Inauguration Post

I don’t have any profound thoughts about it really… I was glad I got to watch it, though, I had a class at eleven and would have missed it but our professor was nice enough to cancel class. There was a TV set up in the English building and there were lots of students and teachers gathered around to watch it… it made me feel like I was part of something, to watch it with a bunch of strangers like that. And just now I was looking at Facebook and tons of people had updated their status this morning to say they were watching the inauguration. And while I was watching it I had thought about how millions and millions of people in our country were all watching the same thing happen on TV in tons of different places. It was like we were all together, no matter how far away we were from each other.

Extremely heavy and extensive BSG spoilers are contained herein.

I’m trying to watch the Baylor basketball game versus Oklahoma State, but we’re sucking terribly, so I’m doing this instead.

How about BSG last night? Whew.

Alright… Ellen. I’m not really surprised, I guess. Personally I think it’s better that she’s the last one as opposed to all the random other minor characters that people were guessing.

The biggest OMG for me this episode wasn’t that – it was Dee blowing her brains all over the wall. I was getting so annoyed with the apparent rekindling of the Lee/Dee thing, but then… wow. I know people are going “but she seemed fine, that doesn’t make sense” but I think it makes perfect sense… she was really shaken up by the discovery that Earth was burned 2000 years ago, and lost all sense of hope for humanity… so she went to the one person she knew would be able to make her feel normal again just for a while and then ended it while she was still somewhat happy. I get what they did there. It completely shocked me though. I never liked Dee, but I never expected anything like that from her character.

Side note: I cannot for the life of me figure out how they’re doing that with Gaeta’s leg. Like, obviously the actor didn’t really amputate his leg for this, but it LOOKS LIKE THAT FAKE LEG IS REALLY THERE. When he went back in to see Dee’s body… HOW did they do that? Does anyone know? It’s driving me crazy. Where’s his real leg???

Another side note: How cute was that moment with Helo, Sharon and Hera? That was seriously adorable.

Okay, I don’t know what the deal is with Kara. I don’t have any clue what’s going on there. Maybe when she went through that wormhole thing (whatever it was) it made a copy of her, or she got split into two versions of her somehow, and one of them crashed on the planet and one didn’t. Or something? That seems more Trek than BSG though, so I doubt it. But obviously there’s somebody on Earth somewhere.

I really like the whole 13th tribe being cylons thing. It’s crazy but also pretty fantastic… it just goes farther blending the lines between human and cylon. Because presumably, this isn’t an alternate Earth, it’s our Earth two thousand years from now. And we assume we’re human. So who’s really different, them or us? If we’re cylons, then… maybe what the cylons are is our version of normal, and the other “humans” in this show are different from us. If that makes any sense… it does in my head.

On the downside, I’m bored already with the people trying to kill themselves. It made sense with Dee, but then they went and tried to do that same feeling again with Adama. After Dee already did it, it was underwhelming. Because you know he’s not going to really do it. I did like Tigh in that scene though (hell has frozen over, I used the phrase “I like Tigh” in a sentence) – it was a nice change of pace to see him being the normal, sane, sober one. Also, I didn’t particularly like Roslin burning her little bible thing. I just… I don’t know. I don’t understand how she could just lose her faith so fast like that. I would have thought she’d want to go back over it and see what it said, taking the burnt Earth into account. There’s always a bigger picture. Maybe this is just my personal views coming in here where it isn’t relevant, but whatever. I don’t know.

I don’t know what they’re thinking, though, leaving Earth. They’ve been there for a matter of days and they’re already saying, “well, we’re just going to go. Because we’re pissed off that 2000 years ago, something bad happened and everybody got nuked.” Don’t they want to find out what happened? Don’t they want to look through everything for more clues? Or are they just like “oh, it’s all destroyed, and all the skeletons are actually cylon skeletons, so obviously we’ve been misled this entire time”?

At any rate, I would like to point out that I was right about the final five cylons being from Earth. I know just about everybody had thought that, but I’m proud of myself for being right just the same.

As for the preview for next week… I can’t really tell what’s going on. Something with Zarek? Revolution? Rioting? All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

this might actually be kind of fantastic

Most exciting news of 2009: The Eleventh Doctor has been cast, and here he is in this adorable video.

He’s already won me over.