BSG s1e4

[spookyevilone]

Boomer: Wow, that must've been some party.. Woke up sopping wet in a closet, no idea how I got there, and there's a bunch of plastique in my gym bag.
Cally: And it's morning.
Boomer: .. Like I said.. SOME party! I'll just go put this plastique back in the.. oh. Well, I guess they won't really miss this one, since half the others are gone..
Tigh: Yeah, that happens if you drink too much. You should ration yourself by fingerwidth's, like me!

Mme President: OMG, I only have 3 outfits to last the rest of my life! I'm going to see Adama in an outfit he's already seen me in!
Billy: You look fine.
Mme President: Fine?! FINE?!
Billy: er.. Great?
Mme President: You have no hope of ever losing your virginity. Ever.
Billy: We should go. Adama's waiting.
Mme President: Aaaaaddddaaaaaammmmmaaaa! Hey.. how's the water reclamation system on BSG?
Adama: Oh, no worries. We've got enough water to last years. Not one drop is wasted.
Mme President: .. You mean you're drinking recycled pee?!
Adama: Good enough for Fremen, good enough for us!
Mme President: What if there's an accident?
Adama: We're in space. The water'd just go outside and freeze. I'm sure our guys could rig a shop vac for us to suck up the ice particles.
Billy: .. Have you met our writers?
Adama: .. Shit.
Billy: You bastard.

Boomer: ZOMG! What am I gonna do?! I can't tell anyone that there's an asston of explosives armed somewhere on the ship! They might think I'm a Cylon agent!
Chief: No! No, why would they think that?!
Boomer: BECAUSE I AM a Cylon Agent!
Chief: .. Well, yeah, there is that.
Boomer: Think about my rep!
Chief: .. as a wibbly Lieutenant who isn't all that good at flying?
Boomer: Better than a Cylon agent!
Chief: Well, no matter. There go the explosions. I think I'll pop on down and survey the damage. 60% of our water supply is missing. It's going to get awful stinky in here.
Tigh: People gonna go batshit if they can't get their bathies on!
Mme President: Peon, why do you think this happened?
Peon: Uh.. because.. uh... the nukes did it! Clearly, nukes. Not Cylon agents.
Boomer: Whew! Dodged that bullet!
Chief: Not if I tell everyone that it was a detonation and what kind of explosive.
Adama: Clearly, Cylons.
Mme President: Baltar, how are those Cylon screenings coming?
Gaius: Screenings?
Mme President: The ones you're supposed to have been doing on the crew? THOSE?
Gaius: Sorry, haven't gotten to them yet. Busy having sex with Imaginary!Six
Adama: Quit lying.
Gaius: .. What?
Adama: I know you really just want a large staff so we can get this underway as quickly as possible.
Gaius: No, no.. I just need.. uh.. resources! Tetramochalambdamacciatohydrocycline! Lots of it! I mean, it has to have a bunch of syllables. I can't just say "I need water and ours just blew into space"..

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Mme President and Adama bond over a mystery book and discuss turning soldiers into police. Gaius and SB have a 'who's crazier' competition over a game of cards, Gaius wins, which means SB is going to do something attention whorish in the next fifteen minutes. Boomer's out on her ship looking for water, and there's a lump of beeping plastique on her chair. Helo and Other!Boomer share a tender moment in radioactive rain.

Mme President: Hey Apollo, come play interpreter for me. Your dad is hot but I really don't understand him.
Apollo: And you want help from.. me?
Mme President: Well, yes. I have every intent of being your stepmom someday.
Apollo: .. Uh. Ok. So .. who tells dad?
Mme President: Welcome to your first assignment.
Apollo: .. I just haaaad to ask.

Boomer: So.. about that blinky explody stuff that was on my chair..?
Chief: Hm? Oh, yeah, that. I got rid of it. I gave it to the master at arms.
Boomer: YOU DID WHAT?! It had my fingerprints all over it!
Chief: Babe, this is BSG, not CSI. Not gonna be a problem. Nobody will suspect you of planting it. After all, it was on YOUR chair.
Boomer: ... right. Right.
Chief: I won't let anything happen to you, sweetie.
Boomer: Sweetie is clearly my not-so-safe word that turns on my Cylon attributes. Exterminate! Exterminate!
Chief: You're messing up your tv shows again.
Boomer: You people never let me have any fun!



