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ARGH I JUST TYPED THIS AND THEN LJ ATE IT ALL ARGH ARGH ARGH.
I am a leaf on the breeze. Yes. Let's try again.
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Anyway, fandom is going to shun me forever, because I enjoyed every second. Well. Nine out of ten seconds. I would kind of like to lock myself up in a box and attempt to remain unspoilered for the rest of the season, but really, who am I kidding?
'Final Cut'
(This episode was so much fun that I forgot to take notes. Um. I shall improvise some now. Xena looks good as a blonde, and I'm so glad she kept her Kiwi accent. TOWEL. TOOOOOWEL. "Can I be a suspect again? Please?" is my new favourite Starbuckism; Katee delivers it so well, and I will forever associate it with Apollo's naked chest. Gaeta! Eee! Really, my only issue with this episode - which I am really glad exists, I like it when shows throw something different at you now and again - is that THERE IS NO POINT TO IT. No discord was sown. Biers just ran around and made a nice documentary. The Great Cylon Plan, the one they remind us about at the beginning of every episode, must be really bloody convoluted.)
'Flight of the Phoenix'
- judging by 'previously on BSG', I don't think I'm going to be able to be flippant about this episode
- awwww, I will never get sick of Helo and Kara's great buddycop dynamic
- Chief is...fondling a Viper...aw. That scene actually works quite well, even if it's a bit contrived.
- Bitchin' Racetrack! Bitchin' Kara! SLAP HER! Or slam her into the table. That works too.
- NOOOOOO, HELO, CHIEF! NOOoooo...ooo...oh. Actually, the violence in this episode is kind of refreshing.
- Heee. The Cylon virus has taken a severe dislike to Dee, looks like. If only that electric shock had been stronger, we could have been saved from an irritating alternaship.
- GAETA LOSES HIS COOL! I knew it would happen eventually. He is too damn calm to be real. Or human. Duh duh duuuuh.
- Hey, Katejack! *waves* You looked better tousled, actually. You cant pull off a dead-straight fringe quite as well as Cally.
- This is going to be a Chief Tyrol Is Awesome episode, isn't it? I am excited by the music and the shiny welder.
- PILOTS AND GUUUUNS! PILOTS AND SNAAAARK! PILOTS AND BEEEETS! PILOTS AND INVASION OF PERSONAL SPAAAAACE! PILOTS AND OXYGEN DEPRIVED GLEEEEE!
- So...how come Hotdog went down like a shot? Lee and Kara's brains obviously don't require as much fuel to operate. Hotdog is a CLOSET GENIUS.
- HANDPORN! SNUGGLING! AWWW!
- Don't tell me, this will be a Tyrol's Ship Can Stand Against The Ebil Cylon Virus thing. random capitalisation mandatory.
- Dee's brain is having trouble functioning in such close proximity to Apollo's biceps. The poor girl. At least they quickly shove her into Billy's arms after that totally pointless 'uh, we need to find Lee a girlfriend' scene.
- Oooooooh. Sharon's Cylon knowledge just got activatededed. And...either she just lied about the importance of the baby, or she's totally got the wrong end of the stick.
- HEEEEE. Everyone's ganging up on Apollo. What happened to the normal testosterone-driven part of his brain that is attracted to machines with hot girls crawling all over them?
- YAY FOR TIGH. The Chief looks so stunned.
- For once, Gaius is being some actual use without Six hanging off his neck. This brief bout of sanity is probably driven by self-preservation, but...well done.
- Well, THIS marching-Sharon-through-the-halls thing looks familiar. Someone's locked up Cally, right?
- This scene in CIC is doing funny things to my chest, but EEEEEE. It's so TENSE, and it's such a GAMBLE and HOLY SHIT THAT'S A LOT OF CYLONS.
- OW OW OW OW OW OW OOOOOOOOOOOW, SHARON. I am clutching my arms VERY HARD.
- Hehehehe. It's the Cylon Synchronised Flying Team! What a pretty pattern! ...plzdundie, pilots
- how. damn. cool. SMILEYPILOTS. it's so nice to have an episode that's not a crisis. payback! morale! YAY!
- STARBUCK HAS A SEXY SHIP, DO DAH, DO DAAAH! Lee sounds so panicked that he's lost her. Have faith, Lee, this is the episode of awesome. All will be well.
- HEEEEEE. PILOTLOVE. RANDOM CELTIC ADAMATHEME. CHIEF IS AWESOME. SIGNATURES. ROSLIN IS AMAZING. LAURASHIP. POPULAR HELO. I AM SO HAPPY.
- Conclusion: omgyay. In terms of pacing, tension, plot, pilotgiggles, EVERYTHING...this was my favourite episode yet.
'Pegasus'
- I'm not sure what this lounge music is doing, but the general impression seems to be: hey! Smoooooth! We're floatin'! We're cool!
- Hello, yet another woman who is fond of overly straight fringes. Kara and Roslin and Dee seem to be the only ones with any hair sense.
- We've moved from lounge music to not!Enya. And snarky pilots, because there's never enough of that.
