i watch too much frakking tv
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krickets→ I haven't been participating that much around here lately and I'm not sure why that is. I'm busy with school and work, but that usually doesn't stop me. I'm just not being a very good flister.
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lenina20 posted this new Big Love promo which comes back tonight on HBO. I am so happy to have this show back soon. Just, yes. So good.
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BSG 4.11, Sometimes a Great Notion
- Throughout the episode there grew an increasingly dreadful feeling. I just felt gutted. It was like this chaotic, depressing, empty feeling. But then Tigh stepped up and was the man he has always has been [despite being a cylon] and made that feeling go away. I mean, I felt actual, physical relief at that moment in the conversation with Adama. I think that really is the mark of good storytelling - for me anyway.
- Seeing Adama like that was painful and hard to watch and made you kind of want to say "this looks better on Tigh, Old Man." But I don't know, I think that was kind of the point, wasn't it?
- Roslin. I feel that she's lost something over this season - with the cancer and now Earth. I don't know that she's fit to lead. I hate to say it but her scene with the scrolls, especially at the end, came across as, well... whiny. I didn't have a lot of sympathy for her. Especially after her lies and abuse of power in 4.0 - she can't even address her people and tell them the truth for once, when it really matters. I honestly don't think she should be president any longer. Am I in the minority here?
- Dee. I'm so glad I'm spoiler-free because watching it and not knowing was so powerful. I knew something was up due to her breakdown on the ground and the one-eighty back on Galactica but... that was just an amazingly-played scene. They did such a fine job. And the actress who played Seelix was phenomenal - she has never stood out to me before, tbh. And Alessandro was great here too. To me it's obvious why Dee did it, when she did it, how she did it. And this is what happens when you lose all hope. Also, seeing the numbers again, but with Lee this time? I think that was an interesting turn.
- I really liked the scene with Tigh and D'Anna. A lot. I was so ready for him to put a fatherly arm around her. Anyone else?
- Starbuck's big mystery. Ellen being the fifth. I'm not disappointed in either respect. I'm content to wait and see what happens next and what all this means. I liked that last scene with Tigh and I think Katee looked beautifully tragic throughout. The burning of her supposed body was an awesome scene and Leoben running away was scary as hell. So yeah, I'm just excited to see this all play out.
- I was a little dismayed/confused at the conclusion that the 13th tribe was cylon - period - just because those who were left, the ones that died in the holocaust, were cylon. Does that mean the 13th tribe originated as cylon? (Maybe the timeline is the reason for the conclusion?) Maybe it means that there was a cylon population on Kobol and they separated from the humans when they all left and simply went a different way?
- The four have been here before - literally. I liked that idea. I liked that they seem to be kind of playing out the same roles. (Reincarnation? It's my biggest theory.) I want to know more about this.
- I do have to say that I find it so depressing when I read reviews that are colored so heavily by ship preferences and sometimes, less-so, character preferences. I've seen that a lot around here lately. I just, I totally multi-ship and I can't really get into that head-space. It really taints everything. I won't say any more about it because I know we all fan in different ways. But I think it's a real shame.
→ I interrupt this review to bring you pictures:
[click for bigger]
→ I finally finished Atlantis. I have no review just... I'm going to miss it. When's the movie coming out?
→ Watched some movies this weekend. Wristcutters: A Love Story. I love Tom Waits. Biggest motivator to watch it. But I really, really, did not like this movie. Someone who liked it please explain to me why so many people like this? On the reverse, The Nanny Diaries was pretty cute and I really enjoyed The Lucky Ones with Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams. Worth the watch, both of them.
→ I started watching The Magnificent Seven and it's pretty adorable so far. I could do with less extended gunslinging showdowns. Keep those shorter! They bore me! But I'm kind of in love with Ezra and I totally ship him and Chris. "Never run out on me again." COME ON!
→ Veronica Mars movie? I could totally get on that. I just need to finish watching season three now.
