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revdorothyl at 05:01pm on 01/06/2008 under television as mirror
revdorothyl at 05:01pm on 01/06/2008 under television as mirrorBecause even when the previews lead me to expect some predictable set of responses from the characters, and even when a quibbler (if I were one) could balk at certain political developments, BSG manages to knock my expectations into a cocked hat, sometimes, with an episode so engrossing and so surprising that I not only watch it while I'm taping, but have to immediately watch it again right afterwards.
Some of my favorite things: Lampkin's conversations with Lance, the dead cat in the room (literally and symbolically) whose death manages to be overlooked until a crucial point; Adama and Tigh having a knock-down-drag-out brawl and then bonding even more tightly over their shared past and shared sense of being out-of-control when it comes to the women in their lives; Adama's decision to "go see about a girl [woman]" (with thanks to "Good Will Hunting") while the fleet moves on without him; and Number Six's pregnancy (if Tigh's a Cylon and so is she, but Cylons haven't had any luck procreating among themselves so far, does that mean that this is another world-shattering pregnancy, or that the child won't survive, or what?)
Now and then, it's good to be reminded of why I started watching BSG in the first place.
Some of my favorite things: Lampkin's conversations with Lance, the dead cat in the room (literally and symbolically) whose death manages to be overlooked until a crucial point; Adama and Tigh having a knock-down-drag-out brawl and then bonding even more tightly over their shared past and shared sense of being out-of-control when it comes to the women in their lives; Adama's decision to "go see about a girl [woman]" (with thanks to "Good Will Hunting") while the fleet moves on without him; and Number Six's pregnancy (if Tigh's a Cylon and so is she, but Cylons haven't had any luck procreating among themselves so far, does that mean that this is another world-shattering pregnancy, or that the child won't survive, or what?)
Now and then, it's good to be reminded of why I started watching BSG in the first place.
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That makes sense, since Chief Tyrol's son doesn't seem to come in for any of the extra significance attached to Hera's birth and development, even though Tyrol's baby must be just as much of a hybrid as Hera.
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[Plus, there's a story I heard in my first seminar on Family Systems Therapy as applied to organizations, back when I was still new in parish work, about a "dead cat in the freezer" -- because its owner was planning on taking it in to the vet for an autopsy after work -- and how it acted as a lightning rod for all the dissatisfaction and anxiety in that particular office. So, I couldn't help but see poor, dead Lance as serving a similar symbolic and emotional function, in the end.]