body and spirit, that Helo survived with and fell in love with has never changed. Now she comes with a body untouched by him, her pregnancy--the dissociation, my God! How disturbing it might have gotten yet.
3) Boomer threatening Hera.
It has always been a self-interested impulse that led Boomer to establish human-Cylon contact in the form of New Caprica. Her disappointment with not being able to re-insert peaceably or play middleman between opposed interests has led her here, and finally she acknowledges it to herself in the form of explosive hatred. She hates not getting to be as human as Athena, hates that she is a corrupted Cylon who cannot find mystical destiny in the hybrid. And finally the DEMAND LOVE movement comes to its natural end, imploding, self-eating, as Caprica breaks Boomer's neck. Caprica, who began her duties by blinking out the life of a child, sacrifices herself to preserve that spark in another baby. Caprica, the infiltrator, stands exposed on Galactica's hanger deck and goes to a cell. They have switched places now, Boomer the baby killer, Caprica the human wannabe. As if Caprica couldn't get any more heartbreaking. I wonder if her Chip!Gaius will help her weasel out of trouble like his Chip!Six drove him nuts.
4) Three apologizing to one of the final five Cylons.
It makes the revelation incredibly pointed. The other four are unimportant to D'Anna which means nothing, but that she knows the one and says "sorry" to it might mean even less even as it appears to be more. D'Anna met everyone on board Galactica, she stepped on toes that aren't any less sore for her being exposed as a Cylon on New Caprica. It's maddening to think that she might have been sincere, humbled for the first time ever (her madness has been surprisingly prideful thus far). It's like seeing Six left behind by both her lovers on a quest more insane than her own. How insane or inane the final five end up being will determine how upsetting it is that her reaction is so penitent after so long a period of crazy headstrongness.
She doesn't know two of them, looks right past them. She half-smiles at the third, as you might at an acquaintance of no real import. The fourth she does a sort of double take, as if she has to really believe that it's really that person in this place (more interesting still than her reaction to the fifth). "Forgive me, I had no idea." Said with wonder, with sadness and apology. To someone wronged, someone scorned, someone brushed off with snark? Anders, Lee, Gaeta, respectively?
5) Baltar in a body bag.
Just. So. Weird. Because I believe Gaius has firmly sold his sanity to make room for his ego and to crowd out his sense of personal responsibility and that this need to be a Cylon is a tragic pipe dream. And if he's dead--he is never coming back. That's very upsetting. In the way that outing Baltar ruined the duplicity he operated under, only much, much worse.
God, Anders and Lee carried him out to the stretcher together. Wow, okay, that was kind of hot, actually. In another life, they were friends. In another life, Lee and Kara were enemies. In this other life, things were better for both those reasons.
This is not my beautiful house...
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Re: To put a bee in your bonnet... (spoiler ahead!!!!)
Date: 2007-01-23 04:17 pm (UTC)Then again, since a human didn't stand there, we don't know if a human would have survived where a Cylon did not.
Re: To put a bee in your bonnet... (spoiler ahead!!!!)
Date: 2007-01-23 04:26 pm (UTC)The other question that brings up is whether Six saw what she did because the device was killing her OR if she saw it because she was dying anyway.
Re: To put a bee in your bonnet... (spoiler ahead!!!!)
Date: 2007-01-23 04:42 pm (UTC)We'll see how they resolve this then conjecture more, I'm certain.
Re: To put a bee in your bonnet... (spoiler ahead!!!!)
Date: 2007-01-24 06:07 pm (UTC)Re: To put a bee in your bonnet... (spoiler ahead!!!!)
Date: 2007-01-24 06:19 pm (UTC)