Battlestar Galactica
Feb. 17th, 2005 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI just watched the last two BSG, 'Kobol's last gleaming'.
I... will have a coherent reaction eventually, I'm sure.
But right now... wow. I mean I'm not even up to 'eeep' because I'm stuck at 'jaw hangs open'.
That last minute... Very few stories actually surprise me. Because narrative causality is so strong, generally once you know the genre you know what happens next. This, however, did not just surprise me, it made me *jump* and just... sit here gone blank because *damn* but I did not see that coming.
I so *very* love this show.
I mean, that seems like a vaguely innapropriate response considering, but... yeah. This show? I am so very much a fan now. I'm putting the symbols on my tattoo list. I'd go to a convention if there was one. And you know the coolest thing?
THIS WEEKEND IS ONE!
I get to meet the guy that plays Apollo *this* *weekend*.
Oh wow is that extra cool.
Plus, from this point on, I have faith in the writers. I mean they pulled everything together, they pulled no punches, they followed up the consequences and... *WOW*.
And while I continue to have difficulty watching the Baltar bits, this isn't because those parts are bad. It is because I don't know how to read it, if he is going completely nuts or what, and if he is going crazy that hurts, and if he isn't then he is being so very messed around with he has gone crazy for other reasons and...
The thing is, every one of these characters I want to save. To help. Even (or *especially*) the Cylons. I mean Boomer... (I just realised Boomer made the REALLY BIG kaboom... but this is not the time for puns) It is so easy to empathise, to see how anyone could end up in that situation, to realise that she is reacting as a human to actions her body carried out as a Cylon and that has to be hell. Really, hell. Like Angel or Spike when they got their soul back, or like anyone that was ever host to a goa'uld, but ongoing and every day and she didn't *know* and so many mistakes had to be made to get her to that last minute and now she has to live with that. And the other of her, on Caprica, pregnant by someone who has decided she is a monster. Spike/Buffy with side orders of Angel/Darla.
I'm not saying the stories are derivative, I'm saying they push my buttons kind of like those other relationships, but *harder*, relentlessly, every week following these people and following through on the psychology and... *WOW*.
There are ships and there are space battles and this is science fiction, but it isn't primarily about the ships. It is all about the minds, the darkness, the horror. Even the politics come down to the personal horrors. The personal choices.
I *LOVE* THIS SHOW!
So many screwed up people trying to make sure humanity has a future, and so many screwed up people trying to make sure the only future humanity has is them. Huge but personal. *Brilliant*.
love love love love love this show. Seriously. This is amazing.
I... will have a coherent reaction eventually, I'm sure.
But right now... wow. I mean I'm not even up to 'eeep' because I'm stuck at 'jaw hangs open'.
That last minute... Very few stories actually surprise me. Because narrative causality is so strong, generally once you know the genre you know what happens next. This, however, did not just surprise me, it made me *jump* and just... sit here gone blank because *damn* but I did not see that coming.
I so *very* love this show.
I mean, that seems like a vaguely innapropriate response considering, but... yeah. This show? I am so very much a fan now. I'm putting the symbols on my tattoo list. I'd go to a convention if there was one. And you know the coolest thing?
THIS WEEKEND IS ONE!
I get to meet the guy that plays Apollo *this* *weekend*.
Oh wow is that extra cool.
Plus, from this point on, I have faith in the writers. I mean they pulled everything together, they pulled no punches, they followed up the consequences and... *WOW*.
And while I continue to have difficulty watching the Baltar bits, this isn't because those parts are bad. It is because I don't know how to read it, if he is going completely nuts or what, and if he is going crazy that hurts, and if he isn't then he is being so very messed around with he has gone crazy for other reasons and...
The thing is, every one of these characters I want to save. To help. Even (or *especially*) the Cylons. I mean Boomer... (I just realised Boomer made the REALLY BIG kaboom... but this is not the time for puns) It is so easy to empathise, to see how anyone could end up in that situation, to realise that she is reacting as a human to actions her body carried out as a Cylon and that has to be hell. Really, hell. Like Angel or Spike when they got their soul back, or like anyone that was ever host to a goa'uld, but ongoing and every day and she didn't *know* and so many mistakes had to be made to get her to that last minute and now she has to live with that. And the other of her, on Caprica, pregnant by someone who has decided she is a monster. Spike/Buffy with side orders of Angel/Darla.
I'm not saying the stories are derivative, I'm saying they push my buttons kind of like those other relationships, but *harder*, relentlessly, every week following these people and following through on the psychology and... *WOW*.
There are ships and there are space battles and this is science fiction, but it isn't primarily about the ships. It is all about the minds, the darkness, the horror. Even the politics come down to the personal horrors. The personal choices.
I *LOVE* THIS SHOW!
So many screwed up people trying to make sure humanity has a future, and so many screwed up people trying to make sure the only future humanity has is them. Huge but personal. *Brilliant*.
love love love love love this show. Seriously. This is amazing.