Robots can bleed, too
Apr. 19th, 2008 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenWell, you all will appreciate it at least, so I'll tell you: I'm so currently depressed by Battlestar Galactica right now that I think it sucked the fanaticism right out of me.
Still, I have words:
There is a reason, as I understand it, that the Chief and Boomer fell in love: they are both fated to always, always suffer. No matter what choices they make, even the ones that don't rock the boat, they end up hurt. They just never know what decision to make to make it better. The only times they get it right is when others choose not to screw them over for it. The only thing Boomer got right was trying to make peace with the humans on New Caprica, but the humans and her Cylon family didn't let her. The only thing the Chief got right was giving in and, for once, Laura Roslin rewarded capitulation with respect. But he got everything else wrong.
And now he is alone. And she is alone. They will meet on the other side. She has killed half her kind. By the time they meet, I predict he will have killed half of his. (For certain, love his wife or no, the Chief will kill Tory when he finds out. The question is whether Col. Tigh or Anders will be caught in the fallout--or die in their respective impossible situations.) They will meet in a bath of blood, and they will get it wrong again. She will cry, and he will be angry. Boomer will want reconciliation, and he will want to apologize. They will, and they will be destroyed. Only then will either ever be happy. When they can stop, stop getting it wrong.
The last scene, in silence, broke my heart. Because of course Adama comes to break the news. If Laura keeps track of the numbers, he actually knows who they are (at least on his ship). He knows the history, from ugly to uglier, and, now, ugliest. Possibly, he will be the only one to mourn Cally (depending on how frakked up the Chief is--probably very).
And that's not fair. No one deserved this. Crashdown didn't. Cain didn't. Billy didn't. Kat didn't. Cally didn't.
Poor Cally. They couldn't let her go human; she had to go broken. Why? Did they think we wouldn't forgive Tory if Cally were entirely possessed of all her faculties? FRAK THAT. That's the weakest excuse. What was the point of frakkin' Lee Adama's completely illegal speech if not that we are capable of so much mercy? I forgave Gaius Baltar for enabling genocide. Forgiven. Laura Roslin stole a baby. I forgave her and I still love her. I forgive the Cylon for being as lost and confused as the rest of us. FORGIVEN. Why do you think I couldn't forgive Tory? Why does Cally have to be so bad for me to forgive her murderer?
Why couldn't the Chief do it himself? Did you think I couldn't forgive him? No matter what he does, know this: HE IS FORGIVEN.
Why didn't they make the hard choice? This is the last season, the last chance. Every episode they shy away from hard choices is a compromise too far. Where's my Hard Six? Godsfrakkingdamnit.
Still, I have words:
There is a reason, as I understand it, that the Chief and Boomer fell in love: they are both fated to always, always suffer. No matter what choices they make, even the ones that don't rock the boat, they end up hurt. They just never know what decision to make to make it better. The only times they get it right is when others choose not to screw them over for it. The only thing Boomer got right was trying to make peace with the humans on New Caprica, but the humans and her Cylon family didn't let her. The only thing the Chief got right was giving in and, for once, Laura Roslin rewarded capitulation with respect. But he got everything else wrong.
And now he is alone. And she is alone. They will meet on the other side. She has killed half her kind. By the time they meet, I predict he will have killed half of his. (For certain, love his wife or no, the Chief will kill Tory when he finds out. The question is whether Col. Tigh or Anders will be caught in the fallout--or die in their respective impossible situations.) They will meet in a bath of blood, and they will get it wrong again. She will cry, and he will be angry. Boomer will want reconciliation, and he will want to apologize. They will, and they will be destroyed. Only then will either ever be happy. When they can stop, stop getting it wrong.
The last scene, in silence, broke my heart. Because of course Adama comes to break the news. If Laura keeps track of the numbers, he actually knows who they are (at least on his ship). He knows the history, from ugly to uglier, and, now, ugliest. Possibly, he will be the only one to mourn Cally (depending on how frakked up the Chief is--probably very).
And that's not fair. No one deserved this. Crashdown didn't. Cain didn't. Billy didn't. Kat didn't. Cally didn't.
Poor Cally. They couldn't let her go human; she had to go broken. Why? Did they think we wouldn't forgive Tory if Cally were entirely possessed of all her faculties? FRAK THAT. That's the weakest excuse. What was the point of frakkin' Lee Adama's completely illegal speech if not that we are capable of so much mercy? I forgave Gaius Baltar for enabling genocide. Forgiven. Laura Roslin stole a baby. I forgave her and I still love her. I forgive the Cylon for being as lost and confused as the rest of us. FORGIVEN. Why do you think I couldn't forgive Tory? Why does Cally have to be so bad for me to forgive her murderer?
Why couldn't the Chief do it himself? Did you think I couldn't forgive him? No matter what he does, know this: HE IS FORGIVEN.
Why didn't they make the hard choice? This is the last season, the last chance. Every episode they shy away from hard choices is a compromise too far. Where's my Hard Six? Godsfrakkingdamnit.
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Date: 2008-04-20 02:02 am (UTC)It is fucked up when the "courageous" choice would have been for her to airlock her own child, but that's definitely what the episode left me feeling. Frakking BSG! They really get to me, man.
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Date: 2008-04-27 11:12 pm (UTC)The courageous choice for Cally, I feel, would have been to confront her husband and figure out how to trust him again. All along I've thought their relationship was more frakked up for the fact that it started with a brutal beating than for his being a robot married to an anti-robot zealot. I wanted them to address that more, but because neither was glamorous enough to rate the romantic treatment that they WASTED on annoying pairings (Lee/Dee, Lee/Kara, anyone and Lee Adama), they didn't until they offed one of them. Sigh.
But a courageous choice would have forced someone to change. It would mean Cally would become a monster who airlocked her own child to kill a Cylon. It would mean Cally was a fleet hero for turning in her own husband and three others for being skinjobs. It would mean ANYTHING that didn't just preserve status quo vis a vis who-knows-about-the-final-four. Gah.