friday night

[dianora2]

Mutiny on the HMS Demetrius! And with good reason, GOD. I'm kind of impressed with everyone that it even took them that long. Because I'm thinking that when your captain is spending her free time painting pretty pictures on the wall with a creepy Cylon, it's time to pull the plug. And they killed Matthias! Dammit, I liked her. Oh well. (Also, again I ask: how many people are on that frickin' ship? Geez.) Anyway, I found the whole thing kind of tedious, though I admit a large part of that is because I find Leoben tedious. He's just never been an interesting character to me, so I pretty much check out whenever he's on screen. I did find the scene with him and Anders almost interesting, but only if you read the whole other Sam Cylon layer into it.

Also, I still don't understand why that ship has no AC, although again, I am not complaining about sweaty arms.

And what was that crap about Kara and her empty affairs? I wish they'd stop trying to tell us Kara is some big careless slut, when as far as we know she's only slept with a grand total of four guys, and only one of them could be considered a one-night stand. Whatever. I know they want her to be Dirk Benedict, but, please.

I guess Helo should be grateful he didn't get shot like Cain's XO did, though. Couldn't help but think of that scene while watching.

Meanwhile, back on Galactica, not much happened. Except Chief shaved his head and maybe he and Gaius are going to be friends now? (For the record, I would find that to be AWESOME.) The initial prayer meeting encounter made me laugh; all Gaius still wants deep down is to be liked and respected, and regardless of his cult following, the people he respects the most still have no use for him.

I liked Chief calling Tigh on his insistence that he's still the same man he was as crap, and he's still spending lots of time with Six, eh? *cue porno music*

Random question: you can just go on and walk in to anyone's private quarters? So you can, say, pop in on Helo and Sharon in the middle of the night to see what's up? Weird.

The Tory/Gaius scene made me snicker; love that she may be sleeping with him and is susceptible to his message, but still doesn't give him special treatment at her job. (And I still want to know if Lee told/is going to tell Laura that he saw Tory at the meeting, but oh yeah, neither of them was in this episode. :P) Also, Rekha Sharma has a really nice back.

I am so digging Gaius in his robe/smoking jacket that I can't even stand it. Hilarious.

And that's about it. Thought this was a pretty boring episode all the way around. I though it was supposed to be a headlong race to the finish line now that there are so few episodes left, huh? So WTF is going on? I hope next week's payoff is worth this week's setup. It *looks* like it, but, I'm pretty underwhelmed by this season so far. (And what's up with having an episode with NO OLMOS? HE'S OLMOS DAMMIT. That is just wrong. I mean, it goes without saying that a Lee-free ep makes me sad, but wow, I really thought the Olmos absence was palpable.)

So Doctor Who on SCI FI tonight was the Pompeii ep. Overall the episode started out strong, but my attention really wandered near the end. This could just be because I'd much rather watch them making fools of themselves in public marketplaces than facing off against alien rock demons or whatever. But anyway, if the Doctor was so adamant about not interfering with a fixed point in time, why did he save that family -- and just plop them down a couple miles away? Shouldn't he have, like, taken them to another planet or something, so that their being saved wouldn't screw with the Earth's timeline? (Wings of a butterfly and all that.) Or, since it was the Doctor who caused the eruption in the first place, was his saving that family already predetermined as well? These are the things that make my brain hurt. And I think I've already spent too much mental energy on it. Whatevs. I am enjoying Donna, which is good because I wasn't expecting to.

Couple other things:

New trailer for The Happening. I am all over that movie.

Barack Obama doing the Top Ten List if you missed it. Needless to say, #10 is my favorite. *g*

PSA: If you go to see Iron Man, sit through the credits. There's a bonus scene at the end. Although if you're not familiar with the Marvel universe it won't make much sense. Wait for it anyway. I was rushed out of the screening by my co-workers so had to settle for a crap bootleg version on YouTube. Don't let this happen to you!

Comments

[marakara.livejournal.com]

If you go to see Iron Man, sit through the credits.

Great minds think alike (and post at the same time). There were rumors about this cameo for months but when the movie was shown early to some groups, they didn't sit through the credits and complained. Funny, they missed it all.

