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and in the end it's love
Today I watched The Plan! I like it in much the same way that I like good fanfic, although giving supplemental material the "good/bad/&c fanfic" clause is not always as descriptive as it could be. I mean, season 8 Buffy? Post-series fic that I choose to ignore. The Plan is a different animal, and by different animal, I mean holy shit, did they actually give me two hours of missing scenes with Cylons?? IT'S LIKE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY.
I think I will start with the things that dissatisfied me, because it is a fairly short list. Most importantly, TORY. She was slowly transformed from character to plot device, and while they didn't exacerbate the problem here, they also did nothing to make it better. Tory Foster: set piece! /o\ Much less importantly, there was a tragic dearth of Leoben, but considering the timeframe the Plan was set in, I really don't know what I'm whining about.
Anyway, to get my HUGE GOBS OF JOY out of the way: Leoben was the Defense Minister's yoga instructor aladskdfAHAHAHAHA. I completely adore that, and moreover I adore everything they did do with him, the tape recording and his conviction that Kara is something special (he understands why God used to love humans ohhhh) and his vision of her while he's strangling her. Of course I could beg the question of why he'd see anything from Maelstrom, but that is nitpicky and it's not like they had a lot of footage to choose from. In conclusion I want to write tons and tons of Leoben fic now.
I also spent a lot of the Plan shrieking with laughter. Or starting to laugh and dissolving into wracking coughs, but the sentiment remains. "She plucked the knowledge from the stream," Leoben tells Cavil earnestly; "I don't care if she can pluck puppies from God's ass!" he snaps in reply, and I lose it. Actually the Cavils were hilarious almost always and I love them. The Dorals were also hilarious always -- "His was burgundy. Mine's teal." -- and I love them always too, poor Dorals. They're the only ones who are not allowed a revelation.
Simon-who-is-married-to-a-human broke my heart, speaking of, and I'm kind of distressed that he airlocked himself outside of download range, because Caprica reported back to the Sixes (although judging from Shelley they weren't hard to convince), and Boomer and Athena got the Eights to come around, and I don't think Leoben had to convince the Twos very hard, but if Simon --! Ah well.
The Cavils holding hands at the end, my god. I am also very intrigued by John the Little Boy Of Cavil's Metaphorical Humanity, but I don't think I have those thoughts in order yet. Meanwhile I love everyone, including Tyrol again and Sam quite a bit more, and I think the moral of this story was a better moral than the show proper came up with at the end. The moral of that story was "Actually, technology really is bad after all!" and this one ... is about proving Head!Six wrong, actually. She says that what makes humans human is their ability to kill; it's actually the opposite, and oh, I adore that.
I think I will start with the things that dissatisfied me, because it is a fairly short list. Most importantly, TORY. She was slowly transformed from character to plot device, and while they didn't exacerbate the problem here, they also did nothing to make it better. Tory Foster: set piece! /o\ Much less importantly, there was a tragic dearth of Leoben, but considering the timeframe the Plan was set in, I really don't know what I'm whining about.
Anyway, to get my HUGE GOBS OF JOY out of the way: Leoben was the Defense Minister's yoga instructor aladskdfAHAHAHAHA. I completely adore that, and moreover I adore everything they did do with him, the tape recording and his conviction that Kara is something special (he understands why God used to love humans ohhhh) and his vision of her while he's strangling her. Of course I could beg the question of why he'd see anything from Maelstrom, but that is nitpicky and it's not like they had a lot of footage to choose from. In conclusion I want to write tons and tons of Leoben fic now.
I also spent a lot of the Plan shrieking with laughter. Or starting to laugh and dissolving into wracking coughs, but the sentiment remains. "She plucked the knowledge from the stream," Leoben tells Cavil earnestly; "I don't care if she can pluck puppies from God's ass!" he snaps in reply, and I lose it. Actually the Cavils were hilarious almost always and I love them. The Dorals were also hilarious always -- "His was burgundy. Mine's teal." -- and I love them always too, poor Dorals. They're the only ones who are not allowed a revelation.
Simon-who-is-married-to-a-human broke my heart, speaking of, and I'm kind of distressed that he airlocked himself outside of download range, because Caprica reported back to the Sixes (although judging from Shelley they weren't hard to convince), and Boomer and Athena got the Eights to come around, and I don't think Leoben had to convince the Twos very hard, but if Simon --! Ah well.
The Cavils holding hands at the end, my god. I am also very intrigued by John the Little Boy Of Cavil's Metaphorical Humanity, but I don't think I have those thoughts in order yet. Meanwhile I love everyone, including Tyrol again and Sam quite a bit more, and I think the moral of this story was a better moral than the show proper came up with at the end. The moral of that story was "Actually, technology really is bad after all!" and this one ... is about proving Head!Six wrong, actually. She says that what makes humans human is their ability to kill; it's actually the opposite, and oh, I adore that.