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I missed the first half, but I saw the EC almost in its entirety, and in this "ugh, this is close, we have to send someone home for a great dish with minor flaws" decision, I agree with eliminating Chris. Being a top chef requires both technique and vision, but I place technique in front if everything else is equal. If I eat two dishes that are delicious overall, and one is more imaginative but has overcooked meat while the other is less imaginative but every aspect of it is executed perfectly, I'm going to be happier with the latter. Not seeing the first half, I don't know what the beef wellington thing was about (she was planning to make that and then changed her mind, I surmise, but don't know why or how the judges knew what she'd been initially planning), but the guest chef came off to me as more focused on what he didn't get than what he did. It was interesting that only Gail didn't wear sunglasses; the reflection off the snow is crazy, and I don't know how she did that. What an astounding view.

It was asking what the second F stands for, and that's farmers, so the profession, farming, shouldn't have been accepted. None of them know a cut-off peninsula is an island?? Maybe they were thinking cut off not as in detached from the mainland, but cut off like shortened. The Boomtown Rats TS bummed me out, as I love that song. Warren Christopher as Secretary of State being a TS surprised me a little bit, but I’m not sure if it should have. Same with FJ as a TS - I'm sort of surprised none got it, but immediately second guessing myself on even that mild surprise. Ibid in place of imprimatur was an odd choice. I don't like The Phantom of the Opera, so that being a video category - inevitable, really, with them doing it in tribute to the anniversary - was just taking time away from the rest of the game for me. Despite not liking the play, I ran the category.

So, if Lee Adama hadn't decided 150,000 years ago that we should abandon all our technology, we earthlings (who are all part cylon) would be that much further along in our advancement? Gotcha. I sat up in bed when it was modern day and Head Six and Head Baltar - who are apparently some sort of guardian angels through time - were reading over Ron Moore's shoulder about Mitochondrial Eve, AKA Hera. And then the dancing robots, as All Along the Watchtower played in its current form? I laughed out loud, in a combination of delight and WTF. All of this has happened before. Will it happen again? That was kind of great. Weird as fuck, but kind of great. I mean, it seems a rather stupid thing to do, giving up everything -- what of humanity if Hera had been eaten by wildebeests or died of pneumonia -- and I could do without "God did it" as an ending, but it made for an interesting story. I watched the extended version, basically a movie made for the DVD, so I'll have to go back and watch the three episodes to see how it aired. I'll comment on the specifics then, because right now my mind is still blown and I need to get to work. That was not what I was expecting (although, quite honestly, I had no idea what to expect), and I'm not entirely sure what I think yet, but it was certainly memorable.

Seriously. That's one of the reasons I have so many bras - any time I find one that fits well and is pretty, I must buy it! There are several styles I have in two or three colors each.

FJ was an instaget, and now I have that gods-awful song in my head. Rob doing part of the dance was amusing. Frank was really hamming it up tonight. I liked the way he answered “Forrest Gump” and his “makes more sense” after Milwaukee was revealed, but otherwise his antics fell totally flat with me. There were an abundance of wrong answers tonight, it seemed, and several of his were pretty damn dumb - gasoline as the energy source in the Edison category, Spokane in a category requiring a double E, and Ouija board instead of the Magic 8 Ball (that last one he seemed to have realized was a total brain fart). But I did like him immediately congratulating his competitor for securing a runaway. (Although, of course he did so via fist bump while Erin did so via handshake.) The Inca instead of the Aztecs was a stupid guess from Erin, too, to be fair. I got Westinghouse, Rushdie, Rabbit Run (surprised none of the other two realized he’d just added an S), Milwaukee, and probability. I, too, got tripped up with torch/cauldron, though - I couldn't come up with the word. I had no idea what the end of a shoelace was called; thanks, J!

