I think you & I are the only Life on Mars watchers right now.
I'm downloading, but I'm several episodes behind on watching.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
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Dana - Mar 27, 2007 3:35:41 am PDT #8810 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Zenkitty - Mar 27, 2007 3:44:28 am PDT #8811 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Ash, excellent analysis.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 27, 2007 3:53:40 am PDT #8812 of 10001
What is even happening?
3 candidates for who left that note in Adama's cabin: Anders was still on Caprica.sumi, what note is this. I must have skimmed over something.
Unrelatedly, I'm thinking about how Strega has come to love the ideas and arc -- now that she can see it as a whole. I wonder if I'm so happy with BSG because I just found it this season and watched all three seasons in the span of one season. Maybe I haven't yet had enough time to analyze, because I'm still gathering data. I think maybe I'm seeing all three seasons as a whole, because I was surprised to see (not just here, but in LJ, too) the name of Lost invoked in any way, in posts about BSG.
But lots of people were betrayers. Lawyering aside, I think Lee's point stands. We're looking for someone to blame, might as well be the guy we didn't like anyway.
I read Narrator's point as specific to the lawyering. That is, maybe Baltar would have been acquitted anyhow, but the prosecutor still didn't do a good (enough) job.
That trial was never, from the beginning, a trial. It was a show trial, an attempt to assert some sense of order over their lives.Yes. After the verdict had been read, during all the chaos, Baltar said, verdict aside, the trial was all a pantomime. A bit like Spike -- he's sometimes the one that's going to get a bit of truth on you. He's duplicitous, but he's sometimes he is right, incidentally/despite his duplicitous nature.
It was also, I agree with Lee, an attempt to purge their collective shame, to purge everything that had happened to them, and everything they had done, in one swift airlocky moment of cartharsis, charcoaled over in a child's drawing of orderly justice, dispensed as societies do. As the persons in that society agree "Now we are in control, now everything is all right because Justice is here and Those In Charge will help us feel safer."Oh, yeah. That was a beautiful moment. I started this arc thinking Baltar should be convicted, but I do think Lee was right about that.
Some 40,000 humans losing their balance, falling off the cliff of civilization with no idea what to believe anymore, only nearly becoming what Baltar already is. Like them, he has painted over his hollowness with a civilized fresco, and yet his mask is only in reference to itself. Unlike the rest, he clings to no one. How could he? He barely sees them as people.This is a great way of putting it, Ash.
sumi - Mar 27, 2007 3:57:03 am PDT #8813 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
In the mini or very early in season 1, Adama discovers a note that says that there are 12 models of Cylons.
shrift - Mar 27, 2007 4:03:22 am PDT #8814 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I think you & I are the only Life on Mars watchers right now.
I still have to watch last week's episode, so I'm avoiding anything with spoiler potential. Also, I'm kinda trying to savor each episode because this is all we're going to get.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2007 4:09:44 am PDT #8815 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Yesterday I was just saying that I sorta feel about Galactica S3 the way I do about Angel S3: Horribly, horribly flawed in many ways, and with both shows I almost gave up halfway through because, good lord. But man, I love the ideas and the arc now that I can see it as a whole. even if I don't like a lot of the individual episodes.
That's exactly how I feel. Yeah, we had to suffer through Dad/The Woman King, and St Cordy/Whiny!Lee, but by the end, we got Tomorrow/Crossroads, and it all fits together beautifully if you just kind of squint your way through the middle bits.
[eta: And writing that made me really excited for BSG S4, since there are few seasons of television I love more than S4 AtS. Stoopid no-new-eps-until-2008.]
Vonnie K - Mar 27, 2007 4:30:55 am PDT #8816 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I think you & I are the only Life on Mars watchers right now.
I'm downloading, but I'm several episodes behind on watching.
Dana is me. I keep meaning to catch up, and I'm talking as someone who ADORED S1 and know S2 is awesome, but I am so behind in my media, it's not even funny. I still have the last two eps of Rome to watch, not to mention the backlog of downloaded SG-1 OMGwhatseasonarewein until the series finale, ALL of TiVo'd Dresden Files, that reportedly awesome Eddie Izzard/Minnie Driver drama people keep talking about, and man, I thought hiatus for The Office and Heroes (which I consider my main fandoms) would let me catch up, but there's just too damn much of it.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2007 4:33:44 am PDT #8817 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm another theoretical LoM watcher. It's on my list of things to catch up on DVD after the baby's born (while I'm on maternity leave and trapped on the couch breastfeeding).
Vortex - Mar 27, 2007 4:41:29 am PDT #8818 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
New Christ-Os!
shouldn't that be Christ-+s?
Stephanie - Mar 27, 2007 4:42:13 am PDT #8819 of 10001
Trust my rage
Jessica, new baby is a great excuse to watch a lot of fun TV. Actually, I still watch most of my TV while rocking and nursing Ellie. When is your due date again?
Like Cindy, I watched the mini-series, S1 and half of S2 all together. I think it makes it more enjoyable and the lesser quality episodes get forgotten. I have enjoyed S3, but some weeks have been disappointing.