Re-watch - Sometimes a Great Notion

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Hello shippers!

We'll start in 30 minutes.

Who's with me?

Comments

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

*straps in*

Ready for launch, sir!

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Ready, I think

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Yay! I was afraid I was going to be all by lonesome!

And here we go!

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Press start troops!

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

I'm here.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Addendum to the last on the great Kara run. why didn't she just pick up the phone?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Good point. Never thought of that lol.

Not dramatic enough I guess. :P

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

Two freaking minutes of backstory!

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

I did so love everyone's work on the looks of desolation though. Plus the first time I saw this I somehow managed to miss what Helo told Bill.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

This is quite possibly one of the most depressing episodes of BSG ever. One of the most depressing episodes of any show ever I think.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Is this the one where Dee kills herself?

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

I don't remember much about this epi guys. I just realized this is the first epi of season 4.5 LOL

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

One word about this episode - brutal.

Who thought it was a good idea to leave Kara alone with Leoben? Really?

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

It's been said before, but I love how Helo just has this aura of calm and solidity to him. Even when everything's falling apart.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

As kag523 and I always say, Helo = Star Trek character stuck in BSG 'verse :-)

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

I still don't get the Leoben being Kara's partner here.

The little everyday life thing in the Agathon's quarters was sweet.

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the IRONY of Leoben asking Kara what it means!

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

What I love best about this episode. Proves how full of shit Leoben is. Where are your rivers and stream now Leo? :P

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

A tribe of CYLONS!!!! And it just keeps making less and less sense! Hooray!

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Any of them different than the twelve we know came to mind.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Wait. What? I didn't remember this at all. So all of Earth 1.0 was Cylon?

Okay, how does this make sense then? I thought the Cylons were created like 40 years ago? Is this part of the "all this has happened before" stuff? I'm so confused all of a sudden. I clearly was in my mainlining haze when I watched this.

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Well presumably they were contemporaries of the Five, who we later learn had been around for way longer.

My issue is more how the story of earth got into Pythia since when the 13th tribe left the place they were going wouldn't necessarily have been known.

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

So I was reading a random twop recap of BSG where the recapper pointed out that Dee is like the female version of Lee. Which actually makes a whole lot of sense of that whole relationship, actually.

And, okay Dee, you're totally annoying the crap out of me by being all, you can lead people through this dark time but I'M gonna kill myself over here, mkay?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Dee is in no way the female Lee. Whoever said that needs to buy a clue.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Ah … here's our old, supportive Dee. A glimpse of who she used to be in S1.

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Which is why someone argued to me she left Lee when she did. That she knew it was what he needed.So she could now go back since he'd done what he needed to alone and proved he could?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

It irks me how they wanted to reprove that Kara is dead. Yes, I know I saw in Maelstrom. Saw the gun camera footage in HTBIM. She was dead. Why is this a shock?

The shock should be how did her body wind up here on Earth 1.0. Still want the answer to that.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

What pisses me off/confuses me about that scene is Leoben walking away like that. After ALL the crap he put her through, he just … leaves?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Again the whole L&D kissing is the ole magician's trick. Look at this hand, so you don't see what the other one is doing.

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

Ah, just one more thing to break Gaeta with. I never really understood Dee at all.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

I think Lee and Dee found comfort with each other. Dee used Lee to find a little happiness. Lee found someone he could settle for. Deep down they knew it was a lie, but they found what little bit of happiness they could.

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

This whole episode just makes me fall in love with Lee all over again. I mean, sure, he's had a lot of practice holding his shit together while everyone else goes nuts, but this is a whole new level of crazytown.

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

I wanted to backhand Bill for offering Lee the booze too.

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

You know this scene has something more to it if we presume Tigh remembered who Ellen was by this point.

Bill totally fallling apart though was just sad.

[themonkeytwin.livejournal.com]

Did he, though? It seemed like the Finals were remembering flashes of their life, but not the whole of it.

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

Oh another Caprica retcon. Somehow I don't see Sam Adama with hen houses.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's a retcon. Life on Tauron was very humble. They would have kept chickens there, so maybe later in life Sam settled on a farm. I can see it.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Whoa … do not remember this with Bill at all!

[anastashial.livejournal.com]

They made him fall way too far apart IMHO.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Hey you guys!!

Are you peeps still rewatching?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Hiya! Yes we are, suffering through SAGN. Not sure an episode like this you can really enjoy ya know?

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Those who don't think L&K talk. I put this scene down as rebuttal.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

LOL