BSG 3x07

[darcydodo]

One brief comment about 3x07: Why did D'Anna go all gooey-eyed as soon as she thought Baltar was saying he loved her? At first I thought the look on her face was "oh my god he's frakking nuts" disgust because it looked like he was asking her to keep the torture-probe in his ear, but it subsequently became clear that apparently telling a cylon you love her (or him?) is all you need to do to make them fall to pieces. I mean, seriously. Baltar said "I love you" to Six, clearly meaning it, and a beautiful little smile touched her lips, and apparently she vacated the torture-chamber. Gaius said "I love you" "to" D'Anna, clearly (from her point of view) meaning it, and she melts and caresses his lips with her fingers. And Leoben was trying as hard as he could to get Kara to say "I love you" to him and really mean it.

So, seriously. Is this some sort of weird redemption shit, with God is Love and it's all we ever need to feel to be truly complete in this world?

At some point I really should make a second BSG icon, since this one's technically a bit depressing and angsty.

Comments

[komaheian.livejournal.com]

But, this icon is so... good.

[darcydodo]

Thanks! But I didn't mean I'd stop using it, just that I could, you know, change things up a bit. ;)

I wondered about that too...

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's Baby Hera doing something to her? Now that she's held Hera, she "knows what love is". Is she having trouble setting boundaries? Does she identify Gaius as the father, in some emotional sense?

Ever since Baltar landed on the base star, she's been setting herself up as his protector, the one trying to keep him alive. I took it as just good-cop/bad-cop--"I want to save you, but I won't convince the others unless you do such-and-such". And maybe that's all it started as--but sometimes if you play a role too long, you start to become it. Maybe she has gotten attached to him.

I'll say this, though--if I ever decide to start exploring a mysterious derelict warship, I'll wear a dang space-suit. Leaving disease aside--what if there's poison? What if there's radiation? What if the air has just plain old gone bad?

On top of which--okay, I saw last week's episode. They didn't. But when you see a room full of miserable corpses, and then some of them start moving, I think a natural thought is, "Hey, I wonder if they're sick?"