Cally was the weakest character for me, and I always thought their relationship was odd -- Hey, you just broke my jaw, wanna get married and have a kid? Cool -- so I kind of liked when Tyrol said they all just got stuck with the best of their available options, but I also kind of thought that and the paternity revelation were rather callously shitting on her grave (you know, if she had one). I watched the next three episodes last night, so have only the three-part finale left to go. I’m not ready for it to end! I thought all three suffered from Ron Moore being too tied up writing the finale to have his usual oversight/involvement with the scripts; they build on each other to introduce (and, in several cases, reintroduce) the stories that will presumably be dealt with in the end, but as individual episodes they’re all a little clunkier than normal -- it's like I can see the foundation being obviously and awkwardly plopped down in my face, rather than just watching episodes that flow naturally and when I watch the finale I'll look back and realize how much was set up. Deadlock: So, as soon as Ellen returns, Tyrol and Tory want to ditch this whole alliance thing and jump away to form a pure cylon colony somewhere. Typical Tory, but I was surprised Tyrol voted that way immediately. Ellen’s accusations aside, I think the fact she couldn’t get pregnant and Caprica could disproves the “all you need is love” theory the Sixes love to tout – whether Saul loves Caprica is debatable (I think certainly not when she got pregnant, as he was seeing Ellen when he frakked her), but he unequivocally loves Ellen. As much as Ellen bugs me, I find the Saul/Caprica relationship rather icky, and hope Ellen being back and the fetus being miscarried means it will end. I laughed out loud – something not happening much in season 4.5! – when Baltar was fumbling with his gun. Boy, Baltar’s cult as a militia in charge of civilian security. Better than the centurions, but talk about the lesser of two evils. Someone to Watch Over Me: Damn, Boomer is cold. Athena being gagged and half-conscious while Boomer bangs an unsuspecting Helo was a brutal scene, and then as soon as Boomer gave Hera a bottle and told her to drink up, I knew she was drugging her, so when Boomer and Tyrol were lugging that box, I let out a really dark laugh – the kid is in the box. Of course she is; this is Battlestar Galactica. Tyrol’s reaction when he realizes Boomer played him is wonderful. I figured out early on the piano player was Kara’s dad. I thought that plot meandered a bit at times, but Katee Sackhoff’s performance made it watchable. Islanded in a Stream of Stars: I wouldn’t have thought I’d cry over a ship, but when Tigh and Adama toasted to Galactica after finally accepting they need to abandon ship, I immediately teared up. Watching the ship deteriorate has been hard; I didn’t realize until now that it’s a character in its own right. I can’t wait to see how they “send her off in style.” Watching Laura deteriorate has been even harder; I appreciate all the little touches they’ve employed to show how she's growing weaker (the increasing shakiness, the breathlessness of her voice, that she’s always sitting, that she's cold when no one else is, etc.), and I knew what I was getting into when I decided to watch, but I went ahead and got thoroughly attached anyway. Poor Bill; like she said, he’s losing both his women at once. And I love - especially contrasted with how the returned Ellen is still seething with jealousy over Tigh’s attachment to Bill and Galactica – that Laura is not at all bothered that he loves the ship as much as he loves her (in fact, though he says otherwise, she thinks he maybe even loves it more than her, and she’s fine with that). She’s been trying for several episodes to get him to accept he’s going to lose the ship, with no more success than she’s had getting him to admit she’s dying, and I like that her telling him she’s never felt more at home than on Galactica with him these past months is one of the things that finally forces him to take the blinders off. And I love the call back to Unfinished Business, with them toking on the joint she saved and reminiscing. Laura’s quiet acceptance that she’s never going to get that cabin by a stream makes my heart clench. Kara and Baltar talking while he’s shaving and she’s sitting on the toilet is oddly great. I guess it makes sense for him to be the one she tells about being dead, since she’s just rather over everything and wants him, the scientist, to figure out what she is, but Cottle could do a DNA test – and wouldn’t announce the results to the masses. It’s a nice moment between her and Lee afterward, though, and then putting her picture back up on the memorial wall. Ugh; I'm not ready to say good-bye to Laura, or the show, yet I'm simultaneously ready to explode with anticipation of seeing how it wraps up (or doesn't). I hope something good happens to at least someone in the end, because, jeez, this has been quite an onslaught of blows.

I'm glad I'm not the only one with bobbin issues. I sew so infrequently that every time I do, I cannot for the life of me remember how the bobbin is threaded and have to go get the instruction manual. I don't know why that won't stick in my mind, but it just won't.

I own a ridiculous number of bras and panties, in pretty much every color except pink; even though it's mostly just me seeing them, I hate boring underwear. I also have far more pajamas than any one person should have. These are my compulsions, apparently. Okay, maybe shoes, too; I think I have a perfectly reasonable assortment of shoes, but I'm sure some would find it excessive - especially since I spend so much time barefoot. And serving dishes/platters - someone as misanthropic as I am does not need so many, but when I do host, the food is presented on a cool selection of platters and bowls.