→ Holy crap this entry's long.
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lenina20 posted this new Big Love promo which comes back tonight on HBO. I am so happy to have this show back soon. Just, yes. So good.→
BSG 4.11, Sometimes a Great Notion
- Throughout the episode there grew an increasingly dreadful feeling. I just felt gutted. It was like this chaotic, depressing, empty feeling. But then Tigh stepped up and was the man he has always has been [despite being a cylon] and made that feeling go away. I mean, I felt actual, physical relief at that moment in the conversation with Adama. I think that really is the mark of good storytelling - for me anyway.
- Seeing Adama like that was painful and hard to watch and made you kind of want to say "this looks better on Tigh, Old Man." But I don't know, I think that was kind of the point, wasn't it?
- Roslin. I feel that she's lost something over this season - with the cancer and now Earth. I don't know that she's fit to lead. I hate to say it but her scene with the scrolls, especially at the end, came across as, well... whiny. I didn't have a lot of sympathy for her. Especially after her lies and abuse of power in 4.0 - she can't even address her people and tell them the truth for once, when it really matters. I honestly don't think she should be president any longer. Am I in the minority here?
- Dee. I'm so glad I'm spoiler-free because watching it and not knowing was so powerful. I knew something was up due to her breakdown on the ground and the one-eighty back on Galactica but... that was just an amazingly-played scene. They did such a fine job. And the actress who played Seelix was phenomenal - she has never stood out to me before, tbh. And Alessandro was great here too. To me it's obvious why Dee did it, when she did it, how she did it. And this is what happens when you lose all hope. Also, seeing the numbers again, but with Lee this time? I think that was an interesting turn.
- I really liked the scene with Tigh and D'Anna. A lot. I was so ready for him to put a fatherly arm around her. Anyone else?
- Starbuck's big mystery. Ellen being the fifth. I'm not disappointed in either respect. I'm content to wait and see what happens next and what all this means. I liked that last scene with Tigh and I think Katee looked beautifully tragic throughout. The burning of her supposed body was an awesome scene and Leoben running away was scary as hell. So yeah, I'm just excited to see this all play out.
- I was a little dismayed/confused at the conclusion that the 13th tribe was cylon - period - just because those who were left, the ones that died in the holocaust, were cylon. Does that mean the 13th tribe originated as cylon? (Maybe the timeline is the reason for the conclusion?) Maybe it means that there was a cylon population on Kobol and they separated from the humans when they all left and simply went a different way?
- The four have been here before - literally. I liked that idea. I liked that they seem to be kind of playing out the same roles. (Reincarnation? It's my biggest theory.) I want to know more about this.
- I do have to say that I find it so depressing when I read reviews that are colored so heavily by ship preferences and sometimes, less-so, character preferences. I've seen that a lot around here lately. I just, I totally multi-ship and I can't really get into that head-space. It really taints everything. I won't say any more about it because I know we all fan in different ways. But I think it's a real shame.
→ I interrupt this review to bring you pictures:
[click for bigger]
→ I finally finished Atlantis. I have no review just... I'm going to miss it. When's the movie coming out?
→ Watched some movies this weekend. Wristcutters: A Love Story. I love Tom Waits. Biggest motivator to watch it. But I really, really, did not like this movie. Someone who liked it please explain to me why so many people like this? On the reverse, The Nanny Diaries was pretty cute and I really enjoyed The Lucky Ones with Tim Robbins and Rachel McAdams. Worth the watch, both of them.
→ I started watching The Magnificent Seven and it's pretty adorable so far. I could do with less extended gunslinging showdowns. Keep those shorter! They bore me! But I'm kind of in love with Ezra and I totally ship him and Chris. "Never run out on me again." COME ON!
→ Veronica Mars movie? I could totally get on that. I just need to finish watching season three now.
→ Holy crap this entry's long.
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Date: 2009-01-19 10:53 am (UTC)