#battlestar rewatch

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(Decided to separate this from the mirror universe thoughts since they're not really connected!)

(BSG Pegasus Spoilers ahead!)

Don't get me wrong, I deeply resent that the Pegasus arc even exists and that it enters my eyeballs every few years (self-inflicted at this point, I know what I'm getting into) but DAMN if it isn't all worth it just to hear Roslin say, "You've got to kill her."

I spend most of Ressurection Ship I on the edge of my seat in avid anticipation of that line, and the rest upset about the job Cain does on Kara's head.

...And a little bit laughing at Lee having, just, no idea what he's doing with any of this, and also at Tigh finally getting his moment to shine. (His first moment to shine, I guess, he has a few more in seasons 3-4.)

But Roslin. Lecturing Adama and Cain like squabbling children. Forcing them to speak to one another. Badgering them sternly toward compromise. Upholding law, and reason, and order, when the whole world has gone mad. (I love her so much.)

And then turning to Bill, breathless and exhausted and dying, and telling him to assassinate Cain.

EVERYTHING. She's everything. She's so ridiculous. I love her.

[somekindx]

Hard to explain how I can love a piece of media this much and simultaneously want to slice through it like taking a hot knife to butter

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She's so beautiful at her second swearing-in I can't even

[somekindx]

Katee Sackhoff has never looked so fine as she does in Unfinished Business. Truly, staggeringly, epic levels of hotness.

[somekindx]

The misogyny is hitting me hard on this rewatch.

[somekindx]

I've skipped Razor on rewatches before, and I've definitely thought about skipping the actual Pegasus arc, but thoughts on skipping Black Market?

I don't wanna watch it but I know there's some juicy Lee stuff in there, if mostly of the "this canon sucks, I'm rewriting it" variety.

[somekindx]

So... I just realized that Pegasus is Battlestar's mirror universe.

(Except that Star Trek has always been too polite to really go there with the mirror universe.)

[somekindx]

I continue to kind of hate season "4.5" (still intensely pretentious, I can't get over the 4.5, just call it season 5 for crying out loud). And continue to be baffled that I used to think the final half-season held up.

And also. I think there's a no-brainer-easy solution for WITS to the Sam of it all. But the solution creates two new problems to solve, so it's a good thing I'm still a year or two out from there at this rate. hahahaha.