thanks all for the welcome!
"Primal": Not one of the better eps, I'm afeared. The humor was somewhat below par for what I've come to expect from this show, the experimental camera-angles added nothing and pulled me out of the scene, and the slow-dance...*covers eyes* Also, Allison was extra b*tchy tonight, which wasn't very fun for me to watch.
Stark's admission to dreaming of world domination was cute, though.
Lojack returns!
Joe and Taggart? Ew, yet, oddly, cute! Plus, we've been seeing her fascination with him already, so it's not totally out of the blue.
Interesting comment from Zoe about how it was a good thing she takes after her mother, the implication being that where her father is a bad liar, her mother isn't. Hmmm... Abby been doing some lying? To her husband? Was there more to their separation than Carter being too invested in his job?
Hopefully this ep marks an end to the forced Carter/Allison. I loved the vibe in "Invincible" where they wake up together, and I just got {{{{friends}}}} radiating from that scene. Gods, wouldn't that be nice to have a strong friendship emerge, and maybe in time have it develop into a romance...based on friendship.
ETA that, yes, I'm usually this gabby once I get started...
I actually enjoy Jack and Jo the way they are and hope they don't try to go anywhere romance-y with that (it doesn't seem to me that they are).
Oh dear lord YES, ITA!! Do not got there.
That said, I thought the PDA this week was actually less contrived than the magentic fence, even though it was more pronounced (nice bit of grab-ass there!). I just wish the nano-clones hadn't been mute, as we could have fully appreciated the true horror of an army of Starks. Fargo's "It's a miracle!" was priceless, though.
Matt Frewer's accent doesn't sound any less fake - PLEASE let them give us a reason for it. I was hoping he was going to drop it when he was talking to Lojack alone (and what a great name for a dog).
I loved the "You dream about world domination?" "...not all the time," exchange.
Me, too! They have great fun adversarial chemistry. Certainly more than Jack/Allison.
That was a good kiss, though.
The repartee was really hitting its stride this episode, especially bits like "world domination" and "mood ring" and so on.
Also, my knees were aching in sympathy for CFerg and MFrewer. :-)
Joe and Taggart? Ew, yet, oddly, cute! Plus, we've been seeing her fascination with him already, so it's not totally out of the blue.
I still want Jo and Henry, dammit. Sorry ita, but world-dominating competency aside, they'd be my replacement for Zoe/Wash. Want want WANT!
But putting hardwire connections between a couple of Galactica's systems suddenly opens the door for them to hack in?
The Cylons built a backdoor into the nav program in the miniseries, yes. What happened in S2 was something different. The Cylons transmitted a virus, presumably via the comms. Normally that wouldn't matter, but this time everything (not just FTL and nav) was networked, and the virus spread into other systems before the connection was broken. The Cylons weren't directly issuing commands to the ship via a backdoor, as they did in the mini; they were getting the front door to unlock itself.
I got nothing on the fiber-optic thing, though. That was just goofy.
Dude, that music
wished
it was 70s porno music.
Oh, also: Did Colin talk about us in a podcast?!? Dude.
Also, what did they call the anti-shippers of X-Files? NoRoMo or some shit? I could do that here.
Also, my knees were aching in sympathy for CFerg and MFrewer.
I was just thinking "Jeffries tubes," cool!
The world domination thing was great. Don't even really have any science quibbles. Although... How many people did the nanos scavenge for carbons? There were a buncha Starks.
Actually, the only quibble is I'm pretty sure we've seen Allison use her cell phone in the GD building to talk to Jack outside of it, which would seem to ignore the EM shield. We're gonna need some wank.