I've never seen a minute of The Beverly Hillbillies, but FJ was an easy one for me. Frank's crossed arms didn't bother me at all; I remember someone in one of the celebrity tournaments did that and people were ruffled by it, but to me it seems the most comfortable way to hold the buzzer for a game and I'm surprised more contestants don't do it. I also liked his "Timber!" and "showgirl" answers, because that's how I hear them in my head, too, and may very well have delivered them that way. And I fucking loved his tone of voice at knowing the Twilight clue; I feel the same way. Other than that, though, yeah - he kind of bugged. Damn, damn, damn on only getting to one clue in the anagram category; I love those. At least we got through the word puzzles category, which I also love. I got librarian (despite not watching Buffy, so go figure; that must have been referenced in the many that show was great/that show sucked discussions that come up in the general discussion forums) and skipjack, but that was it for TS. I'm so tired of films being described as "chick flicks," so the "uber chick flick" nonsense in the Beaches clue ticked me off. Alex’s Bill Clinton imitation was horrible. I know he’s infamous for horrible impersonations, but that was bad even for him.

Yeah, even as I was yelling, "No, Felix, don't do it!" at the screen, I understood why he was doing it. They set that up really well. This show has always been good at that - blurring the lines between right and wrong, and giving depth and context to the "bad" side of a situation. Hell, if they can do it with the cylons, they better do it with Gaeta, and they did. Because if you'd told me in, say, season two, Oh, as the series draws to a close, Gaeta teams up with Tom Zarek to stage a mutiny and tries to execute Adama, I'd have started screaming character assassination. But, as it played out, it wasn't. Just one episode last night, as I had to watch the damn thing twice and listen to the commentary to feel secure I caught everything; watching No Exit is like having the cylon mythology projectile vomited at me. I didn’t see any glaring contradictions*, retroactive inconsistencies created by these revelations, but it just feels like the Boomer Eight having found much of this out a year ago must create some, or at least make her actions/statements in the scenes when the cylons are debating what to do about D’Anna not play right, but I’ll find out when I re-watch. Even though I just watched it recently, I can’t remember where Boomer was when the resurrection hub was destroyed (she disappeared at some point), to see if her actions in those episodes are consistent with what this episode tells us she knew then. *Initially, I thought there was a huge one: Saul was in the first cylon war, but Sam says Cavil started introducing the final five into the world with Saul, “right after the war.” (And indeed it would have to be after the war, because Cavil and the other skinjobs were created in exchange for the centurions ending the war.) But then I realized Tigh’s memories of the war were just part of the false identity Cavil gave him. Tigh and Adama didn’t meet until after the war, so that works. Cavil knowing, at the time he was banging Ellen on New Caprica, that the real her a) thought of him as her child and b) had named him after and created him in the image of her father, is fucking sick, but I wouldn’t call it a retroactive inconsistency, because Cavil is just fucking sick in general. Okay, if I have this straight: Back in the day, the humans on Kobol created cylons, so there were thirteen tribes – twelve of humans and one of cylons. Three thousand years ago, everyone went their separate ways; the twelve human tribes stuck together, but on twelve different planets (Caprica, Gemenon, Aerilon, etc.), and the cylon tribe went to Earth (they stopped and prayed in that temple on the algae planet for guidance, and their god showed them the way). Living on Earth, they started to procreate, so downloading/resurrection fell out of use, but the ones we now know as the final five – who worked together at a research facility – dedicated themselves to rebuilding it and Ellen came up with some big idea that brought the system back online. When the nukes hit, the five downloaded and resurrected on a ship that they placed in orbit around the planet. (I guess that’s why, even though there were other cylons living on Earth – it wasn’t just the centurions and the five [who didn’t come in copies] – only the five remained after the planet was destroyed [which is something I’d been wondering about ever since the “the thirteenth tribe were cylons” revelation], because they were the only ones who had the resurrection technology.) Knowing the twelve other tribes would continue to create artificial life, the resurrected five headed for the 12 colonies to warn them not to treat those machines like slaves or they’d rebel and kill them, but they didn’t have jump technology, so it took them nearly 2000 years to get there; by the time they did, 40-some years ago, it was too late, the cylon war had already started – it had happened again. The centurions’ experiments in making flesh bodies had resulted in the hybrids, like we saw in Adama’s flashback to the last day of the war, but nothing that lived on its own. So the final five made the centurions a deal – in exchange for stopping the war, they developed the eight skinjob models and gave them the resurrection technology. They