It's unnerving, the resemblance between Chief and That Guy. Thankfully, their voices are nothing alike. Though clearly it means That Guy is a Cylon, as there are now at least three people walking around with various versions of his face.

These are not as funny as the first one because the episodes are slow and boring.

Comments

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

Some day I may just possibly understand why you persist in watching shows you don't like, knowing in advance that you won't like them...

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

So when people smugly say, "You don't get an opinion; you didn't watch it", or worse, "It gets better later on", I can rebut. *shrug* I could also be wrong. I originally thought DS9 was going to suck and it wound up being one of my favourite shows. BSG, however, still sucks. There are too many main characters and too many concurrent storylines and I find myself really just not giving a fuck about any of the characters.

I'm impressed with the CGI. Whoever did their cinematog deserves a fucking Emmy.

Also, I'm waiting for Adama Sr. to lose his shit. It has to happen sometime, and I bet when it does, it's going to be popcornworthy.

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

I can, without spoiling much, tell you that yes, eventually, Adama loses his shit, and yes, it's fun to watch.

However, unlike B5, where I could legitimately tell you that I, as a fan of the show, thought its first season was its weakest and worth struggling through, BSG's miniseries and first season are pretty strong; second season is probably stronger, but they lose their way for a while after that and they never quite get back to where they were at their height. Which is pretty normal for any series, I suppose -- they have a peak, maybe they get close to it again, but they never quite recapture The Moment. I enjoyed it even when it was weak, for the most part, but I still would have preferred if they could have kept up the momentum.

At any rate, if you're enjoying not-enjoying it, then, hey, it's your time to spend :-) But if it's not your cup of tea now, it probably never will be.

(We do at least agree about DS9's awesomeness. I only two years ago allowed myself to give DS9 a second chance after not liking it much first time 'round, and surprised myself by falling in love).

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Oh, I figured it would be. He's such a controlled machine that when he goes, it's going to be epic.

The miniseries wasn't bad but the first few actual eps are so. fucking. SLOW!

Thus far, BSG's main problem is that they can't stick to one storyline per ep. They have to cover like, six. That's too much for one hour. I'm not engaged in this show. I'm mocking it, but that's kind of a good sign. At least it's amusing me. Bab5 sent me into frothing fits.

I'm amused by the Firefly and the Enterprise clones I keep seeing :)

And nothing will ever quite get the mocking that Farscape did. I watch these space shows and no matter how bad they are, at least they don't have a helium-farting muppet.

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think Chekhov's Law more or less requires that, if you're going to introduce a character with that kind of self-control, you must, before the end of the series, show what happens when that control finally snaps.

I was having a little trouble understanding how you could perceive the early stories as "slow", but then I thought about it. If you're invested in the characters (and I was from the start -- they hooked me right away), then the early stories are quite intense, but you're right that they're not fast-paced like, say, the new Trek film is.

If they failed to sell you on the characters, though, then I can see that the stories wouldn't carry the same sort of weight.

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

I don't need fast paced, but I do need consistent storytime. Right now, Tigh is a waste of airtime, yet he keeps getting screen time. They've been setting up his inevitable alcohol-fueled disastrous fuckup since the miniseries and I just don't care.

Water picked up halfway through, when they tightened down to the one storyline on the prison ship. If they did this every ep, started with the multiples and then narrowed the focus, I'd be ok.

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

edit: My bad - Bastille day, not Water.

[belmikey.livejournal.com]

I quickly figured out which one you meant :-) That one's definitely a stand-out, not least of which for the entertainment of watching Richard Hatch (old-series Apollo) playing against Jamie Bamber.

Richard Hatch would never admit it in public, but I really think he enjoyed playing Tom Zarek far more than he ever enjoyed playing Apollo....

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know who he is. I'm a huge fan of the old show. He was also in everything else I used to watch, growing up. I'm sad Jane Seymour didn't take Cain.