prog: ("The Sixth Finger" guy)
prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2008-04-14 05:56 pm
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BSG Season 4 thoughts

So I've been watching and enjoying the latest BSG episodes. Here are some thoughts.

Punting two tier-one characters outside of the main story setting seems extreme. (Starbuck getting benevolently exiled, and Apollo switching careers over to the civilian fleet.) I wonder how this will be handled, narratively. The expectation is that the POV will stay with those on board Galactica, but there's no reason they won't end up splitting it up a bit. I predict that we'll get some Meanwhile, on board the SS Boobyhatch action after a couple more eps, similar to how POV visits to the Cylon flagship's shiny interior aren't uncommon now.

Speaking of which, I don't care much who the final Cylon is. Maybe because, in-show, only the Cylons really care about that, and they're so bloody weird about everything that while I love watching them be all freaky at each other, I can't really share their level of concerns about things. Also the fact that most of the Sci-Fi channel's Season-Four marketing campaign is "Ooh! Ooh! Whoooooo could it beeeee?" has gotten on my nerves.

I guess I liked "We removed the functional inhibitors" more than "We installed emotion chips" a la Star Trek. Still strikes me as kind of lame though.

[livejournal.com profile] classicaljunkie wondered aloud if the Cylons who got shot up are gonna wake up to find themselves boxed, since it's been suggested before (with D'Anna's story) that the resurrection process is prime time to be pullin that shit on an unfortunate model. This possibility would explain why those models flipped out and tried to run away... (Then again it's not clear how to box up all the other instances of the model who running around in prime condition, short of all-out civil war.)

[identity profile] prog.livejournal.com 2008-04-15 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are the Hybrids, who are apparently half-baked prototypes from the skin-jobs' development. Some were kept around because they make handy warp drives.

Baltar is and remains my hero. Also I don't think he's into dudes, so he's not doing all of his groupies, right?

[identity profile] aspartaimee.livejournal.com 2008-04-15 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
they all were women, no? sure it's dark in their little cargo bay or whatever, but i don't recall seeing any dude groupies.

i like saul tigh. he's all bitter and badass and has only one eye, which we know is cool

i also dig the chief. probably more than is healthy.