Let's Get One Thing Clear
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trinityvixenOkay, so scary-ass Roslin made me wee myself a little in terror (Baltar's pants must be soaking), but otherwise, I could have skipped that episode. Like the one with Adama's backstory and that pilot, this just made shit up to pass the time instead of getting to the meaty morality stuff we'll see not next week but in two weeks (when I will be down in Florida and pining for the Sci-Fi Channel since I already know the hotel we're staying at doesn't have it; pisser! And this was supposed to be the year we got a nice place, too). I also love how they ended really early and then ballyhooed about having an extra scene when it was really "we have enough time to fill our slot, but this one scene has nowhere to go, so let's just end early and call it an 'exclusive.'"
Sigh. I remain steadfast of the opinion that, of the four miscreants running around without a clue how to act like adults on Galactica, Anders is still the only one who isn't an asshole. Dee got some of her own back with slapping Starbuck around last week, but Anders remains committed to not-sucking as hard as the other three work at sucking. This means he is totally a Cylon. Probably. Whatever, it doesn't matter. He should be like the tremendous chump, seeing as he comes over for Starbuck's booty call and then gets chucked out on his ear, but he's entirely too sympathetic to see as simply pathetic. Dee with her "well, it's good that I got what I wanted for as long as I got it" martyrdom is the chump. How about you fucking fight for it, woman? Also, if you were really as cool as you used to be, you wouldn't ever have gone for Lee fucking Adama.
Really, Lee, at this point, why? Why do you even...Daddy Adama has pretty much adopted everyone on his ship who's ever saluted him as his kid, so it's not like he needs you for that. You're not as good as Starbuck on any level (flying, leading, drinking--his drunken binge freakout in the hallway was sad, which is what those should be; only Kara can make that look silly and fun and maybe even a little cool), you just embarrass the piss out of everyone. And your new haircut is almost as bad as the semi-groomed-into-a-mohawk nonsense you sported in the miniseries. No one believes any of the shit you spew, not least of all your wife, who is just losing her minor bits of regained awesomeness by letting herself not realize you are full of it.
Here's your first clue Apollo: You are not in love with anyone. A long time ago, you got it in your head that Daddy wouldn't love you unless you were a Viper pilot and used that as an excuse to be an asshole who measures your entire life by what you haven't got yet. If you had someone in your life, it wasn't enough to have them. You had to have medals and parades and declarations of love. Your girlfriend got pregnant without screaming to the Gods that she was so happy and honored and excited to have your kid, so you ditched her ass. Nice job. Know why Dualla got to you? Because she played with your lapel pins and went, "Ooh, someone's a major today," and you thought that was love. I'm surprised you didn't try to kill Daddy after you got to be Commander, 'cause then you'd have the highest pair of pins to be bragging about. And you and Dee would be celebrating with the octoplets she would have to bear in order to reassure you of her love and that it was the greatest anyone could have (and hey, that wouldn't be wrong; birthing that many fucking kids wins you my vote for most devoted barefoot-n'-pregnant wife ever).
You are not in love. You don't love. You also don't get to throw around bullshit to Dee, not even in her stupid girlie moment, about how insecure she is. If you're unfamiliar with the term "projection," I suggest you look it up with a quickness. You are the insecure one because you don't have gold stars to rank how well you are loved. People who don't do that shit, who prefer the proof of action and consideration to rankings, aren't going to pat you on the head and say, "I love you, Lee Adama." Remember when Kara said that? She was drunk, post-coital and freaked the fuck out. She said she loved you, and that was more than she's said about her dead fiance or her husband that we've seen. And it wasn't enough, surprise surprise. You are not in love. You are obsessed with Kara Thrace. Let her go. She's an asshole, but she has someone in her life who might make her less of one. You're enough asshole for two people. Let it go.
I would give you some advice about loving Lee first, but if there's anyone whose love you've always relied upon, it was your own for yourself alone. God. Go cry, emo pilot.
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moonlightalice pondered aloud if this show wouldn't be well served by having an entire episode without dialogue. I think she might be onto something. If this past episode had to be conveyed on looks and acting alone, I would have been in less pain. This is a cast that is definitely talented enough to speak the volumes a space empty of words would require. There are also enough reasons for silence to be had that you could do it without it being horribly artsy or contrived (imagine all the scenes on the Basestar, with its gently whirring background noises, opera, and quietly working models and then transplant that and add chaos, and imagine how beautiful it would on Galactica). I think, in addition to petitioning the Sci-Fi Channel to hire Jonathan Frakes as Cylon model No. 1, this is what we should all write in to the producers to request of this show. It's not like they haven't got episodes to waste, as this and a few others this season have proved.
