Not sure if I ever will.
Season 4.5
“Sometimes a great notion”
Dee…
Out of any scene in any series I have watched…that’s the one that messes me up the most.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliantly done…the fact that it is that powerful and gut wrenching is a testament to RDM and the actors…
right up until that moment I’m cool…then…well.
Quicker than Billy’s gut-shot.
I feel your pain, David.
Yeah, it was definitely one of those “holy frak” moments that I don’t think anyone really saw coming.
Saw? No, not saw.
Hoped? Prayed? Fantasized about? That’s more like it.
i feel you man, but you kinda had to see it coming, when i saw the intro and a lot of Dee stuff, i thought 2 things. 1. something is gonna happen between her and lee. 2. shes gone…
you didn’t like dee, pike?
Not since the Apollo thing, no.
Are you hating on Sweet Dee? She’ll eat your babies, bitch!
Wait…wrong Dee.
I still like Dualla, you heartless monster.
I’m terribly conflicted on this point. She totally dissed Billy, who was way more perfect for her than Lee, but every time I see her, I can’t hear my thots over the sound of all the pretty.
There was a lot of pretty there…
But yeah, I was peeved at her for what she did to Billy, no doubt. And looking at the beginning of that ep…you can really see it coming…
still the way it happened was just ugly and all too real to me.
ANYway…
I was pretty shocked. As she was singing in the mirror I thought about the music of the final five and of Boomer having momments of self realization at her locker and I thought, “Dee’s the final Cylon!”
Shortest…theory…ever…
It was one of the most profound WHAT THE FRAK moments of the show for me.
Not to be negative or contrary, but am I the only one for feels they would have done exactly the same?
She bailed out before the it got really bad…and by that I mean living in the African heat with no technology and no future. It truly was the end of the world.
Still, it was pretty shocking and sad because she was a well-liked, gentle character.
The only part of 4.5 I’ve rewatched is “Daybreak”. And for all the gutwrenching parts of that, it’s still, overall, positive.
I don’t think I could watch “Sometimes a Great Notion” again anytime soon. Not alone. Maybe if there was someone there to hold my hand and pass me tissues.
Dee shooting herself was the only time of the show that I can say that I was 100% surprised. Totally didnt see it coming.
My god! I am welling up now, just thinking of that scene.
I would describe that scene as total ‘Shock and Awe’. Its one of the scenes I think about when people describe scifi/fantasy as something for kids. I mean, wow, I watch my share of dramas but that whole episode and especially that moment… I can sum it up in two words ‘Phenomenal Television’
A relatively unrelated side note:
[spoiler]Wow, is Kandyse McClure cute or what?[/spoiler]
HELLS yea 
Here’s a thought…
What if Dee had been the fifth and still killed herself and we found out she was the fifth at the end of the ep?
How would that have changed things up?
Fun to think over.