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So. This was a chance to catch our breath and set up the (sure to be) dizzying plunge to the end of the series. Before I get into my thoughts on the ep, check out this video from Bear McCreary (who does the music):

I love love loved this arrangement of "Roslin and Adama". And the beautiful B-theme that shows up at the end of the episode...

( Some days I really hate this job. )

Questions I still want answered:

Who/what is Kara? Or who/what enabled her to resurrect with her Viper?
What is the truth of the Opera House vision as related to Hera, Roslin, Athena, Six, and Baltar?
What are Head!Six and Head!Baltar? Is there an entity controlling them? If so, who/what?
What happened to Boomer? Will she get back together with Tyrol?

I'll say it: I'm a sucker for these types of stories. I mean, come on!

( She's a hugger. FANTASTIC. )

We also watched Crazy People. Because I hadn't ever seen it (but heard it quoted extensively: "Volvo: boxy, but good." "Sony: because Caucasians are just too damn tall") and apparently that needed to be rectified immediately.

Hilarious. I love Dudley Moore. Also hilarious: I kept parsing the (evil!) ad executive as Stephen Weber in my head...even though it wasn't him. Also - I don't think you could make that movie today (example: the Sony ad). Which is kind of a shame.

 Okay, Eureka, you are ON NOTICE.

That was NOT COOL. At all.

*sniff*

I've been reading on a hot streak lately:

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison: 3.5 out of 5 - It was a good story, I liked the protagonist (even though I was annoyed at his lack of name), but it feels like the book just sort of...fizzled out in the last chapter or so. Like the author decided, oh, I'm done now. Bye! Plus, the prologue doesn't really come full circle in the end and I was disappointed.

Watchmen by Alan Moore et al: 4 out of 5 - I don't read comics or graphic novels normally. Buffy season 8 is an exception, and Watchmen is now the second exception. Fantastic characters and story, though I made the mistake of reading it too close to bedtime and had bizarre Rorshach-inspired dreams (NO NO DO NOT WANT). I was having trouble keeping track of who everyone was, though, and what timeline we were in at any given time (who's Sally Jupiter? Is she Silk Spectre? But who's the new Silk Spectre? And who was that other girl who was with Dr. Manhattan originally? Gah!). But I chalk that up to my lack of experience reading in picture form. Also, the pirate/horror story woven throughout was really confusing me. I kept fighting the urge to skim.

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: 3.5 out of 5 - Bleakest ending of a book. Ever. Good love story, though. I love the premise of an American in the Italian army during WWI and seeing things from that perspective. And, according to Jessica, the movie sucks. So I won't be watching that.

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau: 4.5 out of 5 - I read this a long time ago but wanted to reread before the movie came out. It's still awesome. I love the puzzle-mystery, and the whole world DuPrau built without really explaining how it came to be. I love how she pays attention to the small things, like that they wouldn't have any idea what candles or matches are and describing them as if she had never seen one before. I requested the rest of the series at the library (The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, and The Diamond of Darkhold) and I can't wait for them to come in!

I'm reading Bitterwood by James Maxey right now and loving it.

Playing With Fire (Silver Dragons, Book 1) by Katie Macalister
Genre: Fantasy/Romance
Pages: 352

From the Amazon description:
Gabriel Tauhou, wyvern of the silver dragons, has found the one woman who can withstand his fire. Too bad May Northcott is already bound to a demon lord. But when the demon orders May to steal one of Gabriel’s treasures—an immensely important relic of all dragonkin— Gabriel has to decide which to protect: his love or his dragons.

( Snip! )

4 / 50 fiction books. 8% done!

0 / 25 nonfiction books. 0% done!

x-posted to bookshare , 50bookchallenge , and my personal journal

Oh, wow. Where do I start?

Just as predicted, we start "two days ago" and this episode is devoted to what happened on the basestar. I may not be able to be entirely coherent, but...

AAAUUUUGGGHH!!!!

Ahem. Okay. On to the show. Or, what bits I can put together into coherent sentences before I have to rewatch it again. And again.

 Ok, first part of the mid-season finale....go!

I think everything's really starting to come together. My mom said she had read that they were going for an Empire Strikes Back kind of cliffhanger feel with this set of episodes - my hope is that means we'll know the plan, but we have to wait to see how it plays out.

Okay, first of all? Episode title makes me think of 1st season BSG with Baltar, Caprica 6 and the Destiny Baby in the Opera House.

Ahem.

My reaction to this episode: WHAAA!?!?

The next few weeks are going to be very hard on my poor brain...Lost on Thursday nights followed by BSG on Friday nights? And saving up all the episodes of Grey's because I cannot handle all three shows in quick succession.

Okay, okay, on to the episode proper...

( Hi, Lostzilla! )

I give up. JJ, Carlton, Ron, David? Here's my brain -- go do whatever you want with it.