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Yeah, I couldn't remember if it was her mother or father she hated, so I just went with parents in general - my bad.
I couldn't quite remember who Cain was, so I looked it up (yes...Pegasus commander, really should have remembered that) on the BSG fan sites.
Forgetting that lots of these sites are ran by Americans.
Who have seen all of series two.
And thus did velvetvandal unearth a Major Spoiler...Damn you, Gaius Baltar!
Not going to reveal what it is though, so instead...last night's episode, eh? Crikey. Best one we've seen in a while IMHO, I think because some of the recent episodes exploring the situation in the Fleet have almost sort of left out the idea that the Fleet is, y'know, being followed by devious aliens who want to exterminate he entire human species. The Scar episode was pretty good, but the scared-of-dying, guerilla warfare Cylons just didn't seem as threatening. Until last night and the great 'ah, a distress call...FUCK! Three base-stars!' maneuver. That was good. I actually found myself thinking 'ah, so this is how they're going to write the Pegasus out...'
Is anyone noticing this series seems to be themed around the idea of almost killing Apollo, btw? He gets blasted out of his Viper during the attack on the resurrection ship...but survives! He gets beaten to fuck by gangsters...but survives! He gets shot by Fumblin' Starbuck...but survives! He's on a ship that gets nuked...but survives!
Apollo is the ripped shirt Kirk of BSG. FACT.
I love that Gaius has quietly worked out that the human race is doomed while everyone was running around panicking months ago. Of course, he could just be feeding misinformation to Roslin to force her into making an unpopular choice, but I think the idea that Gaius calculates astonishing facts in his spare time but no-one ever asks him for them fits better with his godlike genius persona. But, on the other hand, damn you, Gaius Baltar! Damn you!
The ban on abortion was handled very well, and made me muse on one of the things I love about this series - the realism of the issues it deals with. I think this is the first time we've seen abortion dealt with in a TV sci-fi series, just as I believe we also saw the first treatment of rape in TV sf on BSG a few weeks back. The fact that this show will stray out of the safe confines of TV sf and address issues like this gives it a massive edge over the Stargate Whateveritscalleds of the world for me, any day.
Roslin's little bait-and-switch with regard to the girl was a bit pulled out of a hat, though, but it was good to see the Prez put one over on the cleric* and her pro-life views. Interesting as well that they made Adama pro-life (in a qualified way) in the episode, too, rather than depicting the pro-lifers as rabid frothing rightists. I liked the way Adama and Roslin's disagreement was handled as a quiet discussion between two people in a desperate situation, rather than an I-will-not-move-an-inch slanging match. And this was another good thing about the episode: they didn't just tack an abortion episode onto the series, but explored the issue in the context of the situation, with a human race on the verge of extinction (if you believe Dr Baltar, of course...damn him!); which also, rather neatly, allowed them to resolve the issue in-plot, rather than leaving it open, without fear that the episode would be seen as an endorsement of the rabid pro-life position. Yes, Roslin bans abortion, but it's made abundantly clear that this is only because of the situation in the Fleet and that she hates the decision on a personal level.
And then Gaius, bloody Gaius, turns round and punks out the Prez for it in front of the press! DAMN HIM!
Oh yes, and Apollo has a ship now. And Zarek is back in Evil Scheming Mode. So much in one episode! Fantastic.
*Actually she wasn't the cleric, was she? Or at least not the Pythian cleric, who got blown up on Kobol. So who was that woman? She wasn't Billy's replacement, so what was she doing there? Was she just a radom character brought in to be a villainous fundie, or what? |
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