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Battlestar Galactica: “Daybreak Part 1”
I’d like to tell you I’ve come up with some smart thoughts on this one, but I won’t have time to process it fully for a couple of days at least — so instead, I’ve decided to wrap up all of “Daybreak” in one post next weekend. All I can say now is: I can’t…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Islanded in a Stream of Stars”
“Sometimes I wonder what home is. Is it an actual place? Or is it some kind of longing for something, some kind of connection?” —Laura Roslin “One of us here is living proof that there is life after death.” —Gaius Baltar “This ship has never let us down. So we’re gonna send her off in…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Someone to Watch Over Me”
Adama: “Did you love her, Chief?” Tyrol: “I thought I did.” Adama: “Well, when you think you love somebody, you love them. That’s what love is. Thoughts…” —from “The Farm” “Sometimes lost is where you need to be. Just because you don’t know your direction doesn’t mean you don’t have one.” —Slick So! We’re back…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Deadlock”
“How many dead chicks are out there?” —Hot Dog Really? We couldn’t have packed most of the events of this episode into 15 minutes and then moved on to something else? We needed to watch growly Adama stroke the walls of his ship 35,000 times in order to understand what’s at stake if he loses…
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Flight of the Conchords: “Unnatural Love”
Saturday. We open on Murray driving the boys to a disco club. Why? Nobody’s saying. But we are all loving it. Except for Jemaine, who’d rather go watch a video, and Bret, who would prefer “a sleep,” and thus they are both crouching down in the backseat and looking horrified when Murray pulls up to…
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Battlestar Galactica: “No Exit”
“I think we have to accept who we are.” —Admiral William Adama “You are not a mistake. If you could just accept yourself as what you are.” —Ellen Tigh “I need to be something.” —Kara Thrace “Saul, stay with the fleet. It’s all starting to happen, it’s the miracle, right here, it’s a gift from…
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Battlestar Galactica: “Blood on the Scales”
“The truth is told by whoever’s left standing.” —Tom Zarek “I know who you are, Felix. I know who you are.” —Gaius Baltar At last a day of reckoning has come, and tyranny brings even more blood than we might have imagined, and not in the ways we might have guessed: the Quorum executed at…
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Flight of the Conchords: “The Tough Brets”
We should start by rechristening this one “I love Jemaine,” because really, I love Jemaine. And never more so than when something is smacking him in the face. We are both funny that way. Bret, on the other hand, is funny in the way that he’s willing to insult not five but seven famed rap…
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Battlestar Galactica: “The Oath”
“I could do this all day. Who’s next?” —Kara “Starbuck” Thrace “Felix Gaeta. Who would’ve thought?” —President Laura Roslin “When this is over, there’s gonna be a reckoning. And live or die, it’s how you act today that’s gonna matter.” —Admiral William Adama Semper frakkin’ fi, indeed. What an amazing hour of television. So many…
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Flight of the Conchords: “The New Cup”
In the world of the Conchords, every decision has its consequences and every action carries its weight in impending disaster, so in the whole grand, daisy-chain scheme of things, it’s not only plausible but inevitable that the purchase of a nondescript tea cup for the princely sum of $2.79 would be what finally leads one…