![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rachg82So, I actually have some important life-stuff to talk about (involving my Mom and her not-so-great health), but there are still results we're waiting to hear back on so I can't get super in-depth about it quite yet. For right now I'll just say this: my Mom was admitted into the hospital this weekend because of fluid around the heart and lungs. She's still there now, because they're waiting on said test results and are trying to get the fluid out with dialysis (she has kidney failure and has been on dialysis for quite some time). In the meantime, I'm not really sure why the fluid is there, as at first they thought it was because they weren't getting her down to her "dry weight" on dialysis, but it's like, okay, so why weren't they? They said it's because she lost weight, and they have to adjust things now, but still. It's confusing, and stressful. At least we know now that it wasn't a blockage (read: heart attack) that caused the problem most likely. That's what they were saying they thought it was at first, which brought back a lot of bad memories for me of when my Grandpa had his heart attack and passed away back in 2001, and when my Mom had her big heart attack back in 2006. Those both involved the same hospital, too. But it doesn't look like that's the case now, and I think she's going to be okay (as okay as ever, that is), but it's still concerning. What really sucks is that she can't be put on a transplant list until they deem her stable enough. And as most of you remember, she's a rapid-cycling bipolar patient with addiction issues, so "stable" is not exactly something you consistently associate with her. But that's not something I can think about too much, because there's no control I have over the situation. All I can do is hope for the best, and be grateful for the time we have together.
Anyway, I promise to keep you guys updated if/when I find more things out. But for now, I'm going to distract myself with a recap of the rest of season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica (season 4.5 will come in my next post, because God knows I'm rambly), and my thoughts as I prepare to watch the series finale. Because tv-postage makes me feel better and because this show is made of awesome. Hopefully my ramblings are entertaining even if you haven't watched the show, but even if they aren't, there's just no way for me to watch this show & not have a place to talk about it. So, yeah. Heh.
P.S. check the icon! I finally got some BSG icons for my flaily posts. Hee. About time, I figured. So far they're all Adama/Roslin (I'm such a damn shipper, haha), except for of course this one which I had to go for because, hello, Roslin totes deserves her own icon. I heart Roslin to the nth degree, yo.
P.S.S. I've totally got my sci-fi hating sister watching this show now. She watched "Maelstrom" from season 3 with me this weekend, and also part of the miniseries. And then proceeded to say "frak" for the rest of the weekend pretty much non-stop. Hee! Now she wants to finish the miniseries next time I come over. It totally amuses me. She was SO eye-rolly about this show everytime I mentioned it before, now she's all "frak this" and wanting to find out what happens next. Haha. I will completely crack up if she gets hooked on this show, for real.
First up, my thoughts as I prepare to watch the finale:
I finished all of season 4.5 this weekend minus Daybreak Parts 1, 2, and 3 (the series finale). I've been putting off watching the finale because--for one--I'm a little nervous to see it as I know some fans loved it and some hated it, but more so because I honestly just don't want the show to end. I've only been watching the series for something like four months now, but I've fallen totally in love with it. I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters and stories yet. I wish I'd watched the show while it was on the air, so it would've been dragged out longer for me. Although it's likely for the best, because this show probably would've totally consumed me if I'd had to wait during hiatuses for new episodes to air. Heh. (like it hasn't already, but shh)
I also think it helped watching the show after others did, because I knew going into it the things some people didn't like regarding the ending. So I was able to prepare myself for the most part. So far though, even if there've been a few things that made me go "WTF? I'm not sure if I love that or hate that," or the occasional boring episode, overall the show's been pretty much a fucking masterpiece in my opinion. Everything from the romance (Adama/Roslin FOR THE WIN! Hee. No, but also because of Lee/Kara and the others too) to the suspense to the action to the angst (oh my gods, the angst! This show does angst like nobody's business, I can't even tell you) to the parallels with real-world bigotry, class divisions, religion, warfare, terrorism, etc (as in: hi, my show got invited to talk at the UN, did yours?), to the everythingeverythingeverything. The way it's like this yin/yang, where there's never joy without pain, never good without bad, never bad without good, never unity without strife, and never suffering without hope eventually coming through no matter how dismal things get. And trust me, things get pretty fucking dismal. Heh. LIKE REALLY. But somehow it just works. The show bitchslaps you with the bleak, and you're like "thank you sir, may I have another?"
