Nice video choice, Jennifer Godwin of E!
"A Disquiet Follows My Soul" Sci Fi official recap:
Yesssssssssssssss!
Bill and Laura finally were shown basking in the afterglow--though her crazy-big fake bald head made me think of Capt. Kirk in one of his Star Trek encounters for a moment there. But I was happy that they have gotten real (again, is my guess--thinking New Caprica-time). This is a neat Bill and Laura video made by someone well-versed in the whole 4-season arc of their coupling. So yeah, squee.
Not sure I agree with this assessment but everyone is entitled to their opinion, right?
Battlestar Galactica season 4.5 has been crazytown so far, what with the suicide of a beloved character, the disappointing reveal of the fifth/final Cylon and the shocking/random truth about baby Nicky's parentage, but all the weird was wiped away tonight. Jennifer Godwin of E!
For one, the fifth cylon wasn't a big shock--but the reveal of the Final Four last season was a shot to the gut if you were invested in the characters--any one or all of them. I simply love "Chief," now stripped down to "Tyrol" but moved up to one of the Final Five (FF).
Chief acted like a total jerk in tonight's episode, " A Disquiet Follows My Soul," but I still think deep inside he's a good guy.
Cally betrayed him terribly. And he's recently found out that his pre-New Caprica, near-suicidal fears, when Brother Cavil (one of the seven previously-known Cylons--this guy got air-locked) first was featured on the show--were well-founded. Cavil dissuaded Chief that he was Cylon with the quip, "Besides, I haven't seen you at any of the Cylon parties."
Then they found New Caprica, Chief married Cally and the baby came and co-leading the Resistance happened and he seemed OK... I hope the series ends with Chief going out in a some kind of heroic fashion.
Too bad what's become of Gaeta. I know it gives Allesandro Juliani the extra scenes but I hate to see such a character sour so badly.
Here's what Allesandro has to say about Felix Gaeta's newly-minted relationship with veep Tom Zarek ( Richard Hatch).
This episode marks the beginning of an unusual partnership, that of Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta. Actor Alessandro Juliani described the experience of working together: “I’d never had much to do with Richard over the seasons, but I remember thinking to myself how strange it was: that I had gone from playing with a likeness of Richard as a child (an action figure I still have by the way) to playing with the real live Richard! By the way, he’s a way better actor than his action figure.”
Bear went on to query Alessandro about Felix Gaeta, a previously upright, straight-shootin' member of the Fleet to "baddie" and Alessandro responded thusly:
...he quickly replied
“Baddie? Who said anything about being a baddie? I mean, if resisting an alliance with a race of malevolent, deceitful robot-people responsible for the genocide of humankind, enforced by a bunch of ‘leaders’ who time and time again had proven to be completely misguided and hypocritical in their policies is bad…who wants to be good? If what you meant to ask was when did I find out that Felix was to assume the mantle of being the moral center of the show, then I believe it was during the filming of the now infamous ‘Stump Serenade’ that a certain Emmy-nominated writer who shall remain nameless first hinted at his heroic destiny.”
Courtesy of the sublime Bear's Battlestar Blog
One of the more relevant "You Will Know The Truth clues played out in this, S4 E14,"A Disquiet Follows My Soul."
Clue 23. Video. Adama calls Roslin in her quarters on the Galactica but she ignores the persistent buzzing of the ancient corded telephone. She is dressed in her nightclothes, standing over an assortment of meds.--many colours and shapes of pills. She's deep in thought then begins to toss the lose ones in the trash, seems to heave a sigh of relief and finishes by throwing all the bottles of pills in the bin.
Another "You Will Know" SciFi Network pre-Season 4.5 promotion was a part of "A Disquiet Follows My Soul," too.
Tyrol really beat upon poor Hotdog. Geez, what a grump.
