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fredericksOn Battlestar Galactica 3x04:
I'm on the record as a staunch Ellen Tigh hater. If there was a fanclub I'd be member #1. That's why it pains me to admit that Season 3 made me feel for the woman. What she did was wrongwrongwrong, but it was what she felt she had to do. Then she drank the Flavor-Aid and bid us all goodbye...and I'm going to assume she's not a Cylon because of what transpired between her and Cavil. I teared up with Saul, dammit.
Liked this episode a lot. The fights were shot rather well, and Galactica jumping into New Caprica's orbit and then dramatically jumping out? Completely hot. Even though I enjoyed the battle I really don't understand how two battlestars and a hand full of Viper pilots (many of them with no previous in-combat training, as I'm going to assume more pilots than Starbuck decided to head on down to the planet) managed to overpower the entire Cylon fleet. I know Adama's plan was ingenious but it still struck me as waaay too easy. BUT brain shut off when things go *boom*. Boom boom!
More this episode - I was convinced for the first time that Lee/Dee actually works. Unfortunate, as the Lee/Kara space drama will doubtless continue, but Lee actually referred to Dee as his wife. What is up with Dee spouting all this bloody wisdom, though? Every Commander should have an XO with reason but Dee's been stuck in the role of Adama wrangler since S1...when she wasn't smooching with the obviously outclassed Billy, of course.
Gaeta Gaeta Gaeta. Dude had a chance to killHitler Gaius and decided to back off. Why didn't he go with Gaius to make sure the man was actually going to find the nuke instead of just trying to make a run for it? Lazy writing that, forgivable only because Gaeta continues looking quite edible as the not-so-secret inside source. That Xena didn't hear little Hera's cries while Gaius and Six did? also another bit of ridiculousness. What's going on there with the babe and the Cylon?
Another anticipatory wtf - Leoben and Kara. Now that their time on New Caprica has come to an end I find myself wondering what precisely Leoben thought he was doing and why he was allowed to indulge himself while the other Cylons frakked up humanity at large. He stole a child and put up with being killed six times just to get Kara to kiss him? Non-Flowbee'd Kara was certainly comely but not worth all that time docked in the resurrection chamber. So now we have Captain Starbuck hearing her maternal clock tick-tick-ticking away...uhm, okay? Not really sure what the writers plan on doing with that one. I do think Anders needs to go, though; the man's a placeholder.
And now we're back on Galactica (and hells no I didn't think they'd sacrifice Pegasus, but part of me was convinced the writers would have had balls enough to destroy Galactica). I cheered Adama along with the rest of the Fleet and then cheered even more when he removed his awful porn 'stache. The fallout from the occupation will make for spectacular television. I sort of want everything to go back to the comfortableness of previous seasons, but now we have to deal with the integration of officers from another battleship (again) and those officers from New Caprica have to figure out where they fit. I want to see Gaeta back at the wheel and Starbuck in a Viper cockpit, but something tells me those things aren't going to happen soon. And the million dollar question: where is Gaius?
It's not quite Friday without a FridayFive. I'm a little bit put out, I have to say.
I've been reticent lately. Sorry about that. I've been reading, though, and sending lots of congratulatory vibes (two marriages this week alone; y'all are impressive).
I finally got through to the nursing recruiter I'd interviewed with and arranged for a follow-up interview with a manager on a general med-surg floor on Monday. That she didn't dismiss me outright after my horrible (IMO) initial interview is something to be happy about, but I do wish I'd been able to meet with one of the managers from a neurology floor. Thing is, this hospital pays less than hospitals in NYC and the nurses aren't unionized. I'm half-convinced the lack of unionization allows for pay differences depending on where in the hospital one works, so general med-surg would pay less than neuro or oncology or an ICU (not that I'm interested in the latter two). I shouldn't count my eggs and all that jazz until after the interview (which I'm not confident about at all, btw) but I do hope I get into the other place I have lined up to interview for on Thursday. I have heard not-too-promising things about the turnover and the staffing there *but* the pay is stupendous and the union benefits look great. Meh. I'm counting again.
This weekend there will be lots of studying and job searching, with the occasional panic attack. Goody goody.
There's some lovely weather this evening. Crisp autumn nights are only beat by lightly snowing winter evenings in my book.
I'm on the record as a staunch Ellen Tigh hater. If there was a fanclub I'd be member #1. That's why it pains me to admit that Season 3 made me feel for the woman. What she did was wrongwrongwrong, but it was what she felt she had to do. Then she drank the Flavor-Aid and bid us all goodbye...and I'm going to assume she's not a Cylon because of what transpired between her and Cavil. I teared up with Saul, dammit.
Liked this episode a lot. The fights were shot rather well, and Galactica jumping into New Caprica's orbit and then dramatically jumping out? Completely hot. Even though I enjoyed the battle I really don't understand how two battlestars and a hand full of Viper pilots (many of them with no previous in-combat training, as I'm going to assume more pilots than Starbuck decided to head on down to the planet) managed to overpower the entire Cylon fleet. I know Adama's plan was ingenious but it still struck me as waaay too easy. BUT brain shut off when things go *boom*. Boom boom!
More this episode - I was convinced for the first time that Lee/Dee actually works. Unfortunate, as the Lee/Kara space drama will doubtless continue, but Lee actually referred to Dee as his wife. What is up with Dee spouting all this bloody wisdom, though? Every Commander should have an XO with reason but Dee's been stuck in the role of Adama wrangler since S1...when she wasn't smooching with the obviously outclassed Billy, of course.
