Deadlock

[amathela]

Okay, since everyone else is meta-ing:


Battlestar Galactica: 4-16 Deadlock

I didn't really like this episode. Not because it was a bad episode, but because, like quite a few people have said, it felt very waffly and meandering and filler-ish, which, with only four episodes to go, I'm not really sure the show can afford. But, anyway.


The Good

Tyrol/Boomer! Okay, I'm a latecomer to this ship (like, I started shipping it last week). Whatever. Tyrol greeting her (and recognising her!) was hot and awesome, and if I'm a little disappointed that she was sent straight to the brig, at least I'm mostly sure she isn't just going to stay there and not be heard from for the rest of the series. (Mostly sure, because with this show, you never know.)

Sam has brainwaves! Hopefully they're regular brainwaves, not WTF is Sam now? brainwaves, but still ... yay? Yay!

Also, Ellen's arrival on Galactica was an awesome tribute to her first appearance, though it gave me unfortunately high hopes for the rest of the episode.


The Bad

Like Racetrack and the mutiny, I'm slightly unconvinced by Tyrol's decision to leave on the basestar. More than anything else, it seemed like lazy writing - they needed to have a 2-2 vote with Ellen breaking the tie, and instead of asking 'how would Tyrol vote?' they asked 'can we make him vote to leave?' Which, yes, you can, but those two things are two very different questions. It's possible to make sense of Tyrol's decision, but his motivation isn't immediately apparent, and you have to do a little selective twisting of his previous characterisation in order to get there.


The WTF

I'm really not sure what the point of the whole Tigh/Caprica baby storyline was, but I swear its resolution was:

TIGH: I love you.
CAPRICA: *is happy*
BABY: *is alive*
ELLEN: I'm leaving on the basestar so you two can be a real family.
TIGH [thinking]: Wow, Ellen's so wonderful and amazing. Isn't she fantastic? I love her.
BABY: *is dead*

So, um, I guess when they said that love was necessary for Cylon reproduction, they really weren't kidding. That's a little ... literal. Well, let's hope for Hera's sake that Helo and Athena never get divorced.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cereza/]

(like, I started shipping it last week)
LOL I never liked Boomer, so I started shipping them only a week before you. ;)

I get Racetrack more than Tyrol. She's always been a Cylon hater. The only way I could explain Tyrol's vote is that seeing Boomer triggered something but I just don't buy it AT ALL. After Tigh, he is probably the most loyal to Galactica, so it shocked me.

Well, let's hope for Hera's sake that Helo and Athena never get divorced. LMAO So true. The baby thing had me kind of confused, too, although at that point I was too sad to care.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

I always loved Boomer, but I never really cared that much about Tyrol; I have really liked him lately, though, and I've liked the shippiness in the last couple of episodes.

Racetrack was odd to me only because she seemed so accepting of Athena, once she returned to/joined the fleet. Like, it's very possible for her actions to make sense, but they're not the actions that would seem immediately right or obvious to me, if that makes sense.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cereza/]

I only started liking the Sharons with Athena. ;) Tyrol I loved from the beginning.

It does make sense. I guess you could say the same thing for all the crew, except Gaeta.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I am too sleepy to go digging, but there's an interview with Espenson where she basically says "in that moment, Tigh falls in love with Ellen all over again" and baby flipper dies. so, yes. It was meant to be text: ONLY TRUE MONOGAMOUS LOVE MAKES BABIES.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

That's ... disturbing. Like, I was pretty sure that was just my ridiculous crack theory, so to have it validated is ... well.

(Like, requiring monogamous love to create a child is one level of whatever, but the baby was already created. I'm beginning to think talumin's even more cracktastic theory was right - that the line of programming keeping the baby "running" suddenly switched parameters, and it couldn't run two functions at once. Which was supposed to be a joke, but I'm not sure exactly what else we're supposed to think. That their loving, benevolent god hates babies on sheer principle?)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

is possible Nicole says it best here (watch out for sparklies): http://nicole-anell.livejournal.com/104566.html?style=mine

[amathela.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting, thank you!

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

So, um, I guess when they said that love was necessary for Cylon reproduction, they really weren't kidding. That's a little ... literal. Well, let's hope for Hera's sake that Helo and Athena never get divorced.

Maybe Flipper died because when 2 Cylons get together, they both have to be totally in love 100% of the time, but with Hera it's okay because she has 1 Cylon and 1 Human parent, so that Human part keeps her from dying when Helo and Sharon have an argument?

Okay, yeah. I got nothin'.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, that's exactly what my boyfriend said to me ;)

And, yeah, I don't even know. Like, maybe it's a good thing the episode was kind of boring, because when you actually start thinking about it, it just turns into a big old mess.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I haven't listened to the podcast, but apparently Ron Moore said the miscarriage could be interpreted either way -- in the really really stupid spiritual sense you can think the lack of Tigh's OTP love caused it, but scientifically she probably lost it because Cylons have always had trouble bringing children to term.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely be attributing it to biology, I think. It's either that, or drive myself nuts thinking about how stupid it is :P

[weissman.livejournal.com]

and the love berween Sharon and Helo is enugh to chnage the couse of history. Tigh and Capricia at leas for now, not so much. ook how fast Tigh jumped Ellen.