An editorial on the Latest BSG

[lesbiassparrow]

Caprica's Heavy Machinery News would just like to point out that its issue 'Gauge sizes and tititanium screws: 3" or 2"- which is optimal?' was more riveting than this week's episode. It had a certain train wreck quality (akin to reading our rival publication, Big Hulking Lumps of Movin' Metal) but not a lot else.

And that wanker Adama has confiscated our last issue in the name of 'military security.' I guess he didn't like our calendar 'Hot men and women of the Galactica fix things in their underwear,' featuring Captain Adama as Mr. Fix-it for July. Hey, we have no prurient interest - it was all for charity. Charity, I tell you.

In other news the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South is stupendously amazing and wonderful and I am only sorry that it was not longer. Those Northern men sure know how to brood. And lead a strike. I approve of both, by the way. It is a pity that they can't combine the two for some character in a BBC drama.
There's a community recently started for it here: North and South.

ETA: Also I am reminded of the comedy series Brass which was set in a Northern town in the 1920s; it was replete with self-made men, nyphomaniac aristocrats, feisty socialists, and gormless lovers. In other words, it was excellent. Especially the inevitable statement every episode of 'there's trouble at Mill.' I wished someone had said that once in N&S - you know they were itching to.

Comments

[k-julia.livejournal.com]

And that wanker Adama has confiscated our last issue in the name of 'military security.'

I'm starting to recover my sense of humour about the episode, and this helps a lot. :-) Thank you!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I figure the only way to deal with an incomprehensible episode like this is to raise the standard of (machinery) journalism. I had no idea what was going on in most of this. Though Roslin's Adar meeting outfit was great.

[k-julia.livejournal.com]

I lurve the suit -- it says something about the rest of the ep when even Roslin looking more drool-worthy than ever cannot keep me from ranting and venting. Such a waste!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It was genuinely awful, wasn't it? I was particularly appalled by the way the show seemed to argue civil disobedience and terrorism are pretty much links. And that the only dissension with the military was completely bonkers and thus okay to rough up.

[k-julia.livejournal.com]

seemed to argue civil disobedience and terrorism are pretty much links. And that the only dissension with the military was completely bonkers and thus okay to rough up.

You've put into two sentences what I've managed to rant and vent about for an entire post and fifty eleven comments. It's really quite disturbing, and it's not what I expected from what we've seen of the show earlier.