Battlestar Galactica: "The Hub"
My favorite moment of last night's insane Battlestar Galactica episode was during the destruction of the Resurrection Hub, when Helo looked into a room full of Sharon bodies and seemed to realize what he was losing. The fact that the Sharon who loves Helo and had used her Cylon-ness to access Athena's memories was the one who encouraged him to go on, not to think about it, was also interesting to me. After three years of humanity struggling not to die, the Cylons had to ask for human help to do that exact thing. Helo already thought Athena was human, will his ensuring her immortality make her more so?

I felt myself resisting the paired Laura/Bill episode structure from this week and last week at first. I mean, I love the two of them together, even enough to have made a video about them, and in my general fannish life I love when episodes focus on my favorite pairings. But for some reason I shied away from putting one relationship so much at the forefront of this particular show. (First of all, where the HELL is Starbuck lately, seriously?) But in the bigger picture, it was about leaders being human and inhuman, and about the soul of a people being reflected in the soul of its leader, as that priestess was saying.

And love is the biggest picture sometimes. People, including me, seem to want to resist that, and to place meaning in a hierarchy where life and death and battles and heroism -- the public sphere -- is far above such domestic concerns as love. But the personal and private is what makes life and death matter to us as cosncious beings.

Anyway, I'm trying to ease my way back into fandom a little bit, so hopefully this journal will come back to life somewhat. I used to very much love having people equally obsessive to discuss my favorite shows with, and I hope to have that again.