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BSG 3.05
He never followed along. He never followed a mockery of a president, never saw the warrants sent to the secret executioners. He never took people from their families at night, never got them killed. Except when it was his turn to put people up against the wall. What else could he have done, Chief asked, with Gaeta’s voice.
Justice isn’t a balanced equation. One life isn’t enough to buy another; Jammer’s death for twenty-two. After all, Cally is a killer, too.
He never followed along, either. Not then, and not now, when traitors take the place of Cylons walking among them. Gaeta can’t seem to muster up his other eye. So, Tigh can’t blindly close them, can’t follow Adama’s order to sleep it off. Instead, he’s the one administering sleep to the poison in their ranks.
Tighs, and their dirty bargains: her betrayal for his life. Traitors’ deaths for Tigh’s betrayal of his wife. Shut-eye for an eye; he sends them to Ellen. Where he can’t follow.
The Cylons never know if she will follow along, if she even walks among them. They all know how much Six loves to be on her knees, instead: before God, before Gaius, before a nuclear missile that will bring them following in her wake. What they don’t know is what, in the end, she will be praying for: their deaths, Gaius’, or her own.
She can sentence Gaius to a traitor’s death, to pay for her betrayal of her kind. She votes life. Her God is love, not vengeance, and unlike Tigh, she can forgive herself.
Zarek never thought she would follow along, and that’s why he didn’t tell her. Everyone knows how much Roslin loves to stand on her own two feet: fighting in the wake of Cylons, dirty bargaining the election against Gaius, secret warrants for Admiral Cain and unborn babies.
And yet, she will close her eyes and follow her God, false hope, and humanity. Her faith may only be another kind of sleeping, a betrayal of her kind. Her turn to put people against the wall, and she blindly turns her cheek.
But Roslin is a killer, too.
Gaeta followed Gaius for the dream of New Caprica. When he opened his eyes and Cylons walked among them, he followed because there was nothing else he could have done. He betrayed his mockery of a president by showing the insurgents the secret warrants. He betrayed his people by getting them killed anyway.
He hated every moment of it, and that’s why here, on his knees, he won’t beg. His life for his betrayal, of everyone, makes sense. Maybe justice isn’t blind at all; at least it is more balanced than Tigh’s eyes.
In the end, Kara followed along too. Leoben kissed one cheek and she’d turn so he could do the other. She betrayed him by killing him, betrayed her people by loving it, every moment (she tells herself). She might as well’ve gotten on her knees and sucked his cock. She begged for it, in the end.
She can sentence Gaeta to a traitor’s death, for her own betrayal. She votes death, where she wants to follow, so badly. She punches Gaeta in the face, for a tooth. For vengeance. This particular blonde cannot forgive herself.
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The line about Callie being a killer too really struck home. I love Chief, more than any other character except Sharon, but man oh man, do he and Callie have *the* most fucked up relationship or what?
I need a better Chief icon. *nods*
And since I <3 your brain so much: What are your thoughts on why there are only seven Cylon models aboard that ship?
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I love the Chief, too. I love how, in the S2 finale, to move very quickly from Chief/Cally just having a vibe to being married with a kid, they just had Chief beat her up. Any other show would've had him finding out she crushed on him in a much more . . . uh, nonviolent way. But I love Cally, too.
Speaking of Sharon: omg she was completely gone, this time! ugh
seven models: wondered that too, and honestly, my theory is that the writers did it to make the human circle of six trials and the cylon trial for Gaius bookend so wonderfully. I mean, the human scene cuts with them saying we need six! And then it goes to Xena saying, we have six, we just need Six. So of course, there's seven, but the sound of it really strikes home with how similar these two scenes are.
The only other thing I got is that we've only *seen* 7 cylon models. Maybe the other 5 are special? On New Caprica, it looked like only 6 Cylons were involved in decision-making (I never saw Leoben in any of those sessions on Airforce One or whatever that thing is called, did you?)
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parallel, I guess.
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Leobon wasn't invited b/c he is the crazy drunken cousin they only put up with when they have to. ;)
I dunno, I feel like Anders knows enough to be way more sympathetic. She's his fucking *wife* for godsake. He should have said, "ok, hit me, be mean to me, whatever you need to do, I'm not going anywhere." Toadface. :P
Sharon was not in this ep at all! I am most displeased!
