True. Werewolves are all paws and tail, man.
Hehe you said tail
Frak, a whole lot of craap happened in this ep!
Where should I start? I guess on Caprica.
I was wondering where the Caprica story was going, I mean they couldn’t just run around the planet for months or years, just the two of them (well I guess they could have). Pretty cool that they found a sports team.
I’ve posted my thots on the Anders/Dane Cook thing elsewhere in the BSG Area.
aaaand back on Galactica…
I love how Six was offended that people kept using the word “Toaster”, I’ll admit i’m guilty of that myself. /rudeWesley
We’ve seen a lot of interrogations thus far in BSG but Gaius is -by far- the most effective interrogator in the fleet so far. He was downright scary!
Have I mentioned how much i hate Ellen Tigh. Cause I do. A lot. Grr.
She is good at what she does though, so you have to give her cred for being a master manipulator. I just wonder what her end game is, Zarek in power I would think. But then what?
I couldn’t believe Boomer got killed, I was like “Oh noes! Boomer!” But then I remembered her consciousness was being transferred to another Sharon-Cylon (one that isn’t all full of bullet holes 
)
Toaster? I hardly knew her!
Even more effective and scary than Starbuck in Flesh and Bone?? I don’t know, dude, she set the bar for me. But of course, she always does. <mmmmm… Starbuck…>
(sorry for the fan vid… at least it’s not an awful pop song, right?)
How long you been saving that one up, Pike?
You’d think it’d be years, right?
As much of a surpise to me as to you.
Giggity.
Starbuck was just more angry, Gaius was disturbing, like “this crazy bastard is for realsie.”
Wesley, you’re so lucky to be able to watch these episodes without the frakking year long hiatuses (hiatii??)! The first two seasons are magical. I envy your virgin little eyes.
I find it interesting you hate Ellen Tigh so much. I kind of liked her. It was Col. Tigh I hated in the first couple of seasons. I just thought he was useless. I wanted Starbuck to come back and finish the pounding she started in the miniseries (I think it was).
I’m glad you’re as drawn into the complexities of the characters as the rest of us. Isn’t it amazing that, by all rights, we should hate Baltar but we don’t? That’s good writing and good acting if you ask me.
Thanks SUW for this thread and welcome.
Just found it and have really enjoyed reading it. I love reliving the BSG journey. It’s quite a ride! Making me long for another re-watch. I absolutely LOVE LOVE BSG.
Keep the post coming !!
Thanks for having me
Keep em comin’ eh? Well how about riiiiiight now!
I just finished The Farm, seriously frakkin good episode.
Glad to have Adama back, no doubt. We need a reprieve from all the crazy scheming that’s been going on.
This one was awesome too, for showing the range of the actors. We get to see Kara as the badass, military tough woman and as the vulnerable, pleading for help from the gods, scared woman. Also, angry leader Adama and grief-stricken father-figure Adama (when he was crying over Boomer’s body). Bravo to Katee Sackoff and EJO.
I got a high creep vibe off Simon (the “Doctor”) when he was talking about Kara’s ability to bear children as a “high commodity”. My first thought was that when he was giving her the pain meds and she was going unconscious he was…well…you know what i’m saying i thought he was doing.
And who knows, maybe that will turn out to be the case.
So I guess i’m up to 4 models of Cylon? Six, Sharon, Leoben and now Simon. I think that’s right.
And ugh, i am disliking Laura more and more. That’s what the fleet needs to survive, being separated and divided. Very good leadering. /angry face
Ellen rubs me the wrong way. She’s just so damn scheming and controlling. Saul is her frakking husband! She should be supporting and helping him, but all she does is manipulate him.
I think Col. Tigh is not terribly likeable, but I do feel he deserves better. I guess I pity him and his situation.
I personally have a loving and supportive wife, so the way Ellen is with Saul I just find insanely disgusting.
I agree totally, he helped usher in the [almost] destruction of the human race, but you can’t help but like him!
Maybe it’s that he really can claim insanity in a court of law that you don’t totally blame him for what he’s doing.
