Sometimes a Great Notion
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annundrielomg, BSG is going to kill me.
BSG - "Sometimes a Great Notion"
I enjoyed this episode a lot. So many things to think about!
- I love the way this episode was filmed. And all of the small personal moments people had. Like Dee and the jacks and Tyrol and the wall. Anders and the song.
- The Thirteenth Tribe were Cylons. I hope they're not messing with us or that this is going to turn out to be false information, because I kind of really love the idea. Especially since it plays nicely into what they've set up before around the Final Five, before we found out who four of them were. There was an episode where Baltar asked Six about them and she was very clear that they do not talk about the five. If the five are somehow connected to Earth and the Thirteenth Tribe...well. The Cylons have their own mythology about them and I really want to know what it is.
- Kara and Leoban. I can just picture the production people being like, "Okay, we're going to spend a couple of days walking around Canada. Bring gloves."
But, oh, Leoban's face when they found the body in the viper. He was seriously freaked out and confused. Then Kara told him what the hybrid said, about her being the harbinger of death, leading them all to their end. "She told you that?" and then leaving her. You know something is messed up when your looney tunes Cylon companion ditches you.
- Dee. She and Lee were never so interesting together as during that scene that ended with Lee asking her to a drink. And then she was glowing enough for Gaeta to comment and now she's dead. I was and was not expecting that. Earlier I had been considering the possibility that she was the final Cylon because they were focusing on her a lot. So I felt something coming, I just didn't know what.
Lee's teary face when she walked away killed me. As did the lingering shot of his hand hovering over her's after her body was removed. I thought that was lovely.
And Gaeta, with his desperate "She'll be all right."
- Lee refusing to drink with his dad over Dee's body. Good for you, Lee.
- Seeing Adama beat at Tigh like that makes me sad. But seeing Tigh realize what's going on and put a stop at it, that makes it better. Tigh's journey has been an interesting one so far. He's much more vulnerable now than when the show started. Watching the last webisode last night, I really felt for him when Gaeta pulled the "You're a Cylon and don't deserve my trust" thing.
And, again, I loved the image of Tigh wading into the ocean, for the tide to take him away. I'd forgotten that we hadn't gotten any sort of flashback with him. Then he finds Helen in the rubble and she tells him that everything's in place and they'll be reborn.
So there, Anders, strange things happen.
- If Ellen really is the final Cylon, than she and Tigh are just about the most tragic couple ever. He hates Cylons. She works with the Cylons. He kills her for it, then finds out he's a Cylon. And she is, too. No wonder Tigh drinks.
- I thought I'd be underwhelmed with the reveal of the final Cylon because there's been so much build-up and of course it has to be a character we already know. But this? I'm good with this. Because there is just so much more going on here. And it makes sense that the fifth would be someone they'd lost, since only four showed up in that room at the end of season three.
Which reminds me - When Sharon finally activated (or whatever you want to call it) and shot Adama, that was her mission. She "woke up" to do that. So was there a reason that the four "woke up" when they did?
BSG - "Sometimes a Great Notion"
I enjoyed this episode a lot. So many things to think about!
- I love the way this episode was filmed. And all of the small personal moments people had. Like Dee and the jacks and Tyrol and the wall. Anders and the song.
- The Thirteenth Tribe were Cylons. I hope they're not messing with us or that this is going to turn out to be false information, because I kind of really love the idea. Especially since it plays nicely into what they've set up before around the Final Five, before we found out who four of them were. There was an episode where Baltar asked Six about them and she was very clear that they do not talk about the five. If the five are somehow connected to Earth and the Thirteenth Tribe...well. The Cylons have their own mythology about them and I really want to know what it is.
- Kara and Leoban. I can just picture the production people being like, "Okay, we're going to spend a couple of days walking around Canada. Bring gloves."
But, oh, Leoban's face when they found the body in the viper. He was seriously freaked out and confused. Then Kara told him what the hybrid said, about her being the harbinger of death, leading them all to their end. "She told you that?" and then leaving her. You know something is messed up when your looney tunes Cylon companion ditches you.
- Dee. She and Lee were never so interesting together as during that scene that ended with Lee asking her to a drink. And then she was glowing enough for Gaeta to comment and now she's dead. I was and was not expecting that. Earlier I had been considering the possibility that she was the final Cylon because they were focusing on her a lot. So I felt something coming, I just didn't know what.
Lee's teary face when she walked away killed me. As did the lingering shot of his hand hovering over her's after her body was removed. I thought that was lovely.
And Gaeta, with his desperate "She'll be all right."
- Lee refusing to drink with his dad over Dee's body. Good for you, Lee.
- Seeing Adama beat at Tigh like that makes me sad. But seeing Tigh realize what's going on and put a stop at it, that makes it better. Tigh's journey has been an interesting one so far. He's much more vulnerable now than when the show started. Watching the last webisode last night, I really felt for him when Gaeta pulled the "You're a Cylon and don't deserve my trust" thing.
And, again, I loved the image of Tigh wading into the ocean, for the tide to take him away. I'd forgotten that we hadn't gotten any sort of flashback with him. Then he finds Helen in the rubble and she tells him that everything's in place and they'll be reborn.
So there, Anders, strange things happen.
- If Ellen really is the final Cylon, than she and Tigh are just about the most tragic couple ever. He hates Cylons. She works with the Cylons. He kills her for it, then finds out he's a Cylon. And she is, too. No wonder Tigh drinks.
- I thought I'd be underwhelmed with the reveal of the final Cylon because there's been so much build-up and of course it has to be a character we already know. But this? I'm good with this. Because there is just so much more going on here. And it makes sense that the fifth would be someone they'd lost, since only four showed up in that room at the end of season three.
Which reminds me - When Sharon finally activated (or whatever you want to call it) and shot Adama, that was her mission. She "woke up" to do that. So was there a reason that the four "woke up" when they did?