Also, I love how the show has this mix of epic OMGWHATJUSTHAPPENED action, while also having some of the best character-driven drama out there. Honestly, I just don't know how many different ways to say I love it. I may have to create a new language, just so I have another way to say it.
Of course the minute I finish the finale, you know I'm going to do a rewatch marathon (which will likely result in further commentary here). So it's not like my experience with the show will be completely coming to a close with the finale. Barring of course the slim chance that I end up hating the ending so much that I can't bear to rewatch what came before it obviously. But I highly, highly doubt this will happen since again I already mostly know what to expect, at least when it comes to the things I know people liked/disliked anyway.
But anyway, enough of that. Let's move on to my reactions to the rest of season 4.0, shall we?
So, in my last post I went on and on about Sine Qua Non and The Hub, right? Well, I'm going to try to breeze through my thoughts on the other episodes of 4.0 in one entry, if that's possible (with 4.5 coming next time, like I said before). I know, I know, you're thinking "Rachael, it took you one long-ass entry just to talk about two episodes. What are you on? You can't cover a whole half-season in one post." But oh ye of little faith! I'm going to try anyway. So, buckle in.
And to make it even simpler, I'm gonna get list-y with it up in here. My thoughts will be (mostly) in order of the episodes though, just to keep a semblance of order.
1. I know I mentioned it in my last recap, but I still can't get over it: Adama reads to Roslin when she's in the sickbay. IT IS SO SWEET, y'all. The look she gives him everytime he shows up! GAH. WHY ARE THEY SO ADORABLE? And did I mention she's staying in his quarters? And Lee calls him on it? Hahaha. WAY TO GO, LEE.
2. Prophet Baltar and his throng of adoring women. This is one of those plotlines I'm not sure if I love or hate. I lean more toward love though, just because as the story continues you start seeing the new "Hi, I've found God, ask me how!" Baltar combining with the old "Everyone is stupid, and I'm in this for myself" Baltar. And it's kind of fascinating to watch. He's so brilliant at double-dealing and manipulating, it's inspired. But the best part is that no matter what shady shenanigans he gets up to, or how wrong he can be, the bottom line is that he's also occasionally right, and there's the whole thing of "if this man can be saved, then everyone can." Which he knows. I mean, at least to a degree. He can't fully own up to his role in the attacks on Caprica (kind of like how he's also never been able to fully face his responsibility over what happened on New Caprica in season 3), because it's just too much for him to deal with, but he knows he fucked up and he knows he kind of IS a fuck-up. But he still believes God loves him, and forgives him. I like that.
3. The Cylon civil war, and Six turning the Centurions against the others. DO NOT FUCK WITH SIX, okay. She does not play.
4. Starbuck and her search for Earth. When she first returned, I wasn't quite sure what to make of how she was acting. She was a little nutty, let's keep it real. But as time passed, she came through for me and I loved her again. If for no other reason than her guns-a-blazin' BAD-ASSERY in "The Oath" and "Blood on the Scales," which I'm going to go into in more detail next time because those eps are in season 4.5 and also because they kicked so much effing ass they practically deserve their own entry anyway (plus you know I'm going to talk about the infamous piano scene when I get to 4.5 as well).
