getting close to the end...
Nov. 8th, 2010 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseOkay. The last few episodes have been awesome.
Augh, only 15 minutes to talk about these before my lunch is over, and I don't want to wait or I'll end up talking about the entire end of the series in one entry, and that's never a good idea. So! Briefly touching on the highs and lows!
The Oath
Zarek kills the Quorum. Oh my god. Bastard! Bastard bastard bastard. Also, Starbuck and Lee may annoy the living hell out of me when they're being angsty about their doomed romance, but I love them as bad-ass guerilla warriors. ...Okay, I could probably care less whether Lee was there, if I'm honest, but seriously, that rocked. Same goes for Tigh and Adama rocking the grey-haired side of the brothers-in-arms thing, and Adama getting a good snog in before sending Roslin off with one of the Eights to go be president-in-exile on the base star. Big points for style, there, boys.
Bad news: it is apparently impossible for any male crew-member to hate Athena without sexualizing the hatred and threatening rape. Really, guys, was it necessary to give me that flashback to "Pegasus?" And after I had just told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miss_arel that it really did get better after that and nothing similar ever happened again? Fortunately, nothing actually happened... except poor Helo getting knocked out and spending 98.5% of this story arc unconscious. *Headdesk* Sweetie, people might like you more if you managed to stay conscious and do something!
Blood on the Scales
Really nice fake-out with Adama's execution ("Hey, I know how we can totally gut the audience without actually killing Adama! We'll show it in a vision!"), and an absolutely awesome scene where Tyrol lays on the floor too tired to move, having a whole (hilarious!) conversation with a marine who has a gun trained on his head. And the marine eventually realizes that no, he just can't kill a guy he's having a bonding moment with. Bless.
Meanwhile, Gaeta begins to get the memo that he signed up with the wrong side in this little mishap. Way to go, pal. If only you'd thought of that before the whole Quorum was murdered.
Sam gets horribly horribly horribly shot, Romo is a hero (I apologize for ever insinuating that he was anything like Badger except for the awesome bits), there's a lot of other mess and havoc, and Roslin is scary over the radio. Several times. Daaaaaaaammnnnnn. How has everyone on the fleet not yet figured out that they do not want to screw with that woman, yet? o_O
No Exit
Ellen pretends to be Eve, reveals that she made the later Cylons, and that she's actually quite awesome when she's not around Tigh. Boomer proves to actually have a spine hidden somewhere, and I cheer.
Meanwhile, the bullet in Sam's head has broken some kind of block he had, so he tells the other three Cylons the story of their lives on Earth, and remembers some guy named Daniel, who Ellen's talk reveals to have been the Seventh Cylon, who was apparently an artsy type. Everyone in the world wonders if this could possibly be Starbuck somehow (or at least I know I did...)
Deadlock
In which it turns out that no, Ellen is still an annoying bitch as soon as she's in a room with Tigh. Great. I really liked her in the previous episode, but it was as if the minute she stepped off that raptor, she became instantly annoying as hell. WTF.
Tyrol inexplicably wants to leave the fleet (really?), and so do Ellen and Tori (unsurprising...), leaving Tigh and unconscious-Sam in a bad position. Then Ellen (and some Sons of Ares asshats) cause Caprica to lose her pregnancy, and I want to snuggle her. :(
Adama freaks the hell out about putting some Cylon goop on the ship so that it won't fall apart from the inside, and then he and Roslin see one of the Cylons putting up pictures in the Hall of Death of the Cylons who have died since the Alliance (really, there's been that many?), one of whom apparently took part in a very bare-bones fashion shoot at some point. Well, why not, I suppose? The Cylons do seem weirdly fashion-conscious.
Augh, these have all been so good. I don't want it to go bad!
Also, I've finally given up on avoiding IMDB and went there last night because The Boy was talking about something that Alessandro Juliani (sp?) was in, and... I've just spent four seasons confused about the names... of two of my favorite minor characters. *Headdesk* It's not my fault that Tamoh looks kind of like a girl's name... *>_>* No need to shame me, I assure you that I feel quite silly for the whole thing. Aaaaaanyway....
