dianora2

Um....holy crap.

First things first: after the previouslies made me want to stab my eyes out, the episode then proceeded to be all about Dee. What the fuck. The Lee/Dee stuff made me vomit in my mouth. Then, when she killed herself there was much rejoicing throughout DiaLand. Then I was concerned about how much Lee moping we would have to see. Then I was offended that once again, somehow Bill Adama's grief about a woman Lee was in love with is more important than Lee's. Then I was so excited that Kara wanted to talk to Lee about what was happening with her (more OMGWTF on that later), but Dee managed to ruin even THAT from beyond the grave! Jesus! Anyway, I guess we're just supposed to think Dee was depressed about Earth? Because as someone who has watched too many episodes of The X-Files and Supernatural, I was all, "It's something to do with the planet! She's the only person who brought something from the planet back onto the ship!" But....I guess I was reading into that a bit. *cough*

In conclusion, Dee is dead and I am VERY VERY HAPPY about that. I admit it. But not happy about what preceded it, UGH, although

sarmoti has since explained to me how the scenes did in fact make sense, at least.

(I should mention that throughout the course of the episode

em_meredith and I exchanged 26 emails about all this, heeeeeeee.)

As for Kara -- dude, you know things are bad when you are too weird for LEOBEN, LOL. (BTW, Leoben is a character who I keep forgetting exists. He's like Mandy on season one of The West Wing. Every time he shows up I'm like, "Oh yeah, that fuckin' guy.") When he started backing away from her I laughed pretty hard. But anyway, that shit is MESSED UP. OMG her burnt rotting corpse. EWW. So, when she came back was she wearing her dog tags? I don't remember. Surely someone better than I can remember. And I share Kara's question: What is she???? Maybe everyone who dies on that planet regenerates! OK, maybe that's my X-Files brain coming to the fore again. I don't know. Did I mention how happy I was that she wanted to talk about it with Lee? I hope she did eventually but I'm assuming she didn't.

Is it wrong that while my initial reaction to the 13th tribe being Cylons was originally HOLY FUCKING SHIT, it is now more of a Nelson-from-The Simpsons HA ha!? Ahem.

Also, I'm confused: at one point someone said the 13th tribe found this planet and "called it" Earth, but later Adama said that the 12 colonies "stood on this spot" or some such and left to find a new home. Errr, which is it? Was Adama lying to the fleet? Please explain to me what I'm not getting.

I actually think my favorite HOLY SHIT moment was when Chief remembered living on the planet. Now THAT was cool. What a great scene. Not unintentionally hilarious like Sam with his guitar neck. For a moment I was really really hoping they were going to reveal that the final five were all in a band together, ha ha ha ha. Tory said "You played it for all of us," so I'm guessing that means the four (five) were friends back then? Or was everyone on the planet some version of them? I'm still confused about that.

Oh, one of my other favorite moments was when they came back to Galactica at the beginning and everyone was standing there and I was like, oh GOD, they have to TELL everyone now. Ouch. Glad Adama eventually stepped up to the plate. (What would this man do without other people making him keep his shit together, honestly?)

Can D'Anna stay on Earth by herself? Please?

The Bill/Tigh fight made me very uncomfortable, not least of which because of the scary faces EJO was making. I hate it when Dad and Dad fight! Thank god Lee manages to keep his shit together at least. I had to grin at his neat British schoolboy handwriting on the whiteboard, LOL.

As for Laura I will echo

corellianjedi: Burning books is bad! Hee. Especially when there are only a few books left in the entire universe!!! It's a terrible disregard for paper. ;) (And so, does that mean the Book of Pythia was written by Cylons, or no? I guess we don't know?)

Not nearly enough Gaius, woe. I loved how they were just letting him be in the lab. I missed your lab coat, Gaius! But

nicole_anell had sent me this promo picture for the ep that made me SO HAPPY, but the reality wasn't nearly as exciting.

So, Ellen Tigh is the fifth? Really? Um, okay. That was pretty anti-climactic, wasn't it? Eh, I'm actually glad it's not anybody I care about. So I guess the 13th tribe doesn't need no stinkin' resurrection ship to regenerate and Ellen is going to pop up again somewhere? Hrm.

All in all, I thought this was a fabulous episode, except for the Lee/Dee stuff, which was contrived crap. And Lee looked really good in that dark blue shirt. (ETA: And I just realized at the very end he's wearing the Red Shirt of Unspeakable Hotness, eeeee!) The end.

And now, as I had a seriously crappy day in which I found out that my (one) credit card has been canceled for fraudulent charges (some chick named Marlene has been trying to use my card) and I'm probably not going to get a new one in time for Belize, and in which I spent half my work day either yelling at people for not doing their jobs right or doing their jobs for them, and also being completely overwhelmed by how much work I have to do and freaking out that I am going on a vacation when I am so overworked, I am going to bed. I have to get up early and clean the apartment for my incoming houseguests,

chanel19,

bbennett, and

harpinred (yay!).

BSG mood theme is back for the duration of the season. Maybe. :D