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[skygiants]

Okay, so! Now there is a little bit of distance: BSG thoughts.

1. It figures that they would make Dualla a person again just in time to kill her off. (That's something this show does a lot; it's very Whedonesque, also.) I think it was very well done and hit me like a gutpunch. And I'm glad she got to be a person again, at least for a little. That being said: am I wrong, or is every character of color on the show now either dead or a Cylon? I am 99% sure every woman of color is.

2. How much I like Starbuck flip-flops from episode to episode, but I really liked her in this episode! I also thought Leoben being all "this is too weird EVEN FOR ME. Peacing out, dude!" was hilarious.

3. Other things that are hilarious: Lee's speech, and the fact that Anders was totally an emo rock star in his past life. HA!

4. I should have called Ellen Tigh and I totally didn't, but I think it's awesome! Especially because a.) I love Ellen Tigh and b.) I suspect they are completely subverting the whole 'one true destined love' thing.

5. It is really, really hard watching Laura Roslin and Bill Adama fall to suicidal pieces.

6. I really want to know how the Sixes are dealing with this! Where were they?

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[i-open-doors.livejournal.com]

I'm really hoping that the next episode will have some more with the Cylons. I had to huff to myself at the end when Adama tells Tigh to call up the Cylons and ask if they want to tag along, as if the writers suddenly remembered that the Cylons were still floating out there.

But YES! I agree with all you've said. *bounce bounce*

[skygiants]

Me tooo. It would be cool if we got a 'both perspectives' sort of thing - one episode focusing on the BSG crew, and one on the Cylons - but I sort of doubt that'll actually happen, since we did get bit about D'Anna at the end.

[aberration]

1. Edward James Olmos is of Mexican descent. It's kind of hard to come up with a 'character of color' distinction in sci-fi, because you could maybe argue that his character is essentially meant to be "white" given that the actors who play his sons have been white British and Canadian, but on the other hand, the actor who played young Bill Adama was named Nico Cortez, and in the context of the series, the name "Adama" itself is meant to be something like the equivalent of a lower class name because it comes from a poor colony. I've read tooooo much Battlestar Wiki.

[skygiants]

Yeah, I know - I never quite know how to settle that in my head either, about Adama, when discussing the other trends in the show. (Because I do think the Adama family as a whole tends to read as white onscreen.) But I didn't know that about the backstory of the name "Adama" within the show universe - that's kind of cool!

[aberration]

Yeah, I think it's going to come up in Caprica that the Adamas changed their name to "Adams" when they moved from... the previous colony they were on that I'm not going to remember, because it sounded more "Caprican," and I think Joseph Adama decided to change it back. But it's not really something that appears in the BSG series that much, especially as ... well, post-Cylon attack, the Adamas suddenly became the premiere power family.