Since I'm going to be stuck at work ANYWAY
Apr. 7th, 2008 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenUgh, the boss just Does Not Get It. Giving me two-and-a-half hours of work at FOUR is not okay. I am totally coming in late tomorrow.
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But since I'm here: HOLY SHIT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
It's amazing how apathetic I was to season three and yet totally psyched-out-of-nowhere I was for season four to start. It hit me about a week before the premiere, and suddenly I caught myself just STARING at the ads on the side of Pandagon and willing time to move faster. (The fact that it started up so close to my birthday makes the waiting all the more painful.)
So, BSG:
Biggest flip-out moment of all, by far, was Anders staring down the Raider and triggering it to leave. SO AWESOME. Because Sam is absolutely adorably adorable; most definitely not an asshole (which puts him in the minority on this show); insanely cute trying to fly a viper (so weird!); and HOLY FRAK HE IS A CYLON.
I needed that moment. I needed it because no matter what the creators have said or what appeared to be the case last season, there's still some part of me that completely balks at the reveal of the four of the Final Five. It's not even Tigh that does it, what with his being strangely old and having been around during the last cylon war. It's the Chief being a cylon that kills me. The heart of the show is a robot. My mind, blown! Some part of me is still going, "Not the Chief. Not Chief Tyrol, surely." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley," says the show. THE CHIEF IS A CYLON TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!
Yeah, a little freaked, can you tell? Because now it's proven. Aiya. So freaked I can't care about Starbuck being alive. In fact, in comparison, I could care less. Except for that awful exchange she and Anders have as she starts to question whether her miraculous return might not have intervening hands on it. She's so sure she's not a cylon or a trap or anything wrong, but if you fly in the face of overwhelming sanity, you start to crack. And Anders is sitting there trying to do his job--he's sorta a less sex-potty version of Six (LESS?) crossed with a less whiny Eight--and love and comfort her from a position of authority on the subject of her totally not being a cylon. AND SHE THREATENS TO SHOOT HIM. IN THE FACE. IF HE IS A CYLON. (WHICH HE TOTALLY IS.)
And then she whacks him across the face when he doesn't jump to join her "Let's threaten the President with a shooting in the face until she does what I say" plan. I'm with TWoP's Jacob on this: it's so crazy, it HAS to be Starbuck. Even D'Anna--if she weren't in a box--would look at this plan and go, "No, thanks, I'll just take my pills."
In general, though, they need to get the LONG, SIGNIFICANT LOOKS BETWEEN THE SECRET CYLONS shots out of their system. One, two episodes of that at most before I start to get annoyed. I get it. O-to-the-M-and-the-G, Adama, Roslin, et al. are talking about the cylons' crazy plotting WHILE CYLONS ARE STANDING RIGHT THERE. We get it, m'kay? Let's get to the confessions--Tigh will go to his grave before he'll tell Daddy Adama that he's a toaster (apparently, according to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viridian, Michael Hogan would have preferred to go to his grave having not played a cylon), but Anders and the Chief are kinda suckers and they will totally spill the beans to someone. My money is on Anders cracking first or being outed first by virtue of generally being more open about feelings and stuff and more overtly traumatized by being a robot than anyone else seems to be. I want to see the Chief talk to his wife, especially. Talk about trauma.
Also, I'd find it hilarious if Adama made some comment about how nice it is that Tigh is checking out other women, completely misreading the looks passing between him and Tory. Things of that nature should happen to amuse me seeing as Ellen Tigh is no longer around to do it and all scenes involving Baltar have become ridiculous to an unfunny degree.
And this is not a spoiler, this is me taking bets, feel free to answer in comments: First of the final four to be outed...? When will that happen (mid-season, next episode, last)? Last cylon is...?
(I answer myself: Anders, mid-season, and the last cylon is freakin' Doc Cottle because that would be megawesome.)
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But since I'm here: HOLY SHIT BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
It's amazing how apathetic I was to season three and yet totally psyched-out-of-nowhere I was for season four to start. It hit me about a week before the premiere, and suddenly I caught myself just STARING at the ads on the side of Pandagon and willing time to move faster. (The fact that it started up so close to my birthday makes the waiting all the more painful.)
So, BSG:
Biggest flip-out moment of all, by far, was Anders staring down the Raider and triggering it to leave. SO AWESOME. Because Sam is absolutely adorably adorable; most definitely not an asshole (which puts him in the minority on this show); insanely cute trying to fly a viper (so weird!); and HOLY FRAK HE IS A CYLON.
I needed that moment. I needed it because no matter what the creators have said or what appeared to be the case last season, there's still some part of me that completely balks at the reveal of the four of the Final Five. It's not even Tigh that does it, what with his being strangely old and having been around during the last cylon war. It's the Chief being a cylon that kills me. The heart of the show is a robot. My mind, blown! Some part of me is still going, "Not the Chief. Not Chief Tyrol, surely." "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley," says the show. THE CHIEF IS A CYLON TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!?!?!?!?!
