I won't forget you for a long time...
Well, it certainly was an aptly titled episode, I thought.
Before I post my thoughts, I'm just going to say that when the idea of the re-imagining was announced, I was one of those that was so very violently ANTI-IT, a la Richard Hatch one might say, that I categorically refused to read and watch anything having to do with it. All the way until just before the premiere of S2, when they marathoned it a few weeks on Space, and I was bored one night and watched the mini for total lack of anything else on TV on a Saturday night.
Six mercy-killing the baby totally hooked me. Like whoa. And the view of the nuclear explosions from space. And poundy drums. And silences.
PILOTS! only came later. Much later. Because I was all about the show as a whole, and unwilling to go to (at least where it seemed in the first few episodes was going) down the obvious Starbuck/Apollo road, which then didn't happen, which ONLY THEN MADE ME OMG WANT to go there AND GO THERE NOW at the end of S1. Also, it helped that Apollo/Jamie Bamber became my favourite character. I so verra desperately didn't want to 'ship, because my previous ships ruined my enjoyment of other shows for me, but there it was.
( And on to the episode!Collapse )RDM said,
"All I know is that today there is a show called Battlestar Galactica and tomorrow there was."I do want to cry, because it is truly over.
Goodbye, show. I will remember you.
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