I love Gaius Baltar.
Seriously. He's right, all the time, about almost everything, but always for the wrong reasons.
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Hayden - Feb 26, 2007 5:34:04 am PST #7239 of 10001
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Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2007 7:36:09 am PST #7240 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
For the first half hour, I was thinking, "God, yet another episode where the conflict just comes out of nowhere and they're making up problems they should have been mentioning for weeks now." And then suddenly Gaius fucking Baltar explains his farmboy origins and illuminates the aristocracy, and it all makes sense.
sumi - Feb 26, 2007 9:03:40 am PST #7241 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Wasn't that scene with the accent thing odd? Like the weird close-up on Baltar's mouth and the sound made it seem like the accent was some sort of effect rather than Callis doing a voice.
Typo Boy - Feb 26, 2007 9:07:03 am PST #7242 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
BTW - who was Dresden in bed with in the very first episode? I really wish they would do the web rebroadcast Heros was doing for a while.
sumi - Feb 26, 2007 9:10:19 am PST #7243 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Wasn't that the diner waitress? i.e., the girl he was watching the movie with this week?
Typo Boy - Feb 26, 2007 9:11:45 am PST #7244 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK - so the same woman as last night. So Dresden is in a continuing relationship with her?
sumi - Feb 26, 2007 9:14:42 am PST #7245 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Well, her comment on leaving seems to suggest that there was some attempt at that, but - for example - he met with Murphy at the diner in the first episode - which she took the wrong way and then, they're watching the romantic movie and Bianca shows up. She seems to think that he's less interested in a relationship than she is.
Polter-Cow - Feb 26, 2007 10:00:39 am PST #7246 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wasn't that scene with the accent thing odd? Like the weird close-up on Baltar's mouth and the sound made it seem like the accent was some sort of effect rather than Callis doing a voice.
I really liked it, actually. I'm sure it was Callis doing a voice, but I loved that it focused on his mouth, where the words were coming out IN that accent, the entire point of his monologue.
sumi - Feb 26, 2007 10:10:06 am PST #7247 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, another reason to pick up HBO
Nutty - Feb 26, 2007 10:12:00 am PST #7248 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I saw that part of the episode, and all I could think was, "That's not... actually much of an accent?" Really, I had a coach once who was a Geordie, and it was like listening to a different language entirely.
Also, generally speaking, when you fake up a rural/working class English accent, and use it for dramatic purposes to speak about social class in a different context, the aristocracy is not the first target that comes to my mind. That kind of muddied waters more for me than if they'd had him faking up a Russian accent.