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When Tealc had that talk with Garek I was shouting "About damn time!" Daniel and Mitchell have been going about things ass-backwards trying to tell everyone that the Ori aren't really gods, then having to admit that they're really just... vastly powerful all-knowing immortal beings... that can heal the sick... and raise the dead. But not gods. Yeah, that's the ticket.
All along they should have been arguing that they're gods all right, EVIL GODS that want to enslave everyone and kill anyone that doesn't bow to them. The live free or die mission statement is about 6 episodes late.
All I have to say is, OMG Joe Flanigan's HAIR! ::flails::
Joe Flanigan's? Look at Garret Wang—he has Kate Beckinsale's hair!
Mikey -- Doctor Who the Complete First Season is coming out in March -- you mean Doctor Who 2005.
No, Sumi. That's what they're calling it. Points to BBC page.
Huh. I just remembered Cain's little notification to Adama, that she was pulling some of Galactica's crew onto Pegasus and sending Pegasus crew onto Galactica, in light of the info from her XO. As well as infiltrating and suborning Galactica's comraderie with informants, she's also strip-mining personnel for her own ship, and dumping some of the less-desirable.
Both of those people need to be kicked in the butt by a psychologist. Also possibly a tactician, and after that the line starts with the people who are being sent in on an assassination mission without anything resembling an escape plan afterwards.
Who's the available psychologist? Baltar, right? I'm not thinking he's gonna be a great deal of help. On the whole, Tigh's strategy of drinking heavily is looking like a very sensible adaptation.
Tight episode. If only my cable had been working so I could SEE it. Definitely TiVoing the repeat.
I love, love, love Roslin driven to the wall. This is bullshit. It stops. She had Mommy Voice going. Not the "I love you darling" voice, but the one that says Get. Off. That. Couch. Now.
Mikey skipped and skimmed -- because I commented on the confusingness of the new Who nomenclature, like, one post down.
I listened to the commentary for "Scattered" and got that the commentary was going to be spoilery so opted to now do that - I wiill say that one of the things that Moore sad was how they'd changed to opening so that they didn't interweave preview scenes through it. . . I think that they must have only changed the opening sequence to not do that for 2.1 -- because it's totally there now.
The first four episodes of season 2 don't have the Thunderbirds-y clips at the end of the credits. My impression is that they took them out because some people complained, and put them back because even more people complained.
I didn't miss the clips, but I totally missed the drums.
None of it is a totally rational decision, of course. But I don't expect people in drama to behave more rationally that people in the real world do. A show All About Vulcans wouldn't be very entertaining.
I'm no Vulcan, but I'm an uninformed civilian hussy in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, and I'm shooting holes in these plans like a SWAT leader. I expect better planning from people who
do this for a living.
Not a foolproof plan -- there is no such thing -- but some semblance of a
complete
plan. One that has an exit strategy, e.g. One that at least acknowledges that assassination is a tricky business. If the Commander is really sending Kara to her death, which is what seems to be the most likely outcome right now, then where's the acknowledgement of that? If the Commander doesn't know that he's sending her to her death, then he's too dumb to be in command. If the Commander has a plan for Kara not being executed instantly upon completing her mission, then what is it, and how does it cope with his suggestion that she commit murder in front of a whole bunch of violent, armed, possibly-hostile witnesses?
Who's the available psychologist? Baltar, right?
I have found that psychologists -- and other people with distance and insight -- are almost always missing in action-oriented fiction. If those people were present (I mean, competent ones), then the story would be a lot less melodramatically reckless.
Even if it didn't irritate my sense of contextual realism, it would irritate my sense of story. Only authorially-anointed Heroes get away with long series of stupid mistakes, and that only because The Script Said So.
But the characters on Galactica have been acting like idiots since the get-go. I think this meets their standards for a thought-out plan.
Not that that hasn't irritated me
