Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
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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.
You know what I really, really loved? All the fire rushing in to fill the space left by the
Pegasus
after it jumped.
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.
Yeah, didn't we already know about most everything we saw? They'd already told us about all the stuff that happened on
Pegasus,
right?
Beau said that he had the sneaking suspicion that half of "Razor" was extras from the Pegasus episodes that they decided to cobble together with an additional plot.
I think this is much more negative and cynical than my take, but I can kind of see where he is coming from.
Huh, Beau could be right.
I'll wait until I've seen the "extended" version on the DVD.
I finally watched Razor last night. I also failed to recognize Gina, other than a "hey, she seems familiar" sort of way.
I really liked seeing Lee and Kara together before things got so weird between them and I didn't miss Baltar at all. (Sorry, P-C.)
Having said that, I thought the Cain/Gina thing helped explain why Gina was treated so poorly, but I was very bothered by how far Cain was willing to go (massacre, shooting XO, etc.) There's a difference between hardcore and psycho.
I didn't miss Baltar at all. (Sorry, P-C.)
I kept waiting for Baltar to show up and he never did! Boo.
Okay, so I guess I'm still bothered by Adm. Cain (Caine? Kane?) and her decision to kill those civilians. But even more than that, I'm bothered by Adama's "well, we weren't there, we can't judge" attitude at the end.
Her decision was *nothing* like the issue with nuking the Cylon ship - she sent her soldiers to kill fellow humans when her own ship was only 25% manned.
There's a difference between hardcore and psycho.
Finally watched last night too. Yeah, it went beyond hardcore in my book. But we were there, and Adama wasn't and I understood his stand. She had gone off the deep end, but Adama interest in protecting her in history came from a self-preservation place. Judge not...
The Cain/Gina was odd in that it felt forced to me and not integrated well enough. Sounds good enough in theory, but they didn't make me believe it.
It wasn't stellar, but it was good to hear the lovely BSG music and see all those nummy faces again. Bit of BSG fix is better than none.
