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Happy Vday, and BSG
Happy Valentines Day, everyone!
Sue sent virtual chocolates! So much love.
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romanyg and a2zmom for the candies and rose as well! I got them while I was drooling all over Helo and Sharon. Much thanks! I love ya guys!
Now for something completely different. Hello, BSG, I feel like I missed an episode. 1/28 was "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", and it was about Kara/Lee, questioning/torturing Baltar, and the (I knew it; I so knew it, I said it) starry-eyed heartstopping fatalistic crush Gaeta has on Gaius Baltar.
(Don't you just know what Gaius whispered in Gaeta's ear was, "I know just how much you want to fuck me". Which makes me all, poor Felix, because Gaius, despite looking like Rufus Wainwright, is a total ponce if ever there was one. Gaeta deserves a real man, like Helo or Chief, but you see, Gaeta has a thing for anti-Helos and anti-Chiefs. That is, the slender femme-y ones.
More importantly, the brilliant ones, the ones ingenious enough to take risky chances and make ruthless decisions without compromising what is right, which is exactly how Gaeta saw Baltar's position to stay on New Caprica [when of course it was nothing but a slimey campaign strategy], until his world view was shattered and his faith came crashing down around him. For instance, Gaeta is exactly the sort that would follow Wesley [though I feel bad paralleling Wesley and Baltar because, as have I mentioned, Gaius is a little shit] in a heartbeat [fuck Wesley in a heartbeat, too], and when you think about it that way, he'd see Wesley as an anti-Angel, when that's not really true so much as Angel was just plain right and Wesley was just plain wrong.
But then Gaeta gets totally hot for people who inevitably fail, only he doesn't mean to court lost causes, it just happens to him. Except what should give him a clue that he really has a kink for just-plain-wrong is the fact that he gets all hot and bothered over these brilliant ones--these "great" ones, these ones he worships--precisely because he secretly dreams of bringing them down. Of bending them over and making them whimper and forcing all their aristocratic beauty and cultured greatness and what he sees as strength and rightness to become shivering gooey masses of submission in the face of Gaeta's own strength and hard cock. He wants to worship in public and desecrate in the bedroom. Of course Gaius failed him in both respects. Because nevermind the utter and complete betrayal of faith in public, in private Gaius has this completely unexpected and absolutely incongruous preference for, wait for it, girls. Who knew?
What's utterly depressing about it is Gaius does know, about Gaeta I mean, which is proves karma totally has it in for Felix because since when was Gaius ever gifted with a scrap of insight toward anyone but himself? But the fact is Gaius does notice these things about people, he just doesn't care, except when he can use it against someone, as he totally did in this ep.)
The next ep I saw aired on 2/11, and was called "The Woman King" (title reminded me of Illyria), and according to the BSG website I didn't miss anything. But hello, I don't remember these Sagittarans, or whoever they are; did I miss something? The "previously on BSG" had about two seconds at the end I didn't recognize, saying Helo was in charge of the Sagittarans and blah blah, did I just forget this whole plot? 'Cause the entire ep really came out of the blue for me.
That said: wow. I must admit I haven't been that impressed with BSG lately. I really dislike the Lee/Dee/Kara/that guy quadrangle, I'm confused by the Cylon stuff, I miss Adama, Roslin, Six, and Sharon, and the truly ambiguous issues this show used to deal with. But I really enjoyed this ep. It had its faults, which I deem as follows: 1) The set-up for this ep was pretty simplistic, too much so. 2) Adama seemed OOC so summarily dismissing Helo over and over and over again. 3) it was pretty one-note. The whole ep was Helo dealing with this one issue and making this same point repeatedly--but I much prefer that to some of these other eps we've had that've been hodge-podging three or four storylines or character arcs without making a definitive point about a single one of them.
Now squee. Oh, Helo. I knew I loved you, but I didn't know how much until now. You're for lost causes too, and how much did I love Saul pointing that out? For suggesting that there's something kind of sick, kind of wrong, with someone who identifies with the "outside"? And wasn't Tigh the perfect person to point that out, too. Oh, Saul. Oh Helo! I mean, the very first big action we ever saw Helo take, he forced himself to the outs: he gave up his seat on the Raptor for Baltar (and wouldn't Gaeta have done, too. I still love the idea of Helo/Gaeta, except that aside from all Gaeta's issues upon which I've already expounded, I wouldn't see Helo betray Sharon for the world, so that now that I think about it, a Helo/Gaeta/Sharon sandwich sounds really fuckin' good), aligning himself with all the doomed on Caprica, isolating himself from the good and saved.
And didn't you just want to glomp Sharon. Not only because it's been so long since we've seen her and she has a really cute ass in that uniform, but because she's not all about lost causes and being selfless and standing stoically outside in the cold just because it's the right thing to do, because Sharon can't be. She has to be about Hera, and she is, and it makes me happy. One of my favorite things about this ep is what dream!Baltar told Six: something about how, to be human, you have to be selfish. Adama, Coddle, and Saul are being mindlessly selfish, just lazy in not wanting to deal with the Saggitarans, but Sharon is being selfish too, in a way that isn't lazy or mindless or wrong, really really right, rather, but so inexorably human. We are selfish for our children; we need to be, have to be. Sharon would sacrifice everything she is, and even everything Helo is, if it would give Hera the life Sharon wants for her, and don't I love that.
And of course Helo, who even though it's certainly not his character, just looks like the simple, matter over mind, brawn-over-brains, I-just-do-my-job, plug-and-grind-that's-life type is the only one approaching grace.
And there was a preivew for next week and it looked like it was about Chief and Cally and good lord do I miss Chief and want to see what he's up too.
*sniffles*
I'm so excited.
