Tonight's BSG:

[tzikeh]

Okay, so. First of all, I'm going to have to watch the whole thing over again just to get clear on all the OMG SAM THE HYBRID BRINGS YOU EXPOSITION THEATER, and this time I'll be better prepared for John "Daily Show / I'm A PC" Hodgman flinging me right the fuck out of the storyline. Dude, I get that you're a superfan, but couldn't you, yourself, have gauged that putting your very distinctive face and voice in the show would, like, fuck up the scenes you're in? And inspire ten million "I'm a Cylon, and I'm a PC" jokes in a matter of nanoseconds?

Hi, Sam! That was quite the Exposition Core Dump, right there, is what that was. If only we'd known that all we had to do was shoot one of them in the head.

I'm not sure how much I liked how the backstory came to us... actually, I'm kind of sure I really really don't like that we were treated, through Magical Bullet-Time Memory Recall, to the Final Five becoming Bob Saget on How I Created Your Mother, but the medium is not the message, and the message seems to be AWFULLY interesting, if slightly confusing. I really do need to go back right now and watch all of Exposition Sam's scenes... oh, dear, uh... if Sam is going all Word Salad Hybrid Cylon Precog Aphasic on their asses... um... is Chief gonna hook him up to the Galactica?

This is getting freaky.

OH - title - "No Exit." Very much about the baseship storyline in terms of symbolism and parallels and so forth (hell is other skinjobs!), and more prosaic w/r/t Galactica's woes.

Other OH - the opening titles before the teaser before the real titles - DUDE OLD SKOOL CYLONS WERE THE FIRST CENTURIONS OMG OMG AWESOME

And now, to re-play the episode in order to untangle the Exposition Salad.

ETA: Previous post plainly particularly prescient! (LOLITERATION)

EATA: Why do I still venture into the Television Without Pity's episode discussion threads from time to time? All they do is remind me of how fucking ignorant, obtuse, and illiterate so many human beings are.



1) Okay, We know there had to have been at least one Daniel who made it to maturity, because Ellen says he was "artistic" and that John was jealous. So, my guess is that Daniel is Starbuck's piano-playin' artisticky dad. And that's why she painted. And why she has a Special Destiny. And so she's this cycle's Hera, or something.

2) Since we had the Obvious Apple is Obvious moment, we can tie in John Cavil's "murder" of Daniel as a Cain & Abel thing.

3) Ah, the cut from Boomer saying "Who would I want to love?" to a shot of Chief walking down a hallway on the Galactica. Nice. Though how weird would it be if we have Helo and Athena, and then Chief and Boomer? Or would that just be the set-up for a porno?

4) Not only is Sam spewing exposition, but he's doing it like he's auditioning for the fucking Modern Major-General. So, besides the fact that he's monologuing twenty minutes of "shit we want you to know that we couldn't even be bothered to take one step up and show you in flashbacks," it's too much information crammed into not enough screentime.

(Okay. Don't like the massive exposition. Got it. Done with bitching about it now.)

5) Yeah, they're gonna hybridize the Galactica. Fill 'er up with Cylon blood. Hah - just like Roslin.

6) I adore that the Cylon Final-Five Ellen is so different from her human version (and I love that all the "human" Cylons had had their memories of being Cylon knocked offline by Cavil!). Very Earth Mother. Or is that Kobol Mother? I'm going to have to go listen to Sam again, now, aren't I.

(No, seriously, I won't complain again.)

7) Cavil... whatever else you might say about him, the dude *knows what he wants*.

8) Ohhhh, criminy. When Ellen finds that Saul is having a baby with Six? Yeah. That's not going to go well.

9) There should be a shitload more damage and blood in the Quorum room on Colonial One. And no way the cleaning crew's been in yet, since there's still blood on the nameplates and, you know, the chairs are still there. Also it should smell *bad*. And Roslin would *not* sit down, not to mention Lee. Ick.

Comments

[luminosity]

Loved Ellen. Cavil must die. PC guy was a horrible bit of miscasting. However, don't you just *know* that the brain surgeon "killed" Sam deliberately. Did Doc Cottle knowingly lie to Starbuck? Yes.

I think that all of the Boomers should make a porno.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

don't you just *know* that the brain surgeon "killed" Sam deliberately

Oh, I think it was Nurse British Chick. She hates Cylons--we saw that before when Gaeta came into the medbay.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Did Doc Cottle knowingly lie to Starbuck? Yes.

Hm... I don't know. Doc Cottle has always been exactly what a doctor should be. You treat the patient in front of you. He has never had a problem, human or Cylon, doing what was necessary. I think the only time he lied was about Helo and Sharon's baby, and that was because he was ordered by the President to do so.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

One could presume that Roslin told Cottle she would put the baby out an airlock if he didn't go along, and he believed her. And went along, reasoning that while the parents would be miserable if they thought their child was dead, they'd be even more miserable if she actually was. Given that neither Helo nor Athena has killed him since Rapture, presumably he managed to convince them of that offscreen. Of course, all this stuff happening off screen is one of my pet peeves about Galactica as a show.

I mean, I get that they're just supporting characters, but if the show has enough time to spend an entire fucking episode in Season 3.5 on the Starbuck's Creek Quadrangle of Doom, they have enough time to put in a scene with Cottle either explaining himself or apologising to the patients he screwed over. But then, this is the show that filmed that fabulous Roslin/Six scene in the Starbuck's Creek episode (the scene that brilliantly presaged Crossroads, would've been brilliant anyway, and was hit out of the park by McDonnell and Helfer). Damnit, where was I? Oh yeah, if the show would actually film that scene and then cut it in favour of yet more Starbuck's Creek blithering, they're idiots, and I shouldn't expect them to do right by their supporting characters when they can't even do right by their headliners.

Sorry. I'm still kinda bitter about Season 3, as you might've gathered.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I'm still kinda bitter about Season 3, as you might've gathered.

Yah.