- Hee, the Galacticans look all relaxed and sloppy compared to these stiff-upper-lippy soldiers.
- No hitting on Kara, random soldier. Thassit. Back away and be snooty.
- Drunken!XO bonding. Heh heh. Cute. In a kind of disturbing way.
- Okay, second judgement on Cain's fringe: it's better than Katejack's.
- Aw, Roslin and Adama are so very defensive of each other. And everyone high up is so very polite this episode.
- The Galacticans are so much more likeable. Well done on not punching the asshole, Lee.
- Six is back. NEW DRESS. Sexcellent. And the juxtaposition makes it kind of very obvious who the Cylon will be.
- Pegasus deck chief...I've seen HIM before...dammit, where's IMDb when you need it?
- MOM AND DAD, EVERYONE STILL LOVES YOU BEST!
- Six discovers a new facial expression! And Tricia Helfer finally appears in something less than immaculate makeup! Uhoh. Six does not like zee Pegasusians. I'm kind of with her on this one.
- Oh, here we go, she's going to attack Lee. I can tell. It's coming. YUP.
- This is interesting. It's the side of right attacking the side of wrong or the other way around. It's black and white morality attacking the greyer, flexible areas. Kind of.
- HAHAHA GO PILOTS! Their CAG has a stick up his ass, indeed.
- Whoa, okay, so this is bringing home just how technologically inept the Galactica really is. Pretty moving pictures during flight briefing!
- Kara can make 'copy that' sound like 'let's have lots and lots of sex as soon as we finish being insubordinate'.
- The Pegasusians are assholes. ASSHOLES. BIG BIG ASSHOLES.
- GO GO GO CHIEF! GO GO GO HE-LO! it's like a poem! ohdearoops. I think you just killed a superior officer. but I don't care. he was a rapist bastard. you have my vote.
- Helo's biceps look so tragic and noble
- Aw, poor Gaius! This is the episode of 'man, it sucks to be in love with a Cylon'.
- Cain has gone from 'strong woman leader' to 'condoner of murder and rape' in a kind of irritatingly short time. This is a BIG PLOT. They could have done so MUCH with it. I love how fast the show moves, it's just...it could move slower and still be effective.
- Ooooh, it's the ANGRYADAMATHEME! You tell that bitch, cellos! Dunahnunahnunahnunahhh!
- I want to see Kara fighting the Pegasusians in one of their own damn Vipers! Yeah! I am full of the righteous rage. Oh, yeah, she's off blackbirding.
- Conclusion: it sucks to be in love with a Cylon, and moral ambiguity rules all.
'Resurrection Ship, Pt. 1'
- after a dinner break, I have calmed down enough to realise that not ALL the Pegasusians must be assholes. they need to give them all some sort of multiple choice test: If I was in a room with a hot Cylon, I would...
- dude. that Cylon ship is freaky looking. and either Kara is wearing too much eye makeup this episode, or she and Lee had a lot of crazy sex on board Pegasus last night, taking advantage of the fact that nobody they actually knew could overhear them
- WAH, LEE. Sitting there and listening to people ATTACK his FRIENDS. Lee cops so much shit. That's it! Go get Kara!
- AHAHAHA THEY HAVE PILOTCHAT! HEY APOLLO U R HOT, LOL.
- HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Everyone's attacking Kara! LET'S JUST BE FRIENDLY! Kara, you kick ass.
- Cain agrees with me. Cain has a KARACRUSH. She's gonna fight Adama for Kara. No aides. Just bitchslapping.
- They got called to the principal's office. Tut tut. We all need more sensible Laura logic in our lives. YOU TELL HER, LAURA.
- Man, Kara and Cain have such a great dynamic. Cain: Yeah, all right, you can have Lee. Would you like him naked? Kara: ...I'm on YOUR team. (Though...the myffic! KARA! WHAT! You were in a crazy tomb of constellations just two episodes ago! WHAT ABOUT EARTH?)
- ...Roslin IS right. Hardcore ruthlessness looks smexy on her.
- THEY LOVE YOU, SHARON. YOU'RE THEIR DARLING PET CYLON. I want more of Gaius and Pegasix.
- We're back in Gaius' head now? Nooo. I want Pegasix. SO DOES GAIUS. TOTALLY. Six has scary teeth. And that is the most digustingly close-to-porn shot yet. Oh, Six, your attempts to win him back are totally transparent. Too late. He likes Pegasix now. She makes him feel all manly and protective.
- The Pegasus lost their civilians? Ohhh dear. They're just making this worse and worse, aren't they? THE DRUNKEN XO GRAPEVINE REVEALS ALL. Tigh is a bastard, but this is BASTARDNESS BEYOND HIS IMAGINING. Ugh. I feel dirty. They're laying this on kind of thick.
- Pilotbonding is adorable. As ever. All right, they're just talking, but they WANT to be ripping each other's clothes off.
- Nice shirt, Gaius! You look good in red.
- Awwww, Mom and Dad. Your love is a beautiful thing.
- Helo: I HAVE A BRAIN! I DO! Tyrol (& audience): WOW!
