BSG thoughts
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somedaybitchwithin the context of the show, tonight's ep was spot on, with some really excellent characterization and killer storytelling.
lots of folks seem to want to draw current world parallels for the show on the whole, and especially in light of the season 3 premiere. i think they're looking at the wrong war.
while watching, what *immediately* came to mind to me tonight was World War II. the resistance, the camps, the collaborators, the deep divisions within the ranks of the Cylons, the random nighttime arrests and detentions...the taking people away in trucks out to the forest, lying to them about stopping to stretch their legs and then butchering them like animals. the genocide that started it all.
stuff i adored:
- Adama sending Boomer, and reinstating her first.
- what Leoben is doing to Kara.
- Galen not knowing that Felix is the contact.
- where they took Apollo. which felt totally out of character to me until the scene with him and Dee in his quarters.
- Helo as XO.
- Helo essentially telling Boomer not to make him regret his trust and love in her.
- the resistance disagreeing with Tigh's extremism, and Tigh's extremism itself. his line about sending soldiers on suicide missions in two wars and how there's no difference between them dying in a viper and them dying on a parade ground.
- Cali.
- Jammer appealing to Boomer.
- Jammer cutting Cali loose.
- Zarek pulling Roslin to the back of the crowd.
- Roslin.
- not!Al cylons being the most virulent.
- Caprica Six and dead!Boomer.
- the Old Man.
- Anders and his wicked case of Caprica!dejavu.
- Anders and Boomer hugging.
- the return of SixinhisHead.
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bexxa listened to the podcast and posted this;
i love it when i perceive stuff the way it was meant. doesn't always happen. doesn't make me "smarter" when it does, but rather it's cool when the ideas/influences that a storyteller is seeking to convey make it across to even one person in the intended audience.
also? i forgot to add that i LOVED Ellen Tigh. her character arc is utterly spot.on.
lots of folks seem to want to draw current world parallels for the show on the whole, and especially in light of the season 3 premiere. i think they're looking at the wrong war.
while watching, what *immediately* came to mind to me tonight was World War II. the resistance, the camps, the collaborators, the deep divisions within the ranks of the Cylons, the random nighttime arrests and detentions...the taking people away in trucks out to the forest, lying to them about stopping to stretch their legs and then butchering them like animals. the genocide that started it all.
stuff i adored:
- Adama sending Boomer, and reinstating her first.
- what Leoben is doing to Kara.
- Galen not knowing that Felix is the contact.
- where they took Apollo. which felt totally out of character to me until the scene with him and Dee in his quarters.
- Helo as XO.
- Helo essentially telling Boomer not to make him regret his trust and love in her.
- the resistance disagreeing with Tigh's extremism, and Tigh's extremism itself. his line about sending soldiers on suicide missions in two wars and how there's no difference between them dying in a viper and them dying on a parade ground.
- Cali.
- Jammer appealing to Boomer.
- Jammer cutting Cali loose.
- Zarek pulling Roslin to the back of the crowd.
- Roslin.
- not!Al cylons being the most virulent.
- Caprica Six and dead!Boomer.
- the Old Man.
- Anders and his wicked case of Caprica!dejavu.
- Anders and Boomer hugging.
- the return of SixinhisHead.
bexxa listened to the podcast and posted this;That said: in the podcast commentary for "The Occupation" and "Precipice," Moore says flat out that while there are obvious parallels to present-day Iraq, the writers did consider the wider picture of war in general, and WWII/Vichy France, the West Bank, the American Revolution, and even the Roman occupation of Gaul.
i love it when i perceive stuff the way it was meant. doesn't always happen. doesn't make me "smarter" when it does, but rather it's cool when the ideas/influences that a storyteller is seeking to convey make it across to even one person in the intended audience.
also? i forgot to add that i LOVED Ellen Tigh. her character arc is utterly spot.on.
