BSG 4.11 Sometimes a great notion

[hazelk]

I miss the crowd scenes. One of the startling things about the first series was how it felt as much like the story of a people as of an ensemble with a bunch of extras. Now we know the ensemble too well not to see everything primarily through their eyes, how it affects them. And we know by now that we’re never going to get the story of the fleet because they’ve tried and it only really worked with New Caprica and more often degenerated into a Black Market or The Woman King. If one of the minor players gets brought into the limelight, it’s so we can watch them die. Kat, Callie and now Dee but I still wasn’t expecting it. While the Admirals and Presidents were rending themselves in their despair she kept hers to herself and passed all the hope she had left on to another. I liked Lee this week and I don’t think it was just the hair although that was awesome. As was NotKara building her own funeral pyre and watching herself burn.

So Ellen was the Final Fifth. I like that it came so soon and I like it because in a way it did turn out to be about what she was, not who. The “One” who will be revealed has been the tagline for a season but this brings things back to the original mystery of the Cylon plan. Which always sounded like “Plan” capitalized, something to change the world, bring on a whole new order (or New Order, if Bob Dylan can be a universal truth shouldn't others get more than the standard 15 minutes). But Tigh’s Ellen revelation flips the old preconceptions over into lower case. From Cosmic Order Plan nurtured over generations to Oh shit! emergency rescue plan hatched in a moment of desperation by five who only wanted to live. I like that and am very curious about the 13th tribe and their holocaust and who caused it and whether the more recent Cylon offensive literally was tit for tat 2000 years later. And whether Tyroll’s vision had no children in it (although I think I heard voices).

Comments

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

It may be nothing, it was very BSG with the camerawork, all elbows. Emphasis on fruit, may be the 13th Cylons's an avocado. And Dualla found those jacks. Kids things usually (I never learnt nor skipping games).