That was a lot of trouble to go to, to get the painting bought back from Linderman, get it shipped, and then deface it. But I guess Nathan had to see what was in the painting first. Given that it was his brother possibly dead and he could definitely keep Peter safe by keeping him away from Odessa, he made his choice. Simone had to consider the same choice before she showed the photoprint to Peter.

It's been posited. Also, if you think about it, Claire's the only one who could probably survive getting close to him. Thus, no Claire, no saving the world.

Also, if Sylar is absorbing people's powers on a more permanent basis than Peter, him having Claire's ability to get near nukeboy would be a bad thing.

Oh. I have no idea who that is. Thanks.

Me, neither. Thanks, ita and sumi.

If/since he's been shown on screen now, do we have to keep it out of here? Oh, wait, I don't care, because I don't know who he is. Nevermind.

I don't like Nathan much (at least not yet), nor do I like his choices. Honestly, I also find some of his characterization approaching something I am unable to swallow. I mean, no matter what my plans were, how ambitious I was about those plans, or anything else, if I suddenly developed THE ABILITY TO FLY, I feel safe in speculating that'd change things. Everything.

That said, once I saw Simone's photo of the painting, I very much understood Nathan's choice. I think he was protecting his brother, and not being mean at all. Short-sighted? So very much yes. Controlling? Way. But not mean. Not on purpose.

Yeah, he was definitely trying to protect Peter.

But when he tossed that paint at Isaac's picture I was horrified for Isaac. Totally cringing. I'm so glad that Simone had an image of the painting because it was completely IDIOTIC that she didn't. You know, before.

I did not hear Jackie telling Claire to run. Must re-watch w/o distractions.

The scene with Pixie girl and Sylar -- and then MBG - is that the first time we've seen the MBG clearly? - Okay -- that was powerful. But I did wonder what Claire's dad is planning. I mean, is he going to further empower Sylar, tag him and release him? What, exactly, was the point of doing that with Radioactive Guy?

If stress helps the Heroes' powers to develop, perhaps the catch-and-release of Cheer!Dad and MBG's amnesiac power is having unexpected consequences for the leap in ability they're noticing.

EW interview with BSG producers David Eick and Ronald Moore: [link]

eta: Huh. Eickman has never seen the pilot to TOS.

I remember Ron and I were in the middle of one of the early development meetings, which is to say, we were drinking scotch at Pinot Hollywood. It was the day/meeting that we first talked about the Cylons looking like human beings. We agreed to go home for the weekend and watch the original pilot movie/miniseries before making the decision. Now, Ron had already seen the miniseries. So I would be watching it for the first time, with the idea we'd come back on Monday prepared to address some specifics. And I just didn't watch it. I tried. I'm not trying to be derisive or critical, it's just... It's very much of its time and it's much more difficult for me to see through a lot of those period elements to the root of all the things Ron was able to very adroitly cull from it. And so when we regrouped, Ron became the resident expert of the things that you needed from the original Galactica, and I, by default, because I didn't do my homework, became the one who was/is always advocating, ''This has to make sense.'' Because I didn't have any context.

eta²:

Moore:

I remember the writing staff and I sitting down together and watching some episodes. And periodically, we like to drop in elements from the series because it inspired an idea, or as an act of homage. There was an episode that was inspired by a story from the original series in which the Galactica found another Battlestar named Pegasus. That and the pilot are really the only two stories per se that we went back and revisited the original. There are also bits and pieces of backstory and mythology that we've borrowed from. But here's a funny story: The guys at [FX company] Zoic, who do a lot of our visual effects work, contain in their ranks various and sundry fans of the original series, although they won't raise their hand and say so. They think they'll get in trouble or something. There are even a few people at Zoic who have gone on bulletin boards and say things like: ''They're destroying it! Every day, I go to work and I am destroying that which is Battlestar Galactica!'' You know those shots in our show where you see the entire ragtag civilian fleet of spaceships trailing the Galactica? Some of Zoic guys have, like, re-created them lovingly from the original designs of the original show. There's at least a half dozen of them in our fleet. If you know the old show, in some of our establishing shots, you'll see replicas of those exact ships drifting by.

I like the fact that the Zoic people put Serenity into a shot of the BSG miniseries.

Yeah. And supposedly they stuck the startship Enterprise in the BSG miniseries too. It's tiny and way in the back in one shot, so I haven't actually gone and looked for it.

Well, they put the S.S. Enterprise in one too.

Haha!

I think that there are places where they've picked that shot out. I know I saw it.

Wait, so -- did Canada get new SGA last night after all?