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Nov. 26th, 2007 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenI'll skip the recap of Thanksgiving and head right for the sci-fi, thanks. My sister was exposed to her friend as being incurably geeky (like it's a bad thing?). She all but threatened me if I insisted on watching Battlestar Galactica: Razor around her, lest she take an interest in the series and betray her geekitude some more.
Not bad. I was so out-of-my-head tired when I saw it as to not be blown away, but, at the same time, so rabidly keen on that level of great acting and intricate plotting that come with your average BSG episode, I was going out of my skull.
Kendra didn't bother me. I didn't get the gay off of her and Starbuck like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viridian, which was nice since the show decided to be as unsubtle as possible about Cain and Gina. I don't have a problem with Cain and Gina, especially not as I've been waiting three seasons now for them to at least have ONE homosexual pairing. I'm sorry, in a truly gender-neutral setting, there'd be gay people, and they deserve to have at least one-tenth the sex scenes shown; I'd happily let them have any and all time spent watching Lee boink Dualla, thank you very much.
I just don't like the idea of Cain's relationship--be it with male or female partner--being blown apart as having ANYTHING to do with what she did. I just Don't Like It, Period. At least Kendra commented on how asexual Cain had, previously, seemed to be, and I loved how adorably indignant Gina was on Cain's behalf when she told her, "We're all only human," Cain included. I just don't like the inference that Cain's no-holds-barred approach was somehow the fault of her being, personally, duped by Gina. I think the desperation and uncertainty of Cain and crew's situation spoke enough for itself--they had no idea they weren't alone, and when they discovered other survivors, they had no civilian liasons who might have helped them deal with unmilitaristic folk. I thought that that was enough to explain the legacy of the Pegasus. Sigh.
GIna, though, wow. She was...so not a Six, I almost died. I didn't hardly recognize her at first, if only because she wasn't this larger-than-life bombshell that Sixes usually are. She was just this honey-haired worker bee, and she was adorably, touchingly human. For a minute there, you'd think they'd accidentally put a Sharon in a Six, that's how relatable she was. I'm so sorry she was ever found out at all. Lame-ass way to do it, too; further proof Cylons really don't have a master plan? They send the same model as their sleeper agent to the ship they invade. I know they thought they'd win, but still: sloppy.
As for the hybrid stuff, meh, that was hard enough to work out tired as a I was that I didn't bother. I spent most of the time annoyed that the young Bill Adama was nowhere near as attractive as the young Edward James Olmos. He did sound like him, though, which is more important on a show where his codename is "Husker" and his son resembles the milk man more than him. Way to tell Kendra the secret when she can't tell anyone else, Crazy Cylon God! Who wants to take bets that he's not really God?
So, good but not great. That's fine. It did make me crazy hungry for next season, though, which is roughly FOREVER away. I guess I'll have to entertain myself with visions of a three-way between Starbuck, Anders, and Lee.
...What? As long as he's not talking, Lee's hot!
Not bad. I was so out-of-my-head tired when I saw it as to not be blown away, but, at the same time, so rabidly keen on that level of great acting and intricate plotting that come with your average BSG episode, I was going out of my skull.
Kendra didn't bother me. I didn't get the gay off of her and Starbuck like
viridian, which was nice since the show decided to be as unsubtle as possible about Cain and Gina. I don't have a problem with Cain and Gina, especially not as I've been waiting three seasons now for them to at least have ONE homosexual pairing. I'm sorry, in a truly gender-neutral setting, there'd be gay people, and they deserve to have at least one-tenth the sex scenes shown; I'd happily let them have any and all time spent watching Lee boink Dualla, thank you very much. I just don't like the idea of Cain's relationship--be it with male or female partner--being blown apart as having ANYTHING to do with what she did. I just Don't Like It, Period. At least Kendra commented on how asexual Cain had, previously, seemed to be, and I loved how adorably indignant Gina was on Cain's behalf when she told her, "We're all only human," Cain included. I just don't like the inference that Cain's no-holds-barred approach was somehow the fault of her being, personally, duped by Gina. I think the desperation and uncertainty of Cain and crew's situation spoke enough for itself--they had no idea they weren't alone, and when they discovered other survivors, they had no civilian liasons who might have helped them deal with unmilitaristic folk. I thought that that was enough to explain the legacy of the Pegasus. Sigh.
GIna, though, wow. She was...so not a Six, I almost died. I didn't hardly recognize her at first, if only because she wasn't this larger-than-life bombshell that Sixes usually are. She was just this honey-haired worker bee, and she was adorably, touchingly human. For a minute there, you'd think they'd accidentally put a Sharon in a Six, that's how relatable she was. I'm so sorry she was ever found out at all. Lame-ass way to do it, too; further proof Cylons really don't have a master plan? They send the same model as their sleeper agent to the ship they invade. I know they thought they'd win, but still: sloppy.
As for the hybrid stuff, meh, that was hard enough to work out tired as a I was that I didn't bother. I spent most of the time annoyed that the young Bill Adama was nowhere near as attractive as the young Edward James Olmos. He did sound like him, though, which is more important on a show where his codename is "Husker" and his son resembles the milk man more than him. Way to tell Kendra the secret when she can't tell anyone else, Crazy Cylon God! Who wants to take bets that he's not really God?
So, good but not great. That's fine. It did make me crazy hungry for next season, though, which is roughly FOREVER away. I guess I'll have to entertain myself with visions of a three-way between Starbuck, Anders, and Lee.
...What? As long as he's not talking, Lee's hot!
