All Gaeta, All the Time

Yes, folks, I have risen from the dead the apathy.

I needed a good kick in the pants to get me active again. It came in the form of ingridmatthews, cerebel, rapfic and many others making me realize that I am/could be enjoying the fandom and the fic much more than I have been enjoying the actual show lately.

I felt a break between my experience watching the show and my experience in fandom some time ago. I felt that fandom participation was detracting from my ability to love the show. I was confused and hurt by a lot of the opinions and negativity I saw on the part of some fans. So I retreated, I occasionally lurked, I withdrew.

I was wrong.

The show was jumping the shark and it had nothing to do with my fandom. I threw the baby out and kept the bathwater, so to speak.

I want to try again to hold on to the things and people I love about the show. I want to ignore all the bad things going on in canon and immerse myself in the warm comforting embrace of fanon.

So if you see me around again, commenting, posting, friending you, that's my explanation in a nutshell. I freaked out, I left, and now I want to come home. I blame Ron Moore for everything. ;)

Not even going to try to number the episodes. I mean the episode that was on last night.

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So, even with all that, I didn't hate the show last night. Didn't feel real strongly about it either way. I'll keep watching. If only for hopes of more Gaeta screentime.

Well, I just now finished watching last night's episode. For the last two weeks I haven't been able to catch them on Friday night. And here are my thoughts, after two glasses of wine, mind you. Be warned.

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Oh... one last thought. Am I the only one who thought that scene with Lee and Helo in the locker room discussing Lee's physique was totally gay???? Have I been reading slash so long that I see it wherever I go?

OK, cut because it's still Friday night...

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Time to go out and see what everyone else thought. :) And collect new icons, hopefully...

*More specific thoughts on the episode under the cut, but no spoilers past last night's ep.*

Ok, I was too tired to post last night after the episode. Main thought: It was a good episode in that it was suspenseful and kept me glued to the tv wanting to see what would happen next. It as actually painful when I saw the end credits and knew I'd have to wait another week to see what happened. So I was entertained, but not totally sucked in and emotionally connected to the show. The main thought I kept having over and over was "Wow, that would make a good icon", which means there was a lot of pretty to look at, lots of striking visual images, but the fact that I kept thinking that means I wasn't that deeply into it.

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I think that's it for now. Now I'm off to read everyone else's reactions...

I know i missed some major changes on LJ while i was gone. I changed my viewing scheme back to Xcolibur. But what's up with my friends page not being in chronological order any more????

Well, here we are, off hiatus now that BSG is back.

Unfortunately, I was unable to stay active here and also at gaeta_squee, but the lovely ingridmatthews stepped up to take it in hand. I'm retiring back to my usual role as lurk-y spear-carrying fan who occasionally posts and/or comments.

Just finished watching Season 3 episode opener and wow, I was blown away. Gaeta was more cute and cuddly than ever - and what a hero! - but he made me nervous by constantly exposing himself to such obvious danger.

Not even sure I can form coherent thoughts about the episode right now. It was so wrenching, and not even really because of the obvious parallels with insurgents. It struck me that occupation is such a familiar story in human history. It makes me think of all the stories I've heard about WWII, not to mention every other war. I think that's why it had such an impact - the writers cleverly used so many touchstones - so many elements that are familiar from every story of occupation. What hell.

I caught myself thinking several times throughout the episode "Well, that's it, they're all gonna die right now."

A lot of things about the Cylons still aren't adding up and I get the feeling the writers are struggling with that as well - we seem to have been handed many different motivations and explanations for their behavior. It hasn't seemed to be misdirection so much as "crap, we better come up with a better idea or the series will dead end."

I wasn't unhappy about the introduction of Kara's "child", although some will probably be screaming for Ron Moore's head. I've actually expected that to happen since "The Farm". I loved Kara so much when she stabbed Leoben to death, and even more when I found it she'd done it five times. Back to the kid, though - I fully expect to find out that the kid was programmed to have that fall, in a deliberate bid for sympathy.

Oh yeah - what's up with them spelling her name "Candice" now on the credits??

Got to go read reactions now. I haven't been on LJ in any form for a few months, actually.... feeling rusty.

Interest cloud!!!

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Not much to say about last night's episode except -

NAKED GAETA! NAKED GAETA! WOOOOOOOOO!!!!

It's like they wanted to make up for all those episodes where we only saw him for two seconds.

When the episode was over, I thought "I enjoyed that". That's all. It was an enjoyable episode but nothing to write home (or LJ) about. I already knew about a lot of the stuff that they were setting up last night, so maybe it wasn't exciting because nothing was a surprise, but it was still entertaining.

I really can't wait for next week, because I know a couple things that are supposed to happen, and I know there's supposed to be a big mindfrak at the end (I have been avoiding spoilers because I don't want to know what it is.)

OH! One of the best moments - Roslin telling Gaius to go frak himself. hee. I loved Gaius in this ep... he seems to resemble Invisible Asshole Gaius a lot more these days. (I stole that nickname from someone, I don't remember who.) I hppe we get to see the Caprica cylons again next week.

I was a little perplexed at the whole "priest" storyline... we've hardly seen the Chief at all lately and then suddenly we drop in on a therapy session? weird. I hope it was just a device and it doesn't end up meaning anything, because if one of them turns out to be a cylon it will have been way too heavy-handed.

Can't wait to see what happens next...