Take Care
Mara

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

Donna is awesome. Funnily enough, the general consensus over in Las Vegas is that the first half of this one is really slow and the second half is where it gets good.

I pretty much completely agree with your review of tonight's BSG. Poor Matthias. I cursed her with death. :(

I guess Helo should be grateful he didn't get shot like Cain's XO did, though. Couldn't help but think of that scene while watching.

Meanwhile, back on Galactica, not much happened. Except Chief shaved his head and maybe he and Gaius are going to be friends now? (For the record, I would find that to be AWESOME.)

Yes!

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

I still haven't seen Iron Man, but I did totally just go see the bootleg on You Tube. HOLY SHIT. If even half the movie lives up to that level of OMG AWESOME it'll be a good time. (I'm expecting it too, all my friend's reviews have been favorable.)

[girlunravelled.livejournal.com]

I guess Helo should be grateful he didn't get shot like Cain's XO did, though. Couldn't help but think of that scene while watching.

word. that would have been a sad waste of arms.

wish they'd stop trying to tell us Kara is some big careless slut, when as far as we know she's only slept with a grand total of four guys, and only one of them could be considered a one-night stand.

and really, she was thinking about another guy the whole time, so i'm going to give her a pass on that one!

[colorstoobright.livejournal.com]

I sat through the credits of Iron Man! I was pretty much the only one freaking out though.

[alissabobissa.livejournal.com]

Chief shaved his head and maybe he and Gaius are going to be friends now? (For the record, I would find that to be AWESOME.)
OMG, yes! The thought of that gives me joy for some reason. :)

And what's up with having an episode with NO OLMOS? HE'S OLMOS DAMMIT. That is just wrong. I mean, it goes without saying that a Lee-free ep makes me sad, but wow, I really thought the Olmos absence was palpable.
Dude. Olmos-free means less interesting I guess. I think a good Adama speech followed by a slow clap thrown in there or maybe an Adama/Adama awkward hug would have made the episode better for me. Also, I'm going to need to see the reappearance of Lee's cute little briefcase very soon. :D

[em-meredith.livejournal.com]

Except Chief shaved his head and maybe he and Gaius are going to be friends now?

I thought they were gonna get it on.

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I'm kinda surprised Helo went along with it at all, he being military guy and all. But I'm glad they did, not just because Kara -is- endangering everyone and might well actually be crazy. And, of course, because it will lead to more good conflict.

I thought Bald Chief was scary. I like Hairy Chief better.

[writingpathways.livejournal.com]

I'm don't know that much abuot comic books, but I saw Iron Man with two major comic book geeks and i swear at that end scene they both had an orgasm. Also only my group and another group stayed until the end, so either no one else knew that was coming or they are big ass idiots!

And I think you said something about Tony/Pepper being very Josh/Donna and OMG were you right about that, it was awesome but somewhat freaky just how much like J/D they were.

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

...all Gaius still wants deep down is to be liked and respected, and regardless of his cult following, the people he respects the most still have no use for him.

This is made of awesome! I like your summation here. :)

Like you, I'm also bored with Leoban, and check out every time he's in a scene. Come to think of it, his recurring appearances tied directly to my waning liking of Kara, which is rather unfortunate (for me) in this fandom... ::sigh::

No Lee, no Laura, AND no Papadama! What the (BSG) world has come to?! Zzzzzz......

[caz963.livejournal.com]

Donna is fabulous - she's given DW a much needed shot in the arm after last season, IMO.

I liked the Roman ep, but yes, you have to wonder why, after all that "some things are meant to be" he did save that family. Maybe it'll come back to bite him on the bum!

[chanel19.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the PSA, I would have hated to miss that. Sorry you did.

[smashedpeaches.livejournal.com]

New trailer for The Happening. I am all over that movie.
I'm so with you on that.

[prophetkristy.livejournal.com]

(FINALLY getting caught up.) zomg, I am glad to not be the only one annoyed that they killed Mathias. NOT COOL, SHOW!

Thanks for the heads-up on staying through the Iron Man credits, BTW--those were some long-ass credits, so even though I'm a credits-watcher, I might have left anyway.