BSG tonight - Blood On the Scales
Feb. 6th, 2009 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehWTF BSG your "previously on" includes bits of dialog and stuff from last week's last scenes that didn't air!
FUCKERS (though thanks for showing it)
ETA: WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF
EATA: WHAT THE FRAK!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT FUCK OMG FUCK FUCK FRAK WHAT?!?!
Okay - all done watching, so: Gaeta's last line reminded me of that episode of M*A*S*H where Charles is trying to understand what it's like to die, and he has a mortally-wounded soldier, conscious but dying, and asks him "What does it feel like?" and the soldier says "I smell bread." Just one of those awesome, meaningless, incomprehensible things.
Richard Hatch PWNS EVERYONE. Bravo, sir--bravo. Take a bow. Heck, take two. (Pls get a real hairstyle)
EJO brought his A game. Well, everyone brought their A game. And seriously, ever since I first saw her say it in a Season 4.5 preview, I simply *cannot* hear McDonnell deliver her "I AM COMING FOR ALL OF YOU" line without hearing "In place of a Dark Lord YOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEEEEEN! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the Earth! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"
To be serious about that bit, though - frak me dead. Her eyes. Her voice. That SPEECH. And the reactions of the Cylons around her, and the humans who hear her. Laura Roslin, for all intents and purposes commanding a Cylon ship, threatening the Galactica. Dudes? This show fucking kills. How did we get here. HOW DID WE GET HERE?! Frakking brilliant.
AND they used one of my favorite narrative tropes without overdoing it - the "friends and/or lovers told the other is dead and are then reunited" plot. Adama reunites with NotDead!Saul! Roslin reunites with NotDead!Adama! I am filled with love for all humanity!
HOLY FRAK Anders... omg. Aaaaa, will they get to Cottle?? And speaking of that scene - HI ROMO! YOU AWESOME NUTBAR!
I'm still convinced that the Pythia stuff is pertinent, if weirdly off. Baltar had a warning dream. Baltar *knowing he has to go back* for the people who believe in him. Baltar going to see Gaeta before the execution, and being the one to say "I know who you are." Baltar for Dying Leader Y/N?
OMG CHIEF SAVES THE UNIVERSE!!!!! Chief for Doctor's next companion? GO CHIEF! And I loved that scene with his friend. "Yeah, I'm a machine. What does that make you, a dumbass?" That's Civil War, babies. Dayum. I wonder if people will ever know it was him, or if Chief will forever be the unsung hero of the series?
And he sees both a dire portent and a metaphor: Galactica is coming apart at the seams. This Will Not End Well.
I won't say anything about the previews in this post, as I know some people don't even like to know that much.
FUCKERS (though thanks for showing it)
ETA: WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF
EATA: WHAT THE FRAK!!!!!!!! HOLY SHIT FUCK OMG FUCK FUCK FRAK WHAT?!?!
Okay - all done watching, so: Gaeta's last line reminded me of that episode of M*A*S*H where Charles is trying to understand what it's like to die, and he has a mortally-wounded soldier, conscious but dying, and asks him "What does it feel like?" and the soldier says "I smell bread." Just one of those awesome, meaningless, incomprehensible things.
Richard Hatch PWNS EVERYONE. Bravo, sir--bravo. Take a bow. Heck, take two. (Pls get a real hairstyle)
EJO brought his A game. Well, everyone brought their A game. And seriously, ever since I first saw her say it in a Season 4.5 preview, I simply *cannot* hear McDonnell deliver her "I AM COMING FOR ALL OF YOU" line without hearing "In place of a Dark Lord YOU WOULD HAVE A QUEEEEEEN! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the Earth! ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"
To be serious about that bit, though - frak me dead. Her eyes. Her voice. That SPEECH. And the reactions of the Cylons around her, and the humans who hear her. Laura Roslin, for all intents and purposes commanding a Cylon ship, threatening the Galactica. Dudes? This show fucking kills. How did we get here. HOW DID WE GET HERE?! Frakking brilliant.
AND they used one of my favorite narrative tropes without overdoing it - the "friends and/or lovers told the other is dead and are then reunited" plot. Adama reunites with NotDead!Saul! Roslin reunites with NotDead!Adama! I am filled with love for all humanity!
HOLY FRAK Anders... omg. Aaaaa, will they get to Cottle?? And speaking of that scene - HI ROMO! YOU AWESOME NUTBAR!
I'm still convinced that the Pythia stuff is pertinent, if weirdly off. Baltar had a warning dream. Baltar *knowing he has to go back* for the people who believe in him. Baltar going to see Gaeta before the execution, and being the one to say "I know who you are." Baltar for Dying Leader Y/N?
OMG CHIEF SAVES THE UNIVERSE!!!!! Chief for Doctor's next companion? GO CHIEF! And I loved that scene with his friend. "Yeah, I'm a machine. What does that make you, a dumbass?" That's Civil War, babies. Dayum. I wonder if people will ever know it was him, or if Chief will forever be the unsung hero of the series?
And he sees both a dire portent and a metaphor: Galactica is coming apart at the seams. This Will Not End Well.
I won't say anything about the previews in this post, as I know some people don't even like to know that much.
