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Ongoing Battlestar Galactica thread of doom.

So I just solved the problem and binged my way to "Home." The good side is, you can burn through a "react" video in 20 minutes or so. That said, I must to bed.
 
Got through Pegasus on "reacts" videos. Tricia Helfer is amazing as an actress. When Baltar does something dickish and we see how it hurts Six, she really does a good job.
 
[checks] Carmen Young. Not completely thrilled but I hate her less than any others so far. The trouble is that anyone who makes a "...reacts..." video is likely to be some kind of narcissist attention whore, so you're going to get a lot more of them talking that seeing what they're reacting to. Shit, this chick's videos can easily run an hour long while the actual part with the episode airing is around 20 minutes (and a lot of the time that is going on, we're just seeing her with no reference at all of what she's looking at).
 
I should make a react video to something where I just sit with my face unmoving for an hour and occasionally say "that was amusing" and look away awkwardly (AutisticManReacts.)
 
Binging react episodes, trying to get to the big scenes. So good--if I stayed up too late and drank too much. Got through Starbuck's death--and her return. Up to the last season. My YouTube queue is skipping "Razor," and I'm mostly OK with that. Razor makes Caine and her crew slightly less monsters but it isn't essential to the main story. And I'm just trying to get through that right now.
 
For whatever reason, today I needed to see the scene from "Blood on the Scales" where Zarak lies and tells Roslin Tigh and Adama have been killed and, instead of surrendering, she gives her Winston Churchill/Marcellus Wallace speech. But the clip I picked was longer and it really highlights how the show shined. Because Zarak is rattled and Gaeta has clearly had enough and we see that falling apart while we see Adama retaking the ship with ever increasing support. Meanwhile Chief is down to tearing apart the FTL with his bare hands and it is all cut together and it is all the payoff of years of developing each of the characters to where it is immensely fulfilling and, on the flip side, maddening that "Star Trek" was stuck at 1987 storytelling, where they most inspiring they can manage is "HULL PLATING DOWN TO 57%!"
 
OK. 1) I found a really good react for the miniseries. Forget who it was or anything but the takeaway is that...you know the 'Trek trope that it takes awhile for the production to find its legs? They really had everything nailed down way back in the miniseries. Tigh, Starbuck, Chief, Baltar & Six, Apollo, Adama & Laura, it's all there and all really, really powerful.

2) Story TV is doing a binge on the American Revolution for the 4th of July. Had to stop watching to get to bed but the last hour was on Benedict Arnold and I gotta wonder if Moore used Arnold while developing Felix Gaeta. Because if you're in my demographic, you only know Arnold as the traitor, but goddamn, he kinda had a reason for it. He (at least according to the docu) was instrumental in capturing Ft. Ticonderoga. Ethan Allen got all the credit. He was instrumental in the victory at Saratoga (where he was permanently crippled) and another general got all the credit. When we got Philadelphia back, he was made military governor and the civilian governor of Philadelphia dragged him through the mud in an effort to regain control. Then he extorted Washington to punish Arnold. Washington caved and sent Arnold a letter of reprimand. Huh. Just realized, Arnold was crippled by being shot in the leg and then having his horse fall on him. Gaeta lost his leg. Moore, I think, knows his military history and certainly adapts other stuff to his stories, so were I a betting man, I'd say he based Gaeta--who is a very bright patriot and trusted officer of Adama's--on Benedict Arnold--who was a very bright patriot and trusted officer of Washington's.
 
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