BSG 3.15: A Day in the Life
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icepixieHaaaahahahahaha. My friends, with that bonus scene, we have just seen fanfic on the television screen. Oh, BSG, (most of) your sins are forgiven.
So, that was very much like BSG of old, and it cracked along nicely. I was at first confused by the whole Carolanne-in-Adama's-head thing, and briefly wondered if he had his own version of Chip!Six or Chip!Baltar, but then I realized it was just a way to dramatize an episode heavy on introspection. The whole post-divorce abuse thing came as a bit of a surprise, and I wonder if they're going to do anything more with that. I suppose it explained why we seemed to regress a bit in the depiction of the Lee/Pappadama relationship; yes, we had sort of covered this territory before, but now we have new backstory, and that's interesting.
The Cally-and-Tyrol-in-danger plot, which I thought from the preview was going to be needless and boring, was actually fairly decent; I had moments of doubt about both of them making it through alive, and THEY GOT THE PILOTS OUT IN SHIPS AGAIN, OMG, DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE ANYONE ON THIS SHOW DID ANY FLYING??? So yay for them being trapped in the airlock!
And of course, the best parts: those two scenes with Bill and Laura. They were a bit awkward (I think the director may have told MM to play up the flirting, not realizing that anything that comes out of the woman's mouth can be sexy as hell), but it was worth it to watch them sling innuendo at each other, and to see MM and EJO so obviously enjoying the interaction. I started to squee a bit when I noticed the heavy focus on A/R scenes in the previously on, and I was not disappointed. TPTB, please do not screw this up. It is wonderful and fabulous the way you're doing it, and I want lots more like this.
I liked the attempt to make this seem like an ordinary day in the fleet: doing long-needed-but-routine repair work, Tyrol and Cally arguing about Nicky, making preparations for Baltar's trial but nothing hugely important happening in that plotline (although I'm looking forward to getting there, because while this was a good filler ep, there may be more bad ones down the line). This episode knew it was a breather before the big trial plotline, and it went with that, instead of trying to cram another huge issue/plot (the racism thing from last week) into forty-five minutes and failing. Instead, it gave us some good character drama, in comparison to what I imagine will be a lot of back and forth in the trial about political and ideological ideals and arcana of law.
I especially liked the complete lack of love quadrangle, thank you god. That was a breath of fresh air. If you keep having Lee and Kara act like mature adults doing their frakking jobs, I may even come to respect them again. Not having Helo in there except for one tiny scene was also nice. I like his character okay, but he's definitely been overused so far this season.
So, that was very much like BSG of old, and it cracked along nicely. I was at first confused by the whole Carolanne-in-Adama's-head thing, and briefly wondered if he had his own version of Chip!Six or Chip!Baltar, but then I realized it was just a way to dramatize an episode heavy on introspection. The whole post-divorce abuse thing came as a bit of a surprise, and I wonder if they're going to do anything more with that. I suppose it explained why we seemed to regress a bit in the depiction of the Lee/Pappadama relationship; yes, we had sort of covered this territory before, but now we have new backstory, and that's interesting.
The Cally-and-Tyrol-in-danger plot, which I thought from the preview was going to be needless and boring, was actually fairly decent; I had moments of doubt about both of them making it through alive, and THEY GOT THE PILOTS OUT IN SHIPS AGAIN, OMG, DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE ANYONE ON THIS SHOW DID ANY FLYING??? So yay for them being trapped in the airlock!
And of course, the best parts: those two scenes with Bill and Laura. They were a bit awkward (I think the director may have told MM to play up the flirting, not realizing that anything that comes out of the woman's mouth can be sexy as hell), but it was worth it to watch them sling innuendo at each other, and to see MM and EJO so obviously enjoying the interaction. I started to squee a bit when I noticed the heavy focus on A/R scenes in the previously on, and I was not disappointed. TPTB, please do not screw this up. It is wonderful and fabulous the way you're doing it, and I want lots more like this.
I liked the attempt to make this seem like an ordinary day in the fleet: doing long-needed-but-routine repair work, Tyrol and Cally arguing about Nicky, making preparations for Baltar's trial but nothing hugely important happening in that plotline (although I'm looking forward to getting there, because while this was a good filler ep, there may be more bad ones down the line). This episode knew it was a breather before the big trial plotline, and it went with that, instead of trying to cram another huge issue/plot (the racism thing from last week) into forty-five minutes and failing. Instead, it gave us some good character drama, in comparison to what I imagine will be a lot of back and forth in the trial about political and ideological ideals and arcana of law.
I especially liked the complete lack of love quadrangle, thank you god. That was a breath of fresh air. If you keep having Lee and Kara act like mature adults doing their frakking jobs, I may even come to respect them again. Not having Helo in there except for one tiny scene was also nice. I like his character okay, but he's definitely been overused so far this season.
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Date: 2007-02-19 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-19 04:43 am (UTC)Next week is...Baltar fomenting rebellion from behind bars? Something like that? There's a labor strike going on, is all I got out of it, and someone was passing out flyers with Baltar's picture on them.
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Date: 2007-02-19 05:09 am (UTC)I was actually pretty surprised they went as far as they did with the Roslin/Adama ship. Incidently, I'm currently watching season 1 (as I never saw much between 33 and Kobol's Last Gleaming 2), so the book thing was pretty cute. But I definitely though of you during the ship scenes.
And YEA for no quadrangle!!!!!
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Date: 2007-02-19 07:46 am (UTC)I am LOVING the A/R ship. I mean, I was all asquee during the flashbacks to New Caprica, but this took it a step further, and yes. Awesome.
...You hadn't seen most of the first season yet? Wow. Did you read a lot of spoilers or get caught up somehow? First season's still my favorite, 'cause it was so much tighter than this one, and somewhat moreso than S2; I hope Skiffy doesn't suddenly give Moore extra episodes next season to screw around with.