Actually, 5. You forgot Doral (the used car salesman looking guy they left behind at the station in the miniseries).
Ah yes, you’re right. Forgot about that little guy.
Wow, just wow.
Awesome 2 parter.
Lots of guns being pointed at various people in these two eps, I must say.
I was wide eyed at a bunch of points, like when we thought that Laura was going to chuck Caprica-Boomer out of an airlock.
So speaking of that scene, Laura is a bit of a deceiving bitch.
“Come on now, let’s all put our guns down, no one will get hurt.”
::puts guns down::
“Okay, chuck her cylon ass into space.”
Cold blooded, man.
I think that Cmdr Adama really showed how human he is. When he decides he wants to put the fleet “family” back together, he feels rage over whatever (I assume it’s being betrayed by Apollo, Starbuck and Boomer), and crying when he sees Apollo. He prolly had wrote off that they’d never be together again.
Interesting that it’s not a Cylon Chip in Baltar’s brain and (at least according to the scans) he’s not crazy. Cool angle they took, saying Six was his guardian angel. Totally fits in the way they think, even if she is being projected into his mind artificially.
I wonder how Baltar must feel about Boomer and Helo having the child, he thought he was going to be to a father (though he had no idea how) and it turns out he’s just going to usher in the extinction of humanity (and bring about a new race of Cylon-Humans, so in a way he is acting like a father in the greater sense).
Ah…good times.
I never thought about Baltar’s feelings towards Helo and Boomer’s kid when I watched it, but that is a pretty interesting observation.
Well, there’s nothing like inadvertently ushering in the extinction of humanity to to drive a crazy man… Baltar… ?
Damnit! I almost did a spit take with my coffee!
Watched “Final Cut”…first off:
:: drool ::
This one showed that Cmdr Adama is really a great leader. Not just a great military commander, but a great <leader of men>.
Good judgement throughout from Adama, he didn’t put on a “camera face” at all while D’Anna was filming. Just carried on like usual.
Something striking about this episode was all the frak ups that were going on and the seemingly chaotic run of the ship, then when there was a raid everyone just snapped into action and there was virtually no noise on the ship (save for the radio transmissions from the Vipers). It was cool to see a Cylon raid from the view of the Galactica.
It really says a lot to Ron Moore that I completely fell into the ups and downs of exactly how he wanted me to feel about D’anna Biers.
I hated her, then I liked her, then I hated her for being evil! Brilliant!
And that end scene! Man!
I ponder on this: was the whole documentary thing just a cover to find out what happened to Caprica-Boomer or was that just a lucky find?
Aaaaand, had time to squeeze in “Flight of the Phoenix”
I have to imagine that it was this episode that inspired Chuck and Sean to make that Viper Simulator.
The first part of this episode reminded me of the first regular season episode, “33”. The crew looked exhausted and run down and the stress was really showing. Great character development though, showing that even though they are being mentally and physically beaten down by their situation, they still can pull together.
That damned virus makes a comeback, laying in wait since “Scattered”. Cmdr Adama says, after Lt Gaeta snaps at Tigh that they are all just tired, but I think it’s more than that for Felix. I think he’s so angry because he blames himself for the virus. It happened on his watch, it was his plan and he let it slip past him. And as we learned in “Final Cut”, his job is all his has. He’s much like the Chief in that respect.
Building the Blackbird was an awesome stroke of genius. People were snapping at each other and getting frustrated with everything but the Blackbird project let them all pull together and build something instead of just patching and repairing over and over again. They get to actually create. Which is just so human.
I got a little misty when Tyrol revealed that the ship was named “Laura”. Made all the more touching by the fact that they don’t even know just how little time she’s got left.
And gods, I feel so bad for Sharon. She is trying so hard to help Galactica and she has the memories of loving both the Chief and Helo. At the end, I think Tyrol makes a big mistake, going to see her. She’s carrying Helo’s child after all.
All I could think of was a line from “Kingpin”:
“…you freaky piece of s&#t! You don’t mow another guy’s lawn!”
Well put. And exactly right, although the payoff is probably not one you’re expecting.
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