5. Callie in "The Ties That Bind," This episode killed me dead. THAT ENDING, holy shit. First off, I loved the allusions to real-life marital discord and post-partum depression. The directing was fabulous, with the constant crying of the baby, and the feeling like she's going to lose it at any second. Number two, any less of a gut-wrenching reaction from her finding out her husband is one of the final five just wouldn't be right. I actually expected her to react like that. I was waiting for some kind of intense climax even before she found out. After all, the show had been building the conflict between her and Tyrol for a long time. I think they were planning this since the New Caprica arc, honestly. Which is sad, because remember how happy they were? But seriously, that's real life folks. I mean, okay, do you find out your husband is a cylon in real life? No. But do partners fight and start hating each other sometimes after getting married and having kids? The sad truth is yes. Not always, but sometimes. And I think they threw in her suspicions that he was cheating on her on purpose as well. Just to make it even more relatable. The most epic part of the whole thing for me though was how they ended it. The montage of happy memories in her mind from the course of the series right before she knocks him the fuck over the head, and starts walking to the airlock with her baby? Oh my God, so sad. And then the fact that Tory convinces her to stop, and she starts crying in remorse, horrified by what she was about to do, JUST SO TORY THE EVIL BITCH OF A CYLON CAN KNOCK HER OUT, STEAL HER BABY, AND SEND HER OUT THE AIRLOCK RIGHT AFTER SHE REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS. Holy motherfucking fucking shit. It reminded me of the ending to Anna Karenina, how right before the train hits her she stops and thinks basically, "wait, I don't want to do this anymore." But, nope, too late! And then that shot of her in space, all wide-eyed and frozen? And then the shot of Tyrol sitting alone in his room, not understanding what's happened because he didn't even know she knew that he was a cylon and thought they were just having usual marriage-y arguments? EPIC SAD, YOU GUYS.
6. Roslin losing her hair and dealing with her impending death. I really loved the bonding scenes between her and the other patient in "Faith." That was such a good episode. She made me cry when she started talking about her memories of watching her mother die of cancer. Now she has to go through it herself. And she's such a strong woman, you know? But even she's going to break down over it on occasion. And when she does, it just fucking kills me. I just can't handle Roslin crying. It's like a sucker-punch to the heart. And the dream she has at the end with the boat and the river and crossing over after death? SO WONDERFUL. First off, not just because it goes along with the vision that the other woman told her she'd had, or because it was just a lovely, lovely visual of Roslin getting to see her mother again, or even because it also matched what Baltar was talking about in that episode, but because it also goes along with what Leobon said in season 1 about the "stream". I love making connections like that.
Also? Even though I'm not positive what to believe about the afterlife in the real world (I want to believe in it, but I admit I have doubts), I like that you as a viewer know it exists on the show. It's not just part of Roslin's dream. It's an established reality in the show's canon that life continues on in some form after death. So I can tell myself that, okay, Roslin's going to die and Adama's going to be left all alone. But then I can take a break from the ensuing sobs to remind myself they'll be together again. AND YES, I have had this conversation with myself in my mind. It's how I deal with it. I *cannot deal* with the angst of it otherwise. It's just too much for me. It, like, makes my brain explode with the sorrow. Although I will say that it's a perfect, delicious sorrow. Like, it's not the kind of sorrow where you're like "damn you writers, WHY?!" It's more like, okay, we've expected this from the beginning, and it's really well done, and there'd be no way to turn back on it now without totally copping out. BUT IT'S STILL SO SAD.
6. Which brings me to one of my other favorite things about season 4.0 (and 4.5 as well, actually): how Roslin and Adama deal with her cancer together, and how it leads to them finally facing their feelings for one another. Even by the end of 4.5 where I'm at now, Adama is still kind of in denial that she's dying I think. It makes me heart hurt. His ship is falling apart, and Roslin is fading away, and even she says to him that he must feel like he's losing both his women at once, and he's like "neither of my women are dying. They just need a little more attention and care." OH ADAMA, YOU ARE MAKING ME WANT TO CRY.
But no matter whether he's in denial on the surface, you know he gets it. And he is SO THERE FOR HER. I mean, hi, at her bedside, constantly. And we're talking even before they were together toward the beginning of 4.0, you know? Roslin's all telling him what kind of funeral she wants (gaaaaah, give me tissues, someone), and losing her hair, and having to wear a wig, but he is just right there for her. You know it is killing him, but he is so strong for her. And she is so strong for him in return, because she knows it's hurting him too.
And here's where I'm super tempted to talk about all the shiptasticness between Roslin & Adama in 4.5, but that's going to have to wait til the next entry.
7. Finally: "Revelations," which happened right after "Sine Qua Non" and "The Hub" (the two episodes I talked about recently where Adama goes to save Roslin and she tells him she loves him, i.e. the episodes that made my heart fill with glee). First off, I really appreciated how Roslin decided to remain a hostage in that episode and how she convinces Adama to leave her behind (along with the sweet hug, aw!). It shows she's no damsel in distress, and also that he respects her enough to listen to her even if it means letting her stay in danger because it's ultimately her decision as president.
