BSG 3.18: "The Son Also Rises"

[annathepiper]

I knew he was coming courtesy of seeing it posted on whedonesque, but it was still kind of weird and cool to see the dude who'd played Badger on Firefly guest-starring in tonight's Battlestar. Complete with the same accent! And this was mostly a filler episode, but with some definite sniffle-inducing moments....


Big sniffles for Adama looking through Starbuck's file. With all the disciplinary notices in it, hee. And the card was hysterical. And the tears on Adama's face along with his huge grin at the sight of the card... awww.

OMG poor Sam, seven sheets to the wind and wobbling back and forth on top of that viper. And, "I think I fell." Sniff. Double sniff that it was Lee who had to get him down from there, too.

And sniff at Lee calling Racetrack Starbuck by mistake during the briefing.

And sniff at Sam hobbling in on crutches while Lee was finally putting Kara's picture up by Cat's on the memorial wall. We now have a house consensus that Sam is infinitely hotter than Lee (though we also grant that Lee is still Quite Hot), and that furthermore, Lee and Sam should bloody well console one another for their loss. 'Cause I mean, damn. Talk about a "KISS HIM, ya big lug!" moment there.

Sniff.

Comments

[annathepiper]

Oh my god, I totally did not realize--but yes, I very much remember that episode of X-Files! And yeah, he was extremely creepy. That's one of the few episodes I think I actually own, I've got a small number of laserdiscs of first season eps. I need to get the DVDs still.

And you were definitely not the only one. ;D

[solarbird]

"so there's going to be angsty man sex between those two now, right?"
Oh gods no. I was totally thinking that. LET ME HAVE MY FANTASIES DAMN YOU RON MOORE!

[alstaria.livejournal.com]

Oh, was definitely shouting something along the lines of "Kiss him, you big lug" each time they had a scene together tonight. I detected some eye sex going on as Lee picked Sam up off the floor after he fell.

Romo is a very interesting character...especially with the whole pickpocket thing. It'll be very interesting to watch him over the next few eps..I have no ideas where his loyalties (if he has them) lie.

[annathepiper]

Hee, now you've got me wanting to go back and look again. Oh darn, another excuse to ogle Sam! ;)

Yes indeed, it'll be intriguing to see how this whole trial thing plays out.

And I must now admire your icon!

[annathepiper]

My money's on "quick study", since the only Cylons we have left are the Final Five, and I'd think we'd get a bit more fanfare with introducing one of those.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't. I think they'd be very quiet and inconspicuous, and we'd have (or maybe have been having) weeks of buildup and subtle hinting.

[annathepiper]

Nah. Just on the grounds of we've already seen several different models of Cylon hiding in the Fleet--Boomer (Eight), at least one Six, a Leoben (still doesn't know what model number he's supposed to be), a Doral (Five), a D'anna (Three), and a Brother Cavil (a.k.a. Cylon Al ;) ).

It would seem weird and repetitive to me if any of the Final Five are doing the exact same thing as the rest of them. Even aside from the standpoint of "if the Final Five are so special, why are they acting like the other models?", we've done the "Cylon is hiding undetected in the Fleet" plot several times now. It's lost its ability to be surprising.

And I kind of feel the same way I did when the debate arose about whether Tigh's wife was a Cylon, i.e., I wanted her to be human just because we needed to see some truly annoying human characters running around. So this new guy? I want him to be human just because he shouldn't have to be a Cylon to be intriguing and murky. :)

[annathepiper]

Mm, maybe. Still seems too easy to me to think that one or more of the Five might hiding in the Fleet, what with the clear indications we've been getting that they're at least somewhat supernatural--i.e., the Cylons believing that they would only see the faces of the Five as they died, and D'anna/Three in fact doing so.

Guess we'll see. ;)

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

My reaction: Oh, Lee. Because, see, he doesn't get to grieve. He has to be the CAG. He has to get Sam down from on top of the Vipers. She wasn't his wife, after all. Usually he'd be able to lean on Dee just a little, but, well.

Poor guy. You can see him keeping it together with psychological duct tape and twine.

[annathepiper]

*nodnodnod* Yeah, I kept muttering "hold it together" during that entire briefing scene. Sniff. Poor schmoo!

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Complete with the same accent!

Hmmm, that's debatable. Badger was definitely a Cockney (the actor is from London, we checked, though we didn't discover which part). This lawyer guy - there are vowels in there that are a long way from Cockney. It sounded like he was trying to do an Irish accent that wasn't coming off in places. Very odd mix.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

More filler? Oi!

Dish Network lost our service for two days and we missed our usual slot for recording BSG. I was hoping the filler episodes were done.

[annathepiper]

Well, sorta kinda filler. Half of it was people's reactions to what happened with Starbuck, and the rest was introducing Baltar's new attorney before we gear up to next week's season-closing finale. There was a plot going on with his previous attorney getting assassinated. So yeah, only sorta kinda filler.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Next week's another season finale already? BOO!!

[annathepiper]

Well, part 1 of the season finale, so we have two more weeks to go. But yeah. It's kind of hard to believe that we've already been through a full season 3!

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Another interesting tidbit - Katee Sackhoff wasn't listed in the opening credits this episode. Which is either a really good sign Starbuck's out for good, or they're trying damn hard to give that impression.

[annathepiper]

Huh, I hadn't caught that!

On the other hand, I also heard that she'd been signed for season four. But that might be on a "showing up in a handful of episodes as a guest star" kind of thing. We'll have to see!