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But I wonder if Leoben is one of the seven.
I don't know if Anders saying okay hit me right then would've actually been the right thing to do. Sometimes you need to give people the space they're asking for instead of forcing the issue, or even letting *them* force it. But yeah, he was a toadface for giving back her dogtag thingy. That made me very wtf.
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I'm not saying he should have said "hit me NOW", just "Ok, you're hurting, and I'll give you space but you can't get rid of me that easily," would have been enough. As it was, I have the feeling he is going to die. Joss much.
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He's only going to die once he and Kara forgive and make up. Or at least, that's what Whedon would do.
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Although if they do break up, that could save his ass. BSG thusfar hasn't been quite as predictable as Whedon.
I continue to love the Chief. Is it me, or does he sorta remind you of Boreanaz?
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Because of the heavy brow? And flat mouth? And the way he can do a dead eye still stare? No, sorry, he doesn't remind me of DB. But from the very first ep I saw I wondered what it was with me and the heavy brow guys.
But hey, apparently these days I'm always up for side by side photos.
I think I found a hand fetish site. And yes. Yes, I did just see Joss Whedon as a centaur while finding a pic of DB. GOD.
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So last night, we're watching BSG and I say again how much I <3 Chief and Maze goes, "Yea, he has Boreanaz forehead." Then they show him and Callie's baby, and Maze tilts his head and says, "hunh. Baby Connor had that face, too. Giant foreheaded children."
And he was RIGHT.
I need a better Chief icon. Alas, they are hard to come by. Everyone caps Lee. *blech*
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The reason I don't do icons is I would stress for *hours* over finding the ones I wanted. I saw a Chief one the other day. I didn't think it was exceptional, but I found the post the iconer did; there are several Chief ones there: here. But yeah, this is why the world has my white haired lady. That and I'm really really lazy.
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Thanks for the link! But I want tired, papa of the revolution Chief icons. Yis.
Did you know Lynne is finishing her fic this weekend?
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That's how come the icon thing would drive me batty: never what I want.
She was talking about it being done soon, but I didn't know how soon. Whenever she mentions it I go all Pavlov's dog, and then she says yeah, but not yet. I'm really, really excited to see what she does.
I fell in love with slash, Connor, slash incest, Angel/Connor, and Lynne all at once the first time I read A&I. I blinked a lot at it.
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Re A&I: Aw yea. Best quasi-shmoopy incest *ever*. I <33 Lynne. And supposedly, I beta Monday. *fingers crossed*
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yay!
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It's a friendship based on mutual neuroses and porn.
I *like* it.
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Hey, you should be asleep!
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But yeah, me, no sleep, getting to be a big problem. I should go drink my sleepy tea. Or my pms tea. Did you know there's pms tea? It tickles me, for some reason.
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fall back
it always confuses me, but I think so.
I hope that it doesn't screw anything up for you.
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Yes, how does Chief equate Cally's murder of Sharon? She killed *his* Sharon after all.
He hated every moment of it, and that’s why here, on his knees, he won’t beg. His life for his betrayal, of everyone, makes sense. Maybe justice isn’t blind at all; at least it is more balanced than Tigh’s eyes.
GAETA! I had my hands over my eyes for this scene. I was *convinced* that BSG meant to hurt me, that the truth wouldn't come out until *after* the airlock. But they saved my beautiful, curly-haired idealist. And Chief ate with him, in awkward but almost amiable silence. EEEEEE!
I love this show *and* your sneaky unadvertised ficciness.
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I was pretty convinced they wouldn't waste Gaeta. Then again, I had no idea they'd off Billy, either. I loved that scene with Gaeta and Chief eating together! I did a little wibble, there.
Yeah I didn't advertise because it's less a fic and more just be wanting to respond to the eps. I did one last week, too.
I love this show too!
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Yes, I find this very *human* about him.
And yes, with the eating, many wibbles from me.
I did an episode response to an SV ep two weeks ago, and thought, what the heck, it's ficcy, so I advertised as such. Not the best, by far no, thing I've ever done, but it was fun.
I don't know if my brain could handle what you're doing with BSG though. *bows before you*
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Me too. I love him so.
Your brain can handle that and more. *mutual bowing*
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Yeah, this show gets in deep. I love it so!