I am so over the damaged female soldier. Can't we just fight? And having Cain be lesbian seemed a bit more of the same. Very "Aha! Makes total sense for the psycho violent woman in a man's world to be a dyke."
All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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§ ita § - Nov 24, 2007 9:17:45 pm PST #8572 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Nov 24, 2007 9:30:23 pm PST #8573 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Holy Frak! The old Cylons!
That was neat.
Is it just me, or is the climactic scene completely contrived? If the Cylon Raiders would shoot a nuke out of the sky...why was Lee going to do that in the first place? Or, more importantly, why didn't Adama give that reasoning at first? Geez.
I am intrigued by KARA THRACE: HARBINGER OF DOOOOOOOOOOM, though.
Theodosia - Nov 25, 2007 1:19:03 am PST #8574 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"
It was nice to see Cain again, though, plus a couple other key players who got inconveniently killed off. And Steve Bacic got to add to his list of doomed second-in-command roles. (I bet someday he secretly hopes to get to live.) And despite the strictures of the role cliche, I thought the actor playing Shaw was up on her game.
So even though the movie was light on a bunch of characters whom I really really want to see more of, I was pretty damn fascinated for two hours, so yay.
Glamcookie - Nov 25, 2007 1:26:27 am PST #8575 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I liked Razor. Predictably, GF and I enjoyed Cain and her Cylon lover. We also laughed our asses off at the "It has been revealed!" ads scattered throughout.
Theodosia - Nov 25, 2007 1:30:03 am PST #8576 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"
Thank goodness for TiVo, is all I can say about those -- they seemed aimed at people with very short attention spans.
But all the rough handling and abuse that Gina received got a bit of an extra boot smooshed in her face with the revelation of whose lover she had been, you know? Did the creators decide on that later, when they decided to have a Razor movie or was it background that they meant all along to reveal later?
DCJensen - Nov 25, 2007 4:41:48 am PST #8577 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Was this week's Torchwood "Captain Jack Harkness"?
Fay - Nov 25, 2007 4:56:47 am PST #8578 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
OMG, SA and I sat watching that episode and SQUEEELING like 12 year olds. Gah. The show is crackfic.
quester - Nov 25, 2007 7:26:30 am PST #8579 of 10001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I didn't watch Torchwood cause I know I'll see it next week. But, it was hard to resist the temptation to stay up and watch the 11:00 showing.
I was kinda disapointed in Razor. I wanted to see the Pegasus crew as more fleshed out characters. It just seemed we were showing the incidents that were spoken of on Galactica, but without any real insight to how they happened.
It was interesting that Gina was Cain's lover. That does account for the hatred Cain had for her. But Cain's character still had no depth. She just seemed scary without any inner conflict.
And I thought the final reveal about Kara's left me feeling like we took a long way getting there and it wasn't really a surprise.
Polter-Cow - Nov 25, 2007 8:53:44 am PST #8580 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You know what I really, really loved? All the fire rushing in to fill the space left by the Pegasus after it jumped.
le nubian - Nov 25, 2007 10:26:43 am PST #8581 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
quester, I generally concur with your assessment of razor. I think you articulated a lot of things that disappointed me when I watched it. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting when I watched it earlier with Beau, but we were both disappointed. I think I expected to see more depth of character of Cain and others on the ship before they met up with Galactica.