thought they were doing the right thing in developing more cylons, despite what had happened before, because Ellen said the centurions having a single, loving god changed everything (can I take a moment to say how ever-loving sick I am of this theme?) – if the cylons embraced love and mercy, the cycle of violence would end. They made Cavil first, and he was treasured by the five, and helped them make the others. But he got jealous that the Seven, Daniel, was Ellen's favorite, and permanently destroyed it before it really ever got going. And, lo and behold, he rejected the whole love and mercy thing altogether – he wanted justice for his centurion ancestors having been enslaved – and turned on the five, suffocating them to death. When they downloaded, he blocked their access to their memories and implanted them with false ones. They were boxed for a while, and then he started introducing them among the humans; he wanted them tortured/tormented, not killed, so that when they did download, the suffering they’d endured with the humans would cause them to say they were wrong and give him the stamp of approval he’d always wanted. When Saul killed Ellen on New Caprica, she downloaded to the basestar controlled by Cavil (and where Boomer wound up). When the joint operation between the rebel cylons and the humans blew up the resurrection hub, Cavil went to Ellen and asked for her help – the resurrection equipment still exists (on “the colony,” which must be somewhere other than Earth, because it would have been destroyed?), so he wants her to get it up and running again. But she said she only knows part of the system, it would take all five to rebuild resurrection capabilities. So he planned to have the Simons open up her brain so he can mess around in its circuitry and get the information out of her that way. But, at the last minute, Boomer took her out of there in a raptor and jumped away – presumably towards Galactica. I can’t wait to see what she thinks of the fact Saul is now shacked up with a Six he impregnated. The last thing Sam is able to say is that the “miracle,” a “gift from the angels” is starting to happen and tells Tigh to stay with the fleet. I wonder if that’s the Tigh/Six baby, the first time since the Earth Cylons that cylons have been able to reproduce. Whew. That was A LOT of information to throw at viewers in one episode. I’m all for being challenged by this show, but come on. At least now I know why the number seven was seemingly skipped, because that was bugging me. And all that “here’s the story” exposition does create some nice food for thought. As Tory, Tigh, and Tyrol hashed out, on one hand, the destruction of the colonies is on the final five – they made the skinjobs (and did so despite knowing what had happened before). But doing so stopped the first cylon war, buying the humans those 40 years of peace. And the humans on Kobol made the five in the first place. But, like Tigh said, you go back far enough and two bacteria take the blame – the responsibility has to be shared. And Kara authorizing the surgery against Sam’s wishes (she shouldn’t have been allowed to; despite his “word salad,” his mental function was such that he was well capable of informed consent) in order to get the bullet out and repair the bleed before he strokes out and dies, but then delaying it just long enough for her to find out if she was the Seven (“I need to be something”) was all interesting character study, for her identity crisis and for their relationship. My favorite part was Cavil’s rant about how making him this humanoid version of a cylon limits him; he’s a machine, and if he’d been allowed to have all the capabilities of a machine rather than just the human senses and spoken language, he could be properly experiencing x-rays, supernovas, gamma rays, dark matter, etc. Ellen’s response is that he’s better off with free will and the capacity for human emotion, and he should learn to accept himself as he is rather than fixating on not being the machine he wants to be. Cavil is a petty sadist, but he’s also quite interesting to ponder. The humans' lot in life continued to get more and more depressing in this one -- Laura has to groom Lee to take over, because she’s dying, and Adama has to allow his ship to essentially become cylon because it’s doing the ship equivalent of dying – ouch. There was one nice moment of levity when Laura told Lee his only problem is his fixation on doing the right thing sometimes prevents him from doing the smart thing, and he says he’ll get smarter – and wronger. (I wish they’d kept in the end of that scene, in which she says he should start shadowing her on presidential duties, but she’s not stepping aside just yet; he takes it to mean she thinks he isn’t ready and she says, “No, you’re ready. But I’m not.”) And I loved everyone’s reactions to Sam revealing Tyrol and Tory used to live together. I wonder if anyone is ever going to find out she killed Cally. I know from the commentary during her funeral episode that they ditched a whole story about Tyrol investigating her death, but I wonder if it's ever revisited, especially now that Tyrol and Tory apparently have this many-lives-long connection. So, okay, maybe Tory wasn't just being a total skank when she was coming onto Tyrol, she was just responding to the vibe her newly-awakened identity was giving her about them, but macking on a married man and tossing his wife out an airlock are two different things.

