SFS: Gimme all your chocolate edition

[lyssie]

Dresden Files: Awww. He gets beat up every week.
BSG: Well. Um. Ron needs to stop reading our meta, lizardbeth_j and samanthamarie88.... (AND NO PEEKING, L!)

Dresden.
I caught on pretty quick there was either body swapping or a switch of identities--but then, that's something I have a fondness for. Liked him getting shot at and beaten. Wanted to smack him for continuing to lie to Murphy. Who really should kick his ass to the curb and tell him she won't speak to him again.

KARA.
Let's get Gaius out of the way, yes? I... really didn't give a shit about his stuff. Torture, blah blah, nightmares, blah, not a cylon, blah. The visuals, at times, were really really pretty. But I found myself getting bored and moving back to the computer, at one point. That is not a good sign.

Hell, if it weren't for the Kara/Anders subpolot, I... would not actually be talking about this episode. Much like I pretty much ignored The Passage. It was boring, it was fairly run of the mill, and I've seen better torture on Next Generation.

OH. But, it was all made better by Caprica pwning Mom in the Special Scene at the end. *hearts her beloved Caprica SO MUCH*

I may say that I find the Soap boring, but I don't find all aspects of it boring. Kara and Sam? Rock my world SO MUCH. I would like to marry them both. I find the Lee and Kara aspect yawn-worthy. I find Dee and Lee heart-breaking. She really does love him, and, I think, he really does love her. He's just really frakked in the head when it comes to dealing with women and relationships.

So.

Lee. Let's start with Lee, 'cause I want to kick him in the head a lot. Lee loves Kara. Lee loves Dee. Lee is obsessed with Kara. Lee is blind about Dee. I think he's also in a tailspin of indecision over what to do--and so he's drinking, instead. It means he doesn't have to deal with Dee and he doesn't have to deal with Kara. And he doesn't have to think about the implications Sam's comment had. Lee isn't the first. True or not? If she cheats on Sam, what's to stop her cheating on him?

And then Dee says she's leaving. In not so many words, but she walks out of his life after telling him their marriage was a lie. And that's just GREAT, for him.

Now he's in an even worse place.

Kara asks him to leave Dee. And he stalls. He isn't sure, he can't decide, and Kara mocks him for that and walks off.

So he gets drunk and plays with his wedding ring. And then he loses it, and it all crashes down. He can't save his marriage, he can't even save his frakking ring, and he isn't even sure what to do about Kara.

And that's when he decides to take some responsibility. He tells Dee it wasn't a lie. He does love her--he loves Kara, too, and he can't change that. But it's Dee he married. (though, in the end, that's also a false premise, because Kara was already married and unavailable).

Dee. As I've said before, Dee is trying to keep her marriage together, but even she has a breaking point. And she reaches it, and tells Lee that their marriage is a lie and walks out.

And as much as I want her to hit him or beat him or rail, Dee is not a physically violent woman. Self defense? Yes. Hitting her husband? That's unthinkable, and domestic abuse, in her mind. I honestly don't think she's going to take him back this easily. Not unless, I don't know, Sam hauls Kara off to live with him...

Kara. Anders. Anders. Kara. I can't deal with one without the other, but I'm going to start with Sam.

Sam has obviously been talking to Lizardbeth, SamanthaMarie, and I. 'cause, wow. His conversation with Kara? Was ripped right from us. Not to mention: They finally acknowledged that Sam and Kara actually fucking talk! They talk! Like real people! And she's told him about Leoben, right down to him being the 'fake husband'! HAH.

They talk, and he prodded her about her destiny. And then said, "Go have Lee. I'll wait." And she said, "...what?"

And Sam 'Not Quite Machiavelli' Anders wanders into the play.

He tells Kara to go to Lee. He leaves the door wide open, but he also is kinda pissy and she stops him for a goodbye kiss. And then he pulls out his ace in the hole. Sam says, "I love you", kisses her again and goes. And she's pissed. She's pissed at him and herself.

--Sidenote: HOW AWESOME was that line? "Your estranged, two-timing bitch of a wife gives you a call for sex and you hop on the first shuttle?" Yeah, I'd call that accomodating too, Sam.

He meant it, btw. He does love her. He does think there's something fucked up about the fact that he survived all that time. And that she survived. And he's right: they didn't survive just to give up on their marriage.

Then there's Kara and Lee's Wishy-Washy Divorce Pact of Pointlessness. Which ends in Kara throwing up her hands and deciding Sam is far more decisive.

I would like to note, also, that Sam dressed up to come frak his wife.

Unless he's a gigolo on the side.

ANYWAY. Then there is the bar scene, where Sam suggests he can leave (I think? On second viewing, it's not quite so clear, Skiffy's sound is fucking awful for BSG and Dresden), and Kara can have Lee... And she says no. And there is smooching. And cuteness.

And laughter and shots and invading each others' personal space. AND WEARING MATCHING SHIRTS.

And. Seriously. My otp wins. They're so hot! Also. Remember those promos that came out? Those are from this episode. The barrels are from the bar, and the shirts.... Yes.

Mmm.

I think I have said enough. Yes.

