News The FDA has issued a warning about carrot juice and it's link to recent cases of botulism. TV Last night, I watched the two-hour-long third season premiere of Battlestar Galactica and I. Loved. It. Battlestar Galactica is a show that never fails to hold me enthralled, and last night was no exception. A radical change happened at the end of last season: the show flashed forward many, many moons to a time when much of the human race is on Cylon-occupied New Caprica; including some people from Galactica like Starbuck, Tigh, the Chief, Callie, Roslin, and Baltar. The Cylons have set up a sort of pseudo-government with human representation in the form of President Gaius Baltar. Corruption flourishes in the government. Some Cylons, like the Sharon Valeriis and Number Sixes are more sympathetic to the humans, whereas some Cylons like D'Anna Biers believe that it's necessary to be harsh on the humans to bring "God's justice" upon them. He said that they would stand up and denounce the suicide bombings together. Roslin told him something about how desperate people do desperate things; Baltar told her to look him in the eye and say she aproves of it. Poor, poor Baltar. Those Cylons are just pulling the strings and if he isn't a good puppet, he gets his brains blown out.
The humans are rebelling (with Col. Tigh in charge), using extremist tactics suchas walking into crowded areas and blowing themselves up -- suicide bombers.
Baltar confronts the imprisoned ex-President and school teacher, Laura Roslin on this and I thought it was a really powerful moment.
Roslin wants the Cylons gone as much as anyone. She wants her people to be free as much as any of them do. But she did not look him in the eye. And she did not condone the extremist actions.
Like I said: very powerful, meaningful moment.
The theme of the episode, as with a lot of the episodes, seemed to be morals: what's right; what's wrong? And it further questioned what it is to be human, to be a machine -- or something in between.
I can't wait to see what happens with Starbuck and her half-Cylon baby. It seems as though the Cylons finally broke her in that last scene we saw her in, but is it just a front? And if it is just a front, does she accept the child anyway? Time will tell.
What I love about the show is everyone is convinced that they're doing what they have to do, which they probably are -- that was another theme, kinda. Especially in Dr. Baltar's case.
I loved the way they ended the episode. It was perfect. There were three characters we know and care about that could've been shot: Callie (who was running, but we see her go down), Roslin, and Zarek.
I'm hoping it's none of them. Callie is probably least essential to the main plot, but she has a baby, and this guy helped her escape so what would be the point of that if she's the one to die?
Anyway, we'll find out next week. Until then, all we know is: It isn't Roslin. (Or at least if she's shot, we know she doesn't die. lol)
Harry Potter
I'm pleased to announce that I scored "Exceeds Expectations" on my WOMBAT, Grade 2.
*pats self on back*
And I took a personality quiz.
Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.
I'm rather pleased with the result. I think it suits me.
Randomness
Because I love reading things on Wikipedia, I thought I'd link you guys with today's featured article, which I found to be interesting.
I think I'm going to start reading A Series of Unfortunate Events. I read the first chapter today through some promotion thingy that AOL was doing and I immediately got hooked on the writing style. It's fun, and he doesn't go on for fifteen pages describing one little characteristic of something trivial.
And I think that's all for now, folks.
1 Comments:
Carrot Juice? See? everything turns out dangerous these days. *paranoid to eat or drink anything*
And there you go again with talking about how writers over describe things. lol. That's hilarious, and so true. I still say you need to describe someone's hair for 2 whole pages in a book someday, just for fun.
Hmmm, so that random article for today confused me 10 different ways. *note: more than 10 ways* So many difficult to say names too quickly for me to comprehend, that always throws me off, I spend too much time imagining how to say the names instead of registering what else is being said. :P
anyways, yeah. Toodles!
*runs away making weird laser noises and repeatedly saying battlestar galactica to himself*
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