- We will be posing as a mining fleet! Heh. This is a familiar plan. Lee & Kara's Perfectly Synchronised Debrief is great.
- THIS REMINDS ME OF A TOURNAMENT OF MINDS PLAY WE DID. The one which won us the state finals! Where Lady Macbeth and the White Witch had the exact same plan and sent Macbeth and Edmund to assassinate the other one. Oh dear, now I have this image of Adama as the White Witch. HEEEE. I mean. Serious. Yes. Kara's mother figure issues are clashing with her father figure issues and it's all very traumatic.
- Conclusion: the morality here just keeps getting messier and messier. Also: Lee, Gaius & Helo don't have enough screentime. This is getting all about the women. Which is GOOD, but...I miss Lee.
'Resurrection Ship, Pt. 2'
- Oh, it's the episode of the randomly floating Lee! Sexy sunnies, Lee. I don't know why they like this flash-forward-flash-back thing, it served no real purpose in Act Of Contrition.
- I don't like the overtones of this pilot-conversation. It SOUNDS nice. It's going somewhere horrible. But that hug just made my day.
- Chief: DUDE, I WAS KIDDING! KID-DING! Some people are so touchy. And some people, sadly, are still rapist assholes.
- Oh, man, Helo has the NICEST stomach. And the NICEST arms. And where the arms meet...the stomach...really, that whole area.
- GO, PEGA-XO! Your drawly reprimands bring joy to my soul.
- STOP BONDING, KARA. NO BONDING. Cain, you're a horrible two-faced woman. You can't mess with Kara like that when you're planning an assassination as well. Humph. I'm sure it's all very ironic and such, all that 'don't flinch' stuff, but I wish they'd mess with someone else's head for a change.
- WAH, LEE'S PRINCIPLES!
- Kara: Galactica wins out. Bigger lockers. What is this teensy metal box I'm meant to put my stuff in? What's with this mirror? It's tiny! I can't put my daily-dose-of-angst photo on it!
- GOOD HUNTING. OH, THE IRONY. THEY DO LOVE THEIR IRONY. Personally, I like my irony to be a leetle more subtle, but eh.
- Sharon totally avoided the question, there. I think that leaves my mythology-theory with a workable window.
- Oh, Lee, you know you should never take your eyes off the road. FLOATING. IN A SEA. A SEA OF LEE. They love this whole depriving-Lee-of-oxygen thing lately.
- It IS kind of weird to see the battlestars actually on the offensive.
- Six has access to the sekrit Cylon peroxide stash. Whoa, Gaius. That's a bit low. That's not fair to EITHER of them. Poor Pegasix.
- Galactica, Apollo. Yeah, about my position. There are....stars? Exactly how specific do you expect me to be? I'M COMMITTING PASSIVE SUICIDE, FOOLS!
- ...eeeeeeeeeew, bodyparts.
- Well done with the sad music, Ron Moore, if I didn't know better I would totally be screaming NO, LEEEEEEE right now.
- It's Kara's walk of agonising moral indecision! Thank GOD there's no percussion. That would just piss me right the hell off.
- I love how the pilots think of each other at the moments of greatest stress.
- OH GOOOOOD, THE MOTHERLY PRIDE! Frak, this is tearing my soul apart, but I'm sure it's nowhere near as bad as the damage it's doing to Kara's.
- YAYADAMA! YAYCAIN! Oh, there's going to be another angle here, but...thank you for not being horrible to Kara's soul.
- Uh, Gaius, what the hell are you playing at? Again with the 'sucks to love a Cylon' thing, but totally compounded by the NOW SHE HAS CORPOREAL FORM issue.
- Other angle is imminent. *shifts nervously* You can tell by the lack of percussion. OOOH. PEGASIX IS THE OTHER ANGLE! That was good. Neat. A bit too neat. But neat. I am a whore for satisfying episode endings.
- Kara looks so small amongst all those tall army men. And her inspiring speech is again with the painful irony, but...oh, Kara. My love for you will never die.
- WTFDEE. FRAK OFF. FRAK. OFF. THEY'RE HAVING A MOMENT.
- I think Kara's face speaks for us all when it says SUICIDE WHYYYYYYYY? Seriously. I got the logic in Anders, I got the logic in the admiration for Cain, but this? NO LOGIC! LEE, YOU ARE DEVOID OF LOGIC! Dee, you are excused slightly on the basis of being bewitched by Apollo's biceps, but ONLY SLIGHTLY. Mostly, you are part of Lee's Grand And Sudden Illogic.
- OMGHIBILLY! I missed Billy.
- Mom and Dad, you are still the most adorable. Billy, do you and your girlfriend have some kind of bet going about suddenly being present during intimate moments? AWWWWW. MOST BEAUTIFUL KISS. EVER. BEATS PILOTKISS IN BEAUTY, ALTHOUGH NOT IN GLEEFUL UST.
- Conclusion: *breathes out* That was an emotionally wrenching arc. Not that BSG has arcs. Two-episode plots practically count as EPICS. It had its problems, but I am still totally, totally in love with the show and that is what matters. Clearly my TV-snobbery just melts in the face of BSG. Uh. Not that I ever really had any to begin with.
