Techtite.com Editorial : My Two Bits, V2

Am I superstitious or what? Suffice to say there's too much financial crisis going on ---both at Techtite.com and worldwide--- to risk posting anything at all on Friday the 13th. That said, here's the weekly news for Saturday...which, given how much smoother the update was during the weekend, might start a new trend by next week!

Suffice to say all the good news this week happened on 24, Lost, Galactica, and the like, and that presumes you saw the shows already. If you didn't...spoilers abound after this point. Okay? Well, you were warned...

Hey; I'm all for realism in shows. I also am aware that based on such realism you can't have Jack be right all the time. However, suffice to say this episode was pretty much of a downer. No sooner does it seem like Jack kicked the bad guy's butt to the curb early in the season, when one of the knuckleheads shoots the hostage in the chest. What's worse; the hostage was the president's husband. Ouch, Jack! If this is your idea of convincing the new president to reinstate CTU; I'd say you failed big time. Not much else to say about this week's 24 so let's quickly jump to...

Another great Lost installment has the majority of the Oceanic 6 meet up with "Mama Faraday" to get back to the island, with Desmond there at the same time (yeah it's coincidental, so what?). In the meantime; Locke is shown reaching the Orchid and leaving the island, in one of many amusing time jumps that the folks on the island experienced this week.

Best part of the episode: Jin's initial time jump mishaps, as he (and the rest of us) see a young Rousseau experience the island's shenanigans upon her first arrival there. Most importantly we learn she isn't crazy; her own husband did try to kill her, so yeah, something wasn't right about him or worse yet, he was one of the island's many evil doppelgangers (like Eko's "brother").

Here's the only flaw with this episode ---if not this season--- so far. To wit: Ben's solution to getting Kate to want to return back to the island is to take Aaron from her? I don't get that one. Hey; you're aquitted of all charges against you and you're happy with someone else's baby, though now I'm taking the baby away so poof, you want to go back to the island? It's a bit of a leap for me. Of course, it's not like they're on a plane back to the island...yet.

I haven't decided yet if I like the "flashback" format of any show besides Lost. Lost knows how to handle such flashbacks; this episode was just a hodgepodge of "here's what happened with the fifth Cylon over a month ago" and "here's the other half of the episode happening in 'present day' that has nothing to do with the other half of the episode." I'm not nitpicking, though this really seemed like two halves of two unrelated episodes.

Let's cover half number one, "present day" Galactica (or whatever counts as the "present" in this show's storyline). Adama wants to repair the ship no matter what and decides to use Cylon technology. I don't see how this was the only solution Adama had. If you could fill the cracks with organic matter of the Cylon ships, why not molten metal, or patch it up with metal plates, or any other solution? I don't see how Cylon technology is going to "heal" the ship's cracks, unless there's some magical way the Cylon metal can "merge" with the "regular" metal, and if it can; why not just use molten metal? I hope you can see the confusion here. If not; it's a bit complicated to explain.

In the other half of the episode, we see Tigh's wife as she first was resurrected, and finally awoke to realize she was a Cylon. These first gasps of life, then despair, then the calm acceptance of a cylon, was the best acted scene by Kate Vernon in this episode. From here on out she seemed to think that she could phone-in her role as a cylon, as if acting in monotone was acceptable because hey, she's a robot now. Not that Cylons are robots though her acting in this episode would have you think so.

But I digress. We quickly learn that the "final five" Cylons went to Caprica to tell them to treat their artificial humans with respect or else they'd suffer the same fate as their "Earth"...specifically, nuclear Armageddon. Here's where the story gets tricky: they supposedly disscovered they missed the big war between Cylons and humans, so they...went to the Cylons...who to hear Cavil tell the tale, did not want to be human, though they were shown how anyway, much to the hatred of Cavil, who, oddly enough, was the first they chose to be human. The alleged plan was to make the more human cylons more humane, though to look at Cavil...um...nope. Boomer, fortunately, hears the same tale and has a heart, escaping with Ellen and saying one of the episode's best delivered lines in the process. When asked why she's helping Ellen escape, Boomer replies, "I forgive you [making me human.]"

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My Two Bits
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My Two Bits (The Editorial with one-quarter byte!)

Saturday, Valentine's Day, 2009

My Two Bits
(The Editorial with one-quarter byte!)