LOL - the chef Alex's last name is Guarnaschelli and guanciale is the ingredient, so the "You cooked Alex?" conversation spurred by "guarenchelli" gave me a good-natured chuckle after a somewhat crappy day -- thanks to you two for that. As for dinner, a local butcher had rib-eye steaks (bone-in, as nature intended) on special last week (ending today), which percolated in my mind, apparently, as today I had one of my sporadic beef cravings, so I stopped off for a beautiful steak on the way home. I have some broccoli and cauliflower roasting (just the right number of leftover pieces from what I prepped for the Super Bowl veggie/dip platter), and have enjoyed a mixed-green salad while waiting, and am getting ready to put the steak on the grill.

Ugh. "I am in need of" is annoying enough for the superfluous words, but "I am needing"? I haven't come across that, but if I do, I'll think of you and nod in sympathy.

I call them tail feathers (e.g. ugh, you have a dry poop stuck in your tail feathers). And I call the feathered legs of bald eagles (I watch several wild nests via webcam) pantaloons. We are all silly, heh.

I only saw bits and pieces during breaks from watching the Olympics, but I checked the archive to fill in the blanks. For FJ (which I saw), I got it, but am not surprised by a contestant not knowing. I am, however, stunned that Dom seemed truly surprised his tuba answer was incorrect. Seriously, dude, you couldn't even get to the point of knowing that they were looking for a car? That I just do my own thing to exercise was abundantly clear in the Fitness category, as the only clue I could decipher was target heart rate; the contestants did far better than me. There were several DJ clues I thought were ridiculously easy for that round -- like mortgage (even at $400, that was over valued), Roquefort equaling cheese, including a picture of Connie Chung for an easy clue that already spotted CC via the category, identifying Nebraska on a map (identifying Yemen on a map as a $2000 clue, given general geography knowledge, maybe, but an American-based show highlighting Nebraska on a map and rewarding $800 for identifying it?!). I also thought shell shock was pretty easy for a DD, given the category (especially in DJ), so was surprised to see Marty miss it. But, like the contestants, even with a picture and the initials CC, I could not come up with Charles Curtis. I didn't know Shropshire, either.

They make wipes and sprays you can use to clean cats who can't/don't bathe themselves, but I've never used them and it doesn't really sound like it's necessary in his case. I would work on getting the mats off before they cause a problem, and getting him used to brushing so you can prevent future ones from forming, and only worry about cleaning him if his ignoring that area seems to cause a problem even when the fur is brushed. I use a slicker brush, but here's a rundown of the best uses of the most-common types of brushes.

What I can't do anymore is stand for a concert. I don't go to nearly as many stadium shows as I used to (by a mile; I'm down to maybe two or three a year), but I still go to small venue performances about once a month. I will no longer go to the places that don't have seating, though. I'm fine if it's general admission rather than assigned seating, but there must be a seat for my ass, even if it's not a great seat because I didn't want to get there until door time.

Yet are simultaneously immune to steering, as characters can yank the wheel back and forth 45+ degrees without the car swerving. Actors are a lot better about that now, but when I re-watch shows from the '70s and '80s it is a constant feature among car chases/escapes.

