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I thought Boomer (Athena, whatever; she'll always be Boomer to me) getting magically saved was pretty lame. Though the fact that she literally waved her hand and said "Whatever" while explaining it almost redeemed the whole thing.
Yes on both counts.
I thought D'eanna torturing Baltar was going to make this a better ep than it was. Oh well.
FWIW, I thought Lawless was having quite a lot of fun.
I guess Athena has become a Real BoyGirl.
Oh, but that reminds me -- I think it's cool that New!Sharon's callsign is the name of TOS Adama's daughter. It hasn't been mentioned in the podcasts, but I assume it's deliberate.
I thought Boomer (Athena, whatever; she'll always be Boomer to me) getting magically saved was pretty lame. Though the fact that she literally waved her hand and said "Whatever" while explaining it almost redeemed the whole thing.Me too, but then I wondered if they were lying to her, and she is infected. I don't know why, except that it seemed so easy.
For some reason, I think that this was a very fast-working virus and that she would have been showing signs of it fairly quickly. I could be wrong. (What made me think this? Possibly because that Cylon mission went to the Lion's Head Nebula and it seemed like their first reports back were the ones where everyone was sick.)
Do viruses live in space?
Viruses encapsulate, and I believe it's been proven that yes, they can survive vacuum in some circumstances. They're very simple, and I know it gets regularly argued as to whether they're 'living' in the sense that monkeys and mushrooms are.
I had issues with Cottle immediately calling it a virus, disregarding such pathogens as bacteria or fungi.
Then there was the whole "lymphocyte encephalitis" thing, which I ranted about.
I thought that was going to go the other way. That the plan would work, but that Baltar's Basestar, with a few accompanying ships, would have already gone far enough out to avoid the plague and isolate themselves. So we'd wind up with a small fleet of the last surviving Cylons. And I was so very excited about that idea that I'm disappointed now.
I share your disappointment. I guessed that a few of the Cylons would be immune to the disease. We had already seen difference among them, why not biological. If the disease wiped out a large number of them, then it would even the odds with the humans and make the fight a little fairer.
I was thinking that they'd just give her shots once a week or whatever. You know, like many other chronic diseases, she'd just live with it.
Me too.
Doctor Who -- I was disappointed. The idea was fine, but I thought the writing was not great and the characters seemed ... off. The Doctor in particular seemed too highly pitched. The writer is the same one on my least favorite Season 1 (9th Doctor) episode -- the one with Charles Dickens.
On the podcast for last night's BSG, Moore said that they wanted to move straight to the "to genocide or no" subject, so that's why they did a quick "everyone's all right" for the entire boarding party, including Sharon/Athena. Actually, they were originally going to have her do a fakeout on Helo (he comes into the room to see her crying, and she then reveals the happy face with the happy news and says, basically, Gotcha!), but they thought that was just too cheap and not worthy of their relationship. He did like the way Grace Park had Sharon go for Helo's fly like she was going to give him a celebratory blowjob--that wasn't in the script!