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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.

The best thing in the ep...

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

...was the one Viper pilot in the cockpit, looking down the launch tube at the HUGE FLAMES at the end, and saying "Well, this ought to be different."

That 60 seconds of CGI should have nailed every visual effects Emmy they have. The scene with Saul and Ellen should be good enough to collect the rest.

Also, with all this thought about needing love to make more hybrid Cylon-humans (they run on ethanol! Of course so does Saul), am I the last person flashing back to the miniseries and remembering Six asking Baltar "Do you love me, Gaius?" Has this been part of their plan all along, and was the Boomer/Helo project just Plan B when CapSix and Baltar couldn't make it work emotionally?

The Starbuck thing doesn't bother me that much for two reasons: one, given what we know about Starbuck and her mother, it's possible she could have keyed on on this girl out of some need to protect her from her own crap childhood experience, and two, Ron has almost eighteen months' worth of flashback time to fill in some other stuff that might explain why she was willing to go from "what?" to "my baby!" in three eps. Maybe she and Anders were trying? Maybe she came over all maternal from being settled on New Caprica? Maybe there was some sort of attempt to walk away from her military career (she's the last person I thought would leave William Adama alone on CAP for a year, and yet, it seems she moved dirtside without hesitation) and starting a family was part of that? I concur absolutely that the whole thing seems wildly out of character, but there's enough wiggle room with the flash-forward that I'm willing to give our favorite showrunner a chance to explain himself...but he'd better make it good.

Re: The best thing in the ep...

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to see the Tigh meltdown, I mean we thought he was unstable before, now he's going to be positively suicidal at best. And watching Adama have to come to terms with his CO going all kamikaze is going to be something to see.

And Lee back in a Viper cockpit makes me happy, I mean he'll have to lose the weight now, right?

You're so right about the Emmys, if it doesn't sweep then I'm going to be stunned.

As for Starbuck, my impression was that she was still serving under Lee on the Pegasus and that something happened between *them* which is why she's dirtside. Mostly she just looked like she resented being down there and having to play nursemaid to her fuckup husband. And the call she made to the Pegasus when she needed supplies was...fascinating. She wouldn't have left the Old Man voluntarily, but if Lee pushed her hard enough...

Anyway I can't really buy into the whole family state of mind thing with Anders either as their behavior after returning to Galactica was anything but warm and loving. Hell he wanders off while Kara has a meltdown in the middle of the landing bay. Even Lee and Dee were holding each other. No, I gotta' think there's quite a bit of trouble in paradise and I wouldn't expect their relationship to last the entire season, myself.