Secondly, this episode was full of bromance-angst between Tigh and Adama and it was fucking awesome. Adama's complete and utter meltdown when he finds out Tigh is a cylon? Oh my God. With the smashing of the mirror and the howling? Poor Adama. He's going through enough as it is. And now his best friend of thirty years isn't who he thought he was. But at the same time, he is, you know? He is still Tigh. But Adama's just not ready to process that yet in this episode, which completely makes sense.
Thirdly, the editing of the scene where all the final cylons are being rounded up to be airlocked and Starbuck is trying to run to stop it? Loved it.
Fourthly (is fourthly a word? Hee), hi, remember that time when everyone on this show was searching for Earth, and then they teamed up with a bunch of rebel cylons to be their allies and found what they thought was Earth after four long years, and there was that moving montage of everyone on the Battlestar being so, so happy (cue Roslin and Adama once again hugging. Awww!) and then they landed AND IT WAS A DECIMATED NUCLEAR WASTELAND? Right. So, remember how I said this show is bleak? I was NOT kidding.
Seriously though, the juxtaposition between the epic happy and the epic devastation? Brutal. Going from Adama giving his rousing speech about everything they'd been through, and how they finally made it, and then he lets Roslin carry out the order to make the jump because "they wouldn't have gotten there without her" (third time's a charm: AW! Hee), and then they land and it's just a *fucking disaster*? It's a good thing I was spoiled on that, because otherwise I would've been completely flipping out over it. Heh.
That's pretty much all I can remember off the top of my head about season 4.0. I'm sure when I do my rewatch I'll be like "um, duh, there was a million other things to talk about," but this will have to do for now. I have a lot to say about season 4.5, don't worry. Heh. Between Roslin and Adama in bed together (yes, you read that correctly: IN BED. TOGETHER. ALL FULL OF POST-SEX GLOW. AND SHE IS BALD. AND THEY DO NOT CARE. BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST THAT BEAUTIFUL) and the fall-out from Earth-FAIL (everyone is suicidal for an entire episode, like, really), and finding out who the 5th cylon is and what the deal was with the 13th tribe (mindfuck in t-minus 10, 9, 8. . .lift off!), and Gaeta starting a mutiny and everyone on the show KICKING EPIC ASS IN RESPONSE, and finally Kara and her dead body, and then her with her ghost(?) father at the piano playing the best version ever of "All Along the Watchtower"? YEAH. I have a lot to talk about. Heh.
SHOW, I LOVE YOU SO DAMN MUCH. YOU'VE REDUCED ME TO CAPSLOCK, I HOPE YOU REALIZE THIS.
Anyway, I promise to keep you guys updated if/when I find more things out. But for now, I'm going to distract myself with a recap of the rest of season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica (season 4.5 will come in my next post, because God knows I'm rambly), and my thoughts as I prepare to watch the series finale. Because tv-postage makes me feel better and because this show is made of awesome. Hopefully my ramblings are entertaining even if you haven't watched the show, but even if they aren't, there's just no way for me to watch this show & not have a place to talk about it. So, yeah. Heh.
P.S. check the icon! I finally got some BSG icons for my flaily posts. Hee. About time, I figured. So far they're all Adama/Roslin (I'm such a damn shipper, haha), except for of course this one which I had to go for because, hello, Roslin totes deserves her own icon. I heart Roslin to the nth degree, yo.
P.S.S. I've totally got my sci-fi hating sister watching this show now. She watched "Maelstrom" from season 3 with me this weekend, and also part of the miniseries. And then proceeded to say "frak" for the rest of the weekend pretty much non-stop. Hee! Now she wants to finish the miniseries next time I come over. It totally amuses me. She was SO eye-rolly about this show everytime I mentioned it before, now she's all "frak this" and wanting to find out what happens next. Haha. I will completely crack up if she gets hooked on this show, for real.