Gaeta Gaeta Gaeta. Dude had a chance to kill
Another anticipatory wtf - Leoben and Kara. Now that their time on New Caprica has come to an end I find myself wondering what precisely Leoben thought he was doing and why he was allowed to indulge himself while the other Cylons frakked up humanity at large. He stole a child and put up with being killed six times just to get Kara to kiss him? Non-Flowbee'd Kara was certainly comely but not worth all that time docked in the resurrection chamber. So now we have Captain Starbuck hearing her maternal clock tick-tick-ticking away...uhm, okay? Not really sure what the writers plan on doing with that one. I do think Anders needs to go, though; the man's a placeholder.
And now we're back on Galactica (and hells no I didn't think they'd sacrifice Pegasus, but part of me was convinced the writers would have had balls enough to destroy Galactica). I cheered Adama along with the rest of the Fleet and then cheered even more when he removed his awful porn 'stache. The fallout from the occupation will make for spectacular television. I sort of want everything to go back to the comfortableness of previous seasons, but now we have to deal with the integration of officers from another battleship (again) and those officers from New Caprica have to figure out where they fit. I want to see Gaeta back at the wheel and Starbuck in a Viper cockpit, but something tells me those things aren't going to happen soon. And the million dollar question: where is Gaius?
It's not quite Friday without a FridayFive. I'm a little bit put out, I have to say.
I've been reticent lately. Sorry about that. I've been reading, though, and sending lots of congratulatory vibes (two marriages this week alone; y'all are impressive).
I finally got through to the nursing recruiter I'd interviewed with and arranged for a follow-up interview with a manager on a general med-surg floor on Monday. That she didn't dismiss me outright after my horrible (IMO) initial interview is something to be happy about, but I do wish I'd been able to meet with one of the managers from a neurology floor. Thing is, this hospital pays less than hospitals in NYC and the nurses aren't unionized. I'm half-convinced the lack of unionization allows for pay differences depending on where in the hospital one works, so general med-surg would pay less than neuro or oncology or an ICU (not that I'm interested in the latter two). I shouldn't count my eggs and all that jazz until after the interview (which I'm not confident about at all, btw) but I do hope I get into the other place I have lined up to interview for on Thursday. I have heard not-too-promising things about the turnover and the staffing there *but* the pay is stupendous and the union benefits look great. Meh. I'm counting again.
This weekend there will be lots of studying and job searching, with the occasional panic attack. Goody goody.
There's some lovely weather this evening. Crisp autumn nights are only beat by lightly snowing winter evenings in my book.
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Date: 2006-10-21 05:07 am (UTC)First off Lee left all his pilots (and i really hope as much spare parts and equipment as he could) with the civilian fleet.
I'm not sure how many pilots Adama had but it wasnt many. I counted maybe 10 launches into the atmosphere (that scene was fraking incredible by the way!)
The Cylons also didnt leave their entire fleet in orbit. They had 4 base stars around the planet, thats it.
The Goal was escape, well most, most not all, of the colonists escaped and 3 base stars were destroyed by Pegasus. 1 by Suprise, 1 by direct ramming, 1 by debris.
They lost the biggest resource they had, the most advanced human ship left, which had FACTORIES on it to replenish their resources. Right now they are worse off then they were in 33.
Gaeta backed off because he wanted to give that son of a bitch one last chance to redeem himself. Geata is a moron, what can you say. He's an idealist Baltar was right about that.
We knew from day one that Gaius would end up with the Cylons and the Pegasus would be destroyed, it was just always a question of when.
Kick ass episode, felt like a season opener. Next week, revenge against human traitors.
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Date: 2006-10-21 05:49 am (UTC)They lost the biggest resource they had, the most advanced human ship left, which had FACTORIES on it to replenish their resources. Right now they are worse off then they were in 33.
If they choose to tackle the loss. The issue about where precisely food's been coming from was never brought to light, was it? There was some vague handwaving about regeneration way back when but nothing specific. The only real resources that have been addressed on the show were water and tillium.
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Date: 2006-10-21 07:43 am (UTC)If the Base Stars ignored the Battlestars and simply attacked the colony from above, then Adama would have failed.
As much as the Cylons want to "be human" which really is what they are trying to do, they arent. The majority of them are programmed machines, that react by threat assessment.
The Humlons or Cylmans or whatver, were so caught up with the insurgency that they were cought completly off guard on the planet with Adamas arrival. It seemed to me that the entire thing took an hour.
I mean c'mon lets retrack what happened.
The Cylons see TWO base stars and send the majority of their space forces after them. (Advantage 1) By the time they notice its a decoy Adama has jumped into the atomosphere to safely dump his fighters behind enemy lines. (Advantage 2). The fighters never faced the Basestars, they faced the raiders in small dog fights and provided Airial cover for the colonial ships to leave. You'll also note they FTL jumped as soon as they were a few hundred feet in the air. They never got in direct weapons range of the base stars to be a threat.
Meanwhile, the 4 stars are concentrating on Adama and the Galactica. At this point he's lost. He always intended to lose. He knew the ship would be shot to hell from his atmosphere dive. He bought time. (Advantage 3). Then came the Pegasus, completly suprising the Cylons and Destroying a Base star. The Cylons shift to a new priority target that clearly has better weaponry.
(I notice that the Galactica seems to be more of a "defensive" ship. While it packs a punch its more designed to take a beating and cover fighters, while the Pegasus had far more emphasis on actual attack power).
This gives the Galactica time to fix its FTL and escape, at which point they set the pegasus to ramming speed and abondon ship.
All these events happened at the same time. The Humans never faced the entire Cylon fleet, and the Cylons never faced the entire Human fleet either.
As for food. Well I assume their original food source was 2 fold. A. Hydroponics. B The vacation ship that blew up at the end of Season 2.
I'm pretty sure Hydroponics were mentioned at SOME point between the miniseries and now.
On New Cap they obviously farmed it.