BSG question

[vilakins]

As research for Multiverse, a BSG question. Is there any explanation for Gaius Baltar's English accent? I don't recall any, or for that matter anyone else speaking like that. Is he a Caprican, or from somewhere else?

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

Is there any explanation for Gaius Baltar's English accent?

He's the villain!

Sorry not to be actually helpful. To make this post less useless: are you OK for getting episodes of season 2 of Doctor Who?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I am, thanks very much! We've managed to download and watch the first two episodes. Now we have increased broadband access, we can. :-) We'll burn them to DVD once we've got four or so, so we can keep them.

He's the villain!

:-) I can't stand the guy myself. It seems odd though. I thought he might come from a different planet, but no, all the others are Americans.

Did you get a lot of takers for your Bujold ficathon? I look forward to reading the stories. BTW I just finished Paladin of Souls which I enjoyed greatly.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you're OK for Who!

I've really gone off BSG this season. Which is strange, because my intellect says, "These are great characters, and really well-acted," but my instinct goes, "Pooey".

17 people signed up for the ficathon in the end! We're in the writing period now - well, I have rereading to do first, but I won't be able to look at it till the start of May. I'll definitely post on my journal when the fiction starts being posted.

I must reread Paladin. I was disappointed by it because I wanted/expected more Cazaril, but I think that's unfair on the book and really I should go back and read it on its own merits.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it because Ista is a great character and I enjoyed seeing her take her own life in her hands and grow strong and independent. Maybe Cazaril will be in the third one? I know nothing about it.

The BSG ep we watched this week, 2.14, (US downloads, but we're a bit behind) was very lack-lustre. I gather it improves, or at least the end-of-season cliff-hanger got a lot of stunned comments. I've avoided spoilers, but I hope it picks up soon. I want some action, some revelations or mysteries, not more politics.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think the third book is in the same universe but in a different country, so probably no Caz :-( I'm hoping for some nice stuff from the ficathon.

I think we're slightly ahead on BSG, four episodes to go. For once, I agree about the politics - where this season has worked for me, it's been with the mystical stuff. I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the new season, watching it has been a chore.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's time to stop when that happens. And I think I'm getting to that point. I'll be generous and give it till the end of this season.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just assumed it was standard American shorthand for dodgy posh intellectual.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

He's definitely from Caprica; some episode include Caprican childhood reminiscences, and of course he lives there at the time of the attack. Also, I doubt he'd have been nominated as the representative of Caprica in the Quorum if he hadn't hailed from the planet.

[trixieleitz]

I was disappointed that Paladin lacked Cazaril (although I did get the feeling during Chalion that he was pretty much Miles in a doublet (which is not a bad thing, but...)). I got over it when I realised I liked Ista a lot, and let's face it, how many stories have a dowager heroine?

Haven't got around to BSG yet, maybe if the BoT makes it home tomorrow.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. That'll do nicely: over-educated ponce.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. Good point about being the Caprica rep. So perhaps they have an intellectual elite who speak that way -- except that Roslin doesn't. Hmm. A certain university with ancient traditions and graduates who like to advertise they are? An old aristocracy which lost its power long ago but retains its accents and assumptions of superiority? I need something to fit into a throw-away line. I'll have to think about this.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, an older heroine who still has it despite being written off is very cool, and Learned dy Cabon was lovely. I didn't think that Cazaril came across as a Miles type though. He seemed much older, more mature, considered, and sad. And Beatriz was the pursuer when Miles usually is. :-)

You mean you haven't seen any of BSG S2? We last watched 2.14 which was a boring ep with Apollo being a prat. I want more S in my SF, not social commentary about present-day US--but in space. However all shows have their Animals.

[trixieleitz]

No, we just haven't got around to it yet! We're only just keeping up with the stuff that we record off the telly, and I'm out three evenings a week, which doesn't help.

Commander in Chief finished recently, so that's one less hour to watch, and some of our other shows must be close to the end of their runs, so we hope to get around to the DVD collection soon. But we've both just been away for several days, so there's another big chunk to catch up on, and time not spent catching up *sigh*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Commander in Chief will probably be back; we just caught up with the US and their strange scheduling system. We're still part-way through the season.

And I know the feeling. I was delighted to find ST:TNG on Prime, but that's another hour to fit in somewhere, and we have all these DVDs we hardly ever find time for.