'Epiphanies'
- pre-emptive wailing because this is the last ep I have: *commences*
- 189? Uh? I swear we've lost a whoooole bunch of months somewhere.
- Lee and Roslin can start a daydreaming-about-peaceful-water-whilst-dying club. Leoben will join. Rivers and streams and all that.
- Ooh. MEANINGFUL flashbacks whilst dying. Gaius is in trouble now. But we're long overdue a Roslin-episode, so...yay.
- Everyone is so sure that Apollo and Starbuck had angsty angsty sex last night. Or not last night. How many days DID we lose?
- Uhhhh. Kara sure is talented, CAG-ing Pegasus all the way from Galactica. I'm going to assume she chucked a hissy fit so that she could be with Lee again.
- Kickass Laura doesn't really belong in her own flashbacks. Wasn't she all polite and nice back then? Obviously not.
- Hmmm. I see her point about the pregnancy, but you realise that Sharon will NEVER TALK TO YOU AGAIN if you do that, right?
- Poor Gaius clearly doesn't want to be President. That makes...all of us. Oh, shove off, Six, we don't like you and your peroxide any more.
- Wah, Helooooo. That's it. Draw on Adama's massive killing-own-son issues.
- Pilots onna mission! Oh. Well. That was...easy. I'm disappointed. I wanted lots of Lee&Kara charging around demanding answers.
- Ohhh! Are we going to see who Six was meeting that day? I've been wondering about that.
- Yay, more pilots onna mission! Lee's ass looks hot in that uniform. And it's odd that it's Kara trying to get LEE to talk about his issues. Not that she's trying particularly hard.
- Oh, Grace Park, just when your acting was getting good, they give you this ridiculous melodrama.
- Nice to see they updated the head count to allow for Pegasus. I am all about the nods to continuity.
- It's totally Pegasix on the phone, isn't it? No? Okay. Where are yooooou, Pegasix? Oh, it is! PEGASIX! HURRAH! Pegasix with glasses. Nice. And the return of the Jessix ponytail. Though she's sure recovered from her trauma pretty damn fast. Shooting Cain must have been highly therapeutic.
- I'm sorry, Adar, I'm sure I'd like you more if I'd seen you for more than five seconds, but...I don't know what Roslin saw in you in the first place.
- WHAT THE FUCK. WHAAAAAAT. BLOOD LOOKS LIKE *WHAT*? That's a molecular diagram. BLOOD IS NOT A MOLECULE. CANCER CAN'T BE CURED BY A LACK OF ANTIGENS IN BLOOD. I wish Ron Moore would not try to discuss any kind of science ever.
- Sharon never looked that pregnant before. Uh. Anyway, hurrah for the return of ER!BSG. And for the lovely neat miracle cure, of course, because we couldn't have BSG without Roslin.
- Six has decided to find yet another outfit, I see.
- Yeah, okay, NOW Sharon looks pregnant. That 189 days thing obviously meant a rather large time-jump.
- I know Pegasix looks very different in those glasses, but REALLY, people. Surely there's been a picture of her circulated.
- Conclusion: If Roslin remembers her flashbacks, Gaius is in serious shit. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE. NOW. Oh, buggrit, I need to know what haaaaaaappens. Wailing: *recommences*
OH
PEGASUS DECK CHIEF
HE WAS IN QUEER AS FOLK! HE WAS THE HORRIBLE LITTLE DRUG ADDICT! No wonder I disliked him on sight.
That's all, folks.
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vaudevilles, you can request your fic now!
Oh yes, an Andersfic moved into my brain last night and started leaking snarky angst all over the place. 4000 words done so far.
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“Sam, I’m not saying you don’t have the chops for it –” All of a sudden she breaks off, looks away. Anders realises what memories this has started to drag up for her, but he’s tired and frustrated and very sick of Adamas – alive or dead – being a complicating factor in their relationship. This is about him. His life. His choices. And Kara Thrace is not the only one around who sometimes doesn’t know when to keep their mouth shut.
“Really? Because that’s what it sounds like from over here.”
“If you die…” She looks stricken and his heart warms at it, but it’s not enough.
“If I do? What if you die, Kara? Why should you get to put your life on the line every day and then tell me that I can’t do the same?”
The stricken look wavers and then hardens out into anger. Kara snaps something. He snaps something back. They fight for a long time about it, their first real fight, and while they’re screaming into each others’ faces Anders is struck by the fervent wish that this will prove to be the thing they were missing, because she and Lee are fighting all the frakking time.
Kara storms off to her rack when he wins the fight, although it isn’t really the kind of thing in which a winner can be assigned. She loses, because he doesn’t back down.
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The poor guy. It's all right, Anders, I think you'd make a great Marine. This is why I love ficcing out characters who are woefully underdeveloped onscreen - I really like him, now. I know what he's doing and why and how he feels and how he copes. That doesn't mean I am any less all about the pilotlove, but at least now I'll be able to watch the Anders episodes and feel like I'm actually vaguely invested in his character.
