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[ebonlock]

Loved everything but the Kara subplot which still strikes me as completely coming out of left field and more of a "the plot demands it" development than anything else. I could buy Kara getting protective and maybe even wanting to buy into the whole daughter thing, after all she's been alone most of her life and from what little we know, had a wretched childhood. Maybe she wanted some kind of family she could cling to no matter what, and I'm sad to say too many people have kids to make certain they have at least one person in their life that can't leave them for a few years. Ok, sure, fine. But if she'd at least have voiced aloud, "Ok first I get this kid blood tested, then if he told me the truth, she's mine and I raise her" rather than "She's my daughter!" I would've been content. Kara is cynical except in the cockpit of a Viper, she's street smart, wily and has been lied to a few times in her life. Sure Stalker Cylon had been wearing her down after months of imprisonment, but if she still had the guts to shiv him almost half a dozen times, she couldn't have been that victimized.

And dude that ending with the mom just showing up? Lame.

Anyway, everything else was damn near perfect. The Saul/Ellen scene broke my damn heart into little bitty pieces. I have to think this society puts some serious penalties on betrayal in general (no wonder Gaius was so freaked out), such that even though they were about to escape back to Galactica Saul still felt he had to execute her. It also helps explain why people are going out airlocks next week. Poor Gaeta, they'd better not hurt him, dammit!

And speaking of Gaeta, he was so totally in love with Gaius. I knew that for a while, but that scene with the gun outed Gaeta permanently in my mind.

The battle sequences on this show make me just want to weep with joy. Yay shaved Adama! Yay disobedient Lee! And when the Galactica did a freefall into the atmosphere before releasing those Vipers my heart was in my throat. I liked that we got Tyrol's reaction on the ground which was very much, "WTF is he doing to MY ship?!" Heh.

Can't wait to see where this goes next.

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[senatorhatty.livejournal.com]

When the Galactica did the in-atmo jump, I was THRILLED! I was thinking, "Did Ron Moore mean it when he said that one of the appeals of the show was that the characters were just regular people who're in a difficult situation (or something like that)? Cos Adama is a frakkin' SUPERHERO!"

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I like the fact that Ron basically took Sisko (my most beloved commander ever) and continued his story with Adama. It's everything I'd hoped they do with DS9 but couldn't because of the strict ST universe in which they had to play. Of course even then they bent the rules big time. But this is really the story Ron wanted to tell back then and couldn't until now, which makes me so very happy.