Brief reactions to Friday TV: BSG, Sarah Connor, Dollhouse

[butterfly]

Battlestar Galactica

So.

*glances around flist*

Am I the only person not hating Boomer right now?

Sarah Connor

Hmm. I need to watch that one again. Also, Sarah really adores her kid, doesn't she? It's even more obvious in her dreams than in real life. I love their relationship so much. The only fic that I really want to read in SCC is gen Sarah & John fic that deals with their relationship.

Dollhouse

Okay, I was really enjoying the show before tonight, but with the look between Echo and Sierra at the end there, I'm seriously fangirling in a major way (not only does Echo remember that she and Sierra are friends, she's aware that it might be dangerous to be too open about it!). I loved the episode as a whole -- the issues that Rayna was dealing with are just the sort of thing I was hoping for when I heard about this show. Identity and what the world expects of women and how we can deal.

So, you know. Awesome.

Also, I loved the Victor reveal.

Comments

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

I don't, like, hate Boomer.

What I enjoy about this show is that it's not about Teh Evil vs. Ultimate Good. There are just people who all have to live in this fucked up world, and are trying to see how all the pieces fit, and make choices based on what they (think) they know at the time. [I know some people hate Adama and/or Roslin, and I don't get that either. They're just doing the best they can with the cards they've been dealt.]

I knew what Boomer was going to do the minute she said to Tyrol in their first conversation that they both had figured out what they are now. She and Cavil see themselves/existence a certain way, and that informs their behavior.

I feel pity for her, because hell I feel pity for everyone, though I of course hated her actions in this episode (aka kidnapping a BABY that I really hope she and Cavil aren't planning on experimenting on - though, okay, probably that's the point). I would still wish peace for her character, if she can find it.

I think a happier path for her would have been to change her mind once seeing Tyrol again and defend herself passionately during the Cylon trial. The Rebels are, like, the crazy emotional LOVE IS GOD IS LOVE IS GOD models who I think could totally be pursuaded to forgive if she sold it right. It's in their nature to wish for grace. However, I have to agree with the writers that Boomer wouldn't do that, and would take the path she took. She gave into what (she thought) was inevitable on New Caprica and she's not going to fight now.

If we look at both Gina and Boomer, it seems to be that the sleepers who are implanted with hidden agendas and then wake up are just... broken beyond repair. It's just too psychologically tramatic.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

If we look at both Gina and Boomer, it seems to be that the sleepers who are implanted with hidden agendas and then wake up are just... broken beyond repair. It's just too psychologically tramatic.

Which makes me despise the programmers so much. Both Gina and Boomer just get kicked so hard by the universe.

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Since we've established that Cavil had the means (the only cylon child who has altered his own programming - eliminated sleep, natch - and reprogrammed the other models to forget the Final Five), motive, and opportunity... it makes it very, very hard sometimes not to hate him.

but then I remember his longing to truly understand the stars, and even though he's consumed with impotent rage & revenge I can't help but pity him as well. *sigh*

-however, I bet you a zillion colonial toothpastes that (a) he totally programmed Boomer to go boom and (b) she has no fracking idea the man she's fucking is the one who's comitted the first, deepest, darkest betrayal of all

poor. fucking. Boomer. Does the tragedy never end?

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

True, true. He is someone to be greatly pitied, because what he wants is something that he can never have (and, were he to gain it, he would no longer have the ability to emotionally appreciate it).

And I bet you're right that he was the mastermind behind the original sleeper programming. We haven't really seen anyone else capable of it.