Augh, only 15 minutes to talk about these before my lunch is over, and I don't want to wait or I'll end up talking about the entire end of the series in one entry, and that's never a good idea. So! Briefly touching on the highs and lows!
The Oath
Zarek kills the Quorum. Oh my god. Bastard! Bastard bastard bastard. Also, Starbuck and Lee may annoy the living hell out of me when they're being angsty about their doomed romance, but I love them as bad-ass guerilla warriors. ...Okay, I could probably care less whether Lee was there, if I'm honest, but seriously, that rocked. Same goes for Tigh and Adama rocking the grey-haired side of the brothers-in-arms thing, and Adama getting a good snog in before sending Roslin off with one of the Eights to go be president-in-exile on the base star. Big points for style, there, boys.
Bad news: it is apparently impossible for any male crew-member to hate Athena without sexualizing the hatred and threatening rape. Really, guys, was it necessary to give me that flashback to "Pegasus?" And after I had just told
miss_arel that it really did get better after that and nothing similar ever happened again? Fortunately, nothing actually happened... except poor Helo getting knocked out and spending 98.5% of this story arc unconscious. *Headdesk* Sweetie, people might like you more if you managed to stay conscious and do something!Blood on the Scales
Really nice fake-out with Adama's execution ("Hey, I know how we can totally gut the audience without actually killing Adama! We'll show it in a vision!"), and an absolutely awesome scene where Tyrol lays on the floor too tired to move, having a whole (hilarious!) conversation with a marine who has a gun trained on his head. And the marine eventually realizes that no, he just can't kill a guy he's having a bonding moment with. Bless.
Meanwhile, Gaeta begins to get the memo that he signed up with the wrong side in this little mishap. Way to go, pal. If only you'd thought of that before the whole Quorum was murdered.
Sam gets horribly horribly horribly shot, Romo is a hero (I apologize for ever insinuating that he was anything like Badger except for the awesome bits), there's a lot of other mess and havoc, and Roslin is scary over the radio. Several times. Daaaaaaaammnnnnn. How has everyone on the fleet not yet figured out that they do not want to screw with that woman, yet? o_O
No Exit
Ellen pretends to be Eve, reveals that she made the later Cylons, and that she's actually quite awesome when she's not around Tigh. Boomer proves to actually have a spine hidden somewhere, and I cheer.
Meanwhile, the bullet in Sam's head has broken some kind of block he had, so he tells the other three Cylons the story of their lives on Earth, and remembers some guy named Daniel, who Ellen's talk reveals to have been the Seventh Cylon, who was apparently an artsy type. Everyone in the world wonders if this could possibly be Starbuck somehow (or at least I know I did...)
Deadlock
In which it turns out that no, Ellen is still an annoying bitch as soon as she's in a room with Tigh. Great. I really liked her in the previous episode, but it was as if the minute she stepped off that raptor, she became instantly annoying as hell. WTF.
Tyrol inexplicably wants to leave the fleet (really?), and so do Ellen and Tori (unsurprising...), leaving Tigh and unconscious-Sam in a bad position. Then Ellen (and some Sons of Ares asshats) cause Caprica to lose her pregnancy, and I want to snuggle her. :(
Adama freaks the hell out about putting some Cylon goop on the ship so that it won't fall apart from the inside, and then he and Roslin see one of the Cylons putting up pictures in the Hall of Death of the Cylons who have died since the Alliance (really, there's been that many?), one of whom apparently took part in a very bare-bones fashion shoot at some point. Well, why not, I suppose? The Cylons do seem weirdly fashion-conscious.
Augh, these have all been so good. I don't want it to go bad!
Also, I've finally given up on avoiding IMDB and went there last night because The Boy was talking about something that Alessandro Juliani (sp?) was in, and... I've just spent four seasons confused about the names... of two of my favorite minor characters. *Headdesk* It's not my fault that Tamoh looks kind of like a girl's name... *>_>* No need to shame me, I assure you that I feel quite silly for the whole thing. Aaaaaanyway....