Yeah, a little freaked, can you tell? Because now it's proven. Aiya. So freaked I can't care about Starbuck being alive. In fact, in comparison, I could care less. Except for that awful exchange she and Anders have as she starts to question whether her miraculous return might not have intervening hands on it. She's so sure she's not a cylon or a trap or anything wrong, but if you fly in the face of overwhelming sanity, you start to crack. And Anders is sitting there trying to do his job--he's sorta a less sex-potty version of Six (LESS?) crossed with a less whiny Eight--and love and comfort her from a position of authority on the subject of her totally not being a cylon. AND SHE THREATENS TO SHOOT HIM. IN THE FACE. IF HE IS A CYLON. (WHICH HE TOTALLY IS.)
And then she whacks him across the face when he doesn't jump to join her "Let's threaten the President with a shooting in the face until she does what I say" plan. I'm with TWoP's Jacob on this: it's so crazy, it HAS to be Starbuck. Even D'Anna--if she weren't in a box--would look at this plan and go, "No, thanks, I'll just take my pills."
In general, though, they need to get the LONG, SIGNIFICANT LOOKS BETWEEN THE SECRET CYLONS shots out of their system. One, two episodes of that at most before I start to get annoyed. I get it. O-to-the-M-and-the-G, Adama, Roslin, et al. are talking about the cylons' crazy plotting WHILE CYLONS ARE STANDING RIGHT THERE. We get it, m'kay? Let's get to the confessions--Tigh will go to his grave before he'll tell Daddy Adama that he's a toaster (apparently, according to
viridian, Michael Hogan would have preferred to go to his grave having not played a cylon), but Anders and the Chief are kinda suckers and they will totally spill the beans to someone. My money is on Anders cracking first or being outed first by virtue of generally being more open about feelings and stuff and more overtly traumatized by being a robot than anyone else seems to be. I want to see the Chief talk to his wife, especially. Talk about trauma.Also, I'd find it hilarious if Adama made some comment about how nice it is that Tigh is checking out other women, completely misreading the looks passing between him and Tory. Things of that nature should happen to amuse me seeing as Ellen Tigh is no longer around to do it and all scenes involving Baltar have become ridiculous to an unfunny degree.
And this is not a spoiler, this is me taking bets, feel free to answer in comments: First of the final four to be outed...? When will that happen (mid-season, next episode, last)? Last cylon is...?
(I answer myself: Anders, mid-season, and the last cylon is freakin' Doc Cottle because that would be megawesome.)
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Date: 2008-04-08 05:21 am (UTC)And I'm totally with you on a few points, not the least of which is the surplus of lingering toaster glances. Oy.
I accidentally read a tidbit of NON-information that pretty much sunk my theory on who the last Cylon is. At this point I know who it's NOT, which makes figuring out who it IS that much more nerve-wracking. But I have my theories. You'll be happy to know the husband is totally with you on Doc Cottle. But if you view the show as a chessboard, there are three people placed rather strategically in the scheme of things. As a coworker and I discussed today, quite a few of the outed Cylons have either trauma or religious overtones to their background, and have somehow aligned themselves - unwittingly or no - with major figures. So that leaves me with one logical conclusion. Well, as I said before, three, but I think one may just be too obvious, another's been out of the picture for a while, and the last is the one I'm leaning towards.
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Date: 2008-04-08 08:34 pm (UTC)I think I might know the tidbit to which you refer, vis a vis the last of the five. (Does it have to do with the "Last Supper" picture?) It made too much sense (and was too easy) for Starbuck to have been it, though I would prefer it were a woman for all that I'm behind Doc Cottle 100%. (Said as much upthread, but basically I could totally believe the one truly anonymous cylon is a grumpy doctor who thinks everyone--robot, human, humans who are robots--is stupid.)
In terms of the strategic placement = cylon, I'm curious as to what you come up with. (Please don't say Gaeta. He's another I really enjoy for how human he is. Dee, maybe, but they'd have to do a lot of work to make me like her enough to let her be a cylon. I like Tory better, and Tory is barely ever onscreen or allowed to speak.) Because really you don't get anyone more strategically placed than the two main character-secret-cylons. Tigh, for obvious reasons, but Tyrol just as much if not more. Tyrol oversees a lot, has a lot of responsibilities (and access) aboard Galactica. He's also the Fleet-wide union leader and rep on the ship. He has power. It's interesting how such a throwaway episode as the one where he assumed that role suddenly becomes much more important.
I'd like it to be a woman, though, only because it should be in a gender-neutral society, but I suppose the patriarchical structure of the cylon religion does provide for a slight bias in favor of males. It's just that there are only four female cylons. Another dude leaves it at four, but another woman would bring it closer to equal. This is not to say the female cylons aren't obviously the most powerful and influential among the cylon. I mean, Cavill seems to be important, Doral is pretty sneaky, but come on. Even other cylons don't want to be friends with the Leobens. (A Leoben's only friend is the hybrid that jumps the basestars.) And Simon is just never even acknowledged (except for the gimme episode that introduced him). But still, numbers are important, too.
Speaking of, I wonder if we'll ever understand that rubric?