Redstick SF

Some quick hit commentary on Ep 313:

- This episode was not funny. In any way. Those of you expecting something humorous after realizing the episode was named after a line in the Cheers theme song were devastatingly disappointed.

-In a related note, those of you expecting to see Norm Peterson saw, instead, Tricia Helfer and were NOT disappointed.

I’d argue that audiences fall into two distinct categories:

People who love this episode: LOVE misery, people crying, adultery, and torturing other human beings.

People who hate this episode: HATE moral ambiguity, puppies.

-Mary McDonnell shouldn’t yell. If that scene was an acting match, she got KO’d by James Callis. Watch the scene again and look how ridiculous she looks when she orders him to return to the photograph he recognizes and yells at the grunts to keep their guns on Callis/Baltar. There’s a reason she was called “Stands with a Fist” and not “Shouts With a Fist” in Dances with Kevin Costner.

-WTF kind of Doctor is Doc Cottle? The guy just stands there while they torture Baltar. Seems like I read somewhere about doctors doing no harm.

-How hilarious was Bill Adama’s special torture tecnique of holding a flashlight in Baltar’s eyes? I know he’s supposed to be in a drug induced state of extreme anxiety yadda yadda yadda… But when you step back at what we’re really watching, Eddie James Olmos is holding a flashlight in James Callis’s face.

-Flattery, such as naming the ship’s bar after a reviewer whose approval they desperately seek (namely mine), is effective only when it is accompanied by money. Really, though, the “Joe’s Bar” set was really, really lazy writing. More on that later…