BSG 3x13 - Taking A Break From All Your Worries

[fahye]

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What the hell were you all complaining about? That was awesome.

Comments

[sophistry]

DUDE, I KNOW. I DON'T GET IT. I loved this episode (god, how harcore awesome was Roslin?). I think people are flailing themselves into oblivion over the ending to the piloty-love-square arc - but I loved that, too!

[fahye.livejournal.com]

IT WAS FANTASTIC. I think I can see why people don't like it - it paints the pilots in an awful light - but I thought that was GOOD. Sam is a WONDERFUL person and Dee is BELIEVABLE in her anger and pragmatism and the pilots are kind of morons but JUSTIFIED - Kara needs other people to tell her what to do with her emotions, and Lee is quite right in deciding that, at the end of the day, Dee is the safer option. Kara MIGHT do another one-eighty. It's in her nature.

And Roslin was amazing and the interrogation was creepy and there was SO MUCH HEAD!SIX and...okay, the bar was hilariously pastede on yey, but I love that they have a bar. And all of the flashbacks were layered in effectively.

*clutches episode protectively*

[tropes.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. WE WILL FORM AN ANTI-FANDOM CLUB OR SOMETHING BECAUSE CLEARLY WE ARE SMARTER THAN ALL OF THEM.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I think one of the things that made it great was you had all of these shots of Lee's Romantic Angst And Pain interspersed with, uh, the serious business of dealing with Baltar. It gave this hilarious portrayal of the fact that the pilots are great at being, you know, pilots, but come tricky politics they're off in their corners whining about the unfairness of their doomed love whilst the GROWNUPS deal with REAL PROBLEMS. It was a fantastic smack in the head for that arc.

I really liked the last episode Edward James Olmos directed, too - Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

I know, it was genius. What struck me was the fact that, while it did give them a smack in the head, it didn't denigrate the way they were feeling -- because marriages falling apart and reforming, this is heavy stuff too, and it happens every day, and it is painful. So, yeah, the political stuff was real-world macrocosmic stuff, but the microcosm of the relationships is real and sad and relatable.

Yep.