First up, my thoughts as I prepare to watch the finale:
I finished all of season 4.5 this weekend minus Daybreak Parts 1, 2, and 3 (the series finale). I've been putting off watching the finale because--for one--I'm a little nervous to see it as I know some fans loved it and some hated it, but more so because I honestly just don't want the show to end. I've only been watching the series for something like four months now, but I've fallen totally in love with it. I'm not ready to say goodbye to these characters and stories yet. I wish I'd watched the show while it was on the air, so it would've been dragged out longer for me. Although it's likely for the best, because this show probably would've totally consumed me if I'd had to wait during hiatuses for new episodes to air. Heh. (like it hasn't already, but shh)
I also think it helped watching the show after others did, because I knew going into it the things some people didn't like regarding the ending. So I was able to prepare myself for the most part. So far though, even if there've been a few things that made me go "WTF? I'm not sure if I love that or hate that," or the occasional boring episode, overall the show's been pretty much a fucking masterpiece in my opinion. Everything from the romance (Adama/Roslin FOR THE WIN! Hee. No, but also because of Lee/Kara and the others too) to the suspense to the action to the angst (oh my gods, the angst! This show does angst like nobody's business, I can't even tell you) to the parallels with real-world bigotry, class divisions, religion, warfare, terrorism, etc (as in: hi, my show got invited to talk at the UN, did yours?), to the everythingeverythingeverything. The way it's like this yin/yang, where there's never joy without pain, never good without bad, never bad without good, never unity without strife, and never suffering without hope eventually coming through no matter how dismal things get. And trust me, things get pretty fucking dismal. Heh. LIKE REALLY. But somehow it just works. The show bitchslaps you with the bleak, and you're like "thank you sir, may I have another?"
Also, I love how the show has this mix of epic OMGWHATJUSTHAPPENED action, while also having some of the best character-driven drama out there. Honestly, I just don't know how many different ways to say I love it. I may have to create a new language, just so I have another way to say it.
Of course the minute I finish the finale, you know I'm going to do a rewatch marathon (which will likely result in further commentary here). So it's not like my experience with the show will be completely coming to a close with the finale. Barring of course the slim chance that I end up hating the ending so much that I can't bear to rewatch what came before it obviously. But I highly, highly doubt this will happen since again I already mostly know what to expect, at least when it comes to the things I know people liked/disliked anyway.
But anyway, enough of that. Let's move on to my reactions to the rest of season 4.0, shall we?
So, in my last post I went on and on about Sine Qua Non and The Hub, right? Well, I'm going to try to breeze through my thoughts on the other episodes of 4.0 in one entry, if that's possible (with 4.5 coming next time, like I said before). I know, I know, you're thinking "Rachael, it took you one long-ass entry just to talk about two episodes. What are you on? You can't cover a whole half-season in one post." But oh ye of little faith! I'm going to try anyway. So, buckle in.
And to make it even simpler, I'm gonna get list-y with it up in here. My thoughts will be (mostly) in order of the episodes though, just to keep a semblance of order.
1. I know I mentioned it in my last recap, but I still can't get over it: Adama reads to Roslin when she's in the sickbay. IT IS SO SWEET, y'all. The look she gives him everytime he shows up! GAH. WHY ARE THEY SO ADORABLE? And did I mention she's staying in his quarters? And Lee calls him on it? Hahaha. WAY TO GO, LEE.
2. Prophet Baltar and his throng of adoring women. This is one of those plotlines I'm not sure if I love or hate. I lean more toward love though, just because as the story continues you start seeing the new "Hi, I've found God, ask me how!" Baltar combining with the old "Everyone is stupid, and I'm in this for myself" Baltar. And it's kind of fascinating to watch. He's so brilliant at double-dealing and manipulating, it's inspired. But the best part is that no matter what shady shenanigans he gets up to, or how wrong he can be, the bottom line is that he's also occasionally right, and there's the whole thing of "if this man can be saved, then everyone can." Which he knows. I mean, at least to a degree. He can't fully own up to his role in the attacks on Caprica (kind of like how he's also never been able to fully face his responsibility over what happened on New Caprica in season 3), because it's just too much for him to deal with, but he knows he fucked up and he knows he kind of IS a fuck-up. But he still believes God loves him, and forgives him. I like that.
3. The Cylon civil war, and Six turning the Centurions against the others. DO NOT FUCK WITH SIX, okay. She does not play.
