BSG: This Is Not a Show for the Addle-Minded
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Ms. SP
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! It’s the Year of the Ox in case you were wondering.
spoilers for “A Disquiet Follows My Soul” (4.12)
I caught some weird bug that laid me out all weekend so I don’t feel as if I was fully emotionally or intellectually connected with this episode. I’m sure it will play differently for me in future viewings.
For today, all I have are some quick hits:
- I think the webisodes fall in between “Sometimes a Great Notion” and “A Disquiet Follows My Soul.” That placement makes a significant difference for the Hoshi character.
- The prophetic characters (Roslin, D’Anna, Starbuck, Leoben, Baltar) are feeling the weight of their failures. It seems that Six has been spared so far because her future is growing within her. She’s still able to see the beyond. My question is, why do the rest of them all seem to think that their prophetic leadership ended with Earth? Those interpretations seem to be of their own dreams and wishes. Was that really the gods’/god’s/universe’s message?
- Athena, Helo, and Hera supplied the only happy moment in the pervious episode. Perhaps everyone really should get down to the business of making babies.
- The installation of Cylon-technology may be beneficial, but it is not politically possible at this time. It’s also not immediately urgent. It may become so once they face a Cavil scouting force or become in danger of being stranded, but until that time, you just can’t sell this. This is not a smart stand on the part of the Adamas. Everyone’s judgments are clouded at this time, but this just doesn’t seem to be a good fight to pick. I wonder why they think it is.
- Oh, Cally. Even after you’re gone, they still can’t give you just a little bit of importance in the grand scheme of it all.
- Dear Tigh, if you develop that chart for Tyrol, could I please also have a copy?
In this episode, I began to wonder why all the prophetics, as you call them, are so convinced they failed. They didn’t fail. They made it to earth. Earth’s demise was an unfortunate consequence that was long ago and well out of their control or knowledge.
Of course, they do have to go through the despair of the broken dream before they can shift gears. Is the rendering of the human race by a mutiny what is needed to bring them out of their despondency? And is the threat from Cavil what will bring them back together?
griot, that’s a good point. The messages did lead them to Earth, but since the messages appeared to be so specified for them, I think they all expected the time lines to work out. It could very well be that a message is a message, and they just coincidentally stumbled upon them as good fits.
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