The two mutiny episodes were gripping. Gaeta and Zarek being executed is certainly another entry in the "wow" ending contest. Part of me wondered how they got that many people to go along with the mutiny, but then I thought about four years spent running for your lives because the cylons nuked your entire universe and continue to hunt you down through space, making all kinds of sacrifices along the way, with your leaders telling you "I know it's hard, but in the end we'll get to Earth and have the home we're meant to have," only to get to Earth and find it annihilated and then have those leaders tell you the solution is cooperating with the cylons, to the point of letting them control the technology of every vessel in the fleet, and that question went away. Tigh’s reaction to Laura and Bill being completely open and nonchalant about their relationship all of a sudden, and her reaction to his reaction, is everything. (And I like that they're doing so, sticking with the "we've earned the right to live a little before we die" mantra.) That, along with Laura and Bill mocking their own domesticity with him going off to work and her not, and Laura not being able to stop giving political advice, provided a nice bit of humor before we headed down the mutiny path. And what a path that was. I loved watching Tigh and Adama get the best of the marines escorting them to the brig, Starbuck (who finally feels like herself again) and Apollo working together again (complete with bickering over Lee's grenade fake-out), and Laura instantly snapping back into presidential mode when faced with the magnitude of the crisis. It's not quite as instant in the original version of that scene; when Lee tells her she needs to address the fleet, they'll listen to her, she says she's not sure she has anything to offer them anymore, Kara tells her "You followed prophecies. I followed visions. We were both wrong," and Laura says, "Yes, we were." Kara says she doesn't know what she can do anyway with the wireless down, and that's when Laura says she'll do whatever it takes, and has an idea about the wireless (heading for Baltar's lair). I also like that Lee is all in for the Adama/Roslin side of this attempt, but says Zarek is right. And Baltar trying to use his complex history with Gaeta to get him to do the right thing, and their final interaction (little architect Felix designing restaurants shaped like food!). The Laura/Baltar interaction is great as always, as is Lee and Kara's reaction to Bill and Laura's "don't worry about me" kiss good-bye at the raptor -- they look like siblings watching Mom and Dad. Laura convincing the rebel cylons to move into the middle of the fleet and give Adama time to regain the ship, and then convincing them to stay there, provided great moments on the basestar. The cylons want to be considered citizens, part of the fleet, so her "No one believed we’d survive any the 50,000 crises we’ve faced, but we’ve made a veritable habit out of defying the odds. He will take command of the fleet again and he’ll know who stuck with him and who ran; who do you want to be?" is the perfect way to sway them. Bringing in Lampkin for Adama’s “trial” also made for good scenes, and I liked all the time we spent watching Tyrol crawling through the ship, without knowing until the end that he was heading for the FTL to disable it. The Quorum finally drawing a line with Zarek, and him having them executed? Wow. When Laura is giving her speech to the cylons, I love the way her voice cracks when she insists Adama is alive. And then, look out, when Zarek tells her that Adama was executed -- her “I’m coming for all of you!” threat is my new favorite thing. “I will use every canon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eye teeth to end you.” She'd take out the whole ship rather than let them get away with this. Damn that's good. So, a triumphant ending, with Adama and crew storming back into CIC just in time, but this eruption of the divisions and other tensions that have always been there and only get worse with each new catastrophe isn't going to just flame out. And Tyrol noticing that tear in Galactica – now the ship has joined its inhabitants in coming apart at the seams? What the hell else can these people be put through? I know, I shouldn't ask. @John Potts, that's an interesting theory on one of my as-yet-unanswered questions, and I'm going to come back to it once I've reached the end and seen how the show did - or did not - answer them. Part of me is anxious to get to the end, and part of me is sad it's almost over and wants to take my time getting there. We'll see which part wins.

Because Frankie gave everyone turquoise jewelry, as a nod to Santa Fe.

I saw both of those bands in concert in their heyday. I also went to a performance Bret Michaels and C.C. DeVille did together at an amusement park. A friend of mine still goes to concerts of the hair metal bands we used to listen to back in the day, but I'm not really into it anymore. For $20, though, I might go just for the nostalgia factor. @TattleTeeny, do you dislike going to concerts alone, or just find it more fun to have someone along? I'm glad you went ahead and got tickets, even if you don't wind up using the second one.