Sigh. I remain steadfast of the opinion that, of the four miscreants running around without a clue how to act like adults on Galactica, Anders is still the only one who isn't an asshole. Dee got some of her own back with slapping Starbuck around last week, but Anders remains committed to not-sucking as hard as the other three work at sucking. This means he is totally a Cylon. Probably. Whatever, it doesn't matter. He should be like the tremendous chump, seeing as he comes over for Starbuck's booty call and then gets chucked out on his ear, but he's entirely too sympathetic to see as simply pathetic. Dee with her "well, it's good that I got what I wanted for as long as I got it" martyrdom is the chump. How about you fucking fight for it, woman? Also, if you were really as cool as you used to be, you wouldn't ever have gone for Lee fucking Adama.
Really, Lee, at this point, why? Why do you even...Daddy Adama has pretty much adopted everyone on his ship who's ever saluted him as his kid, so it's not like he needs you for that. You're not as good as Starbuck on any level (flying, leading, drinking--his drunken binge freakout in the hallway was sad, which is what those should be; only Kara can make that look silly and fun and maybe even a little cool), you just embarrass the piss out of everyone. And your new haircut is almost as bad as the semi-groomed-into-a-mohawk nonsense you sported in the miniseries. No one believes any of the shit you spew, not least of all your wife, who is just losing her minor bits of regained awesomeness by letting herself not realize you are full of it.
Here's your first clue Apollo: You are not in love with anyone. A long time ago, you got it in your head that Daddy wouldn't love you unless you were a Viper pilot and used that as an excuse to be an asshole who measures your entire life by what you haven't got yet. If you had someone in your life, it wasn't enough to have them. You had to have medals and parades and declarations of love. Your girlfriend got pregnant without screaming to the Gods that she was so happy and honored and excited to have your kid, so you ditched her ass. Nice job. Know why Dualla got to you? Because she played with your lapel pins and went, "Ooh, someone's a major today," and you thought that was love. I'm surprised you didn't try to kill Daddy after you got to be Commander, 'cause then you'd have the highest pair of pins to be bragging about. And you and Dee would be celebrating with the octoplets she would have to bear in order to reassure you of her love and that it was the greatest anyone could have (and hey, that wouldn't be wrong; birthing that many fucking kids wins you my vote for most devoted barefoot-n'-pregnant wife ever).
You are not in love. You don't love. You also don't get to throw around bullshit to Dee, not even in her stupid girlie moment, about how insecure she is. If you're unfamiliar with the term "projection," I suggest you look it up with a quickness. You are the insecure one because you don't have gold stars to rank how well you are loved. People who don't do that shit, who prefer the proof of action and consideration to rankings, aren't going to pat you on the head and say, "I love you, Lee Adama." Remember when Kara said that? She was drunk, post-coital and freaked the fuck out. She said she loved you, and that was more than she's said about her dead fiance or her husband that we've seen. And it wasn't enough, surprise surprise. You are not in love. You are obsessed with Kara Thrace. Let her go. She's an asshole, but she has someone in her life who might make her less of one. You're enough asshole for two people. Let it go.
I would give you some advice about loving Lee first, but if there's anyone whose love you've always relied upon, it was your own for yourself alone. God. Go cry, emo pilot.
The very wise
moonlightalice pondered aloud if this show wouldn't be well served by having an entire episode without dialogue. I think she might be onto something. If this past episode had to be conveyed on looks and acting alone, I would have been in less pain. This is a cast that is definitely talented enough to speak the volumes a space empty of words would require. There are also enough reasons for silence to be had that you could do it without it being horribly artsy or contrived (imagine all the scenes on the Basestar, with its gently whirring background noises, opera, and quietly working models and then transplant that and add chaos, and imagine how beautiful it would on Galactica). I think, in addition to petitioning the Sci-Fi Channel to hire Jonathan Frakes as Cylon model No. 1, this is what we should all write in to the producers to request of this show. It's not like they haven't got episodes to waste, as this and a few others this season have proved.
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Date: 2007-01-30 03:18 pm (UTC)What? Apollo was in it? Oh, I thought I was just having a lame dream.
Baltar rocks as always ^_^ Poor little Roslin is never going to get her wish *evil laugh* Trial or no, Baltar will live on to be Baltar. I'm just wondering what Caprica-Six is doing during all this. As for Head-Six, sinister and brilliant as always is playing the game.
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Date: 2007-01-30 03:43 pm (UTC)Roslin: I won't airlock you if you help us.
Six: You airlocked Leoben.
Roslin: (pause) Oh. You heard about that? You guys probably talk to each other and stuff.
Six: Hello? Hivemind? God's great plan? The two of us are the scary twin priests of our crazy religion!