I am a leaf on the breeze. Yes. Let's try again.
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Anyway, fandom is going to shun me forever, because I enjoyed every second. Well. Nine out of ten seconds. I would kind of like to lock myself up in a box and attempt to remain unspoilered for the rest of the season, but really, who am I kidding?
'Final Cut'
(This episode was so much fun that I forgot to take notes. Um. I shall improvise some now. Xena looks good as a blonde, and I'm so glad she kept her Kiwi accent. TOWEL. TOOOOOWEL. "Can I be a suspect again? Please?" is my new favourite Starbuckism; Katee delivers it so well, and I will forever associate it with Apollo's naked chest. Gaeta! Eee! Really, my only issue with this episode - which I am really glad exists, I like it when shows throw something different at you now and again - is that THERE IS NO POINT TO IT. No discord was sown. Biers just ran around and made a nice documentary. The Great Cylon Plan, the one they remind us about at the beginning of every episode, must be really bloody convoluted.)
'Flight of the Phoenix'
- judging by 'previously on BSG', I don't think I'm going to be able to be flippant about this episode
- awwww, I will never get sick of Helo and Kara's great buddycop dynamic
- Chief is...fondling a Viper...aw. That scene actually works quite well, even if it's a bit contrived.
- Bitchin' Racetrack! Bitchin' Kara! SLAP HER! Or slam her into the table. That works too.
- NOOOOOO, HELO, CHIEF! NOOoooo...ooo...oh. Actually, the violence in this episode is kind of refreshing.
- Heee. The Cylon virus has taken a severe dislike to Dee, looks like. If only that electric shock had been stronger, we could have been saved from an irritating alternaship.
- GAETA LOSES HIS COOL! I knew it would happen eventually. He is too damn calm to be real. Or human. Duh duh duuuuh.
- Hey, Katejack! *waves* You looked better tousled, actually. You cant pull off a dead-straight fringe quite as well as Cally.
- This is going to be a Chief Tyrol Is Awesome episode, isn't it? I am excited by the music and the shiny welder.
- PILOTS AND GUUUUNS! PILOTS AND SNAAAARK! PILOTS AND BEEEETS! PILOTS AND INVASION OF PERSONAL SPAAAAACE! PILOTS AND OXYGEN DEPRIVED GLEEEEE!
- So...how come Hotdog went down like a shot? Lee and Kara's brains obviously don't require as much fuel to operate. Hotdog is a CLOSET GENIUS.
- HANDPORN! SNUGGLING! AWWW!
- Don't tell me, this will be a Tyrol's Ship Can Stand Against The Ebil Cylon Virus thing. random capitalisation mandatory.
- Dee's brain is having trouble functioning in such close proximity to Apollo's biceps. The poor girl. At least they quickly shove her into Billy's arms after that totally pointless 'uh, we need to find Lee a girlfriend' scene.
- Oooooooh. Sharon's Cylon knowledge just got activatededed. And...either she just lied about the importance of the baby, or she's totally got the wrong end of the stick.
- HEEEEE. Everyone's ganging up on Apollo. What happened to the normal testosterone-driven part of his brain that is attracted to machines with hot girls crawling all over them?
- YAY FOR TIGH. The Chief looks so stunned.
- For once, Gaius is being some actual use without Six hanging off his neck. This brief bout of sanity is probably driven by self-preservation, but...well done.
- Well, THIS marching-Sharon-through-the-halls thing looks familiar. Someone's locked up Cally, right?
- This scene in CIC is doing funny things to my chest, but EEEEEE. It's so TENSE, and it's such a GAMBLE and HOLY SHIT THAT'S A LOT OF CYLONS.
- OW OW OW OW OW OW OOOOOOOOOOOW, SHARON. I am clutching my arms VERY HARD.
- Hehehehe. It's the Cylon Synchronised Flying Team! What a pretty pattern! ...plzdundie, pilots
- how. damn. cool. SMILEYPILOTS. it's so nice to have an episode that's not a crisis. payback! morale! YAY!
- STARBUCK HAS A SEXY SHIP, DO DAH, DO DAAAH! Lee sounds so panicked that he's lost her. Have faith, Lee, this is the episode of awesome. All will be well.
- HEEEEEE. PILOTLOVE. RANDOM CELTIC ADAMATHEME. CHIEF IS AWESOME. SIGNATURES. ROSLIN IS AMAZING. LAURASHIP. POPULAR HELO. I AM SO HAPPY.
- Conclusion: omgyay. In terms of pacing, tension, plot, pilotgiggles, EVERYTHING...this was my favourite episode yet.
'Pegasus'
- I'm not sure what this lounge music is doing, but the general impression seems to be: hey! Smoooooth! We're floatin'! We're cool!
- Hello, yet another woman who is fond of overly straight fringes. Kara and Roslin and Dee seem to be the only ones with any hair sense.
- We've moved from lounge music to not!Enya. And snarky pilots, because there's never enough of that.
- Hee, the Galacticans look all relaxed and sloppy compared to these stiff-upper-lippy soldiers.
