BSG 3:13 Where they know your name

[hazelk]

If it didn’t mean waiting a year I think I would prefer to watch TV series in chunks of 3-4 episodes at a time on DVD.



Transitional pieces like Pack up your troubles would just fit into the overall flow, all the rough edges (ie all the Dee/Lee scenes) smoothed over. The previews do make next weeks episode look as if it’s going to come good on all the set up. Zarek! Assassins! Fleet tearing itself apart! I also choose to believe that all the Roslin/Caprica scenes they cut or failed to write for Hang around in bars will magically resurface. And that they’ll shave Baltar’s head.

There’s a Café on the Corner
According to the podcast this was supposed to be ‘fun’ episode about setting up a bar on Galactica while Gaius got interrogated but half of it had to be rewritten as the storyline of future episodes mutated and between that and EJ Olmos directing and getting addicted to intercutting the plot was, well distracted if not entirely lost. There were some amazing visuals in the Gaius scenes, I can see I’m just going to have to put my Laura vid on hold until the season finale. I like that the parallels between her and Three are being adhered to, will she end the series boxed? Impeached? Stranded on Earth while the fleet moves on forsaking destiny? Or in a threesome with Lee and Dualla?

Kara and Anders had some good scenes so the quadrangle was useful for something besides demonstrating that the best way to get your man/woman to stand by you is to tell them they can leave. Smart of Sam too to bring up the destiny and Lebonen. Flesh and Bone also got a mention from Caprica, presumably to hammer home the previous use of torture by the humans along with the obvious parallels with D’Anna torturing Gaius and in all three cases for information the subject didn’t have.

I hate my free will
If Gaius really thought he were a Cylon, suicide has always been the obvious test of it. Deep down methinks he knows he’s not but he doesn’t know what he is instead. Why did Caprica choose him, why did she save him, who is she, angel, devil, himself? He’s not a Cylon but if he “always did what he had to do” then effectively he is some kind of automaton and guilt or forgiveness are conveniently not really the issue. All the victims in his last vision are children, is that because they’re innocent or because they also lack agency? Still smart enough to turn the tables on Felix and score points against Roslin, he may be incapable of truly admitting to his own failings but he sees other people’s clearly enough. Even in S1 he wasn’t wrong that Laura hadn’t the right to condemn him on gut feeling alone.

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[selenak.livejournal.com]

Also "all my sins forgiven", a theological way of phrasing it which would have been impossible and laughable for the Baltar of the miniseries. Sins require intent, too. And, of course, culpability. If there is something to forgive, there has to be a wrong committed first. And he does want forgiveness, they've been hammering the point home this season, not just anyone's forgiveness, though, but Roslin's. (See: first jail scene in Precipe, and his dreams.) Because another part of him knows she won't give it?