Well......

[gateslacker]

There really isn't too much to say as I really hate to get on here and discuss the boring particulars that make up my day to day existence.
In any case, it has been busy week and I am actually looking forward to a PALS (pediatric advanced life support) class for recertification. How dull is that!?! I am so not good at the whole studying thing (strange from someone who has been to school as much as I have). Sometimes, I really can't see myself doing what I do for 40 years. I think I have way too many interests and not enough money! LOL!

I did get an opportunity to muck about with the vids. I have been screening some songs and thendecided to replace a clip in one of my vids. Well, that turned into replacing yet another clip...and another...and so on and so forth. If I get too crazy, I might be revamping several before it is all said and done. I will put new and improved versions up when I get them done. I love doing them. How truly sad is that!?!

As for Reckoning Two, I do believe it has to be one of the best episodes of the entire season...and I am counting Threads here although I loved that one as well. As Ruralstar observed, and I agree, everyone was so in character and working as a team, even if they weren't in the same place. I loved Sam's line, "you blow up one sun and suddenly you can walk on water." I loved her interactions with Jacob (sigh). Command Jack is always a pleasure to see and he and Griff's interchance when the replicators just "froze" was priceless. And, have I mentioned that I LOVE DANIEL!!! Was he Da Man or what?!? His scenes with Replicarter were wonderful and I was completely mesmerized watching the two of them. That scene while the weapon is powering up and everyone is in his/her own fight with the replicators was wonderfully done. The pace, the music, the editing!! Something about the slow motion action/shooting sequences interwoven between the silence of Daniel dying on the replicator ship was extremely well played. I really can't put my finger on why those scenes were so terrific..LOL! 
Then we follow that gem of an episode up with Letters From Pegasus which made me laugh and cry. I seem to be loving all these characters equally but Teyla seemed to win me over as well (finally!). The "letters" were poignant and funny and I loved how Weir seemed so strong and forthright in her letters. Rodney's little "snort" sililoquy was also rather sweet in a Rodney McKay sort of way. Atlantis has me every week and the eps are very strong but, for some reason, it hasn't struck me as a rewatch-until-I-know-the-lines-by-heart show. With Gate probably moving into it's last season, I sure wish Atlantis would become this for me.
As for Battlestar Galactica, could someone please tell me what they are doing? I can't believe I am going to say this but "can we blow something up now?"  The interstellar intrigue has gone way over the top and, I'm sorry, but Tigh's wife was too much for me to stomach. I was hoping she would be a Cylon, or should I say discover she was a Cylon so we could shove her out an airlock! Are we going to be seeing her again?  I might need some of that Ambrosia myself to prepare. And what is up with Baltar telling everyone they passed the Cylon detector test. Is that a cop out  on the writers behalf or what? How long are we gonna dance around the issue that anyone could be a cylon. We get it! That whole bit with Helo on Caprica has become way more interesting to me. At least we see some life or death struggle, some "mysterious purpose" with the event transpiring there. The Galactica fleet seem to be floating around in space doing a whole lot of nothing. They also seem to have forgotten one of the most interesting ideas...at least to me...that there is this other lost colony on a mythological place known as Earth. I found that fascinating in the first series and I find it fascinating now. Too bad we aren't exploring that a wee bit. I guess it is because everyone is too busy wondering if the other guy is a Cylon. Grrr...(come on, Glenda, tell us how you really feel!)

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[dm-lunsford.livejournal.com]

And, have I mentioned that I LOVE DANIEL!!! Was he Da Man or what?!?

Oh yeah, he was Da Man, indeed! I mean, wasn't he simply stunning in those scenes with RepliCarter? It was the perfect balance of snark and yet-I'm-still-not-entirely-sure-I-can-pull-this-off Daniel. And I think the line "A little more time in Danny's world" has got to be like The.Sexiest.Thing.To.Come.Out.Of.His.Mouth.EVER! ::THUNK::

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

>>>And I think the line "A little more time in Danny's world" has got to be like The.Sexiest.Thing.To.Come.Out.Of.His.Mouth.EVER! ::THUNK::<<<

AMEN to that. THUNK Indeed!

[soniag.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, I really can't see myself doing what I do for 40 years. I think I have way too many interests and not enough money!

I hear you! I really don't know how people can teach for 30-40 years without going completely insane.

As for BSG, I'm really liking it. I had to download the last episode, and watched it in bits and pieces as I got other work done, but enjoyed it nonetheless. That wife is irritating, but seeing her helps me to understand Tigh better.

I was very intrigued by the little discussion about love and emotion between the two Cylons on Caprica. Some Cylons can experience love and others can't?

[gateslacker.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't want to intimate that I am not enjoying it. I do enjoy the nuances that we are seeing in the developing characters. I just feel that it is over the top. As much as I love all of the questions being mulled over and whatnot (after all, that is the spice of sci-fi to me), I just feel that they aren't achieving any sort of balance. What we have is bordering on a soap opera, albeit a sophisticated one. A thinking person's soap opera in space! The action is subsumed to the point of non existence.

I think it is interesting that I just watched I, Robot which addressed some of the same issues that are being pondered on Galactica regarding artificial life. Granted, it was a movie but I didn't spend an hour and a half watching talking heads discussing the nature of life and do robots have a soul with 15 minutes of actually, got forbid, forwarding the plot. LOL. I guess I am not really supporting the idea that I am enjoying Galactica. Really, I am. But, if they continue with the unending philosophical meandering that never really seems to serve any real purpose, I will likely lose interest.

[soniag.livejournal.com]

I do hear what you're saying. And I felt exactly the same way in the opening episodes. There was a lot of melodrama, and the shaky camera thing was annoying me, and nothing ever happened. But last episode (the one before "Tigh me Up") just grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go. I thought Callum Keith Rennie (the Cylon captive) was spectacular, and I was very absorbed by his "interrogation" by Kara. (And I thought the dream sequence was cool -- esp. in how it was a premonition.)

This past ep was less compelling, but I'm easily entertained by the "who's a Cylon" question.

I'm totally ready for Lee to have some sex. (Has he ever had any do you think? Sometimes he seems as green as a 14-year-old.) And, I agree that we need some more battle scenes and explosions. It's high time.