4. Starbuck and her search for Earth. When she first returned, I wasn't quite sure what to make of how she was acting. She was a little nutty, let's keep it real. But as time passed, she came through for me and I loved her again. If for no other reason than her guns-a-blazin' BAD-ASSERY in "The Oath" and "Blood on the Scales," which I'm going to go into in more detail next time because those eps are in season 4.5 and also because they kicked so much effing ass they practically deserve their own entry anyway (plus you know I'm going to talk about the infamous piano scene when I get to 4.5 as well).
5. Callie in "The Ties That Bind," This episode killed me dead. THAT ENDING, holy shit. First off, I loved the allusions to real-life marital discord and post-partum depression. The directing was fabulous, with the constant crying of the baby, and the feeling like she's going to lose it at any second. Number two, any less of a gut-wrenching reaction from her finding out her husband is one of the final five just wouldn't be right. I actually expected her to react like that. I was waiting for some kind of intense climax even before she found out. After all, the show had been building the conflict between her and Tyrol for a long time. I think they were planning this since the New Caprica arc, honestly. Which is sad, because remember how happy they were? But seriously, that's real life folks. I mean, okay, do you find out your husband is a cylon in real life? No. But do partners fight and start hating each other sometimes after getting married and having kids? The sad truth is yes. Not always, but sometimes. And I think they threw in her suspicions that he was cheating on her on purpose as well. Just to make it even more relatable. The most epic part of the whole thing for me though was how they ended it. The montage of happy memories in her mind from the course of the series right before she knocks him the fuck over the head, and starts walking to the airlock with her baby? Oh my God, so sad. And then the fact that Tory convinces her to stop, and she starts crying in remorse, horrified by what she was about to do, JUST SO TORY THE EVIL BITCH OF A CYLON CAN KNOCK HER OUT, STEAL HER BABY, AND SEND HER OUT THE AIRLOCK RIGHT AFTER SHE REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS. Holy motherfucking fucking shit. It reminded me of the ending to Anna Karenina, how right before the train hits her she stops and thinks basically, "wait, I don't want to do this anymore." But, nope, too late! And then that shot of her in space, all wide-eyed and frozen? And then the shot of Tyrol sitting alone in his room, not understanding what's happened because he didn't even know she knew that he was a cylon and thought they were just having usual marriage-y arguments? EPIC SAD, YOU GUYS.
6. Roslin losing her hair and dealing with her impending death. I really loved the bonding scenes between her and the other patient in "Faith." That was such a good episode. She made me cry when she started talking about her memories of watching her mother die of cancer. Now she has to go through it herself. And she's such a strong woman, you know? But even she's going to break down over it on occasion. And when she does, it just fucking kills me. I just can't handle Roslin crying. It's like a sucker-punch to the heart. And the dream she has at the end with the boat and the river and crossing over after death? SO WONDERFUL. First off, not just because it goes along with the vision that the other woman told her she'd had, or because it was just a lovely, lovely visual of Roslin getting to see her mother again, or even because it also matched what Baltar was talking about in that episode, but because it also goes along with what Leobon said in season 1 about the "stream". I love making connections like that.
Also? Even though I'm not positive what to believe about the afterlife in the real world (I want to believe in it, but I admit I have doubts), I like that you as a viewer know it exists on the show. It's not just part of Roslin's dream. It's an established reality in the show's canon that life continues on in some form after death. So I can tell myself that, okay, Roslin's going to die and Adama's going to be left all alone. But then I can take a break from the ensuing sobs to remind myself they'll be together again. AND YES, I have had this conversation with myself in my mind. It's how I deal with it. I *cannot deal* with the angst of it otherwise. It's just too much for me. It, like, makes my brain explode with the sorrow. Although I will say that it's a perfect, delicious sorrow. Like, it's not the kind of sorrow where you're like "damn you writers, WHY?!" It's more like, okay, we've expected this from the beginning, and it's really well done, and there'd be no way to turn back on it now without totally copping out. BUT IT'S STILL SO SAD.
6. Which brings me to one of my other favorite things about season 4.0 (and 4.5 as well, actually): how Roslin and Adama deal with her cancer together, and how it leads to them finally facing their feelings for one another. Even by the end of 4.5 where I'm at now, Adama is still kind of in denial that she's dying I think. It makes me heart hurt. His ship is falling apart, and Roslin is fading away, and even she says to him that he must feel like he's losing both his women at once, and he's like "neither of my women are dying. They just need a little more attention and care." OH ADAMA, YOU ARE MAKING ME WANT TO CRY.
