More BSG-love
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icepixieSo, you know the facebook, and how people from your high school can friend you? Well, someone from my graduating class just requested to friend me, and...I have no idea who she is. The name is familiar, but I'm completely blanking on the face. And I should know the face, 'cause the name is just picking at part of my brain, begging to be identified, but it's not happening.
Hi, I feel old now.
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Watched more BSG today. I just have the "Kobol's Last Gleaming" two-parter left, and I might watch it tonight if my eyeballs don't completely dribble away. TV = good, especially in that it lets me stretch out my leg and keep my knees from hurting so much, but my brain is starting to protest.
Adama and Roslin's flirting/power struggle amuses me so, especially the exchange about getting Adama tested for Cylonification from "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down." (They were so flirting then. Totally. Even if under it all was Laura being all paranoid about what Leoben had told her.) The "Colonial Day" dance made me squee. There are definite similarities to Sheppard/Weir, which is probably why I like them so much, although Roslin is far, far more cynical than Lizzie could ever be.
The religious stuff, especially from "Hand of God," is intriguing. Are we heading into religious parable-land like on Carnivale? (All my new fandoms are merging into one!) As a long-time X-Files fan, I have some paranoid reservations about this getting too complicated and coming to resemble the dreaded mytharc, but hopefully that won't happen.
Kara/Lee makes me smile a lot, especially the water fight from "Colonial Day." Starbuck is an interesting character, especially with that whole guilt thing over Zak's death. I get the feeling she might have more secrets to be revealed in the future; there seems to be a lot we don't know about what makes her tick. I feel like she would have been my favorite character when I was younger, though Roslin is the current winner in my own personal popularity contest.
I forgot to mention in my last batch of comments that the music on this show is fantastic. I love the Eastern influences, and the Uillean pipes(? Something Irish or Scottish, anyway) in...uh...one of the last eps...10 or 11, I think. They're all sort of running together for me at the moment, probably due mostly to the marathon format I've been watching them in. The serial nature of the show has something to do with it, too; the last two seasons of Farscape did this for me as well. The only episode I can clearly remember from those two seasons is "Revenging Angel." The rest is a blur of two Johns-Noranti-truth lobsters-pregnant Aeryn.
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nickless, I'm definitely seeing the point you mentioned in a comment some time ago about how it's unbelievable for these people to have such similar funeral ceremonies, etc. to us. I'd like to see some differences between the cultures of each colony; it's bad enough that they all pretty much have the same accent except for Baltar. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty well-connected colonies, but. One little "On Tauron we did blah blah blah" would not be amiss.
Is it just me, or does anyone else who reads David Weber's Honor Harrington novels get a strange kind of HH vibe from bits of this show? It was especially so for me during "Hand of God," when they're clustered around the tabletop model of the battle and pushing things around on it, or whenever we see someone plotting a jump. I think this comes entirely from the fact that my copy of The Honor of the Queen has a cover painting of Honor and some other people leaning over some kind of tabletop map/plotter-thingy and looking intense, not from the actual books themselves.
This show is really quite good. I'm always surprised when the credits start rolling; even with the ability to speed through commercials on tape, it doesn't feel like it takes a full 42 minutes or whatever the going length is these days for cable TV shows.
Hi, I feel old now.
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Watched more BSG today. I just have the "Kobol's Last Gleaming" two-parter left, and I might watch it tonight if my eyeballs don't completely dribble away. TV = good, especially in that it lets me stretch out my leg and keep my knees from hurting so much, but my brain is starting to protest.
Adama and Roslin's flirting/power struggle amuses me so, especially the exchange about getting Adama tested for Cylonification from "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down." (They were so flirting then. Totally. Even if under it all was Laura being all paranoid about what Leoben had told her.) The "Colonial Day" dance made me squee. There are definite similarities to Sheppard/Weir, which is probably why I like them so much, although Roslin is far, far more cynical than Lizzie could ever be.
The religious stuff, especially from "Hand of God," is intriguing. Are we heading into religious parable-land like on Carnivale? (All my new fandoms are merging into one!) As a long-time X-Files fan, I have some paranoid reservations about this getting too complicated and coming to resemble the dreaded mytharc, but hopefully that won't happen.
Kara/Lee makes me smile a lot, especially the water fight from "Colonial Day." Starbuck is an interesting character, especially with that whole guilt thing over Zak's death. I get the feeling she might have more secrets to be revealed in the future; there seems to be a lot we don't know about what makes her tick. I feel like she would have been my favorite character when I was younger, though Roslin is the current winner in my own personal popularity contest.
I forgot to mention in my last batch of comments that the music on this show is fantastic. I love the Eastern influences, and the Uillean pipes(? Something Irish or Scottish, anyway) in...uh...one of the last eps...10 or 11, I think. They're all sort of running together for me at the moment, probably due mostly to the marathon format I've been watching them in. The serial nature of the show has something to do with it, too; the last two seasons of Farscape did this for me as well. The only episode I can clearly remember from those two seasons is "Revenging Angel." The rest is a blur of two Johns-Noranti-truth lobsters-pregnant Aeryn.
nickless, I'm definitely seeing the point you mentioned in a comment some time ago about how it's unbelievable for these people to have such similar funeral ceremonies, etc. to us. I'd like to see some differences between the cultures of each colony; it's bad enough that they all pretty much have the same accent except for Baltar. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty well-connected colonies, but. One little "On Tauron we did blah blah blah" would not be amiss.Is it just me, or does anyone else who reads David Weber's Honor Harrington novels get a strange kind of HH vibe from bits of this show? It was especially so for me during "Hand of God," when they're clustered around the tabletop model of the battle and pushing things around on it, or whenever we see someone plotting a jump. I think this comes entirely from the fact that my copy of The Honor of the Queen has a cover painting of Honor and some other people leaning over some kind of tabletop map/plotter-thingy and looking intense, not from the actual books themselves.
This show is really quite good. I'm always surprised when the credits start rolling; even with the ability to speed through commercials on tape, it doesn't feel like it takes a full 42 minutes or whatever the going length is these days for cable TV shows.
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