I don't remember the Sontarans being wee like that in the original series.

The Gaius scenes for me are easily the weakest, and messing with Head!Six even more so.

I am ita. I don't like the new comical tone they're taking with the character. It doesn't fit the mood of the show at all. Chief and Adama was sad. I'm not a big Chief fan, but I hated to see him throw it all away like that. I find myself not caring about Tigh/Six/Ellen story. I care even less about Lee. I only give a damn about Adama, Roslin, Athena, Helo, and Hera at this point. Sad.

Something tells me Dana will appreciate this anecdote about the Torchwood cast.

Aw, that's just... aw.

I'm still interested in where everything is going w/ BSG. It's all a bit trippy right now, but I'm enjoying it. I can't claim even the smallest little bit of objectivity, though.

I don't like the new comical tone they're taking with the character.

Me either--not least of all because it's not amusing. It's more laughable.

I don't know what to make of Tigh and Six, but I will say that they managed to make her breasts look horrible in that top she was wearing, and then when Tigh hallucinated his ex instead, she filled it out much much better. But that's about my entire response to those scenes.

While watching the most recent BSG, it occurred to me what Baltar's religion/philosophy was reminding me of--Christian Gnosticism. I just finished reading Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman, and he has an excellent explanation of what exactly Gnostics believed (in general).

Boiled down, it's that all human souls were originally divine, but being made mortal, they are degraded and lose that divinity and perfection. It is only in learning/remembering that inner divinity that true gnosis (knowledge) is achieved. Those that achieve that knowledge have the best opportunity to be restored to that divinity upon death.

I'm a big Chief fan from way back, and I... really don't like what they are doing with the character. I don't like this Chief. Complexity and moral ambiguity are all good, but it saddens me that I see so little of the Tyrol I fell in love with back in season 1 in the current incarnation.

And the stuff he said about Cally was pretty vile. Cally was flawed and Adama trying to paint her as an angel was a mistake, but the vitriol Tyrol spewed about his dead wife really turned my stomach.

I have no idea WTF they are doing with Tory's character. Nor am I that interested.

I like the Adama/Roslin scenes. The actors sold the Tigh/Six scenes, but on looking back, I don't know if the whole "pain is love and humanity" thing is as profound as they were trying to make it seem. Eh.

At this point, I'm mostly watching to see how they're going to end the series, but the little spark of excitement I had when they aired the first ep after hiatus is pretty much gone. Which makes me kind of sad.

I'm with Vonnie.

Yeah. I'm watching not because I really like any of the characters anymore: they're all miserable or awful (or both), but because I want to see how they're going to resolve the story.

I'm supremely unfannish about this show.

t wistfully remembers the Chief of Season 1

Vonnie,

I don't think Chief believed what he said about Callie - not entirely. I think he went off the deep end to get reassigned because he felt himself a danger to the fleet in his current position.

So I think the old Tyrol is there. Especially given his eulogy for Callie. He needs to resolve his guilt though.