But no matter whether he's in denial on the surface, you know he gets it. And he is SO THERE FOR HER. I mean, hi, at her bedside, constantly. And we're talking even before they were together toward the beginning of 4.0, you know? Roslin's all telling him what kind of funeral she wants (gaaaaah, give me tissues, someone), and losing her hair, and having to wear a wig, but he is just right there for her. You know it is killing him, but he is so strong for her. And she is so strong for him in return, because she knows it's hurting him too.
And here's where I'm super tempted to talk about all the shiptasticness between Roslin & Adama in 4.5, but that's going to have to wait til the next entry.
7. Finally: "Revelations," which happened right after "Sine Qua Non" and "The Hub" (the two episodes I talked about recently where Adama goes to save Roslin and she tells him she loves him, i.e. the episodes that made my heart fill with glee). First off, I really appreciated how Roslin decided to remain a hostage in that episode and how she convinces Adama to leave her behind (along with the sweet hug, aw!). It shows she's no damsel in distress, and also that he respects her enough to listen to her even if it means letting her stay in danger because it's ultimately her decision as president.
Secondly, this episode was full of bromance-angst between Tigh and Adama and it was fucking awesome. Adama's complete and utter meltdown when he finds out Tigh is a cylon? Oh my God. With the smashing of the mirror and the howling? Poor Adama. He's going through enough as it is. And now his best friend of thirty years isn't who he thought he was. But at the same time, he is, you know? He is still Tigh. But Adama's just not ready to process that yet in this episode, which completely makes sense.
Thirdly, the editing of the scene where all the final cylons are being rounded up to be airlocked and Starbuck is trying to run to stop it? Loved it.
Fourthly (is fourthly a word? Hee), hi, remember that time when everyone on this show was searching for Earth, and then they teamed up with a bunch of rebel cylons to be their allies and found what they thought was Earth after four long years, and there was that moving montage of everyone on the Battlestar being so, so happy (cue Roslin and Adama once again hugging. Awww!) and then they landed AND IT WAS A DECIMATED NUCLEAR WASTELAND? Right. So, remember how I said this show is bleak? I was NOT kidding.
Seriously though, the juxtaposition between the epic happy and the epic devastation? Brutal. Going from Adama giving his rousing speech about everything they'd been through, and how they finally made it, and then he lets Roslin carry out the order to make the jump because "they wouldn't have gotten there without her" (third time's a charm: AW! Hee), and then they land and it's just a *fucking disaster*? It's a good thing I was spoiled on that, because otherwise I would've been completely flipping out over it. Heh.
That's pretty much all I can remember off the top of my head about season 4.0. I'm sure when I do my rewatch I'll be like "um, duh, there was a million other things to talk about," but this will have to do for now. I have a lot to say about season 4.5, don't worry. Heh. Between Roslin and Adama in bed together (yes, you read that correctly: IN BED. TOGETHER. ALL FULL OF POST-SEX GLOW. AND SHE IS BALD. AND THEY DO NOT CARE. BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST THAT BEAUTIFUL) and the fall-out from Earth-FAIL (everyone is suicidal for an entire episode, like, really), and finding out who the 5th cylon is and what the deal was with the 13th tribe (mindfuck in t-minus 10, 9, 8. . .lift off!), and Gaeta starting a mutiny and everyone on the show KICKING EPIC ASS IN RESPONSE, and finally Kara and her dead body, and then her with her ghost(?) father at the piano playing the best version ever of "All Along the Watchtower"? YEAH. I have a lot to talk about. Heh.
SHOW, I LOVE YOU SO DAMN MUCH. YOU'VE REDUCED ME TO CAPSLOCK, I HOPE YOU REALIZE THIS.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 04:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-18 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-19 02:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-19 06:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-22 02:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-27 08:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-27 04:38 pm (UTC)She's out of the hospital now, and they did surgery to make sure her heart didn't need another stint and it looks like it doesn't. So that's great news. The dialysis is still a huge drain on her though, which sucks.