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Post by Shan on Dec 8, 2006 12:53:07 GMT -5
An accidental contamination of the fleet's food-processing systems leaves it without anything to eat. As tens of thousands of people quickly succumb to starvation, the Galactica's overtaxed pilots must fly multiple back-to-back missions to lead the fleet through a hazardous region of space to a new food source. Meanwhile, Kat's past catches up to her, and D'Anna edges closer to uncovering a dangerous secret of the Cylons.* *Blurb courtesy of scifi.com, screenshot courtesy of galacticabbs.com and yes, I know the blurb has no mention of Starbuck in it but once I find a picture of Starbuck how can I NOT use it?
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:05:23 GMT -5
Interesting set of previouslies...
Woohoo! more "firefly" inspired camera-work?
Helo, so proud of his wife..
Tainted food systems.
Okay.
Gah! Everything is on fire! Eeeep!!!
41,420 survivors...
Huh. red and white coloring for the episode...
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Post by Karen on Dec 8, 2006 21:08:35 GMT -5
Very disturbing scene of the pilots sharing scraps and crumbs of food.
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:15:31 GMT -5
Basestar. That bed isn't at all... jarring in that setting. "like fleas on a cat" "WHAT things?" very creepily phrased... Decontam procedures.. oh, good. There's a way through? Okay. Turning off my "this makes sense" system. Completely. "no visua..." oooookay. Allegory, Matthew. Allegory. Shut up and let it flow, and accept the dramatic necessity. "personal discretion" is about the best you can do in a situation like that, I guess. "Sacha"? Just when we were saying that Kat was flying fairly level. Great. She's the Caprica Crossbow Killer. Or something.
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:16:33 GMT -5
Very disturbing scene of the pilots sharing scraps and crumbs of food. Yes, that was effectively creepy: if this is how the pilots are getting treated, what must it be like for a regular Joe Nebbish?
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Post by Sue on Dec 8, 2006 21:17:29 GMT -5
Written by Jane Espenson!
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:25:49 GMT -5
Heh. "relevant Simon" Oooh! being an individual in a society that values the whole. Yeesh, she's been busy... #blink# How does Baltar realize how addictive that... "heaven-moment" is for her? Sacha/Kat and.... ah. A blackmailer. "take care of your own" your own what? Oh. Her octagonal tambourine man. Tigh! Doing the nervous lurky cyclops thingie!! Oh! So now he's actually returning to active duty? Applause. he's gonna shut this down quickly. Heh! That was a lot nicer and sweeter of him than I figured he was gonna be. "Find your sheep" so five jumps in rapid sequence starting NOW.... They jumped to Ceti Alpha V? NO second-seat men? They're gonna lose some people here.... Ah. five relays, not five jumps. Okay... so there are a lot of pilots we aren't seeing, piloting a lot of ships we aren't seeing, right? Because otherwise.... Oh, shaddup, Matthew.
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Post by Karen on Dec 8, 2006 21:27:51 GMT -5
Written by Jane Espenson! Very cool! From her blog: Frakkin' ay!
Okay, everyone. Tonight's episode of Battlestar Galactica is, indeed, mine. I have not, myself, seen the final cut, so we'll all be watching it together. Hope you enjoy it!
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:37:24 GMT -5
There it is... and now it's gone. And her badge is black.
Oooh, that's not a good sign with radiation poisoning, what with the puking.
Total of nine pilots.
"paper shortage" gallows humor.
It would be nice if Starbuck were her hero...
"faces of the final five"? so the hybrid isn't one of them?
He wants to be a cylon now. So he's gonna go along with her fool-ass suicide plan, trying to see what, or if he is?
OOOh crap. When Gaius Baltar starts sounding to you like the guiding voice of sympathetic reason? There are issues.
So Starbuck knows her dealer.
Ah, so Kat is dead?
So Kara's thinking that they were smuggling cylons? Sheesh.
She thinsk you're an idiot.
"not smart enough to accept who you are"
"lied your way into the company of good people" So why is Kara talking to herself like this? Kat isn't a mirror, much as it seems to Kara. And she isn't your replacement, either, Kara.