Sometimes a Great Notion is a relentlessly bleak episode that left me emotionally exhausted. It’s terrific, one of the best of the season, but it’s brutal to watch. This final stretch is going to be a doozy; it’s like a race to see if they can find someplace to live before everyone just falls apart and kills themselves and each other. The scene on the hangar deck when the raptor returns from Earth is very well done. The looks of expectation on everyone’s face, and then Laura – who has weathered everything being thrust into the presidency required of her and, especially, who can always come up with something to say – cannot speak a word, and their expressions all change. Laura curled up on the floor is heartbreaking, but just what I expected – and that’s before I found out the thirteenth tribe were cylons. Skipping her treatment? Burning the book of Pythian prophecies and telling Bill he never should have listened to her, no one should have listened to her, because they followed her and now they’re dead? I just want to hug her, but she wouldn’t want me touching her any more than she does Bill. And poor Bill, because Laura is completely shut down and Tigh is a cylon; he’s going through this alone. The scene between Adama and Tigh is so ugly it’s uncomfortable to watch at times (I actually find it overdone in sections). I like that it ultimately helps, and Adama addresses the fleet, but also that it’s not his best speech – he’s trying, but that’s as good as it gets, and there’s no “so say we all” in response; people are still shell-shocked. As soon as Dee voiced the “Previously, on Battlestar Galactica,” which she’d never done before, and was featured in the recap, I figured she was a goner since they’ve been killing people off right and left this season. But then as the episode progressed, I briefly thought, no, maybe this is all just about her and Lee reconnecting. But as she stood there at the mirror, it suddenly came to me that she was going to kill herself, wanting her last hours to be ones in which she felt really good. Kara finding her body and building her own funeral pyre is a pretty incredible thing to behold. So what is she? Because if Ellen is the final cylon (the frak?!), not Kara, Kara being resurrected isn’t because of cylon technology. But if she’s not cylon OR human, then what is she? Her asking Leoben precisely that, “What am I?” was chilling, and I’m curious to see how that winds up being explained. A Disquiet Follows My Soul was another good one, especially Laura’s story. Watching her decide to stop taking her meds was bittersweet, but moving. I like that she has her wig on and is in the middle of getting dressed in professional clothes; she was going to get back in the game, and then decided “frak it.” Which isn’t fair to Lee, no, but I love her finally being selfish after four years of sacrificing nearly everything. Her conversation with Bill about having earned the right to live a little before she dies (“I’ve played my role in this farce – the dying leader will guide the people to blah blah frakking blah. I’ve been there, I’ve done that, and now what? Is there another role I have to play for the rest of my life?”) was so powerful. I love them curled up together at the end, not caring about the tyllium ship. I laughed at the commentary, because Moore said the actors think they’ve been sleeping together off and on since New Caprica (which is what I assumed), but when he wrote it, he was picturing it as their first time – his wife was with him for that podcast, and when he shared his interpretation, she basically laughed at him and asked, “Really?” That ending put me in a good mood that was a nice palate cleanser after the heavy, depressed mood I was in after Notion, so I decided to stop there for the night and digest things. Alliance with the cylons seems like the best option at this point, but I’m glad there’s a lot of resistance to that; it would be ridiculous if the fleet just readily accepted that and moved on. I love how messy it is, from little things like Tyrol getting all tangled up with the pronouns to big things like Gaeta saying he almost got thrown out an airlock for collaborating with the enemy in a time of war, and now collaborating with that enemy is supposed to be official policy? When Adama sent Athena to arrest Zarek, I thought Gaeta was going to secretly call and warn him, so I wasn’t surprised to see him in Zarek’s cell later, but I was yelling at the TV, “No, Gaeta, don’t do it!” Teaming up with Zarek cannot possibly end well, and I like Gaeta. I love Adama bluffing with a folder full of laundry reports to get Zarek to turn over the location of the tyllium ship. Ishay’s reaction when Caprica Six talked about being pregnant with the first cylon baby made me think she was going to do something to make her miscarry. The reveal that Nicky is actually Hot Dog’s kid, not Tyrol’s, was a big ball of soap opera style WTFuckery to get them out of the corner they wrote themselves into by making Tyrol a cylon when Hera was supposed to be the only human/cylon child. I do like finding out Cottle is finding ways around the abortion ban, though. I don’t understand how cylons existed 2000 years ago and no one knew about them, or where the final five have been in the interim, where Ellen is/went when she died, but I’m along for the ride. But I'm almost watching through my fingers, wondering how it's going to end.

From the context of the post in question, it seems to stand for eating disorder.

Yeah, if they did proper CPR on the guest actors, they'd hurt the poor sods.

I think it's mostly number two; they were doing okay on just Dan's income, temporarily, but I can't imagine it being enough to feel comfortable saying, yeah, sure - let's have only this to rely on in perpetuity, even through the winter months when construction slows down, and even though it's job to job, not a steady paycheck. I don't think it was enough of an income cushion to feel secure. (I doubt they had employer-provided benefits at all between her leaving Wellman and him taking the government job.) I think Dan somewhat over-estimated their ability to properly live on his income alone (he's not some macho idiot who wants the "little woman" at home, but he'd also take some pride in being able to provide for the family without her "having" to work if need be), and Roseanne was more realistic about it.

The revival will render it a moot thought, since Dan is alive, but one of the things that always got me most about Dan turning out to have died from that heart attack is that D.J. did CPR on him. The poor kid would probably wonder if he'd been bigger and stronger, would it have worked. Also that it happened at the wedding reception; for the rest of her life, Darlene's anniversary is also the anniversary of her dad's death, Roseanne's memory of watching her daughter get married is irrevocably tied to her memory of watching her husband die, etc.