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[nny]

Mostly done with an episode of BSG called Pegasus.

Wow. That's really just. Not okay to watch, huh?

Comments

[melloniel.livejournal.com]

...was that your first episode? Because, um. >_>

[villainny.livejournal.com]

No, no, we're watching them all in order. Just. Fuck.

D:

And I was so chuffed at the beginning that it had That Guy From Hard Core Logo in (wot isn't Callum)!

[melloniel.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That...yeah. D:

Chief is my favorite. ♥

And CKR! He be crazy! <3

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I love Chiiiiiiiiiief. And crazy bassist John is in this episode! YAY!

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. Yeah. Pegasus.

The thing that saves it for me is that most of the horror is intentional. Aware.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. It's incredible and difficult to look away from and I'm pretty much okay not watching that again. Yup.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Peg isn't a good one. I won't say it's the worst but... yeah.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I think it's an incredible episode, I'm just having a really hard time watching it.

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Sorry, looking back that was really badly phrased of me. I meant the worst in terms of psychological and emotional issues.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Erk. O.O

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

BSG is definitely not afraid of going there.

Some eps, like Peg, are difficult because of story, others are more or less difficult depending on which characters you're attached to. I find The Farm really really hard, but that's partially because of how much I love Starbuck.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

You know, I really loved that episode. In a It Deals With ScaryBad Issues kind of way, but that's part of the reason why I loved it. Hurt to watch, but the story telling is fierce.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, absolutely. I mean, it's incredible, it's just fucking harsh. I can recognise its amazingness without ever ever wanting to watch it again. Like Dancer in the Dark.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, okay. Yeah, for me, that's Fargo. I don't know why that movie is harsh for me, but -- ug. I'm glad I saw it, but thanks I'm done.

I... think I've rewatched Pegasus three times. Um. I have fondness, in a story-telling way, for depictions of torture? In that it's complicated? *looks cute and innocent and not at all creepy*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I love you even though you're a psycho!

*noms on your head*

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Did you watch the deleted scenes for it? They're. Even more harsh, so if not your thing, don't watch, but for me it's like wiggling a loose tooth. It's horrible and awful and I can't not watch it: it's fascinating.

(the prison-cell scene is... extended.)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I---- don't think I'm gonna.

[bcgphoenix]

I would...strongly recommend that course of action, yeah.

It's like you said: very well done episode, intensely difficult to watch, and those extended/deleted scenes are even more so.

[beeej.livejournal.com]

There's a BSG movie called Razor that goes back to that story and tells a whole lot of other stuff that was going on. Really fleshes it all out, and provides a lot more insight.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I don't remember being particularly traumatized by that episode, as most of BSG was already turning my head 360 degrees every episode anyway.