Battlestar Galactica, "Dirty Hands"

The short version: the best moment in the whole damn episode is when Chief tells Starbuck to "be nice."

The rest of the ep was a bit argy-bargy IMO. It would help if BSG could maintain a consistent tone: is Galactica a military ship or a hodge-podge of refugees and draftees with no sense of military discipline or order? One day it's the one, the next it's the other. I can see on that after three years on the run and a year and a bit on New Caprica in the middle, discipline can take a hit but RDM and co are making me, as a viewer, work too hard on the meta to make episodes like "Dirty Hands" and "The Woman, King" work. Plotlines about the strata of Colonial society should have been woven into the series seasons ago for these kinds of episodes to work. Suddenly dumping ideas like systemic racism and economic discrimination into the mix feels more like the writers pulling "Very Special Episodes" out of their ass than storylines organic to the show.

Like I said last week: less morality-wank, more space battles. And, RDM, ( spoiler )

Grey Areas...

I should be so fortunate that Veronica Mars is around long enough for me to finally learn to stay away from the TWoP boards - it's not even safe to check out the media thread without someone bringing the wank. *eyeroll* Hell, when you've got me chanting "it's just a TV show" at the mbs, there's a problem.

Interesting veering towards unfortunate rumour floating across the Interwebs today about Katherine Heigl's people have walked out on contract negotiations with Grey's Anatomy over salary issues, particularly being offered less than TV's most famous gay-basher, Isaiah Washington. ( Grey's Anatomy without Izzy? Icky. )

Update: Now with ABC's official denial that Katherine Heigl is leaving GA.

There's a Kabuki theatre aspect to these sorts of leaks and denials - the steps have become so familiar that the execution has become the only interesting part of the show.

When You're Kitty's Sickly...

The cat has a cold. He's sneezing and snuffling around. The cat book says to take him to the vet but it also says that it's a virus. Since Tully-wog just inhaled a serviing of wet catfood, I'm inclined to turn up the heat in the house and make sure he's peeing instead.

Any thoughts, LJ?