{"id":1688,"date":"2009-03-20T21:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T04:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-03-20T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T04:02:50","slug":"bsg-tipsy-liveblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"BSG Tipsy Liveblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"battlestar-galactica\"<\/p>\n

Two glasses of Chardonnay. Half a sleeve of Thin Mints. Here we go.<\/p>\n

SPOILERS, btw.<\/p>\n

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9:02 Last week: All the series regulars on one side of the line and all the extras on the other! Oh, except you Baltar. You can go wherever.<\/p>\n

9:04 Tigh’s drunkvoice sounds remarkably like mine. And Benjamin Sisko’s.<\/p>\n

9:05 Does Kara want to have a threesome? Well, who wouldn’t, I suppose.<\/p>\n

9:07 Tigh: “Rar rAR Rargh rarrararararar!” Adama: “Rarghblarg bleggityblah!”<\/p>\n

9:10 No credits? They probably wanted to save time. But goddamn, I love that credits sequence.<\/p>\n

9:14 I think Doc Cottle’s gravelly Crime Dog McGruff voice is going to make me cry. And it’s early still.<\/p>\n

9:15 If Mary McDonnell doesn’t make me cry FIRST.<\/p>\n

9:16 Oh, Sharon. Oh, Helo. Please make up before this show is over.<\/p>\n

9:19 The way they light this show is fucking beautiful. The bright beam glaring down on Adama? The halo-y thing behind Tigh? The over-saturated brilliance of this Lee\/Lampkin hand-off scene? Fucking. Beautiful. Wait, did they just say Romo is the new prez? Uh…well, OK. Can’t be worse than Baltar!<\/p>\n

9:22 btw, what is going on with Lee’s hair? I like it. It’s all 70s and feathered and CRAZY. Scott Summersian, one might say.<\/p>\n

9:24 Oh, no, the Star Trek trailer I ONLY WANT TO SEE ON THE BIG SCREEN. LOOK AWAY.<\/p>\n

9:28 Caprica, just kick Baltar’s stupid ass. I wish she would say something ultra-scary\/crazy to him right now. “Shut up, Gaius, or Caprica will CUT YOU.” (That’s her talking about herself in the third person.)<\/p>\n

9:31 Shooty shooty! Bang bang! Special effects budget!!!<\/p>\n

9:35 Hot Dog! Have we discussed how Hot Dog’s gigantic baby looks nothing like him?<\/p>\n

9:37 Boomer is like one giant hormone. All she wants is love, man. She’ll take it from the Chief, she’ll take it from a desiccated oldey olderson with a pervy ballet fetish, she’ll take it from a fucking baby. LOVE.<\/p>\n

9:42 Poor Sam. I would just like to say that another thing I love about this show is that there are no wasted characters. Everyone has a purpose, everyone fits into the puzzle in an important way. Yes, even Dualla.<\/p>\n

9:44 Holy shit, Baltar and Caprica. You’re both an extreme form of crazy\/beautiful, aren’t you?<\/p>\n

9:45 Sharon face-off. Sharon face-offs are like my favorite things in the history of the world. “Today I made a choice. I think it’s my last one.” I am going to write fanfic consisting only of Sharon face-offs where the Sharons look at each other intensely and say awesome lines and rip each others’ hearts out.<\/p>\n

9:46 I remember thinking at the end of the miniseries that it was SO LAME they made Sharon a Cylon, such a “gotcha” for gotcha’s sake, such a gimmicky gimmick. And I was so totally wrong.<\/p>\n

9:53 Isn’t Chris still awake? He should come join me here. I’m going to go bother him.<\/p>\n

9:56 Oh my God, creepy Cylon who dresses like a Banana Republic mannequin, you did *NOT* just shoot Helo.<\/p>\n

9:57 NOT HELO<\/p>\n

9:58 NOT HELO<\/p>\n

10:00 This cutting together of the current scene and the opera house vision is amazing. p.s. NOT HELO<\/p>\n

10:06 Did KFC give up on the Frak Pack? Oh, and that was a good speech, Baltar.<\/p>\n

10:10 Oh, Tory. You can just say you’ve been a ho. It’s OK. Tigh: “Yeah, yeah, you’re forgiven. For being a ho.”<\/p>\n

10:14 This is another thing I fucking love about this show. The fate of civilizations hangs in the balance and everything’s undone by one moment of pure human emotion.<\/p>\n

10:19 Wolverine geek break. EMMA FROST EMMA FROST OMG YOU GUYS EMMA FROST. I know it doesn’t fit in with continuity. Don’t care. EMMA FROST.<\/p>\n

10:24 Is Romo wearing a bathrobe? Or just a particularly voluminous blazer?<\/p>\n

10:28 I wonder if Michael Trucco was pissed about having to lie half-naked in a pool of milk for this last arc? In other news, Starbuck’s distraught face totally guts me. And that’s another thing I adore about this show — she *did* love Sam. He wasn’t just a convenient stop or roadblock in her path to her true love or whatever. “See you on the other side.” GOD.<\/p>\n

10:36 Old theme music. This must be where Ben started screeching like a little girl.<\/p>\n

10:37 Tigh: “Blargblerrgityblagh!” Ellen: “Blahdeblergblaaaaagh! Teehee!”<\/p>\n

10:44 Laura and Bill probably kill me most of all. This is beautifully reminiscent of their scene on New Caprica (only without the pot).<\/p>\n

10:45 I’m sorry, I find Lee’s 70s hair weirdly sexy. “I don’t have much time, Son.” Frakking fuck.<\/p>\n

10:48 That was such a perfect shot. The two kids side by side, Mom and Dad taking off into the sunset. Not coming back this time.<\/p>\n

10:51 Oh, Lee. Come over here, I’ll comfort you. (Jeff says: “Kara got her wings, basically.”)<\/p>\n

10:55 SOB. Gotta give it up to EJO — he could have Emmy clipped the shit out of that scene, and he didn’t. Beautiful.<\/p>\n

11:00 I JUST LITERALLY GASPED OUT LOUD BECAUSE HELO IS ALIVE AND WALKING WITH A CANE AND IT IS SO GREAT. FIGHTING AGATHONS FTW.<\/p>\n

11:02 Good-bye, imaginary friends! Wink, wink. I love the way this is wrapping back around and around and around through time. The things men do for love.<\/p>\n

11:06 Hehe, Ron Moore.<\/p>\n

11:07 OK, honestly, I could have done without this postscript. It doesn’t ruin anything, but it’s sort of unnecessary and over-explainy.<\/p>\n

11:08 That’s it. Nicely played. It’s hard to be human, it’s hard to be Cylon, it’s hard to survive at all. But it can be done. Sometimes you end up left all alone, with your 70s hair and your tears and your own dubious freedom. Sometimes you float off into the ether, satisfied in your mad knowledge of Bob Dylan songs. Sometimes you get to settle down on New Earth with your ridiculously hot cane-toting husband. It can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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