Midweek BSG Blogging
Slotman is blogging the hell out of the new season. Read the piece that ends with this quote
Anyway, yeah, this episode was as strong as any other episode of BSG in the characterization department. And that’s what you watch it for, I think, and why you don’t bother Tivoing Stargate: The Legendary Journeys or what have you.
and the one about Episode 2.1.
Re Helo and Starbuck, I confess to not realizing they are supposed to have been an item in the past. What I thought I detected was entirely unidirectional attraction for Starbuck by Helo, and figured this was filling out a picture of Helo as a guy who is rather too quick to eroticize his intergender relationships. Maybe he’s that anyway. It would explain the trajectory of his relationship with Caprica-Sharon.
Comment by Hesiod —
July 25, 2005 @ 9:58 pm
Or, maybe, Sharon and Starbuck are both hot?
Did you listen to Ron Moore’s Podcast about the two-part season openers? [you can download it here] He siad he thought Katee Sackoff was extremely attractive in her disheveled, beat up look, created by the makeup department for her Caprica scenes.
Comment by Mrs. O —
July 26, 2005 @ 4:46 am
I can guarantee you UO agrees!
Comment by baroose —
July 26, 2005 @ 8:09 am
Another item from the podcast is that Helo and Starbuck have a history, but Moore says it is as friends and fighter pilots. That being said, I agree with UO’s interpretation.
Comment by Camera Obscura —
July 27, 2005 @ 9:00 pm
“*is rather too quick to eroticize his intergender relationships*”
Hmm, couldn’t this be said of Starbuck, also?
But that was such a delightfully polite way of putting it…
Comment by Jim Henley —
July 28, 2005 @ 9:13 am
Lori, why do you say that about Starbuck? She’s known Lee forever. Maybe “prone” rather than “quick?” She and Baltar took the tumble after some weeks. With Helo, however, first he starts rutting with a fellow officer in enemy territory, then, while she is pregnant with his child, he starts getting twitchy around another fellow officer in enemy territory – and one who is still too tired to bother washing the blood off herself.
Trackback by Rational Grounds —
July 28, 2005 @ 3:26 pm
Doggypile of Liberty
I’m linking this partly because I’ve been on a jag lately, and partly because it’s so damn well-said, but mostly because Everyone Else is Doing It: If they really do “hate us because we’re free,” the Bush Administration’s approach to…