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| Monday, January 16, 2006 10:34 AM |
| BG, and Misc. |
 by Fëanor |
- I managed to fit in a viewing of the latest "Battlestar Galactica" episode last night, and I have to say, I was a little disappointed. I mean, there were some truly great scenes, and a part of me really likes the way things turned out, but at the same time, I feel like it was a bit of a cop-out. (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!) I mean, Moore let our heroes have their cake and eat it to - they got to have Admiral Caine dead without actually getting blood on their hands. It just felt too pat and convenient to me. A much more horrifying but ironic way for Caine to die would have been for the injured Lee, fulfilling his promise to Starbuck, to have stumbled to Caine's quarters with a gun and shot her, then perhaps framed the Cylon for her murder, all unaware that the order had been rescinded. Learning later that his father had had second thoughts about the assassination, Lee might have stuck to the frame story, but been consumed by guilt and self-hatred. Of course, this is how I was guessing things might turn out as I was watching the episode, and the very thought of it horrified and depressed me, so maybe it's just as well. Plus, looks like Lee is having enough trouble already, what with the suicidal thoughts and all.
Things I did like: before killing Caine, Moore made her sympathetic - or at least understandable. And as Starbuck pointed out, it's quite likely that they were safer with her than without her. I loved the scene when Caine was basically giving Starbuck a pep talk for her own assassination(!!). And I did like the fact that, at least for me, it didn't really feel like such a good thing when they blew up the Resurrection ship. In fact, when all those humanoid bodies exploded out into space, it just made me kind of sick and uneasy. The show continues to ask hard questions and drag its characters through agonizing situations. I'll be waiting for next week's episode...
- We may finally have the final casting news for the next Bond girl. If Cinematical's sources are to be believed, it's an Australian actress named Rose Byrne. You may recognize her as Dorme from Attack of the Clones, but probably not.
This isn't as interesting a choice as Diana Rigg's daughter would have been, but I guess it's okay. Byrne didn't seem like such a great actress in AotC, but who did? She'll probably do fine. It's not like Bond girls have historically been great actors anyway...
- Did I read already about Brian De Palma doing a film adaptation of James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia? I don't know, but he is, and apparently Ellroy is quite pleased with what he's seen so far. This makes sense; I think De Palma and Ellroy are a great fit for each other. They both make outrageous and intense art about sex and brutal murder. I've never read Ellroy's work, but I've heard a lot about it, and seen specials on him and the Black Dahlia mystery, so I'm very intrigued here. I'll keep an eye out for the film.
- Turns out the rumors of the death of the Outkast movie, Idlewild (thankfully not about old screensavers), were apparently greatly exaggerated, because here's the trailer (via Cinematical). Can't say it looks like a great movie, or even the kind of movie I would normally be interested in at all, but it's got Outkast, and it could be good. I won't be going out of my way to see it, though.
- This Backwards City post has a bunch of great links. One is to a story I already posted about (the Norwegian doomsday vault), but then we've got the news that primitive man was hunted by birds, toxic waste is creating hermaphroditic polar bears, and librarians hate their jobs more than pretty much anybody else. So, uh, maybe it's better that you didn't end up getting into that field after all, poppy.
- Despite the fact that I also subscribe to Wired's news feed, I have to thank Backwards City again for pointing me towards this slyly humorous Wired article, Game Year in Review: 2010.
- More on those real-life Hobbits; incredibly old fossil evidence of them suggests that humans may have come originally from Australia, and not from Africa, as previously suggested. Plus, we were really tiny back then. Wild.
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