Not much on the tv front
Jan. 11th, 2012 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniBut FRINGE is coming back on Friday and next week, HE will be back (he being Olyphantastic aka Raylan Givens of the Justified fame of course!!!!), in the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky...
I forgot to mention that I watched the last episode of The Good Wife and it was the best episode of this season. Episodes like this are the reason I like that show! Loved it. And Diane rocks.
Also, concerning my BSG re-watchage, I watched "33" and "Water" last week but didn't find the time to post about it, and I'm afraid that now my poor head is too empty to make a proper review.
Here are some thoughts though...
"33" is so playing on the myth of Sisyphus. Every time they thought they were free from the Cylons, they had to do it again, jump and started the clock, repeat the same tasks over and over, like Sisyphus rolling his bolder up the hill before it rolls back down. I can't believe I had nothing to say about it before.
I loved how the Olympic Carrier thing was handled, showing all the "agendas" and perpective, with Baltar simply wanting to protect his ass, Bill simply being in military mode, and Laura and Lee making a choice. That choice tackled the idea that saying "I just obeyed the orders" wouldn't be an acceptable defense point...
And there's the Head!Six/Baltar thing. Having seen the series' finale changes everything, but at the same time it doesn't. Whether Head!Six is a actually supernatural being toying with Baltar or Baltar is just torturing himself isn't that important in my book. The fact is that Gaius lives in fear and is still processing what happened and what he did. His previous actions on Caprica echoe Laura and Lee's responsibility in a way.
Baltar doesn't have a piece of paper in his pocket but he has a Six in his head that is a constant reminder of his mistake.
And yet he sorta does it again when he talks Roslin into being wary towards the Olympic Carrier.
"It happened before and it will happen again" hasn't been voiced on the show yet, but "33" foreshadows the infamous line.
Speaking of foreshadowing, Boomer is the one who withstands sleep deprivation and exhaustion the better, but it doesn't alarm anyone! Also she's being a bitch towards Crashdown because he is not Helo, and the Chief tells her that Helo is dead...but he is not!
On a Cylon-occupied Caprica, Helo tries to survive, on his own run, experiencing his personal Hell, giving himself anti-radiation shots and blowing up Centurionsfor sport, until a white-dressed Six shows up and kisses him which didn't seem that necessary when you think about it for a minute (on the contrary it could be seen as a stupid move for it could clue Helo in the existence of skinjobs!) but it:
1) Was a nice echo to the opening scene of the miniseries
2) Is totally understandble, because it's Helo so it's difficult to resist the temptation and he's sitting on his knees for once which makes it easier (kissing a standing Helo requires a stepladder for someone Jamie Bamber and a stool for tall females like Tricia or Grace!)
3) Allows the Sharon-who-isn't-called-Athena-yet to claim her man by shooting the horny Six !
"Water"
Now it's time for Boomer to torture herself, literaly! I loved that opening scene that confused the viewers as much as the character.
It's probably the first episode in which Grace Parks' acting shone. She managed to show the difference between the frightened kid that Boomer is, and the more confident Sharon on Caprica, and also played the Eight in Cylon mode at the end of the episode.
Rewatching that episode, and seeing Caprica Sharon chatting with Helo and pretending to be Boomer, I wondered again how the future Mrs Agathon could have Boomer's memories. It has always seemed to be a plothole, but now I'm thinking that this episode might provide an answer. We already knew that Boomer was a sleeping agent, that she didn't know what she was, but here we see her in a state of mental blank, catatonic, not remembering what she did.
I think that Boomer's "fugue" might be a moment in which her personality is shut down, as if she were dead, and she's just pure Cylon-program with data, so perhaps she had more than one fugue (and the final shot showing her walking like a robot confirms it) and the other Sharons accessed her memory during those "episodes", sorta downloading all the data.
The episode carries on the theme of responsabilty with Lee being haunted by the Olympic Carrier, second-guessing what he did, and Bill saying again his motto, that one has to live with the responsability of one's actions, every day.
The episode had some good lines("let's go be presidential"!) and I loved the little details, like Callie not being fooled my Tyrol's covering up his aparte with Boomer, Bill being about to wash his hands and then remembering or Laura saying that she's going to get tired of her outfit as she has only three left for the rest of her life!
I liked the parallel between Baltar being asked about his Cylon detector and screening techniques, which Roslin called "critical" to the human survival, and Boomer being said by Apollo that her mission -- that is finding water-- is critical!
But Gaius prefers to go to the recreation room and play cards with Starbuck, ignoring poor Gaeta who displays his boy crush! Eventually after enjoying some sexual tension between Kara and him, he wins, reminding us that he has a brain. Meanwhile Boomer is playing another game...against herself, or rather her program, that prevents her from seeing the detection of multiple water sources on the screen and pushes her to trigger the bomb's detonator by her seat. Baltar could have bowed out, but he stayed in the game, and eventually so did Boomer, she didn't let the Cylon program overcome her and take the pilot seat, she called it and got to see that she had the best hand. The water sources were her "full colour", positive contact at least !
