For some reason, the Doral scene that tends to stick with me (overall) is from "Downloaded" when a Doral serves a Doral coffee.
Yeah, that was pretty great. I love how they nuke every man, woman and child in Caprica, rebuild the entire city, and immediately open a pleasant little Cylons-only coffee shop. Clearly, the Plan operates according to my kind of priorities. :P The scene where the Centurions are planting trees is another favorite of mine.
Matthew Bennett did a great job playing Doral; a lot of actors would have phoned that one in, seeing as how Doral was a) a killer robot and b) a killer robot with so few lines, but Bennett did a surprising amount with what he had. I love the messed-up sense of enjoyment he brings to the role. Doral seems cold, but he's always grinning when he's having fun, such as suicide-bombing or screaming "SIGN IT!" at Baltar...
I rewatched "Maelstrom" last night and it made me miss Leoben having a role in the final stretch even more. Kara's story was as much his story as it was hers in a lot of ways.
I think even Katee Sackhoff has mentioned how sad it was that Kara and Leoben never got any closure. The last we see of them together is him freaking out over her dead body... which is, I suppose, an ending for the two of them, but it seems inadequate. After everything these two characters went through in New Caprica and the Demetrius arc, they deserved at least one parting scene.
Also, I think the fact that Baltar ends up being the mystic and Leoben invents a box to help Roslin talk to the mutineers says a lot about the characterization in season 4.5. And would Kara really have thought to herself, "wow, I guess I'm some mystical dead-and-arisen being, almost like an angel or something! Clearly, I should go tell this to the scientist I haven't seen since I randomly frakked him 3 seasons ago, rather than the Cylon who has been ranting about how I'm an angel for 4 seasons now!" For a show that's "about the characters, stupid", the writers sure seemed willing to make them wildly OOC whenever it was convenient to do so.
And of course it's okay to friend me! :) I've reciprocated. I've been kind of lurking on the fringes of BSG fandom so you're my first official lj friend via BSG. :D I haven't been posting much recently, but I'm meaning to rectify that.
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Date: 2009-03-28 01:39 am (UTC)Yeah, that was pretty great. I love how they nuke every man, woman and child in Caprica, rebuild the entire city, and immediately open a pleasant little Cylons-only coffee shop. Clearly, the Plan operates according to my kind of priorities. :P The scene where the Centurions are planting trees is another favorite of mine.
Matthew Bennett did a great job playing Doral; a lot of actors would have phoned that one in, seeing as how Doral was a) a killer robot and b) a killer robot with so few lines, but Bennett did a surprising amount with what he had. I love the messed-up sense of enjoyment he brings to the role. Doral seems cold, but he's always grinning when he's having fun, such as suicide-bombing or screaming "SIGN IT!" at Baltar...
I rewatched "Maelstrom" last night and it made me miss Leoben having a role in the final stretch even more. Kara's story was as much his story as it was hers in a lot of ways.
I think even Katee Sackhoff has mentioned how sad it was that Kara and Leoben never got any closure. The last we see of them together is him freaking out over her dead body... which is, I suppose, an ending for the two of them, but it seems inadequate. After everything these two characters went through in New Caprica and the Demetrius arc, they deserved at least one parting scene.
Also, I think the fact that Baltar ends up being the mystic and Leoben invents a box to help Roslin talk to the mutineers says a lot about the characterization in season 4.5. And would Kara really have thought to herself, "wow, I guess I'm some mystical dead-and-arisen being, almost like an angel or something! Clearly, I should go tell this to the scientist I haven't seen since I randomly frakked him 3 seasons ago, rather than the Cylon who has been ranting about how I'm an angel for 4 seasons now!" For a show that's "about the characters, stupid", the writers sure seemed willing to make them wildly OOC whenever it was convenient to do so.
And of course it's okay to friend me! :) I've reciprocated. I've been kind of lurking on the fringes of BSG fandom so you're my first official lj friend via BSG. :D I haven't been posting much recently, but I'm meaning to rectify that.
Hurrah, friends!