BSG: This Is Not a Show for the Addle-Minded
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?