A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
She's pre-justifying her reasons for having Adama killed. It's just that it cuts both ways, because Dramatic Irony Is Fun!
Okay, yes, but the part where she made Kara promise not to flinch? Cain wasn't just making pronouncements about how things should be there, or setting groundwork for Kara accepting that Cain had to make the hard choice to kill Daddy Adama, she was extracting a promise from Kara for no particular reason that I could see other than Dramatic Irony Is Fun.
ETA:
Oh, and I don't think Cain could have done anything
She could've tried, though. We're talking about a woman who was still trying to win the war with the Cylons on a grand scale; she couldn't grab for the gun? Try to convince Gina she was more useful alive than dead? Try to run away? Something, anyway. "Go down fighting" was such a big part of her character up to that point that it felt really telling to me that she didn't, at the end.
Spoilers for SG-1 Season 10 premiere are trickling out.
t sighs wearily
(I don't know what to make of Cain, which I take as a sign that the writers didn't know either. So I'm a neutral vote on that discussion.)
Topic for eggheaded discussion: the not-platinum Six is or is not a parallel to the plot in
I Spit on Your Grave.
The basic scenario is horrifying rapes, followed by un-wishy-washy, systematic revenge. But the movie protagonist killed all of her attackers, starting with the dumbass followers and working her way up to the leader, whereas to date the TV version went straight for the leader (and that a woman).
(Wouldn't I laff and laff if, one by one, Pegasus soldiers showed up dead as Six continued to pursue her revenge. Not that (a) television can really show bathtub castration or (b) the writers are necessarily going to continue with this character at all. But, Joe Bob Briggs and I would find it funny.)
The movie's politics are messy and raw, empowering women to take up the tools of violence only after a thorough victimhood. The TV version has the complicating "I was a robot for the toaster empire" factor, but how much does it hew to its horror-exploitation movie forbear? How is it different?
Discuss.
sighs with Consuela in utter, utter disgust.
You know, Suela, now that I think of it, [spoiler for S9/S10]
there is
SO DAMNED MUCH to be said for oversized purses and neck-up shots.
her acolyte, the guy she sent over to take out Adama and Adama's entire staff.
If she trusted him to take her place, she was a much poorer judge of character than I'd assumed.
And don't forget
overcoats and autopsy tables.
If she didn't know Adama's phone call was to tell Kara to kill her, she's a much poorer judge of character than
I
assumed.
RE SG spoilers: I'm just letting go. I mean, okay, fine, mystically aged kid. Fine. Whatever. You know, I don't actually mind as much as I should. At least it isn't an infant! At least it presumably won't be, you know, hanging around the SGC! At least it's a girl for once instead of a boy!
And hey, maybe at the end of the season Vala will cut her daughter's throat and they'll all go work for the Ori.
I really, really wish the SG-1 writers had taken a hint from SGA fanfic and gone all-penguin all the time instead.
Seriously. Vala's Penguin Baby. An idea whose time has come.
