thistlechaser | Most favorite BSG ep so far!

I wanted to stop in the middle of the ep and post, but I wasn't sure if things would change and besides if I stopped then I'd have had to stop watching!

Unfinished Business, the boxing/flashback ep. I wouldn't have thought I'd like it, since there was zero plot progress. "Nothing happened" sort of... except somehow a lot did. All the flashbacks to New Caprica... I hadn't had any idea that things were happy there in the beginning. I had pretty much thought it went from grubbing in the dirt to unhappy unions about to go on strike to the cylons coming back and attacking.

And the darned relationships. Idiot, idiot Starbuck. I'm torn between being annoyed at her because she's so emotionally stupid to feeling bad for her because she's somehow become so damaged.

I'm pretty sure I read that Starbuck was male in the original series, which is really interesting to know. When I first started watching BSG, I had made a post elsewhere asking what the slash pairings were (I was seeing none, but I thought maybe it was because I was so early on in the series). Someone mentioned that Starbuck was so masculine that her/any guy was basically slash. At the time I hadn't understood how correct that was.

(Also, I wonder how the original series was? Has anyone watched it? Is it worth checking out?)

I'm feeling worse and worse for Dee, too. She seems so unhappy now. (Duh, with her husband all UST with some other girl...) I'm probably just projecting my own feelings, but I wonder if the writers are making this punishment for her not picking Billy over Lee.

Back in one of my first posts about BSG, I had called the series "satisfyingly dark". It's still that, only now in a different way. All these relationships feel so doomed (except Bill and Laura, eeee!).

I haven't yet stopped making progress in the series to rewatch an ep, but I think this one might be the first one. I really, really want to keep going and find out more, but I loved this one so much... (I wish I had been following the series from the beginning so I could linger over eps for a whole week. Rewatching them, talking about them with others...)

Edit: I fail at avoiding the wiki. I had to look up the planet name to make sure I was spelling it right, and found this out about the ep:
Writer Michael Taylor received a nomination for the 2007 Nebula Award in the script category for this episode.

An extended version of this episode with 25 minutes of extra footage was included on the Region 1 DVD release Battlestar Galactica - Season Three.

Doesn't surprise me that the script was nomination for an award! And that seals it, I have to order these DVDs now now now. I bet there are other eps that have extended versions! To Amazon I go~!