what may or may not be hard reality

Ok, Paula might be a chick, but I still like the porn-dude better. There are elements of schadenfreude with regards to her being sick. I'm not very fond of Paula, now or in the flashbacks.

I love the lady who teaches them about the halos. Heehee! She reminds me of Broomhilda from Men in Tights. Every show needs a stern matronly type...

Aww, poor AJ.

Haha! The 'halo secure' thing is silly, but adorable. Yay! And still, I love that Jen and Zoe are friends. However, it's sad that all they talk about is guys. However, as they do talk about guys, how does Jen figure that they're both completely rewound when she opened the entire conversation by pondering if it was even at all possible...

Uh. I'm sure something happened in this scene, but I was distracted by Jen in a sports bra. *guh* Gonna have to go back and watch this again... uhm. You know. For the articles the plot.

I haven't voluntarily watched this much man-woman-flirting on TV since forever. It's weird. It's kinda like how I'd imagine a boy!crazy teenaged girl would feel if she was forced to watch nothing but The L Word.

And I like how they're friends with Nadia back then. What happened? I'm gonna work from the theory that Jen and Zoe are still friendly with Nadia, but since they work in different places they just haven't gotten around to showing it.

"It seems the lander has made up its mind. It wants to kill us." Funniest thing Donner has said so far on this show. Heehee!

"Then you won't mind if I switch teams for a while?" Even knowing this is a contest, is it sad or awesome that my first thought was 'ooooh, does Nadia usually play for the affections of women?' Also, yay Nadia in a bra! She's hot!

I like AJ. I hope they keep up with him on the show even if he's going to be in research.

The Zoe/Donner thing alternately bores and annoys me. *sigh*

I really like Nadia! "Is it me, or is everybody on this ship crazy?"

And truly, Zoe, you still haven't figured out that you're the only one who hears the baby cry?

Awww... I don't know which is worse. Rollie having to watch his wife comfort another man, or Jen getting rejected when she tries to.

Damn. So the Ted/Jen thing wasn't happening in space. Which I could have figured out from the colors of their suits, but still. Sadness. However, all the more to ship them now! Yay! Also, the bushes were amusing, and it disappointed me that Rollie wasn't hiding in them, watching.

Ooooh... I love Rollie yelling at Ted and Ted accepting it and getting his act together, because they're BFFs too. Don't entirely get that thing about betrayal, though, but I guess we'll find out.

So considering the fact that AJ and Rollie have the exact same apartments, I guess they're some sort of crew quarters.

And I love them bringing Claire into it. Although it does make me a little sad that Claire is such a part of the group in the flashbacks, but now she spends all her time in front of the computer monitoring them, but never talking to them. If I hadn't gone into this with a focus on Jen because of Christina, Eve and Claire would probably have been my favourite characters. They're being intelligent and powerful and doing mission stuff. Jen and Zoe are out in space, but all they can talk about is boys.

And the genome thing is really interesting. Although as it read on Claire's computer screen, they're all turning into clones of Eve Shaw. Hehe.

The flashbacks are amusing enough, although I have to admit there's a little too much focus on the personal stuff. I like a procedural of some sort, where the personal stuff is a footnote, a tiny little moment every episode that you treasure. Here it gets too be a little too much. (Same problem I had with ER and other shows that try to mix it up too much. They never have been my favourites.)

And I gotta say, that thing Christina said about this episode being lighter and funnier before we get to the dark and secretive stuff next week? This week was pretty darn dark and secretive. But I guess I'll approve, because if it's dark and secretive, then there's less time for man-woman-awkward-flirting. And I hate to be that lesbian, because truly I am not man-hating, nor straight-people hating, but I just don't understand it. Attraction to the opposite sex is one of those things, much like shopping and vandalism, that I accept as being true for many people, but I cannot find it in me to wrap my head around how it works. Which doesn't mean I believe in discriminating against heterosexuals, depriving them of their rights, or being generally unkind to them. I just don't get it, but I accept its existence.


Jen/Zoe


Eve/Claire


Ted/Rollie