astralis | (no subject)

"The mutiny has thinned our ranks." So apparently RDM said in the podcast for last week's ep that the mutineers, including Racetrack, Narcho and Seelix, were rounded up and sent to a prison ship. (Do we still have the Astral Queen?) I'm sure that makes some people very happy, given the hate people were expressing post-mutiny, but it's Racetrack. (....I kind of want to write it, though.) I suspect we're not going to see any of them again - the show has bigger fish to fry than a handful of minor characters right about now, after all - but I can't help thinking what a horrible way for Maggie to go out, after everything she's seen and done and been.

Because it's all still about Racetrack in my head.

I was pretty 'meh' about the rest of the ep, but that might have been because I was pissed about Maggie. However, Starbuck in the shower! Starbuck CAG! And the Watchtower moment was pretty frakking awesome, and almost redeemed the episode for me. Also, Boomer-as-Athena was crazy creepy, and her 'drink this' moment with Hera was just... ugh. Yuck. Also creepy. And Chief, you idiot.

I have mixed emotions about the season (4.5) so far. 'Sometimes a Great Notion' blew me away. I couldn't think straight afterwards. 'Disquiet' was obviously setting up the next eps, so I could handle that. 'The Oath' just about killed me: that level of intensity and adrenaline and violence, believing that anyone could go out at any moment was what I'd been expecting after Dee's death in 'Notion'. And it had bonus Maggie, and her participation in the mutiny was a whole other level of emotional involvement for me. 'Blood on the Scales': not enough Maggie, and without the redemption I'd been expecting for her - I thought they were setting her up for something in the previous ep. That was a disappointment, and the mutiny seemed to end all too easily, but Zarek's murder of the Quorum and Starbuck and Apollo being awesome saved the ep for me. 'No Exit' was too much like sweeping the revolution under the carpet, like no one had learned anything or had to question themselves, almost like it had never frakking happened. 'Deadlock', meh.

At the moment, I don't really care what happens. Sad, but true. How much of that is because, with Maggie out of play, I've lost my major viewpoint character, the person through who I saw most of what happened in the show. Before, I cared about what happened to Maggie. Now, with Dee dead, Gaeta dead, Kat dead, with little focus on the pilots and space battles a rarity I just... I don't know. So much exposition. So much 'look how clever we are!' from RDM and the writers.

Maybe I'll write a more coherent post later.