BSG: Resurrection Ship, Part 2
Jan. 16th, 2006 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOh, BSG, how do I love you? Honestly speaking, I think BSG is the most consistently good of the (admittedly) few shows I watch. Veronica Mars can be freaking amazing, but some episodes or characters leave me scratching my head.
So, this part was the best yet. Why?
1. Ambiguity about Pegasus. If the last episode was all about highlighting the difference between Cain and Adama (shooting civilians bitch v. compassionate patriarch), Pegasus v. Galactica (torturing Cylons, shooting subordinates v. apology for the attempted rape and protecting subordinates at any cost), this episode was all about showing the similarities, showing that the picture is not so clear, after all. Thorne, the evil wannabe rapist of Sharon? He saved the lives of many on the ship. Cain? Good battle commander and is right to see something in Kara and aware that what she did was wrong. Adama? Not giving reasons to Lee or Kara, just expecting to be obeyed.
2. The fact that the show managed to maintain the alienness that is Sharon. In fact, it does better at portraying someone not human than a whole lot of shows heavy on the latex. I loved her conversation with Adama. I know![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenofthorns does not like her because she never thinks to apologize for Genocide and doesn't even realize something was wrong, but I love that. Does it make her someone I want to drink with? No. But it makes her fascinating. I love how the show underlines that despite her love for Helo, she is not human. She never will be. She views the world through a completely different lens. Her mind and her spirit do not run in the same groove, but at an angle to humans. Sometimes (Helo and baby) they intersect. Though even there, Cylons seem to exalt love, so maybe it's just the object of it that is odd in their eyes (and maybe not even then, if some of them want hybrids). It reminds me of some marriages between Russians and minority ethnicities in the former USSR, where a very nationalistic russian would marry an "ethnic" man or woman, but they would not stop with ethnic supremacy, just see "their" Jew/Buryat/Uzbek/whatever as an exception. It happened sometimes. And yet, I love her very human, wholly feminine reaction to Helo (who I love for throwing the rape into Fisk's face and the look on Helo's face as he realizes that the woman he loves isn't even percieved as properly ensouled by the rest of the humans) being back and alive (I melted though I felt bad for the ignored Chief). Sharon is caught between two worlds, truly.
3. Lee. The dysfunctional Adama-Lee scene. They keep hitting the wall between them. The fact that he is just tired of the struggle of daily living and wants to lay it all down. And the fact that he feels he let Kara down and that Kara has no idea what to say to his statement of lack of will to live. Though what on earth with Dualla overhearing? Why is she lurking outside? Weird.
4. Kara's speech. I really disagree with her, but I love the show underlining Cain/Kara parallels.
5. Baltar 'leaving' Six for Gina. Of course, once again, he doesn't think of anything beyond himself when he lets her loose, but that was an amazing scene. Is she dead btw? escaped? hidden with Baltar?
6. Adama/Roslin. What can I say but a huge squee followed by a huge 'awwww'
So, this part was the best yet. Why?
1. Ambiguity about Pegasus. If the last episode was all about highlighting the difference between Cain and Adama (shooting civilians bitch v. compassionate patriarch), Pegasus v. Galactica (torturing Cylons, shooting subordinates v. apology for the attempted rape and protecting subordinates at any cost), this episode was all about showing the similarities, showing that the picture is not so clear, after all. Thorne, the evil wannabe rapist of Sharon? He saved the lives of many on the ship. Cain? Good battle commander and is right to see something in Kara and aware that what she did was wrong. Adama? Not giving reasons to Lee or Kara, just expecting to be obeyed.
2. The fact that the show managed to maintain the alienness that is Sharon. In fact, it does better at portraying someone not human than a whole lot of shows heavy on the latex. I loved her conversation with Adama. I know
queenofthorns does not like her because she never thinks to apologize for Genocide and doesn't even realize something was wrong, but I love that. Does it make her someone I want to drink with? No. But it makes her fascinating. I love how the show underlines that despite her love for Helo, she is not human. She never will be. She views the world through a completely different lens. Her mind and her spirit do not run in the same groove, but at an angle to humans. Sometimes (Helo and baby) they intersect. Though even there, Cylons seem to exalt love, so maybe it's just the object of it that is odd in their eyes (and maybe not even then, if some of them want hybrids). It reminds me of some marriages between Russians and minority ethnicities in the former USSR, where a very nationalistic russian would marry an "ethnic" man or woman, but they would not stop with ethnic supremacy, just see "their" Jew/Buryat/Uzbek/whatever as an exception. It happened sometimes. And yet, I love her very human, wholly feminine reaction to Helo (who I love for throwing the rape into Fisk's face and the look on Helo's face as he realizes that the woman he loves isn't even percieved as properly ensouled by the rest of the humans) being back and alive (I melted though I felt bad for the ignored Chief). Sharon is caught between two worlds, truly. 3. Lee. The dysfunctional Adama-Lee scene. They keep hitting the wall between them. The fact that he is just tired of the struggle of daily living and wants to lay it all down. And the fact that he feels he let Kara down and that Kara has no idea what to say to his statement of lack of will to live. Though what on earth with Dualla overhearing? Why is she lurking outside? Weird.
4. Kara's speech. I really disagree with her, but I love the show underlining Cain/Kara parallels.
5. Baltar 'leaving' Six for Gina. Of course, once again, he doesn't think of anything beyond himself when he lets her loose, but that was an amazing scene. Is she dead btw? escaped? hidden with Baltar?
6. Adama/Roslin. What can I say but a huge squee followed by a huge 'awwww'