Sue sent virtual chocolates! So much love.
eta: aww! THanks to
romanyg and a2zmom for the candies and rose as well! I got them while I was drooling all over Helo and Sharon. Much thanks! I love ya guys!Now for something completely different. Hello, BSG, I feel like I missed an episode. 1/28 was "Taking a Break From All Your Worries", and it was about Kara/Lee, questioning/torturing Baltar, and the (I knew it; I so knew it, I said it) starry-eyed heartstopping fatalistic crush Gaeta has on Gaius Baltar.
(Don't you just know what Gaius whispered in Gaeta's ear was, "I know just how much you want to fuck me". Which makes me all, poor Felix, because Gaius, despite looking like Rufus Wainwright, is a total ponce if ever there was one. Gaeta deserves a real man, like Helo or Chief, but you see, Gaeta has a thing for anti-Helos and anti-Chiefs. That is, the slender femme-y ones.
More importantly, the brilliant ones, the ones ingenious enough to take risky chances and make ruthless decisions without compromising what is right, which is exactly how Gaeta saw Baltar's position to stay on New Caprica [when of course it was nothing but a slimey campaign strategy], until his world view was shattered and his faith came crashing down around him. For instance, Gaeta is exactly the sort that would follow Wesley [though I feel bad paralleling Wesley and Baltar because, as have I mentioned, Gaius is a little shit] in a heartbeat [fuck Wesley in a heartbeat, too], and when you think about it that way, he'd see Wesley as an anti-Angel, when that's not really true so much as Angel was just plain right and Wesley was just plain wrong.
But then Gaeta gets totally hot for people who inevitably fail, only he doesn't mean to court lost causes, it just happens to him. Except what should give him a clue that he really has a kink for just-plain-wrong is the fact that he gets all hot and bothered over these brilliant ones--these "great" ones, these ones he worships--precisely because he secretly dreams of bringing them down. Of bending them over and making them whimper and forcing all their aristocratic beauty and cultured greatness and what he sees as strength and rightness to become shivering gooey masses of submission in the face of Gaeta's own strength and hard cock. He wants to worship in public and desecrate in the bedroom. Of course Gaius failed him in both respects. Because nevermind the utter and complete betrayal of faith in public, in private Gaius has this completely unexpected and absolutely incongruous preference for, wait for it, girls. Who knew?
What's utterly depressing about it is Gaius does know, about Gaeta I mean, which is proves karma totally has it in for Felix because since when was Gaius ever gifted with a scrap of insight toward anyone but himself? But the fact is Gaius does notice these things about people, he just doesn't care, except when he can use it against someone, as he totally did in this ep.)
The next ep I saw aired on 2/11, and was called "The Woman King" (title reminded me of Illyria), and according to the BSG website I didn't miss anything. But hello, I don't remember these Sagittarans, or whoever they are; did I miss something? The "previously on BSG" had about two seconds at the end I didn't recognize, saying Helo was in charge of the Sagittarans and blah blah, did I just forget this whole plot? 'Cause the entire ep really came out of the blue for me.
That said: wow. I must admit I haven't been that impressed with BSG lately. I really dislike the Lee/Dee/Kara/that guy quadrangle, I'm confused by the Cylon stuff, I miss Adama, Roslin, Six, and Sharon, and the truly ambiguous issues this show used to deal with. But I really enjoyed this ep. It had its faults, which I deem as follows: 1) The set-up for this ep was pretty simplistic, too much so. 2) Adama seemed OOC so summarily dismissing Helo over and over and over again. 3) it was pretty one-note. The whole ep was Helo dealing with this one issue and making this same point repeatedly--but I much prefer that to some of these other eps we've had that've been hodge-podging three or four storylines or character arcs without making a definitive point about a single one of them.
Now squee. Oh, Helo. I knew I loved you, but I didn't know how much until now. You're for lost causes too, and how much did I love Saul pointing that out? For suggesting that there's something kind of sick, kind of wrong, with someone who identifies with the "outside"? And wasn't Tigh the perfect person to point that out, too. Oh, Saul. Oh Helo! I mean, the very first big action we ever saw Helo take, he forced himself to the outs: he gave up his seat on the Raptor for Baltar (and wouldn't Gaeta have done, too. I still love the idea of Helo/Gaeta, except that aside from all Gaeta's issues upon which I've already expounded, I wouldn't see Helo betray Sharon for the world, so that now that I think about it, a Helo/Gaeta/Sharon sandwich sounds really fuckin' good), aligning himself with all the doomed on Caprica, isolating himself from the good and saved.
And didn't you just want to glomp Sharon. Not only because it's been so long since we've seen her and she has a really cute ass in that uniform, but because she's not all about lost causes and being selfless and standing stoically outside in the cold just because it's the right thing to do, because Sharon can't be. She has to be about Hera, and she is, and it makes me happy. One of my favorite things about this ep is what dream!Baltar told Six: something about how, to be human, you have to be selfish. Adama, Coddle, and Saul are being mindlessly selfish, just lazy in not wanting to deal with the Saggitarans, but Sharon is being selfish too, in a way that isn't lazy or mindless or wrong, really really right, rather, but so inexorably human. We are selfish for our children; we need to be, have to be. Sharon would sacrifice everything she is, and even everything Helo is, if it would give Hera the life Sharon wants for her, and don't I love that.
And of course Helo, who even though it's certainly not his character, just looks like the simple, matter over mind, brawn-over-brains, I-just-do-my-job, plug-and-grind-that's-life type is the only one approaching grace.
And there was a preivew for next week and it looked like it was about Chief and Cally and good lord do I miss Chief and want to see what he's up too.
*sniffles*
I'm so excited.