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rivendellroseMore BSG chatter.
A brief argument broke out during this episode, wherein The Boy tried to argue that Bulldog was the first black man we've seen in the show (immediately cast down by me, since I've been keeping watch ever since I noticed that most of them are guards/Marines) and then that they were all evil (because my first example was "just last week we had the Cylon doctor"). I have unfortunately not actually been keeping a thorough count, but while I'm certain that we're hardly approaching the sort of levels that made me complain about how the heavily Chinese-inspired Firefly 'verse seemed to have no actual Asian people outside of the occasional extra, I thought it was worth pointing out.
Anyway! Plot! Turns out that Adama shot down one of his own fighter pilots on a black-ops mission just inside the Cylon armistice line some years before the big attack, thus probably causing the war to begin with. Or possibly so, at least - as Roslin pointed out, there were probably a million things that led up to the attack and the war, and it's unlikely that this one mission and the resulting screw-up can really be blamed. And, as Lee pointed out, Adama couldn't really help that the people above his head pushed him out there.
Things I loved about this episode: "You're just one man." "That's all it takes." ♥
Starbuck going back over the footage and seeing that the Cylons were clearly not actually trying to shoot the guy, because straight from the beginning I was going "so, hang on - partly disabled raider, and the Cylons don't seem to be just blowing it out of the sky? WTF?" Also, it kind of took a while for Starbuck to figure out how to jury-rig that Cylon raider of hers, so how the hell would this guy have done that on a base-star if the Cylons weren't hiding around the corner covering their mouths and giggling at him. As we actually saw D'Anna doing in the last flashback to when he left, which was a fabulous little bit.
D'Anna/Gaius/Six. Yes, I think the world did need this. Thank you, show. ♥
D'Anna having the Centurion kill her so that she can see... the opera house between life and death. And she's reaching out to touch something. Wasn't this the shot we saw back in "Kobol's Last Gleaming," except with D'Anna instead of Gaius and Head!Six? Iiiiinteresting.
Oh my god, Tigh got off his ass and did something useful for a change! It's a miracle! And there's a sweet little grumpy-old-man reconciliation between him and Adama at the end. Very sweet. Now let's hope it fricking sticks and Tigh can manage to not be a bastard for a few weeks. I shall not be holding my breath.
Look! D is still on the show! Hi, D! ♥
My favorite moment of the episode, though, has to be Adama trying to resign, and Roslin just staring at him for a minute, with that "I know exactly what I'm doing" little smirk of hers. Dude, Adama - if you think that woman is letting you resign, you are not nearly as bright as I've thought. You're gonna have to die to get out of that job, no exceptions. And, come to it, so's she. Her solution, with the "punishment" of the medal she'd already planned on giving him and the way she bullied him into going along with it by calling it a punishment and pointing out that it wasn't for him, it was for everyone else in the fleet... all perfect. I hope you all have collections of fic-recs about these two, because I'm going to want to snaffle them just as soon as I'm safe to look out into the fandom without fear of spoilers. They are, in fact, too cute for words.
Completely unrelated - Out-of-print classic book covers have new life as awesome t-shirt designs!
A brief argument broke out during this episode, wherein The Boy tried to argue that Bulldog was the first black man we've seen in the show (immediately cast down by me, since I've been keeping watch ever since I noticed that most of them are guards/Marines) and then that they were all evil (because my first example was "just last week we had the Cylon doctor"). I have unfortunately not actually been keeping a thorough count, but while I'm certain that we're hardly approaching the sort of levels that made me complain about how the heavily Chinese-inspired Firefly 'verse seemed to have no actual Asian people outside of the occasional extra, I thought it was worth pointing out.
Anyway! Plot! Turns out that Adama shot down one of his own fighter pilots on a black-ops mission just inside the Cylon armistice line some years before the big attack, thus probably causing the war to begin with. Or possibly so, at least - as Roslin pointed out, there were probably a million things that led up to the attack and the war, and it's unlikely that this one mission and the resulting screw-up can really be blamed. And, as Lee pointed out, Adama couldn't really help that the people above his head pushed him out there.
Things I loved about this episode: "You're just one man." "That's all it takes." ♥
Starbuck going back over the footage and seeing that the Cylons were clearly not actually trying to shoot the guy, because straight from the beginning I was going "so, hang on - partly disabled raider, and the Cylons don't seem to be just blowing it out of the sky? WTF?" Also, it kind of took a while for Starbuck to figure out how to jury-rig that Cylon raider of hers, so how the hell would this guy have done that on a base-star if the Cylons weren't hiding around the corner covering their mouths and giggling at him. As we actually saw D'Anna doing in the last flashback to when he left, which was a fabulous little bit.
D'Anna/Gaius/Six. Yes, I think the world did need this. Thank you, show. ♥
D'Anna having the Centurion kill her so that she can see... the opera house between life and death. And she's reaching out to touch something. Wasn't this the shot we saw back in "Kobol's Last Gleaming," except with D'Anna instead of Gaius and Head!Six? Iiiiinteresting.
Oh my god, Tigh got off his ass and did something useful for a change! It's a miracle! And there's a sweet little grumpy-old-man reconciliation between him and Adama at the end. Very sweet. Now let's hope it fricking sticks and Tigh can manage to not be a bastard for a few weeks. I shall not be holding my breath.
Look! D is still on the show! Hi, D! ♥
My favorite moment of the episode, though, has to be Adama trying to resign, and Roslin just staring at him for a minute, with that "I know exactly what I'm doing" little smirk of hers. Dude, Adama - if you think that woman is letting you resign, you are not nearly as bright as I've thought. You're gonna have to die to get out of that job, no exceptions. And, come to it, so's she. Her solution, with the "punishment" of the medal she'd already planned on giving him and the way she bullied him into going along with it by calling it a punishment and pointing out that it wasn't for him, it was for everyone else in the fleet... all perfect. I hope you all have collections of fic-recs about these two, because I'm going to want to snaffle them just as soon as I'm safe to look out into the fandom without fear of spoilers. They are, in fact, too cute for words.
Completely unrelated - Out-of-print classic book covers have new life as awesome t-shirt designs!
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Date: 2010-10-21 09:41 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if they're silk-screened or not. Hmm. They look silk-screened.... might have to do more research on that.
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Date: 2010-10-21 09:50 pm (UTC)Message * : I'm curious about the divisions between men's and women's shirts--did Sylvia Plath request the distance of a brassiere before she would be on a t-shirt? Did Mrs. Bennet think it scandalous to be seen on a gentleman not her husband?
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