- No hitting on Kara, random soldier. Thassit. Back away and be snooty.
- Drunken!XO bonding. Heh heh. Cute. In a kind of disturbing way.
- Okay, second judgement on Cain's fringe: it's better than Katejack's.
- Aw, Roslin and Adama are so very defensive of each other. And everyone high up is so very polite this episode.
- The Galacticans are so much more likeable. Well done on not punching the asshole, Lee.
- Six is back. NEW DRESS. Sexcellent. And the juxtaposition makes it kind of very obvious who the Cylon will be.
- Pegasus deck chief...I've seen HIM before...dammit, where's IMDb when you need it?
- MOM AND DAD, EVERYONE STILL LOVES YOU BEST!
- Six discovers a new facial expression! And Tricia Helfer finally appears in something less than immaculate makeup! Uhoh. Six does not like zee Pegasusians. I'm kind of with her on this one.
- Oh, here we go, she's going to attack Lee. I can tell. It's coming. YUP.
- This is interesting. It's the side of right attacking the side of wrong or the other way around. It's black and white morality attacking the greyer, flexible areas. Kind of.
- HAHAHA GO PILOTS! Their CAG has a stick up his ass, indeed.
- Whoa, okay, so this is bringing home just how technologically inept the Galactica really is. Pretty moving pictures during flight briefing!
- Kara can make 'copy that' sound like 'let's have lots and lots of sex as soon as we finish being insubordinate'.
- The Pegasusians are assholes. ASSHOLES. BIG BIG ASSHOLES.
- GO GO GO CHIEF! GO GO GO HE-LO! it's like a poem! ohdearoops. I think you just killed a superior officer. but I don't care. he was a rapist bastard. you have my vote.
- Helo's biceps look so tragic and noble
- Aw, poor Gaius! This is the episode of 'man, it sucks to be in love with a Cylon'.
- Cain has gone from 'strong woman leader' to 'condoner of murder and rape' in a kind of irritatingly short time. This is a BIG PLOT. They could have done so MUCH with it. I love how fast the show moves, it's just...it could move slower and still be effective.
- Ooooh, it's the ANGRYADAMATHEME! You tell that bitch, cellos! Dunahnunahnunahnunahhh!
- I want to see Kara fighting the Pegasusians in one of their own damn Vipers! Yeah! I am full of the righteous rage. Oh, yeah, she's off blackbirding.
- Conclusion: it sucks to be in love with a Cylon, and moral ambiguity rules all.
'Resurrection Ship, Pt. 1'
- after a dinner break, I have calmed down enough to realise that not ALL the Pegasusians must be assholes. they need to give them all some sort of multiple choice test: If I was in a room with a hot Cylon, I would...
- dude. that Cylon ship is freaky looking. and either Kara is wearing too much eye makeup this episode, or she and Lee had a lot of crazy sex on board Pegasus last night, taking advantage of the fact that nobody they actually knew could overhear them
- WAH, LEE. Sitting there and listening to people ATTACK his FRIENDS. Lee cops so much shit. That's it! Go get Kara!
- AHAHAHA THEY HAVE PILOTCHAT! HEY APOLLO U R HOT, LOL.
- HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Everyone's attacking Kara! LET'S JUST BE FRIENDLY! Kara, you kick ass.
- Cain agrees with me. Cain has a KARACRUSH. She's gonna fight Adama for Kara. No aides. Just bitchslapping.
- They got called to the principal's office. Tut tut. We all need more sensible Laura logic in our lives. YOU TELL HER, LAURA.
- Man, Kara and Cain have such a great dynamic. Cain: Yeah, all right, you can have Lee. Would you like him naked? Kara: ...I'm on YOUR team. (Though...the myffic! KARA! WHAT! You were in a crazy tomb of constellations just two episodes ago! WHAT ABOUT EARTH?)
- ...Roslin IS right. Hardcore ruthlessness looks smexy on her.
- THEY LOVE YOU, SHARON. YOU'RE THEIR DARLING PET CYLON. I want more of Gaius and Pegasix.
- We're back in Gaius' head now? Nooo. I want Pegasix. SO DOES GAIUS. TOTALLY. Six has scary teeth. And that is the most digustingly close-to-porn shot yet. Oh, Six, your attempts to win him back are totally transparent. Too late. He likes Pegasix now. She makes him feel all manly and protective.
- The Pegasus lost their civilians? Ohhh dear. They're just making this worse and worse, aren't they? THE DRUNKEN XO GRAPEVINE REVEALS ALL. Tigh is a bastard, but this is BASTARDNESS BEYOND HIS IMAGINING. Ugh. I feel dirty. They're laying this on kind of thick.
- Pilotbonding is adorable. As ever. All right, they're just talking, but they WANT to be ripping each other's clothes off.
- Nice shirt, Gaius! You look good in red.
- Awwww, Mom and Dad. Your love is a beautiful thing.
- Helo: I HAVE A BRAIN! I DO! Tyrol (& audience): WOW!
