Telly time, well sort of

[chani]

Today I ate Twelth Night Cake with friends (and we slayed 3 bottles of champagne) and I watched some telly stuff.  Three episodes of Battlestar Gallactica I had downloaded and in the evening I sobered up while watching, on the cable, a HBO show from Argentina called Epitafios.

 

First Gallactica.

Baltar is still my favourite character. His dealing with people around while keeping in touch with his connection to Number 6  is quite refreshing, even though the themes themselves are not.I haven't much to say about 33, I really enjoyed the episode Water though and how the Galactica Boomer went more and more Cylon-like while the Caprica Boomer became more and more human.

I loved Bastille Day, with a guest-starring Richard Hatch. It was like the 2 Apollos facing each other, or rather the former Apollo giving the new one something he lacked until then, a spark maybe. In a way he passed on the torch while jocking on the meaning of Apollo the God. It was neat!

Also it was "funny" to see the President Rolsin tell Lee about her cancer and the necessary secrecy while today was the 10th anniversary of François Mitterrand's death. We had a president who got elected twice while he had a cancer, something the French citizens didn't know in 1981 and still didn't know in 1988 when they chose him again.

As for Epitafios, well here's a good pitch I found on its website:

Ira, odio y venganza. Epitafios cuenta la historia de un policía buscando una razón para vivir y un asesino que ya encontró una razón para matar.

 I am not sure I'm hooked yet, but I may watch the next episodes, because it's a mystery,a thriller, and I like them. It is definitely not like tele-novelas but it's very Latin-American still and I don't really relate to Renzo, the former cop who became a taxi driver after he made a big mistake...On the other hand I watch it in its orginal language and it's good for my Spanish that I so rusty nowadays. And I used to be almost fluent in Spanish once upon a time...