Comments | sherrilina: Finished with Battlestar Galactica: This is a Feels Post! (s3-4)

sherrilina

Finished with Battlestar Galactica: This is a Feels Post! (s3-4)

Jun 01, 2012 18:17

This past Sunday night/early Monday morning I finished watching BSG for the first time, almost two weeks after I began it! I am still filled with many thoughts and feels right now that I need to express. I'm glad I finished during a 3-day weekend so that I had time to finish watching and then have a day after to ~process~ it all, and explore fandom ( Read more... )

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francy_m79 June 2 2012, 10:09:10 UTC

Glad you are now part of the BSG-fangirling club! Once you enter, you never leave again!!! XD

I have just finished rewatching the show myself (for the 4th time?), but I have the urge to start all over again. What is this show's secret?? °_°

I had some problems with season 3 and 4, but I was totally satisfied with the finale! <3 Just thinking about it makes me tear up.

And I'm so glad for your Gaius and Gaius/Six love... it doesn't seem to be the popular opinion in some quarters! *glares at BF*

sherrilina June 5 2012, 01:57:51 UTC

Glad to be here too! ;) Wouldn't dream of leaving...And DAMN GIRL, 4 times?! That's pretty impressive, especially for YOU, Ms. I-Never-Have-Time-To-Rewatch-Anything! :p I don't know what its secret is, but I feel the same way--it's not many shows I marathon where I immediately want to start all over again as soon as I finish...(Doctor Who was another one, because how can you resist rewatching "Rose" after the end of EoT with "I think you're going to have a really good year!" ;)).

I had some problems with season 3 and 4, but I was totally satisfied with the finale! <3 Just thinking about it makes me tear up.

Yeah, mte more or less--I recognize there were some big stretches/plot holes in terms of the way they settled Earth and such, but there was also a lot of conclusion and emotional satisfaction and beauty and feels...and it did make me tear up at parts, which doesn't happen a lot on TV!

And I'm so glad for your Gaius and Gaius/Six love... it doesn't seem to be the popular opinion in some quarters! *glares at BF*I'm glad to ( ... )

francy_m79 June 5 2012, 19:15:09 UTC

and DAMN GIRL, 4 times?! That's pretty impressive, especially for YOU, Ms. I-Never-Have-Time-To-Rewatch-Anything! :p

It happens to me with very, very few shows... Buffy and BSG, I guess. I know Buffy by heart, but BSG not so much, despite the several rewatches. My memory is beyond shitty, and BSG is such a complex show that everytime I rewatch I remember the main plots, but many little things still feel new! *wants to watch again*

I'm glad to have you and Ben as allies there in this regard too! ;) It's not just on BF though...my oldest friend IRL who watched before me joked, "WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS" when I said he was my favorite (although she said sometimes she felt bad for him and liked him ok, but mostly disliked him or found he made her nervous), and another friend (in dead seriousness in her case) was like, "I'M SORRY BUT WE CANNOT EVER DISCUSS BSG IRL, YOU ARE A BALTAR FAN!" when she learned of my preference, because she hates him to such an "epic degree" that she said it was better to just not discuss him or it'd get ugly ( ... )

sherrilina June 10 2012, 20:53:39 UTC

It happens to me with very, very few shows... Buffy and BSG, I guess. I know Buffy by heart, but BSG not so much, despite the several rewatches. My memory is beyond shitty, and BSG is such a complex show that everytime I rewatch I remember the main plots, but many little things still feel new! *wants to watch again*

Yeah, I'm finding this is kind of true for me too...I keep thinking I want to rewatch things, but then I don't get around to it. I have barely used my TB or TVD dvds, etc. O_o And lol I used to know Buffy by heart (I could play those episode games where I could identify every one by title), but since then I've watched so much else I'm not sure...:s I'm probably due for a rewatch sometime...though I'd want to rewatch BSG first! ;) (I remember it pretty well because it's so fresh though).

Do a rewatch! :D

(And yes, this is why I have added icons, I cannot deal with only 15 icons...:s I just uploaded a Gaius solo one. :p)

phoenixrising06 June 12 2012, 02:16:35 UTC

And Caprica's storyline and arc (aside from the Saul Story That I Try to Repress)

I think fandom tries to collectively block that particular story from our minds.

t's amazing how Tricia Helfer is able to make them so distinct with the slightest changes in facial expression. It's crazy, because previous to BSG Tricia had only worked as a model, and so the higher ups at the network didn't want her getting that much screentime, as they thought she couldn't pull it off. BUT SHE IS PERFECT AND SHE SHOWED THEM ( ... )

sherrilina June 12 2012, 04:02:03 UTC

Woot I'm so glad that you are also a BSG fan, since I came so late to the party I'm still trying to keep track of who on my flist has seen it and who hasn't, lol...AND A GAIUS/SIX FAN TOO, even better! :D I need as many of those on my flist as possible...*hug*

It's crazy, because previous to BSG Tricia had only worked as a model, and so the higher ups at the network didn't want her getting that much screentime, as they thought she couldn't pull it off. BUT SHE IS PERFECT AND SHE SHOWED THEM!

Wow, seriously?! Lol, why did they hire her then? What a great story, and makes her even more impressive if she had no acting background...like Edith on DA.

It did give us the LOLtastic that was Fat!Lee, though.

Lol I didn't even find that funny, so much as just disturbing...O_o

LORD THE LOVE QUADRANGLE OF DOOM WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT BSG. I completely agree about how they really should've focused Kara on something other than that stupid quadrangle in the wake of the mind frakkery that was her time on NC. And yeah, I pretty much ( ... )

rosaxx50 July 17 2013, 00:57:04 UTC

Heh, yeah, Gaius/Six vids!

I especially hated how Gaius and Caprica Six were used, the way they just DROPPED their relationship for no apparent reason after they were finally reunited on the same ship and out of prison (like really now, after all they've been through, neither would bother to seek the other out and talk to him/her?! *rolleyes*). I also disliked how the head visions too all but disappeared (I especially missed the chance to see a little more Head!Gauis with Caprica). The Caprica/Saul storyline was the most random, stupid, horrible and pointless thing ever, and I'm trying to repress that from my memory.

Lol, basically. The weirdness of the Saul/Six arc detracted from the season for me. Their flash backs were perfect, and I thought it was rather on point that Gaius complains and shouts at his father, but does ditch all his dates to deal with him. And it was so cute that the angels kept their form after 150,000 years as these two and walked away hand in hand.