OMG SPOILERS!

[trinityvixen]

I agree with one of the comments on this posting about the latest BSG gay romance: if the friggin Sci-Fi Channel does a godsdamn PRESS RELEASE saying "ZOMG Xxxxx is A GAY!" how the hell can you really say that mentioning it somewhere else is a spoiler?

Of course, I link to my own announcement of that news from some weeks ago, and I realize I did give a spoiler warning, so clearly there is some expectation that even news that is announced and given out to the media is still somewhat sensitive. But really, people: if you're at all plugged in and you're at all behind in a series, you just sort of have to get used to being spoiled. Most magazines will warn you (UNLIKE FUCKING ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) for anything major. The fact that the Sci-Fi Channel isn't bothering to hide this means this gay romance will probably be as significant to the story as the last one. (Read: not at all.)

It's not like they announced who the last Cylon was. (HA HA HA, IT IS GOING TO SUCK WHEN THEY DO, THOUGH AND I KNOW IT AND I DON'T CARE, A-HA HA...sigh)

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I realize I'm stating the obvious, but still. I hate it when all the press about a show is OMG REVELATION! Fie.

No, that's totally what I meant. They're treating it as a big deal, in part because ZOMG HOMOSEXX but also as "SEE, WE LISTENED" anal expulsionism. Bah humbug to that.

Also, hard for me to say much more intelligently, still on 2.5, trying to understand why 2.0 was all Earth Awaits! and now no one's said a frakking word about it since Cain showed up.

I can't really say much without knowing exactly where you are in season 2, but I guess with the way Cain showed up, it wasn't really relevant to bring up Earth because that Was Not Her Mission. Cain is a fascinating study, but she's not big into the mysticism even more so than Adama. He probably left off with the Earth bullshit as a result.

As for Kobol, I'm still confused why it was never made more of a big deal. It was clearly a leafy green place, why didn't they want to just stay there? Because it's a holy place? Yeah, something tells me 50,000 final survivors care SO MUCH about that.

As for Lee Adama? He's a fucktard. Next?

[habiliments.livejournal.com]

As of tonight, I've just finished "Sacrifice," and the show is killing me with its failplotting. How I want to go back in time and read blog posts while they're happening!

(I take your point about Cain, but I still feel like she would have at least asked why there was mention of Kobol and Earth in the Galactica logs. And now that I'm several eps past her mini-arc, I'm totally confused as to what the overall plot is: No return to Caprica! No hunt for Earth! Just a lot of pulled-out-of-thin-air annoying fakeplots that don't even make sense! Including the remaking of Lee into a fuckwit. I'm pretty sure he wasn't one before.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh boy, "Sacrifice." Well, at least you're past "Black Market," which is the worst episode of the series...um, until season three, but who's counting? And you're onto "Downloaded" next, I believe, which is surpassingly excellent.

(The random character assassination stuff is them filling time. I think it's sort of like how LOST was made of fail in season three because no one would let them know when they'd be done with the show, and they didn't want to get to revelations they planned out too soon. But that might be giving BSG too much credit.)

[habiliments.livejournal.com]

"Black Market" was mind-bogglingly terrible (I posted incoherently about it here (http://habiliments.livejournal.com/292885.html)), and given what you'd mentioned about the show thinking it's post-gender, I immediately wanted there to be working boys to match Shevon's cliched role, and maybe some women working in the damn black market as well. (Not to mention more female viper pilots who are 100,000 times less annoying than Kat.) (And not that everything has to match up perfectly but it does seem like ... like while no one's performance is judged on gender, the jobs they do oftentimes — though not always — are still reflecting our world's gender divisions.)

Um, what was I talking about? Right. "Sacrifice," aka "Kill Billy." There's one more episode on this disc and I REALLY hope it's better than the previous three.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If I'm right and it's "Downloaded," then, yes, it's way better. It's a damn shame about Billy because he would have been awesome down the road. Because the last thing Roslin needed to lose was the one guy who constantly reminded her that her renegade shit was Not Cool.

(The show can only go so far in correcting gendered stereotypes because a lot of them are unconscious at this point. Almost all of them are due to a basic assumption of weakness when it comes to the "feminine." Women are hookers, not men. Especially not men. 'Cause why would men ever...women don't want sex, so they wouldn't hire men, and men wouldn't hire men because...ICKY!!!!

So, yeah, no. The fact of prostitution doesn't surprise me. The state of it on BSG was lamentable.)