BSG was the best part of my day
Three posts in two days, what is this? It's like fandom/the internet is sucking me back in...
Hey, can you Guess What's Coming to Dinner? Hahaha. Silly show.
GAETAAAAAAAAAAA. I knew when he begged Helo to save his leg that it was probably gone but NOOOOOO GAETA WHYYYY. I hate amputation! Although not as much as I used to apparently. Because it wasn't that hard to focus on his lovely singing, oh Gaeta! And he'll be able to get back in the CIC eventually. He's been so brave about it, darling Gaeta.
I loved that shot of Baltar being covertly sad for his suffering once upon a time friend, Felix. I do believe that's what he was feeling. How could anyone not?
I especially love how messed up Anders is about it. He better be! You took Gaeta's LEG, Sam! Yeah, the decisions Starbuck and Helo made took bits of it too, but Anders is the one who aimed and pulled the trigger. Did you have to shoot him in the knee, Sam?
(oh, Gaeta, a lover not a fighter, but your legs never let you down, did they, standing - literally standing - endless shifts in CIC, running through corridors, through New Caprican alluvial deposits, left and right they carried you faithfully, and now one is gone, lost in the service of humanity, maybe, you hope, because you still suspect Starbuck is a cylon, but you've ruined everything by doing what you thought was right before, and if you were wrong, if Starbuck's ridiculous finger-painting visions really do lead the fleet to Earth, then at least you lost your leg for a reason. And you try to ignore that small spiteful part of you that hopes it wasn't for a reason and that every one will see what a waste of time it was and be really frakking sorry that they let your leg be lost for some insane wild goose chase.)
Seriously this episode was beautiful because of Gaeta. Everything else was really cool, and I'm so, so, SO glad that Lee and the President are tentatively remembering how to be on the same side (how could anyone resist Lee Adama, defender of democracy, when he's determined to help her? I don't believe anyone can.), but the way Felix's hospital singing held it all together totally made the episode. This is going to end up being one of my favorites in unexpected ways, I bet, when whatever happens later in the season has altered my perspective of what came before.
It also made me happy just seeing Kara and Lee in the same room, even though they didn't get to talk. When they're together, they each know there's someone there who has their back no matter what. It's good to just feel that silently, sometimes.
Plus what was said in that scene was totally worth listening to. I really like Natalie!Six's idea, that true mortality is what the cylons needed to be able to experience in order to truly understand what it is to be human, and alive. Living things can die, that's the nature of being alive. I enjoy that the cylons concocted a plan - several plans, even - for giving birth/being born long before it occurred to them that both sides of the birth/death coin would be required (perhaps inevitable) for their crazy Plan.
So of course Athena had to go and shoot her in the corridor. While the Chief grabs Hera for safekeeping, HA. The Four, dude, we've seen it so clearly exemplified this week, how profoundly trusted they all are. Athena calls the Chief in to swoop her child back from the cylons. Tigh contradicts Adama's orders to fire on a cylon base star based on an irrational hunch he can't explain and Adama looked shocked but lets the order stand, and then just thanks him. The President calls Tory out on sleeping with Baltar but never questions that she has been and will continue to do her job loyally.
Only Anders was too busy being crazyface with Gaeta-guilt to be trusted with anything. *pats him*
If they can hold it together and avoid doing anything too stupid-
Never mind. What am I thinking. It's going to be SUCH a disaster when they're found out.
So. I'm assuming the Natalie incident was just a prelude of the way the Opera House vision will play out in its entirety, because it's Caprica!Six who's been having the shared vision, and CancerPrez wasn't there to make her bid for the motherdom of Hera.
It feels so good to spend an hour each week with so many people I love, up to their necks in mythology and destiny and visions, and all shouldering these burdens as best they can, looking what's coming in the face and trying like hell to figure it out in time, wherever it takes them, however little they want to go.
PS guys, real soon I'm going to finish my post from two weeks ago. Maybe.
Hey, can you Guess What's Coming to Dinner? Hahaha. Silly show.
GAETAAAAAAAAAAA. I knew when he begged Helo to save his leg that it was probably gone but NOOOOOO GAETA WHYYYY. I hate amputation! Although not as much as I used to apparently. Because it wasn't that hard to focus on his lovely singing, oh Gaeta! And he'll be able to get back in the CIC eventually. He's been so brave about it, darling Gaeta.
I loved that shot of Baltar being covertly sad for his suffering once upon a time friend, Felix. I do believe that's what he was feeling. How could anyone not?
I especially love how messed up Anders is about it. He better be! You took Gaeta's LEG, Sam! Yeah, the decisions Starbuck and Helo made took bits of it too, but Anders is the one who aimed and pulled the trigger. Did you have to shoot him in the knee, Sam?
(oh, Gaeta, a lover not a fighter, but your legs never let you down, did they, standing - literally standing - endless shifts in CIC, running through corridors, through New Caprican alluvial deposits, left and right they carried you faithfully, and now one is gone, lost in the service of humanity, maybe, you hope, because you still suspect Starbuck is a cylon, but you've ruined everything by doing what you thought was right before, and if you were wrong, if Starbuck's ridiculous finger-painting visions really do lead the fleet to Earth, then at least you lost your leg for a reason. And you try to ignore that small spiteful part of you that hopes it wasn't for a reason and that every one will see what a waste of time it was and be really frakking sorry that they let your leg be lost for some insane wild goose chase.)
Seriously this episode was beautiful because of Gaeta. Everything else was really cool, and I'm so, so, SO glad that Lee and the President are tentatively remembering how to be on the same side (how could anyone resist Lee Adama, defender of democracy, when he's determined to help her? I don't believe anyone can.), but the way Felix's hospital singing held it all together totally made the episode. This is going to end up being one of my favorites in unexpected ways, I bet, when whatever happens later in the season has altered my perspective of what came before.
It also made me happy just seeing Kara and Lee in the same room, even though they didn't get to talk. When they're together, they each know there's someone there who has their back no matter what. It's good to just feel that silently, sometimes.
Plus what was said in that scene was totally worth listening to. I really like Natalie!Six's idea, that true mortality is what the cylons needed to be able to experience in order to truly understand what it is to be human, and alive. Living things can die, that's the nature of being alive. I enjoy that the cylons concocted a plan - several plans, even - for giving birth/being born long before it occurred to them that both sides of the birth/death coin would be required (perhaps inevitable) for their crazy Plan.
So of course Athena had to go and shoot her in the corridor. While the Chief grabs Hera for safekeeping, HA. The Four, dude, we've seen it so clearly exemplified this week, how profoundly trusted they all are. Athena calls the Chief in to swoop her child back from the cylons. Tigh contradicts Adama's orders to fire on a cylon base star based on an irrational hunch he can't explain and Adama looked shocked but lets the order stand, and then just thanks him. The President calls Tory out on sleeping with Baltar but never questions that she has been and will continue to do her job loyally.
Only Anders was too busy being crazyface with Gaeta-guilt to be trusted with anything. *pats him*
If they can hold it together and avoid doing anything too stupid-
Never mind. What am I thinking. It's going to be SUCH a disaster when they're found out.
So. I'm assuming the Natalie incident was just a prelude of the way the Opera House vision will play out in its entirety, because it's Caprica!Six who's been having the shared vision, and CancerPrez wasn't there to make her bid for the motherdom of Hera.
It feels so good to spend an hour each week with so many people I love, up to their necks in mythology and destiny and visions, and all shouldering these burdens as best they can, looking what's coming in the face and trying like hell to figure it out in time, wherever it takes them, however little they want to go.
PS guys, real soon I'm going to finish my post from two weeks ago. Maybe.