Do you feel God's presence?

topic posted Sat, April 5, 2008 - 10:55 AM by 
"Why, uh, yes! I believe I do!"

Gaius continues to be my favorite character. He had me in hysterics with that one. Yet, ten minutes later I believed him when he was praying and asking for death. He pulls off the transition between drama and comedic relief like nobody else.
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    Sat, April 5, 2008 - 3:44 PM
    Very. James Callis rides the diffcult line between Utter Schmuck and Tragic Hero with his portrayal of Baltar. Kudos to him big-time.

    BTW: When that line came up I replied "Oh yes baby, all the time!"

    ... I want my own cult of hot chicks, dammit.
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      Sat, April 5, 2008 - 8:31 PM
      > ... I want my own cult of hot chicks, dammit.

      The great thing is that in many ways it's his worst nightmare. Baltar requires intellectual stimulation at least as much as he needs sexual stimulation. In this situation, he's essentially trapped somewhere, forced to overload on one while being essentially denied the other.

      Also, he's a braggard about his intellectual abilities, and he has absolutely no audience for that here, yet thing that they do revere about him is something he finds galling.

      For Baltar, he is in his own hell. It's like the classic twilight zone episode about the habitual pool player who dies and finds that in the afterlife, he wins every game of pool; he sinks every shot. It first he's thrilled but fairly quickly realizes that this is his own hell.
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    Sat, April 5, 2008 - 5:57 PM
    Yeah I thought of a 60's love shack when he entered the room. Freaky stuff happenin' undergroung on Galactica!

    I was waiting to see the guy holding an empty fish bowl collecting car keys.
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      Sat, April 5, 2008 - 6:03 PM
      I was waiting for Lamkin to reappear with a bottle
      of adrenochrome.
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        Sat, April 5, 2008 - 6:09 PM
        I think one of my favourite characters of the series so far has been Lamkins cat.
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          Sat, April 5, 2008 - 8:53 PM
          You mean the final Cylon? ;)
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            Sun, April 6, 2008 - 7:46 PM
            Lamkin's Cat is new Daggett...
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              Mon, April 7, 2008 - 12:06 PM
              call me the naysayer but i thought the entire gaius storyline was ridiculous in the first episode... we're supposed to believe that on a warship - at battlestations, during a massive war - there'd be some hidden hippy-dippy love shack going on?

              sorry to be a downer but i thought the whole idea of it was lame...

              but maybe i'm just over bsg, and not as willing to cut them some slack. i don't know. i hope the second episode is better...

              well, back to catching up on the second season of deadwood...
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                Mon, April 7, 2008 - 6:36 PM
                In the second episode I suspect there will be New Agey hedonists who begin to worship Starbuck in an alcove behind the kitchen. That love shack will go to war with Baltar's love shack and the battlestar will stink of their blood and patchouli.
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                  Tue, April 8, 2008 - 11:19 AM
                  That's hilarious!

                  But in reality, parts of the Galactica became refugee areas for families and military, after the exodus from New Caprica. After a year and a half in space, and with such very lax regulations, it's somewhat feasible that this kind of group-communal activity might happen right on the ship. After all, communal groups is probably how the whole fleet is broken down to right now anyways. It's a given that some colonials are deeply religious (like the Picons and their adherence to right-to-life values etc...), and the fleet essentially did follow Roslyn as a religious figure.

                  It could happen.

                  But war of the New Age sects sounds ridiculously cute. Would love to see it.

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                    Re: Do you feel God's presence?

                    Tue, April 8, 2008 - 9:24 PM
                    I think they made it a little too spacious and a little too woowoo for a warship. It would have been a little more realistic if they'd managed to get him on another ship. But I suspect that for plot arc reasons it makes sense for them to keep him on Galactica, near the center of power, hidden away.

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