FWIW, I thought Lawless was having quite a lot of fun.
I guess Athena has become a Real BoyGirl.
Willow: Happy hunting. Buffy: Wish me monsters.
'Beneath You'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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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Theodosia - Nov 11, 2006 5:29:29 am PST #3524 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jessica - Nov 11, 2006 5:33:14 am PST #3525 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
Topic!Cindy - Nov 11, 2006 5:34:28 am PST #3526 of 10001
What is even happening?
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.
sumi - Nov 11, 2006 6:28:42 am PST #3527 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
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?
Theodosia - Nov 11, 2006 7:34:37 am PST #3528 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
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.
Polter-Cow - Nov 11, 2006 7:53:40 am PST #3529 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Narrator - Nov 11, 2006 8:25:24 am PST #3530 of 10001
The evil is this way?
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.
Narrator - Nov 11, 2006 8:55:59 am PST #3531 of 10001
The evil is this way?
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.
Kathy A - Nov 11, 2006 9:08:37 am PST #3532 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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!
esse - Nov 11, 2006 10:18:59 am PST #3533 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
(They really should have picked up that beacon. I'm sure there are messages from the 13th Colony in it.)
That was my biggest qualm in an episode that filled me with qualminess. The amount of potential that was in that episode that went unused is just staggering. Oh well. It's kind of nice to down-shift into regularly passing time again instead of super-fast, accept all this truth about the human colony on New Caprica for one year even though we showed you none of it headspinning.
I think, though, that this episode and the one before us have set us up to watch a very literal race to earth between the humans and the cylons. I won't be surprised if we end up on or near earth by the end of this season; that just feels like what we're barreling towards. Now, what we'll do when either of them arrives there is an entirely different matter, and whether the earth they speak of bears any resemblance to the earth that we inhabit will be interesting to see.