Maybe Ron will get back to not having fanfic on my screen in two weeks? Zarek'll be there...

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I found the Baltar stuff totally yawn-inducing (Mr. Mousie would tell me when it was over so I'd wander back to watch) and Lee is either eating or drinking, apparently, when he is stressed which is...yeah. Whatever.

But OMG! Kara. And Sam. So shiny. So good. I loved that first conversaton even more than the final scene in the bar.

I really hope it means quadrangle of doom is dead.

[centerspire.livejournal.com]

Dude, Sam moved in for that kiss and I was like, "oh, poor Lyssie and our broken OTP of badly lit kisses!" But then we got the reverse!!! Excellent.

I totally thought of your meta during the L/K scene. It's not that Lee said no...it's that he wouldn't say yes. (But Sam KNEW.)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

"unless he's a gigolo on the side."
At last! We know what he does on that other ship when he's not with Kara! :)

It was good to find out that he's on another ship when he's not in Kara's bunk.

And you know my favorite part? When Kara takes out her DOGTAGS and dangles them. Because yes, same song, different verse. But he played it a little differently.

I thought Sam said, "We can leave, if you want." when they're in the bar, because she's just looked at Lee and seemed uncomfortable.

Um, what else? oh yes, Sam knew about Leoben! More than he could've guessed just from looking at the place, so yes, she did tell him something about it. which I like, a lot.

But if Lee had been a little more on the ball.... Risky game Sam was playing there.

[pretty-fits.livejournal.com]

I liked the episode overall, though the music is seriously taking a turn for the worst.

Kara and Sam are so good together. And it seems RM agrees(for now).

Poor Dee, I hope she doesn't regret giving Lee another chance. If he blows it again, I don't care, she better kick his ass!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Dresden Files: Awww. He gets beat up every week.

That's nothin'. You should see him in the books. I find myself watching the series and thinking, hey, this must be what he does on the slow weeks, when there's nothing really serious and messy going on. :)

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

God, they're all so fucked up!

I thought at the end, in the bar, Sam said, "We can leave." I sort of took it to mean that he and Kara were back together, and that Sam accepted her feelings for Lee and if it bothered her to see Lee and Dee together, they could get out of there, but together. And Kara, although it obviously bothered her a bit, was basically okay with that and knew she had to get over it.

For all that happened in that ep, it was sort of slow moving. I kept looking at the clock and sighing, even though I wasn't specifically bored per se...

[liam22.livejournal.com]

Unless he's a gigolo on the side

Shh, you're not suppose to tell. lol.

Gotta love the Kara and Sam cuteness last night. It pretty much kept that episode from blah territory.

[samanthamarie88.livejournal.com]

OMG. I just want to kiss whoever wrote that ep. I died when Sam used my line about Kara's destiny and their marriage. They were talking about Leoben being the fake husband in the fake house. Of course Sam doesn't want to be a fake husband, so he sends her to Lee to work her shit out. And then he pulled out the "I love you". Because he knows she always comes back to him.(*sigh* Destiny.) In the bar scene, he was so sweet, offering to go somewhere else with her so they could just be together to celebrate their reunion without the awkward Lee being there too thing. And they were laughing and kissing. My OTP is back!!

Lee -- welcome back. I almost wanted to kiss him last night for finally realizing that he has a good woman in Dee(that scene where he lost the ring was painful to watch). And that in the end, he really couldn't be sure if Kara would stay with him or just frak him over again.

I could have done with less of the Baltar torture stuff though. Just tell me if he's a Cylon or not, and get on to his trial. I wish they would have used the CapricaSix/Roslin footage in the ep. Yeah, Zarek's back for the next ep. It's about time he came out to play.

[amykay73.livejournal.com]

For me, this episode made up for the BS I suffered through in Unfinished Business.

And your OTP totally wins.

Maybe Ron will get back to not having fanfic on my screen in two weeks? Zarek'll be there...

We can all hope and pray.

[faithfulpuppy85.livejournal.com]

Liked him getting shot at and beaten.

Shot at? Try getting shot. I liked that. Gotta love the whumpage. He's so cute. "Hey what do ya know. I'm alive. Saved by the tools of the trade. The sheild bracelet I inherited from my mother. Thanks mom." I love the way he said it. For some reason it amused me :D

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

Let's get Gaius out of the way, yes? I... really didn't give a shit about his stuff. *snip* Hell, if it weren't for the Kara/Anders subpolot, I... would not actually be talking about this episode.

I'm quite the opposite. I'll analyze Kara until the space cows come home, but give me Baltar over Sam/Kara/Lee/Dee any day. The Kara/Anders scenes were nice enough, but Lee Adama becoming a drunkard is not more important than Roslin's torture-time fun, not to mention Gaeta.

--Sidenote: HOW AWESOME was that line? "You estranged, two-timing bitch of a wife gives you a call for sex and you hop on the first shuttle?"

Heh. I misheard that as "your strange, two-timing bitch of a wife".

And. Seriously. My otp wins. They're so hot! Also. Remember those promos that came out? Those are from this episode. The barrels are from the bar, and the shirts.... Yes.

Your OTP does win. I'm starting to ship on this show. They're so happy together -- and almost functional!