Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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I think we'd be subconsciously (at the very least) dissatisfied with the idea that there's no large reward in a system that has such large penalties. But that's entirely metatextual reasoning for me.
Without metatext, the text can't work at all for me. You've got to be speaking a language I can comprehend, you know? If the language of the universe is Viking, ha-ha-you-lose, then I need to know that sooner than later.
They did bleep Adama.
I'm really happy that they showed a bit of what happened to D'Anna (sp?) Biers. I've been very curious as to whether she just stayed with the fleet and then joined the Cylons when they arrived or what. . . looks like they figured out she was a Cylon before that happened.
That threeway with Six and Baltar surprised me at first, but afterwards, I thought, well, of course she would!
I could have sworn he said something like "shitter" or somesuch, and they muted the word.
They bleeped "bullshit," yeah. I guess it must have slipped through S&P until the last minute, and they decided to go with bleeping instead of ADR.
Cylon sandwich!
I noticed that the invitation (announcement?) of the Medal Ceremony was rectangular rather than octagonal and then I noticed - in that scene where Tigh comes in to talk to Adama that he (Adama) has a stack of rectagonal documents on his desk as well as a couple of stacks of octagonal documents.
If the language of the universe is Viking, ha-ha-you-lose, then I need to know that sooner than later.
Aha. Me, I don't care. I'm willing to let it unravel, as long as it does so consistently.
It's like watching Daybreak. They may never tell us the why, and it looks like they're slowly spooling out some of the who. These aren't the rules of my universe, but I don't have to have it all now.
Of course, don't mistake this for any endorsement of the pacing/writing of Lost. That's a whole different scenario.
There's a Eureka marathon on the 23rd.
(What I want is dvd news.)
BTW, Adama wasn't bleeped "on demand" or on itunes.
I enjoyed BSG until the revelation that Adama played a part (or believed he played a part) in the destruction of Caprica. It felt ass-pully to me. I don't buy that he could/would have kept that little nugget buried all this time, especially since he's such an honest, moral-type guy.
Loved Roslin pulling him back into the reality of the moment like she always does. Resignation?! You're getting this medal and you're gonna like it!
Three-way seemed a bit gratuitous. I know we saw Xena!Cylon change her mind about Gaius in last week's ep, but when did that Six get into him? As far as we've been shown, she has no use for him. It's only the Six in his head that wants him.
I thought it was unlikely that Adama would have honestly believed he was solely responsible for initiating the war with the Cylons. He's not the kind of guy to assume that kind of guilty responsibility--if he'd ever believed it, he would have disabused himself of the notion with the realization that, as Roslin said, there were far too many other factors at play. And as for saying "we confirmed we were the warmongers they feared us to be," bah. I am going to pretend he never said it--it's so very not what the career military would say.
I call bullshit.
All that said, I liked Bulldog (Dixon! yay!), although he seems old enough to have been promoted past Lieutenant by now. And I thought it was interesting that Kara went to Tigh instead of Adama or Lee with her suspicions--that's a real sign of how far she's changed from the first two seasons.