- We will be posing as a mining fleet! Heh. This is a familiar plan. Lee & Kara's Perfectly Synchronised Debrief is great.
- THIS REMINDS ME OF A TOURNAMENT OF MINDS PLAY WE DID. The one which won us the state finals! Where Lady Macbeth and the White Witch had the exact same plan and sent Macbeth and Edmund to assassinate the other one. Oh dear, now I have this image of Adama as the White Witch. HEEEE. I mean. Serious. Yes. Kara's mother figure issues are clashing with her father figure issues and it's all very traumatic.
- Conclusion: the morality here just keeps getting messier and messier. Also: Lee, Gaius & Helo don't have enough screentime. This is getting all about the women. Which is GOOD, but...I miss Lee.
'Resurrection Ship, Pt. 2'
- Oh, it's the episode of the randomly floating Lee! Sexy sunnies, Lee. I don't know why they like this flash-forward-flash-back thing, it served no real purpose in Act Of Contrition.
- I don't like the overtones of this pilot-conversation. It SOUNDS nice. It's going somewhere horrible. But that hug just made my day.
- Chief: DUDE, I WAS KIDDING! KID-DING! Some people are so touchy. And some people, sadly, are still rapist assholes.
- Oh, man, Helo has the NICEST stomach. And the NICEST arms. And where the arms meet...the stomach...really, that whole area.
- GO, PEGA-XO! Your drawly reprimands bring joy to my soul.
- STOP BONDING, KARA. NO BONDING. Cain, you're a horrible two-faced woman. You can't mess with Kara like that when you're planning an assassination as well. Humph. I'm sure it's all very ironic and such, all that 'don't flinch' stuff, but I wish they'd mess with someone else's head for a change.
- WAH, LEE'S PRINCIPLES!
- Kara: Galactica wins out. Bigger lockers. What is this teensy metal box I'm meant to put my stuff in? What's with this mirror? It's tiny! I can't put my daily-dose-of-angst photo on it!
- GOOD HUNTING. OH, THE IRONY. THEY DO LOVE THEIR IRONY. Personally, I like my irony to be a leetle more subtle, but eh.
- Sharon totally avoided the question, there. I think that leaves my mythology-theory with a workable window.
- Oh, Lee, you know you should never take your eyes off the road. FLOATING. IN A SEA. A SEA OF LEE. They love this whole depriving-Lee-of-oxygen thing lately.
- It IS kind of weird to see the battlestars actually on the offensive.
- Six has access to the sekrit Cylon peroxide stash. Whoa, Gaius. That's a bit low. That's not fair to EITHER of them. Poor Pegasix.
- Galactica, Apollo. Yeah, about my position. There are....stars? Exactly how specific do you expect me to be? I'M COMMITTING PASSIVE SUICIDE, FOOLS!
- ...eeeeeeeeeew, bodyparts.
- Well done with the sad music, Ron Moore, if I didn't know better I would totally be screaming NO, LEEEEEEE right now.
- It's Kara's walk of agonising moral indecision! Thank GOD there's no percussion. That would just piss me right the hell off.
- I love how the pilots think of each other at the moments of greatest stress.
- OH GOOOOOD, THE MOTHERLY PRIDE! Frak, this is tearing my soul apart, but I'm sure it's nowhere near as bad as the damage it's doing to Kara's.
- YAYADAMA! YAYCAIN! Oh, there's going to be another angle here, but...thank you for not being horrible to Kara's soul.
- Uh, Gaius, what the hell are you playing at? Again with the 'sucks to love a Cylon' thing, but totally compounded by the NOW SHE HAS CORPOREAL FORM issue.
- Other angle is imminent. *shifts nervously* You can tell by the lack of percussion. OOOH. PEGASIX IS THE OTHER ANGLE! That was good. Neat. A bit too neat. But neat. I am a whore for satisfying episode endings.
- Kara looks so small amongst all those tall army men. And her inspiring speech is again with the painful irony, but...oh, Kara. My love for you will never die.
- WTFDEE. FRAK OFF. FRAK. OFF. THEY'RE HAVING A MOMENT.
- I think Kara's face speaks for us all when it says SUICIDE WHYYYYYYYY? Seriously. I got the logic in Anders, I got the logic in the admiration for Cain, but this? NO LOGIC! LEE, YOU ARE DEVOID OF LOGIC! Dee, you are excused slightly on the basis of being bewitched by Apollo's biceps, but ONLY SLIGHTLY. Mostly, you are part of Lee's Grand And Sudden Illogic.
- OMGHIBILLY! I missed Billy.
- Mom and Dad, you are still the most adorable. Billy, do you and your girlfriend have some kind of bet going about suddenly being present during intimate moments? AWWWWW. MOST BEAUTIFUL KISS. EVER. BEATS PILOTKISS IN BEAUTY, ALTHOUGH NOT IN GLEEFUL UST.
- Conclusion: *breathes out* That was an emotionally wrenching arc. Not that BSG has arcs. Two-episode plots practically count as EPICS. It had its problems, but I am still totally, totally in love with the show and that is what matters. Clearly my TV-snobbery just melts in the face of BSG. Uh. Not that I ever really had any to begin with.