Meanwhile on Caprica, Helo and the other Sharon are just about to make lips contact, when they receive a Colonial Fleet's signal!
That's what I loved so much about BSG. Everything was connected, all the storylines worked in parallel, reflecting each others.
I forgot to mention that I watched the last episode of The Good Wife and it was the best episode of this season. Episodes like this are the reason I like that show! Loved it. And Diane rocks.
Also, concerning my BSG re-watchage, I watched "33" and "Water" last week but didn't find the time to post about it, and I'm afraid that now my poor head is too empty to make a proper review.
Here are some thoughts though...
"33" is so playing on the myth of Sisyphus. Every time they thought they were free from the Cylons, they had to do it again, jump and started the clock, repeat the same tasks over and over, like Sisyphus rolling his bolder up the hill before it rolls back down. I can't believe I had nothing to say about it before.
I loved how the Olympic Carrier thing was handled, showing all the "agendas" and perpective, with Baltar simply wanting to protect his ass, Bill simply being in military mode, and Laura and Lee making a choice. That choice tackled the idea that saying "I just obeyed the orders" wouldn't be an acceptable defense point...
And there's the Head!Six/Baltar thing. Having seen the series' finale changes everything, but at the same time it doesn't. Whether Head!Six is a actually supernatural being toying with Baltar or Baltar is just torturing himself isn't that important in my book. The fact is that Gaius lives in fear and is still processing what happened and what he did. His previous actions on Caprica echoe Laura and Lee's responsibility in a way.
Baltar doesn't have a piece of paper in his pocket but he has a Six in his head that is a constant reminder of his mistake.
And yet he sorta does it again when he talks Roslin into being wary towards the Olympic Carrier.
"It happened before and it will happen again" hasn't been voiced on the show yet, but "33" foreshadows the infamous line.
Speaking of foreshadowing, Boomer is the one who withstands sleep deprivation and exhaustion the better, but it doesn't alarm anyone! Also she's being a bitch towards Crashdown because he is not Helo, and the Chief tells her that Helo is dead...but he is not!
On a Cylon-occupied Caprica, Helo tries to survive, on his own run, experiencing his personal Hell, giving himself anti-radiation shots and blowing up Centurions
1) Was a nice echo to the opening scene of the miniseries
2) Is totally understandble, because it's Helo so it's difficult to resist the temptation and he's sitting on his knees for once which makes it easier (kissing a standing Helo requires a stepladder for someone Jamie Bamber and a stool for tall females like Tricia or Grace!)
3) Allows the Sharon-who-isn't-called-Athena-yet to claim her man by shooting the horny Six !
"Water"
Now it's time for Boomer to torture herself, literaly! I loved that opening scene that confused the viewers as much as the character.
It's probably the first episode in which Grace Parks' acting shone. She managed to show the difference between the frightened kid that Boomer is, and the more confident Sharon on Caprica, and also played the Eight in Cylon mode at the end of the episode.
Rewatching that episode, and seeing Caprica Sharon chatting with Helo and pretending to be Boomer, I wondered again how the future Mrs Agathon could have Boomer's memories. It has always seemed to be a plothole, but now I'm thinking that this episode might provide an answer. We already knew that Boomer was a sleeping agent, that she didn't know what she was, but here we see her in a state of mental blank, catatonic, not remembering what she did.
I think that Boomer's "fugue" might be a moment in which her personality is shut down, as if she were dead, and she's just pure Cylon-program with data, so perhaps she had more than one fugue (and the final shot showing her walking like a robot confirms it) and the other Sharons accessed her memory during those "episodes", sorta downloading all the data.
The episode carries on the theme of responsabilty with Lee being haunted by the Olympic Carrier, second-guessing what he did, and Bill saying again his motto, that one has to live with the responsability of one's actions, every day.
The episode had some good lines("let's go be presidential"!) and I loved the little details, like Callie not being fooled my Tyrol's covering up his aparte with Boomer, Bill being about to wash his hands and then remembering or Laura saying that she's going to get tired of her outfit as she has only three left for the rest of her life!
I liked the parallel between Baltar being asked about his Cylon detector and screening techniques, which Roslin called "critical" to the human survival, and Boomer being said by Apollo that her mission -- that is finding water-- is critical!
But Gaius prefers to go to the recreation room and play cards with Starbuck, ignoring poor Gaeta who displays his boy crush! Eventually after enjoying some sexual tension between Kara and him, he wins, reminding us that he has a brain. Meanwhile Boomer is playing another game...against herself, or rather her program, that prevents her from seeing the detection of multiple water sources on the screen and pushes her to trigger the bomb's detonator by her seat. Baltar could have bowed out, but he stayed in the game, and eventually so did Boomer, she didn't let the Cylon program overcome her and take the pilot seat, she called it and got to see that she had the best hand. The water sources were her "full colour", positive contact at least !
Meanwhile on Caprica, Helo and the other Sharon are just about to make lips contact, when they receive a Colonial Fleet's signal!
That's what I loved so much about BSG. Everything was connected, all the storylines worked in parallel, reflecting each others.