How does one prepare oneself for inevitable death twice? This isn't Laura's first rodeo with cancer. Even as I began to grow weary of the hospital scenes — the finding of wisdom from the mouth of a terminal mentor is a wee bit cliché — I thought about how death must be different when one is facing it the second time around. (And, given that Laura did the impossible, how horrible it must be to know that salvation won't come a second time)
I found it quaint that Laura and Emily both shared the same vision of the afterlife as The Lord of the Rings' Gandalf: ''Death is just another path. One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass....And then you see it. White shores...and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.'' Though I do wish we'd never seen that realized. Some things work better in the mind's eye.
I will say it this once, and let it go. The fact that Mary McDonnell has never been nominated for her work on Battlestar Galactica is enough to invalidate the Emmys.
There was a line in Joss Whedon's Serenity: Shepard Book tells Mal, ''I don't care what you believe. Just believe in it.'' I couldn't help thinking of that in that final scene, between Adama and Roslin. There is so much love there. I'd hate to see what happens when one of them loses the other.
A better episode than last week, mostly because it balanced the necessity to advance the plot, to get us further down the path to the finale, and the producers' desire to get us further inside the lives of these people.
What did you think? Is Anders getting too close to revealing himself? What might've happened if he did put his hand in the Cylon data stream? Did anyone really believe that Starbuck and the baseship weren't gonna make it back before the Demetrius jumped away? (Someone should call a moratorium on using a countdown clock to create tension, because it just doesn't work anymore.) And when the hell are we gonna see Bill and Laura kiss? For realz?
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