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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] BTW - 49,584 Survivors at the head of the episode. So, but there was suddenly a space battle with the desperate humans engaging the vicious, freedom-hating Cylons. And me likey. No, but I'm excited because that meant a little less humanity fucking itself over, and frankly I get my fill of that on the news channels. I knew it was going to happen, that Lee was somehow going to wind up commanding Pegasus, but I was glad to see that it was because the ex-engineer Commander couldn't give up his old job. That sort of jibes with my own experiences with highly technical people. It was cool to see an engineer actually doing some engineering even if all he was doing was cranking (with a spanner!) some coolant valves until some lights turned green. I wasn't clear on why exactly no one else had thought to do the same, but I'll give them the benfit of the doubt. The heroic death thing was sort of ridiculous as it seems he could maybe tell Goggles at the door to open it up for a minute so he could catch his breath and then close it, and maybe "Have some medics on hand because I'm gonna run out of O2 and pass out, but I'll probably be alive for like 4-15 minutes if the resuscitator is even half awake." No, but with the heroic death, OK. The Roslin and Baltar politics game is cool. The Zarek stuff was also cool. I loved the timing of Baltar's announcement. They sold that completely as far as I'm concerned. I just wish they'd picked a less hot-button issue maybe. And yeah, as Simon already mentioned, I'd suspect that statistically we're not talking about a major population factor. That said, the very real catering to (possibly manipulation of?) the religious Geminonian (oh, like you know) demographic was certainly appealing. Mary McDonnell continues to take things up a notch with her reluctant announcement of her new policy and esp. her "You got your pound of flesh" speech. Lee and Dualla: yawnstretch. Starbuck still fucking up ship operations by being an insolent asshole (despite her briefly, shallowly introspective journey in episode [i]Scar[/i]): so yawning. Inexperienced commanders brashly disobeying a direct order from a superior as well as the advice from his second in command to even send a single scout thereby jeopardizing critical and irreplacable pieces of military hardware, placing his entire crew as well as the future of humanity at risk? Oh, c'mon, it's not like he came up in McHale's Navy. Also, dude, it's SUCH a trap... Lee getting promoted to full commander? Er... Which is to say that I liked it and I was glad to see at least a little Cylon ass-kickage. It may seem to be formula, but it's a formula that hungry, angry babies like me can happily digest. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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