So say we all

[darcydodo]

I saw Battlestar Galactica: Razor tonight. On a big screen. It was kind of awesome. Kendra's a lapsed classicist! Awesome!!! (I was clearly the only one in the theater who was delighted by this.) Gina/Cain is CANON! Also, AWESOME!!! Oh, and half the theater cheered when the old-school cylons came on. And it was great to see old-school Starbuck. Umm, let's see if I can come up with any actual spec, as opposed to squeeing about classics and lesbians.

Kara will "lead the human race to its end"? Well, I suppose that could mean she'll lead it to its final destiny, rather than to destruction, so, e.g., earth.... But also, if the hybrid says that immediately after saying "all this has happened before, all this will happen again," that seems to be a bit contradictory, at least from its professed meaning. If the human race ends, nothing can happen again. Probably.

Hmm, what else? The fact that the hybrid was so ancient makes me think that it's more human than the rest of the cylons, which is seconded by how it's evidently made. Not that that's particularly relevant.

Just before the film started, I was reading the part of Hesiod's Works and Days that talks about the different races — the gold race, the silver race, etc. And I wonder if that's echoed in the "replacement" of the humans by the cylons, in the "replacement" of the gods/Lords of Kobol by the humans before. Each race is a little worse than the previous; are the cylons worse than the humans? It's difficult to say, and it of course partially depends on how you define "worse." Edit: Also, there's the replacement of the centurions by the hybrids, and by the flesh models, and finally I suppose by the children of humans and cylons.

But I want to see the extended version — everyone from the main cast/crew was supposed to be in Razor, and a lot of people weren't (but they're still listed on the IMDb credits). And there's this whole thing with Cain as a young girl that we saw nothing of in the 2-hour version. So early December should also be very interesting.

I guess I have nothing of real importance to say, per usual. :) More later, if I think of anything, or if the Sci-Fi flashbacks bring up something that didn't occur to me before.

And also, it looks like Zooey's in a new show on Sci-Fi. In which she apparently plays some version of Dorothy? This makes me laugh with hilarity and glee.

Comments

[spazatron.livejournal.com]

Lunch tomorrow?

[darcydodo]

If I wake up in time, which I probably will. I'll call or text you to confirm, so if you don't hear from me, then maybe I managed to sleep through (I'm short on sleep). :)

[darcydodo]

It just now occurs to me that I have always looked at this icon of yours (pre me watching Heroes) and thought that "the person" in it had pigtails. Because the black streaks on either side of Hiro's head look sort of like pigtails. Now that I know who it is, I'm capable of seeing it entirely differently. :)

yup

[jessbess.livejournal.com]

Dorothy. Have you seen it? Should I Tivo?

Re: yup

[darcydodo]

Please!!! That would be much fun. :)

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Did you see Heroes? It did a lot of serious explaining...

[darcydodo]

Nooo, I missed it and will have to catch up tonight or tomorrow!

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

It also continued the streak of having gratuitous scenes of Peter with no shirt - though I suppose you care about that less than I do.

[once-a-banana.livejournal.com]

Where did you see it? I saw it with my brother down in SJ at Santana Row. It was awesome having it on a big screen in HD and everything, although I found it rather distracting that the *entire* soundtrack was late by about 150-200 msec or so, so none of the dialog quite matched people's lips. Not too much of a problem I guess as long as I didn't look to closely. I thought it was pretty awesome, for each of the several reasons you mention. Plus more Michelle Forbes in anything is always a a good thing! And I thought it was rather interesting that they managed to insert an entire major subplot, including a new awesome character who is introduced and then dies as well as the whole old-school cylon thing, into the middle of a plotline from a season ago - somehow they pulled that off without any awkwardness at all - Bravo!

[darcydodo]

I saw it in SF, at the 10pm showing. Some friends went at 7, but I had a rehearsal that went until 10, so I had crossed my fingers and gotten a ticket for the second showing (I mean, they were free, so what was I going to lose?), since the theater was pretty near where I have rehearsal. And then we got out of rehearsal early! And I spent ages driving around looking for parking, which was made harder by the fact that street cleaning started at 12:01am most places, and I wasn't quite sure how long the movie would actually be. But I finally found somewhere, and in fact, there wasn't a line, and the theater wasn't even full!

Our dialog matched fine, which was a good thing, because that sort of thing drives me absolutely batty. But I was way over to the side of the theater, which is something I never do if I can help it, and I got a little bit of a crick in my neck from watching the whole thing with my head tilted! :)

Finally saw it!

[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Had an overdue dinner engagement on preview night, so I had to miss it. Just finished watching my TiVo present.

Misc. thoughts:

• Nitpicky linkylink
  
• Is this the first time we've seen a non-straight human in BSG? It wouldn't signify, except that I believe Star Trek managed to go through five series, 28 seasons, and a bunch of movies without definitively commiting to the existence of gays or bisexuals any time after the Eugenics Wars.
  • Though we're all pretty sure about Wesley.
  
  
• Kara could lead humanity to its end, without disrupting the grand cycle--if Cylons, or Cylon/human hybrids, take the place of humanity, and establish the new civilization that will ultimately be destroyed by its creation. OTOH, perhaps the hybrid is seeing a fork--maybe by "Armageddon" it means an end to the cycles, i.e. Kara really is something new, and maybe this won't all happen again.
  
• "By your command" GLEE!

Okay, bedtime now. Though I will say this has got me looking forward to season 4 after all. I hope the writer's strike doesn't screw things up.

Re: Finally saw it!

[darcydodo]

I hope the writer's strike doesn't screw things up.

I believe I heard that they're already done filming season 4, though I may be mistaken. What may screw it up is sci-fi apparently postponing it until... September?