BSG 4.19: "Someone to Watch Over Me"
Feb. 28th, 2009 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieOH FRAK OH FRAK, someone tell me that Laura did not just die at the end. SOMEONE TELL ME THIS. TELL ME THIS RIGHT NOW. KARA WILL GIVE HER HYBRID BLOOD AND SHE WILL BE JUST. FINE.*
*deep breaths* Okay. Calmer now.
So if we play the one-word-to-describe-the-episode game again, this time I choose "disorienting." Although in a good way, and in a way that was generally explained by the end of the episode, so yay. I adored the continual presence of the piano music, and the sequence with Starbuck's pilots' meeting narration ("your mission is the same as last week and the week before and the week before") over all those different, repetitive scenes of her waking up, showering, and giving orders was very good at creating a feeling of hopelessness. And then the rest of the episode provided drama, and something resembling some answers, and it felt much more like a really-close-to-the-finale episode than last week's.
For the first time ever, I was really, really intrigued by Starbuck. And I liked her as a character. I didn't want to kill her once during the hour! Piano skillz and wistful childhood memories are apparently the keys to my heart. And okay, so are we all pretty much sure that Daniel the Cylon is her father? Because it seemed pretty cut and dried by the end there. I was starting to think that the composer guy she was hanging out with was in fact her father, finally revealing himself, but then of course he turned out to be a figment of her imagination. Now the only question is how Daniel (aka Driedele or whatever the name on that cassette was [speaking of which--seriously? They have faster-than-light spaceships and are still using cassette tapes?]) managed to get to Caprica before Cavil destroyed his line, and apparently before all the other skinjobs? The timeline is not terribly clear to me here.
They brought the song back! Via both Hera and Kara! (Hmmm. Subtle rhyme-linking going on there?) Because of course both of them are hybrids. Now I'm wondering why Kara was never in the opera house--which, when Laura was NOT DYING ARGH, I figured was going to make a reappearance, but no dice, I see. And now my question is, can Kara resurrect? Or is something more going on with her dead body on Earth? I'm leaning towards "something more," but I don't know what it would be. I still wonder a bit if she's in fact a Lord of Kobol.
The Chief-and-multiple-Eights storyline was completely opaque to me until the very end, when I finally figured out which three Eights were involved. Although I'm still confused about the timeline--at the beginning, was the Chief actually sleeping with Nameless Eight in the Tan Shirt, or was that a flashback to his relationship with Boomer? And how much trouble is he going to be in when the Fightin' Agathons find out he made the switch of Nameless Eight for Boomer and let her walk out with Hera-in-a-box? *g* Not to mention Adama's going to be plenty pissed about her blowing a hole in his ship. (It looked relatively contained, though, yes? No boom today?) I think the Chief's going to be on trial for treason pretty soon.
Wait, hang on, there's one more Eight unaccounted for. (They need to wear nametags or something.) The one who keeps hanging around Anders--is she totally different?
I see we have Cylon pilots and now a Cylon Quorum member now. All the clubbing over the head about integration last week appears to have paid off.
After that hull breach, and given all the doom and gloom about how Galactica is on her last legs, I'm willing to bet we get one more jump out of her in the finale and then she's toast. Better find a habitable planet soon, y'all.
And now I'm going to go read Bear McCreary's blog, because after this episode it's sure to be interesting.
* Actually, if there's an answer in the preview, don't let me know. I want to be surprised.
*deep breaths* Okay. Calmer now.
So if we play the one-word-to-describe-the-episode game again, this time I choose "disorienting." Although in a good way, and in a way that was generally explained by the end of the episode, so yay. I adored the continual presence of the piano music, and the sequence with Starbuck's pilots' meeting narration ("your mission is the same as last week and the week before and the week before") over all those different, repetitive scenes of her waking up, showering, and giving orders was very good at creating a feeling of hopelessness. And then the rest of the episode provided drama, and something resembling some answers, and it felt much more like a really-close-to-the-finale episode than last week's.
For the first time ever, I was really, really intrigued by Starbuck. And I liked her as a character. I didn't want to kill her once during the hour! Piano skillz and wistful childhood memories are apparently the keys to my heart. And okay, so are we all pretty much sure that Daniel the Cylon is her father? Because it seemed pretty cut and dried by the end there. I was starting to think that the composer guy she was hanging out with was in fact her father, finally revealing himself, but then of course he turned out to be a figment of her imagination. Now the only question is how Daniel (aka Driedele or whatever the name on that cassette was [speaking of which--seriously? They have faster-than-light spaceships and are still using cassette tapes?]) managed to get to Caprica before Cavil destroyed his line, and apparently before all the other skinjobs? The timeline is not terribly clear to me here.
They brought the song back! Via both Hera and Kara! (Hmmm. Subtle rhyme-linking going on there?) Because of course both of them are hybrids. Now I'm wondering why Kara was never in the opera house--which, when Laura was NOT DYING ARGH, I figured was going to make a reappearance, but no dice, I see. And now my question is, can Kara resurrect? Or is something more going on with her dead body on Earth? I'm leaning towards "something more," but I don't know what it would be. I still wonder a bit if she's in fact a Lord of Kobol.
The Chief-and-multiple-Eights storyline was completely opaque to me until the very end, when I finally figured out which three Eights were involved. Although I'm still confused about the timeline--at the beginning, was the Chief actually sleeping with Nameless Eight in the Tan Shirt, or was that a flashback to his relationship with Boomer? And how much trouble is he going to be in when the Fightin' Agathons find out he made the switch of Nameless Eight for Boomer and let her walk out with Hera-in-a-box? *g* Not to mention Adama's going to be plenty pissed about her blowing a hole in his ship. (It looked relatively contained, though, yes? No boom today?) I think the Chief's going to be on trial for treason pretty soon.
Wait, hang on, there's one more Eight unaccounted for. (They need to wear nametags or something.) The one who keeps hanging around Anders--is she totally different?
I see we have Cylon pilots and now a Cylon Quorum member now. All the clubbing over the head about integration last week appears to have paid off.
After that hull breach, and given all the doom and gloom about how Galactica is on her last legs, I'm willing to bet we get one more jump out of her in the finale and then she's toast. Better find a habitable planet soon, y'all.
And now I'm going to go read Bear McCreary's blog, because after this episode it's sure to be interesting.
* Actually, if there's an answer in the preview, don't let me know. I want to be surprised.
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Date: 2009-02-28 06:40 pm (UTC)So there were really only 2 eights, plus the one Chief wrenched and stuck in the brig.
The one around Anders is just a random one who is there with a 6 to show cylon discussions or something. (Why the Leoben never is, I don't know).
Ooh, Bear's blog. I'd forgotten. Must read.
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