Music is one of BSG's strongest points, no question. That goddam rendition of "All Along the Watchtowers" was stuck in my head for MONTHS.trooper6 said:I liked when the show explored political and ideological themes better myself as well...but when I think back, the religious themes were always there from the beginning with the Scrolls of Pythia. I was actually okay with the religion when it was still a bit mysterious and contested.
And like you, I loved that scene with Kara and her dad. Also, as a Musicologist, I really loved the use of music in the last season.
Oh...and one of the reasons I loved Terminator: The Sara Connor Chronicles is because it, too, refused to acknowledge the existence of any Terminator beyond the first two movies.
Hope the earthquake is a small-to-medium sized amusing one, rather than the other kind.
As a side note: I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and for three earthquakes in a row I was caught on the toilet. I remember thinking...do I ignore the earthquake and continue doing my business or do I try and finish up quickly and leave? Luckily, the earthquakes usually ended before I really had to finish that thought.
Now that Ridley Scott is greasing up the hands that brought us "Robin Hood" to destroy Blade Runner with a thoroughly unnecessary sequel, we're pretty much shit out of quality science fiction film franchises that haven't been run straight into the ground. Matrix? Fucked. Alien? Fucked. Star Wars? So fucked.
It was a 6.7, off the coast. Just a bit of swaying. Mildly nerve wracking, as we're on a massive fault line that is long overdue.
I think in that situation you ride it out on the toilet. Sure, you might die, but running down the street with your lunch streaming down your legs would cause you to die a social death that would precede the real one.