What the Frak!?!

Okay so I’m a big fat liar, there was no week of cool women just one lonely post, what can I say sometimes college trumps blogging. It’s a sad fact of life. That being side if I were compiling my list of top 5 fictional women on TV today it would look a little different: President Laura Roslin and Kara Thrace would most certainly be on that list. Why weren’t they there a couple of weeks of ago? We hadn’t met.

I’ve been a BSG fan for, oh a little over 48 hours now. So this is how it happened: Last year after reading all the “OMG-Battlestar Galactica is the best show ever!” articles, I thought to myself, okay it has a really stupid name but so did Buffy and we all know how that turned out, ah what the hell, lets give it a shot. So I tuned into an episode. The last episode of season three. I had no idea, not even an inkling, of what I was seeing. Cylon? Frak? Bob Dylan? What!? (Seriously, this must be how people feel when they tune into Lost for the first time. Gods bless mythology-laden shows.)

So, that was my first and what I assumed would be my last brush with BSG. All I got out of it was they hated light. And colors that aren’t gray. So I returned to my BSG-less existence figuring I would never ‘get it’. Fast-forward to last week, SciFi is running approximately 90 billion promos, articles are popping up everywhere, and I hear that The Man Joss Whedon and The Other Man Seth Green are participating in a retrospective of sorts for the show. Where Seth Green goes, so goes my nation. So I watched the retrospective and watched cool people gush about the show and I found myself thinking, you know maybe I should I give it another shot.

Then I watched the BSG in nine minutes promo and I started feeling an itch. I needed to watch this show. Luckily for me, SciFi loves marathons. Monday morning rolled around and I woke up early and settled myself in front of the TV and I met Kara Thrace. And Laura Roslin. And Adama. And Helo-Oh my God, Helo! And Chief. And cute little Callie. And little Adama. And my friends, I finally got it. It is not for naught that Dwight Schrute believes BSG beats bears. It’s dark and beautiful (the space battles are mesmerizing), the characters are terrific, and the cylon mythology is delightfully complex. I may have skipped a class because I was in the middle of a two-parter. I think this show has eaten my brain. Why haven’t I been watching since it started? Oh, right my stupid space-prejudice. Have I learned nothing from Firefly?

Sadly, I can’t watch the marathon in its entirety unless I take a second spring break so I won’t be able to catch up completely before Friday night, but someday very soon there will be dvds. In the mean time here are ten things I still don’t understand about BSG (with spoilers):

1. Ship-Sharon loved Chief, yes? Caprica-Sharon was impregnated by Helo. They are not
the same, right? Yet, they are addressed the same. Do cylons share consciousness (I get
the downloading after death thing-but do they all share thoughts, memories)?
2. Who is Anders? Why does he look so much like Lee?
3. What is up with Baltar and Six? Is she a figment of his imagination or is she actually
appearing to him? I get that he was involved with a copy of her.
4. Why isn’t everyone freaked out by how crazy Baltar is? It’s not like he hides it.
5. Where exactly did Cylon-Sharon get ovaries? Is this going to be like Angel-Darla part
two? Gods, I hope their kid is less whiny.
6. How is Laura so awesome?
7. In the same vein, dude we still haven’t found a cure for cancer? We can make robots
pregnant, but we can’t cure breast cancer? Stupid future.
8. How did the cylons evolve? Why haven’t they all evolved? Do the shiny ones have
thoughts?
9. Is it just me, or is Lee kind of whussy? Adorable, sure, but I kind of think Starbuck
would eat him alive.
10. And finally, is it normal to be jealous of fictional characters, cause I kind of want to
fight Sharon for Helo. That’s kind of crazy, right? I’ll work on it.

In conclusion: Is it Friday yet?