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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:08:23 GMT -5
Cool rescue thingy. And I like that they aren't making it all miraculous and "they're fine!" Gonna need a whole lotta medical treatment after that and still no guarantees. And now, the uncomfortable Adama and Lee conversation. Oooh, momma was a mean momma and now she's trying to argue in his head. So, basically she was another Ellen Tigh? Only he divorced her and left the kids with her? Scary!
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Post by Matthew on Feb 18, 2007 23:08:29 GMT -5
Oh, ask all you want. We don't mind explaining. And when we start to mind explaining, we'll just bitch at you to "shut up" instead. Are you sure you all won't be inclined to suffer in silence? *raised eyebrow* Have I ever?
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Post by SpringSummers on Feb 18, 2007 23:08:37 GMT -5
I am off to finish up some chores and if I can manage it, beddy-bye.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:09:57 GMT -5
So, I was just saying to Onjel that I wonder if Adama's visions of his wife are actually part of a memory house? I first heard about them from Foucault's Pendulum and Hannibal, and both of them refer to them as "memory castles" which is why I used that word. Mine looks vaguely like it was designed by mad king Ludwig. On one of his bad days. Are these the things the old time-y "memory man" guys used to use? You remember a house with X number of rooms, with X things in each of them, and then when you want to remember something you mentally go from room to room?
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:10:47 GMT -5
As poignant and horrific as the Tyrol/Callie thing is, the bad CGI fog around their mouths is totally distracting me. Couldn't they have just made the room cold in reality? ;D
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:11:39 GMT -5
No wonder Adama is so forgiving of Tigh... **nods** It's Ellen all over again.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:13:37 GMT -5
Oh fer.. the frimping DOORS blow off?! with no tether or anything? Jesus. The engineers need to be flogged. It's like every single back up design all failed at once. Adama is soooo right to be not happy at all. Bonding over looney abusive parents - it's a match made in heaven! **nods along, sadly**
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:14:59 GMT -5
Zach is long-dead: Starbuck(Kara) was his flight instructor and fiancee, and she cleared him for full pilot status when he was a complete thumb-fingered flying dip: thus, he killed himself on a flight mission very early in his career. Oh - Kara was once engaged to Lee's bro? Kinky! Oh this show brings the kinky angsty love and lust triangles and quadrangles like mad!
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Post by Matthew on Feb 18, 2007 23:26:10 GMT -5
I first heard about them from Foucault's Pendulum and Hannibal, and both of them refer to them as "memory castles" which is why I used that word. Mine looks vaguely like it was designed by mad king Ludwig. On one of his bad days. Are these the things the old time-y "memory man" guys used to use? You remember a house with X number of rooms, with X things in each of them, and then when you want to remember something you mentally go from room to room? And tableaux in each room are mnemonic devices. For instance, in my Hall of Numbers, my acquaintance O'Neill is memorialized as a painting of a harlequin in a red-white-and-blue outfit, dancing in front of a picture of my house: his phone prefix is the same as the prefix on the phone number of my house where I grew up: the last four digits of his number are 5376. Hence the Joker in Bicentennial colors. ETA: and reading the wiki article that Sara linked to shows me that I'm not using mine in the most efficient and advantageous ways possible: I need to do some remodeling. Also? "Memory Palace" not "Memory Castle," Matthew. ;D
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:31:38 GMT -5
Galen is at least able to move.. Huh. No bloodshot eyes, no bandages on the ears? Able to walk? No petachiae all over his face, or hers? Well, at least her eyes have teeny hemorhages in them.. Yeah, they got off pretty easy. **snicker** Totally, dude. And how like them to reach out to each other through inanimate objects, while physically distant. ;D Oh, they were. I thought it was a nice touch. She's reaching out through an inanimate object while in the same room. Sex-ay! ;D Dude! For the two of them, that was practically her saying "take me like a runaway train, Bill!" I can't decide either. But I think I'm leaning toward the "let her go, man, move on" vibe.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:32:31 GMT -5
Fire Serpent ad - yep, got the DVR set to grab that. On one of Sci-Fi's "all reptiles, all the time" days, it looks like. Well, if he's not a Cylon, then all the things she's saying are either: A) things she actually said at one point, like he's replaying conversations OR B) perhaps more interestingly, are things he thinks to himself, or hides from himself by mentally having them come from her. Laura and Bill, sittin' in a tree, K I S S I N G . . . nice flirting there, you guys. The idea of putting Lee in charge of the legal committee is interesting. Also interesting is the way she describes why choose him "need someone who actually knows the difference between right and wrong".So, of course we see Lee in a position of authority, chewing out the pilots. (**snicker** Helo moving away from the guy with the "weirdest rash" was funny). Apollo always looks like he's expecting to get yelled at everytime his dad walks up to him. Wonder if they'll ask Helo to defend Baltar for much the same reasons... I thought of Helo there too. Except I think he doesn't have the law experience needed.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:34:27 GMT -5
Um, Chief, Callie? Perhaps not the best way to show your gratitude to the pilots and Adama for saving your asses!Yeah. Looks like next week he's gonna try to go back to the union activity he was doing on New Caprica. Which is not gonna work as well while on active service, which I assume they are back to being classified as.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:35:23 GMT -5
I have tons of questions but will try not to be too annoying. I know, I know, there is some kind of catch-up video out there that jeff watched, but I don't have the patience for that. I would rather annoy you all with "well . . . who's that?" "How come so and so doesn't know about this and that?" But I will try to keep it to a minimum. Promise!! Oh, keep asking - really! I love trying to answer and to read what other people answer.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:36:13 GMT -5
Funny how quickly that your attention... Yes, I do find myself warming up to Lee pretty quickly . . . I think that's because he is such an interesting character with great . . . dialogue and . . . very intriguing . . . complexity and such. Yes. The towel and I agree.
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Post by Lola m on Feb 18, 2007 23:37:12 GMT -5
Thank you, Matthew, for the beautiful setup... And uh . . . well, what did I tell you? You can see all kinds of . . . uh . . . underlying complexity in that picture! Yes, yes, the . . . underlying . . . Um. Yes. ;D
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