Clue 25. Video. Baltar is preaching to the masses who seem to be less-fringe-looking and more diverse. Baltar yells to the cheers of his followers, "It is God himself who should come down here and beg for our forgiveness!" there is a disease aboard this ship and ii is a disease of denial. the crows cheers. Galen Tyrol has been watching Baltar impassively but spots Hotdog across the room. Their eyes meet and Tyrol with obvious purpose, begins to make his way through the crowd to Hotdog. Hotdog begins towards Tyrol too but nowhere near as purposefully. The crowds continues it's roaring and cheering at Baltar's every utterance.
Hard to say if Dualla's (Kandyse McClure) suicide was that of a "beloved character."
She was lovely and certainly loved by her crewmates and Adama but if she had been truly beloved they would have given her more to do with her character. She btw, is the reason when I caught a glimpse of the show in it's first season that I went back and watched the whole season up to that point and continued right on. Kandyse McClure just has the most beautiful eyes ever. It's a bit of a comfort that she has a lot of eye-candy-walk-on scenes throughout much of the series when going back to watch it on DVD. RIP Dualla. :(
I'm not "disappointed" with the reveal of Ellen Tigh as the FF Cylon. She and Saul Tigh being a couple from as long as 2000 years prior is kind of neat and it works with the storyline as the character turned up mysteriously, well into the first season(?) with a cockamamie story about having been unaware of her surroundings (on another ship) for months! Someone took care of her was her story, though she appeared uninjured. So Ellen Tigh being the reveal works on that level. Why she frakked icky Cavil back on New Caprica to get Tigh released from Cylon prison and torture makes no sense to me. How could Cavil have power over one of the sacred Final Five? I need a good explanation but it's too early to call it disappointing.
(Generally, it's my opinion that the late-comers to the show tend to view it on a episode by episode basis instead of looking at it as a story told over four years.)
My hard drive got wiped and though I've recovered a lot of my stills from the show they are completely unsorted --so I shall go see what I can find. EDIT: found some that are good at the SciFi.com site.
SciFiWire spoke with Kandyse McClure the day after S4E13, "Sometimes A Great Notion" aired.
Here's snippet and a link to the source for more.
"It was hard that she wouldn't be there to say goodbye, and that I wouldn't be there to say goodbye." -Kandyse McClure
What was your reaction when you actually got the script and it said something along the lines of "Dualla puts gun to temple and pulls trigger"?
McClure: I was floored. I think I was just as floored reading it as I'm sure people [were] seeing it. It's such a personal and violent and shocking way to go, not only for her, but for the implications for the people around her. Suicide is a difficult topic at the best of times. People see it as being an ultimate act of selfishness on one end, but certainly from the research that I did and the people that I spoke to, there are so many different reasons that people get to that point. But I think for Dee it was just the ultimate act of surrender and the final act of control over her own life. She really wanted to find some kind of peace.
As far as you know, will we learn any more about why she took her own life? In other words, will someone read out loud a will or a suicide note she left behind?
McClure: So far as I know, no. So far as I know, that was it. She couldn't see any way of ever finding any happiness for herself. That's no good. Her husband [Jamie Bamber] is still in love with someone else. He's turned his back on one of the things that joined them together, being in the military and that sense of duty towards the military and his father [Adm. Adama, played by Edward James Olmos] in particular. But I think that was it. It's her final peace. It's a very human reaction to a situation like that. Of course, I imagine that Dualla was not the only one on the ship, and certainly not the first one during the course of the whole saga, to choose that way out. I considered it kind of a strange honor to hold that archetype, to say, "Yeah, this is a very human thing. This is what human beings may choose to do."
Finally, our Six here is very excited that she's about to be a mommy!
Episode titles for BSG Season 4.5
Episode 4.14 - 06 Feb 2009 - Blood on the Scales
Episode 4.15 - 13 Feb 2009 - No Exit
Episode 4.16 - 20 Feb 2009 - Deadlock
Episode 4.17 - 27 Feb 2009 - Someone to Watch Over Me
Episode 4.18 - 06 Mar 2009 - Islanded in a Stream of Stars
Episode 4.19 - 13 Mar 2009 - Daybreak (1)
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