Oh god, so I know this is a great show. So in order to catch up, I’ve bought some from itunes, and I’ve been going through them.
Is it just me or doesn’t the relationship between Gaius really get on your nerves!!! In the movie it was okay, because those kinds of diversions are easily forgiven, but seriously…I’m fucking sick of it! Please tell me it gets better. I’m only on episode 10. I’m so sick of her teasing, super sensual and super slow way of talking. Pleas just get rid of her. The only part that I actually liked is when she became real on the ship once and Gaius was surprised that everyone else saw her too.
Sorry to vent, but am I the only one that finds this awful?
This is, however, SciFi and in general it’s given much more leeway with crap things that would otherwise ruin something of a different nature. The thing is, I actually Gaius a lot, especially when he isn’t this timid cock-teased little boy.
I’ve watched through the end of season 2 (or 2.5, as they call it). I just don’t think she’s a great actress, especially when compared to Sharon-Bot, the other Cylon woman we get to see a lot of. Man-Ho-Cylon (we can never remember the characters’ names, so we’ve given them all nicknames: Cap’n Rummy, Old Man Grizzle, Dr. Trippy, Man-Ho, etc.) is too over-the-top, too one-dimensional, to be very interesting to me. I think she’s the weakest member of a very strong cast.
Have you ever watched Desperate Housewives? There’s this character named Bree, and she said something one time I thought was cool. See, her son was yelling at her and telling her he hated her. She responded “the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.” So as long as he hated her, she knew there were still strong feelings and she wasn’t going to give up on their relationship.
That’s sorta how it is with BSG. There’s lots of love & hate, but it seems most people who started watching from the beginning are still more or less with the show. There’s lots of bickering, which IMO is a good thing. Sure there a lots of people who each week say “if you don’t like it don’t watch, don’t post,” etc. Whatever. People are still talking. The worst thing that can happen to a show is indifference, which BSG doesn’t seem to suffer from too much yet.
Does it get better? Impossible for anyone but you to decide. I’ll say this though, if you like a real live walking and talking Six, you’ll see her again. There are after all, “many copies.”
Anyway, here’s a list of episodes with their original air dates. Warning: each episode listing has a short blurb about what the ep is about which will contain spoilers so read at your own risk. But going by that list, I see that season 1 eps 10-13 ran from 3 Jan 05 to 24 Jan 05. You could do a search in Cafe Society for the BSG threads during those dates and read what the rest of us thought about those eps.
I mean, I understand the point of this, but I just don’t get the stupid sexuality involved. It’s annoying how she’s constantly fawning all over him. It reminds me of those couples who have been together for a less than a month and they are just SOOO in love that it makes you want to puke.
At least he’s not all lovey-dovey with her, he’s just trying to piece things together. I just wish that sometimes she’d act normal to him.
The further into the show you get, and the more Cylons you meet (and they become a lot more prominent in the second half of season two and through season three), the more you get the sense that each model has its own “style,” which is sort of an archetypal personality they use in virtually all situations to manipulate humans. Six is the seducer (and Baltar is vulnerable to this because he’s a narcissistic sensualist). The one you know as Sharon/Boomer has more of a “I’m so helpless and screwed up, please help me, puppy eyes, puppy eyes” thing going on, which different characters respond to. Leoben is a mystic. Later, you’ll meet the deeply cynical atheistic pragmatist. And so on.
Note in that first season episode where the actual Six shows up that she tries her sexualized approach on Cmdr Adama, and it pretty much backfires; he sees right through her. This demonstrates, I think, how limited they are as individuals; the more you get to know about them the more they all, together, represent a complete, though highly segregated personality-wise, view of human nature.
Yeah, there’s some fanwanking here, but I think it pans out in the long run.
That last bit really doesn’t need a joke does it?!
So I’m on season 2.5 now, the episode about the black market, and I have to agree that the second season seems to be FAR better than the first one. I really love the characters. Apollo and Starbuck aren’t too interesting to me but they are okay. I really like Helo and the Chief, because they are great characters. Of course Adama is great, and I was really worried when Cain came in and started screwing things up. That was rough. I can’t wait to get caught up!
As for the 6 and Gaius relationship, I find it much better now. It’s not constant like it was in the first season. I think it’s fine now. I do love the scenes with the Doctor and Gaius. They’re great together.
