Coming at you with spoilers and everything…
DOCTOR WHO: I’ve actually seen this one months ago, but now feel free to talk about it. As powerful and compelling as some episodes are the rest of this season (particularly “Girl in the Fireplace” and, most especially, the nail-biting season ender), this one remains my favorite. How could it not be? The return of Sarah Jane who, despite her protests that she’s gotten old, looks terrific. And Tony Head as a jaw-jutting alien who despises the shooty dog thing. Sarah Jane’s reaction to seeing the Doctor once more (“I thought you died!”) underscored how false Lois Lane’s snippy “Why we don’t need Superman” article was in “Superman Returns” after Superman vanished for five years. And you simply have to love Sarah and Rose’s one-upmanship duel of the bizarre things they’ve seen with Sarah’s “big Loch Ness monster” trumping anything Rose has to offer, followed by their subsequent bonding. (Fun trivia fact: In order to get Sarah Jane and Rose to burst out in genuine laughter when the Doctor walked in, David Tennant stepped in off camera sporting a comedic painted mustache.) What a terrific episode about closure, moving on with one’s life, and the dangers of eating too many chips.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: The pieces get moved into place for the Galactica to rescue the beleagured residents of New Caprica. A lot of necessary set-up, but I felt as if it could have been accomplished in half the time. Also, as compelling as this episode was, two things torqued me…one minorly and one majorly. The first was the resolution of the cliffhanger, as we learn that our heroes were saved due to events that were transpiring one hour earlier that we weren’t privvy to. It’s kind of like the old days of the movie serials, where the cliffhanger would end with the hero’s car plummeting off a cliff…only to discover, when you come back next week, that he actually leaped out of the car seconds before the car went over. It’s a bit of a cheat. If that were the only cheat in the episode, I’d let it go…but in the very same episode, Cylon D’anna (Lucy Lawless) learns that Sharon’s baby is still alive courtesy of prophetic dreams that we’ve never seen before, interpreted by a seer whom we’ve never seen before. It smacks of contrivance and lazy writing, which is all the more jarring in BSG since the series has set the bar so high for quality scripts. I’ll grant you, Sharon’s firm declaration that the baby couldn’t be dead because “Adama wouldn’t lie to me” sets the stage for a MAJOR blow-up that will be fantastic when it happens. I just wish they hadn’t needed to cut corners in order to reach that point.
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“In the original BSG series, the Cylons had an Imperious Leader who was from a model that was designed for decision making instead of fighting. He was much more spoken of than seen.”
Yep; only appeared a handful of times. Voiced by Patrick MacNee, who also appeared as Count Iblis, aka Space Satan, who intuited that there was some connection between himself and the Cylons.
With all the crazy religious overtones of BSG, especially in the first season, I’ll be stunned if SPACE! SATAN! doesn’t make an appearance at some point or another. Possibly as the mastermind who’s beaming Crazy Thoughts to Baltar and Caprica-6’s heads.
So, on the tangent of Doctor Who, who’s ready for Who: The Adult Edition featuring Captain Jack this weekend? 🙂
“So, on the tangent of Doctor Who, who’s ready for Who: The Adult Edition featuring Captain Jack this weekend? :)”
Torchwood?
Ready, willing and able.
Which is probably Jack’s personal credo 😛
http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood for those of you in foreign parts.
Cheers.
BSG: Thinking back to last season I came to the conclusion that the Six which killed another Cylon for Baltar just might be the Caprica-Six that is in his head and the is the same Six he fell in love with before the Cylons attacked. When she was around there were no visions.
To my understanding, when a Cylon is killed their memories and consciousness are downloaded into another body but, at the same time their memories are shared with the other like models.
The original Six’s feeling for Baltar have been passed to the other Six’s; you can see this in their willingness to take Baltars’ side or protect him when he is in conflict with the other Cylon models.
The same logic path can be seen in some of the Sharon cylons’.