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tellitslantHi Mary McDonnell hi! (includes clip from s3 but no apparent spoilers) How ridiculously cute and articulate and hot and - I love my favourite Oscar-calibre sci-fi tv actress, I do I do.
Is it wrong that I am having mental anguish over the fact that driving out-of-province to see the Stones may end up delaying my chance to watch the BSG season premiere, possibly until Monday? I could take my laptop with me.... *angsts*
Also, re: that clip up there. Anyone read lips? *squints* Because OMG LAURA OMG. *flail*
ETA: spoilers behind the cut about the content of the s3 clip seen above and some other s3 knowledge, .
From this spoilery interview with Ron Moore:
"To me, I don't know about you, but to me my favorite scene in the opening two hours is when [Gaius] Baltar goes to see Laura [Roslin]. I think that's a really interesting scene, because going into that scene, I think there's an assumption of whose side you're on. Here comes Baltar, and here's Laura [Roslin] -- she's in detention, and Baltar's working with the Cylons. It should be pretty clear who you're rooting for in the scene.
"But when he starts challenging her on the morality of the suicide bombing, and that's why he's there and that's what he's angry about, it throws her off stride and I think it throws the audience off stride too. I think, for a moment, you're really not sure where you're supposed to go emotionally in that scene and I think that's a great place to take an audience."
Oh, oh, she's getting challenged on her moral ambiguity in such a way that the audience is supposed to question it too. All those suicide bombers recalling the rhetoric of everyone who's willing to die for their god(s), and it's all falling square on Laura's shoulders. That makes me happy. Sometimes I heart you, Ron Moore. *glee*
Is it wrong that I am having mental anguish over the fact that driving out-of-province to see the Stones may end up delaying my chance to watch the BSG season premiere, possibly until Monday? I could take my laptop with me.... *angsts*
Also, re: that clip up there. Anyone read lips? *squints* Because OMG LAURA OMG. *flail*
ETA: spoilers behind the cut about the content of the s3 clip seen above and some other s3 knowledge, .
From this spoilery interview with Ron Moore:
"To me, I don't know about you, but to me my favorite scene in the opening two hours is when [Gaius] Baltar goes to see Laura [Roslin]. I think that's a really interesting scene, because going into that scene, I think there's an assumption of whose side you're on. Here comes Baltar, and here's Laura [Roslin] -- she's in detention, and Baltar's working with the Cylons. It should be pretty clear who you're rooting for in the scene.
"But when he starts challenging her on the morality of the suicide bombing, and that's why he's there and that's what he's angry about, it throws her off stride and I think it throws the audience off stride too. I think, for a moment, you're really not sure where you're supposed to go emotionally in that scene and I think that's a great place to take an audience."
Oh, oh, she's getting challenged on her moral ambiguity in such a way that the audience is supposed to question it too. All those suicide bombers recalling the rhetoric of everyone who's willing to die for their god(s), and it's all falling square on Laura's shoulders. That makes me happy. Sometimes I heart you, Ron Moore. *glee*