"Let me tell him myself"
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 21:56:46 GMT -5
So they are going to the oracle.... What is he doing? Hee!!! as she grabs him and TALKS to him. "eye of the husband of the eye of the cow" That would be Zeus' eye. Said "Zeus" in the captioning, though she said "Jupiter" Star maps, and a connection between the gods. Interesting who Three seemed to be including in that "we" and "our" So Kat's gonna die. "Accept who you are" in Starbuck's voice. She's gonna kill him. And she's gonna go out a Big Damn Hero, because she feels that there is no going back from here. So the Galactica is serving as the lifeboat each time for the crews. Jeez, Starbuck, are ya at all surprised you don't see Kat? Here's hoping she brings them home before she dies. Be a nice gift, to have sacrificed her life for some special meaning. Hero's welcome. and she collapses. Let her die as Kat, Kara. Oh, you meant it, Kara, you were talking to yourself. "Enough" confession of her role in it, and doing all she can, now, for her. "making you CAG again" "I'd like to be CAG very much" Oh, she's gonna tell him.... "reason why you might not want to do this" Oh, sweetie, everything is washed away, now. All debts are paid. I kinda love Adama for "I know what I need to know" Zak was born in a sick bay? "She was conviced both times that she was having a girl" "Did y ou want a girl, too?" "yeah. three's a good round number" oh, Bill... Officially promoting her for the brief time left... The shrines. Haven't eeen these in a while. Good picture. She looks cocky and ready and full of hell. Lee in the background. Sharing her pain, even if Kara can't see it.
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Post by Karen on Dec 8, 2006 21:58:32 GMT -5
Very disturbing scene of the pilots sharing scraps and crumbs of food. Yes, that was effectively creepy: if this is how the pilots are getting treated, what must it be like for a regular Joe Nebbish? I wondered the same thing, but from what Kat said, I don't think the pilots were treated any better. Such an awesome episode. Not the funny we normally get from JE, but more like her serious Buffy eps, like "After Life". Very moving.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 8, 2006 22:08:01 GMT -5
An accidental contamination of the fleet's food-processing systems leaves it without anything to eat. As tens of thousands of people quickly succumb to starvation, the Galactica's overtaxed pilots must fly multiple back-to-back missions to lead the fleet through a hazardous region of space to a new food source. Meanwhile, Kat's past catches up to her, and D'Anna edges closer to uncovering a dangerous secret of the Cylons.* *Blurb courtesy of scifi.com, screenshot courtesy of galacticabbs.com and yes, I know the blurb has no mention of Starbuck in it but once I find a picture of Starbuck how can I NOT use it?When it's a photo like that? Ya gotta use it, dude!!
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Post by Lola m on Dec 8, 2006 22:10:20 GMT -5
Interesting set of previouslies... Very interesting. A strong theme of "addiction". As well he should be. Sharon was the first heroine - flying this alone, the first time, to find out what was there and if it could be done. And not really knowing if Cylons could survive. Lot's of warm reds and oranges - fire imagery. Nicely contrasting the blues and cool whites of the Cylon scenes.
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Post by Lola m on Dec 8, 2006 22:11:52 GMT -5
Very disturbing scene of the pilots sharing scraps and crumbs of food. Very disturbing. Scrambling for every crumb, so desparate. Makes us know immediately how bad things are.
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Post by Matthew on Dec 8, 2006 22:12:31 GMT -5
the fanwanking he needs, and achieves happy zen through repeating stuff already implied in the episode.... Okay. Some sort of extremely freaky dirty oxidizing radiation in that swirling mess: and a ship has to know its precise location as to where it IS as well as where it plans to GO as it jumps out, or it gets lost. As in "somewhere between here and Oz" lost, AND there's always a little "drift" after a jump due to some unforseen circumstances. Okay. So the civvie ships do not have the shielding or the sensors necessary to determing their starting location and working their jump solutions, but the heavily-armored Raptors do. The radiation field is of such density that "visual range" represents how close you have to be when sensors and communications work reliably enough to transmit the jump data. AND. The reason why we have only nine pilots out of all the raptor and Viper crews of the Peggy and the Galactica is because the contaminated food and the LACK of food has laid up everyone else BUT these pilots: they are the last ones still standing. (the bunkroom looked VERY empty: means that elsewhere there are a lot of people in malnutritive situations, hallucinating or in comas.) EDIT: Or, like they told you in the episode, Matthew, the number of trips was dictated by the shielded capacity of the Galactica in carrying the passengers from the other ships: AND the pilots I'm thinking of as being "missing" were piloting all the civillian ships. I think a lot of expository technobabble got left out of the final edit.... Or Moore trusts us to work it out for ourselves. ;D As to WHY the fleet couldn't go around the whole mess... well, I got nothin', and have to just accept their word that there are reasons they can't jump AROUND the radiation storm, that they were lucky to find the dim spot in the middle to use as a jump staging point. Okay. Well, that's taken care of most of my "does not compute" issues. Okay. Now I can rewatch it and pay more attention to all the other stuff in it.. Hmmmm... thirty-seven forty-six big ships, including Galactica, and two lost, leaving thirty-five. forty-four. (Galactica can handle doing her own navigation....) With that and the malnutrition, there's gonna be a lot lower number, next week... Second Edit: Okay, there was a decent enough amount of expository stuff to allow you to get the plausibillity of it.. I just got caught up in indignation at the "blinding light" part. *shrug**is able to let that bit go* and hey, no matter what, it's still a lot more plausible and well-written than the gauntlet they ran in the original series ep "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" so I should shove it with my bitching and moaning. ;D
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