'Epiphanies'
- pre-emptive wailing because this is the last ep I have: *commences*
- 189? Uh? I swear we've lost a whoooole bunch of months somewhere.
- Lee and Roslin can start a daydreaming-about-peaceful-water-whilst-dying club. Leoben will join. Rivers and streams and all that.
- Ooh. MEANINGFUL flashbacks whilst dying. Gaius is in trouble now. But we're long overdue a Roslin-episode, so...yay.
- Everyone is so sure that Apollo and Starbuck had angsty angsty sex last night. Or not last night. How many days DID we lose?
- Uhhhh. Kara sure is talented, CAG-ing Pegasus all the way from Galactica. I'm going to assume she chucked a hissy fit so that she could be with Lee again.
- Kickass Laura doesn't really belong in her own flashbacks. Wasn't she all polite and nice back then? Obviously not.
- Hmmm. I see her point about the pregnancy, but you realise that Sharon will NEVER TALK TO YOU AGAIN if you do that, right?
- Poor Gaius clearly doesn't want to be President. That makes...all of us. Oh, shove off, Six, we don't like you and your peroxide any more.
- Wah, Helooooo. That's it. Draw on Adama's massive killing-own-son issues.
- Pilots onna mission! Oh. Well. That was...easy. I'm disappointed. I wanted lots of Lee&Kara charging around demanding answers.
- Ohhh! Are we going to see who Six was meeting that day? I've been wondering about that.
- Yay, more pilots onna mission! Lee's ass looks hot in that uniform. And it's odd that it's Kara trying to get LEE to talk about his issues. Not that she's trying particularly hard.
- Oh, Grace Park, just when your acting was getting good, they give you this ridiculous melodrama.
- Nice to see they updated the head count to allow for Pegasus. I am all about the nods to continuity.
- It's totally Pegasix on the phone, isn't it? No? Okay. Where are yooooou, Pegasix? Oh, it is! PEGASIX! HURRAH! Pegasix with glasses. Nice. And the return of the Jessix ponytail. Though she's sure recovered from her trauma pretty damn fast. Shooting Cain must have been highly therapeutic.
- I'm sorry, Adar, I'm sure I'd like you more if I'd seen you for more than five seconds, but...I don't know what Roslin saw in you in the first place.
- WHAT THE FUCK. WHAAAAAAT. BLOOD LOOKS LIKE *WHAT*? That's a molecular diagram. BLOOD IS NOT A MOLECULE. CANCER CAN'T BE CURED BY A LACK OF ANTIGENS IN BLOOD. I wish Ron Moore would not try to discuss any kind of science ever.
- Sharon never looked that pregnant before. Uh. Anyway, hurrah for the return of ER!BSG. And for the lovely neat miracle cure, of course, because we couldn't have BSG without Roslin.
- Six has decided to find yet another outfit, I see.
- Yeah, okay, NOW Sharon looks pregnant. That 189 days thing obviously meant a rather large time-jump.
- I know Pegasix looks very different in those glasses, but REALLY, people. Surely there's been a picture of her circulated.
- Conclusion: If Roslin remembers her flashbacks, Gaius is in serious shit. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE. NOW. Oh, buggrit, I need to know what haaaaaaappens. Wailing: *recommences*
OH
PEGASUS DECK CHIEF
HE WAS IN QUEER AS FOLK! HE WAS THE HORRIBLE LITTLE DRUG ADDICT! No wonder I disliked him on sight.
That's all, folks.
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vaudevilles, you can request your fic now!Oh yes, an Andersfic moved into my brain last night and started leaking snarky angst all over the place. 4000 words done so far.
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“Sam, I’m not saying you don’t have the chops for it –” All of a sudden she breaks off, looks away. Anders realises what memories this has started to drag up for her, but he’s tired and frustrated and very sick of Adamas – alive or dead – being a complicating factor in their relationship. This is about him. His life. His choices. And Kara Thrace is not the only one around who sometimes doesn’t know when to keep their mouth shut.
“Really? Because that’s what it sounds like from over here.”
“If you die…” She looks stricken and his heart warms at it, but it’s not enough.
“If I do? What if you die, Kara? Why should you get to put your life on the line every day and then tell me that I can’t do the same?”
The stricken look wavers and then hardens out into anger. Kara snaps something. He snaps something back. They fight for a long time about it, their first real fight, and while they’re screaming into each others’ faces Anders is struck by the fervent wish that this will prove to be the thing they were missing, because she and Lee are fighting all the frakking time.
Kara storms off to her rack when he wins the fight, although it isn’t really the kind of thing in which a winner can be assigned. She loses, because he doesn’t back down.
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The poor guy. It's all right, Anders, I think you'd make a great Marine. This is why I love ficcing out characters who are woefully underdeveloped onscreen - I really like him, now. I know what he's doing and why and how he feels and how he copes. That doesn't mean I am any less all about the pilotlove, but at least now I'll be able to watch the Anders episodes and feel like I'm actually vaguely invested in his character.