大喜媽咪

 

My favourite episode of Battlestar Galactica (the remake) is episode 1, not the pilot (which is a little slow), the first episode proper.

It is called 33, which is the number of minutes the Galactica crew have before the Cylon fleet cath up with them, and they have to make a hyperspace jump to escape them. There are then another 33 minutes before the Cylons catch them again and they have to jump again.

The ship is falling to pieces and the crew are pretty much falling to pieces too. No one can sleep as they are just trying to get everything ready for the next jump, and everyone is so stresssed out by the unbearable tension that they are arguing with each other and all having half hourly nervous breakdowns. There seems to be no escape and this cycle is just going on forever.

It's an amazing, claustrophobic episode, brilliant, I was hooked.

This episode strikes me as a kind of metaphor for parenthood. 

The full on desperate attention to Mr Darcy Mu's every need, with a brief respite when he sleeps before it all starts again, in an endless cycle. Ever since Darcy Mu was born this has been our lives, accompanied by tension, arguing, constantly falling to pieces and having mini regular nervous breakdowns, with seemingly no end and no escape.

I think I am going to have to sit down and watch that episode again to find out how they broke the cycle....

麥爸的客座專欄終於有新文 (邀稿邀好久...) 

舊文回顧：365-13 客座專欄: 麥爸的育兒日記 (2Y3M23D)

因為麥先生的關係，我也迷上《星際爭霸 Battlestar Galactica》這齣科幻影集。
劇情背景大概就是，人類創造出機器人(Cylons)，
沒想到數年後機器人開始進化，有自主意志，想要統治宇宙，
於是掀起意圖消滅人類的星際大戰。
人類原本居住的星球已經被機器人摧毀，於是在宇宙中流浪逃亡，
同時機器人也有很先進的科技，可以喬裝成為人類。
這些新技術的人型機器人變偽裝、散布在人類搭乘的太空船鑑裡，隨時伺機而動...

雖然是一齣科幻影集，其實劇情很人性化，
背叛，權力相爭，愛恨情仇，政治主張與衝突...
劇情非常非常得緊湊 (錯過一集會無法銜接下一集)。

把星際逃亡比喻為育兒生活寫照，個人覺得很有趣... 也真得很寫實...

研究指出，嬰兒出生後的頭兩年，夫妻的婚姻滿意度會大幅下降... 
因為所有醒著的時刻，都在應付小寶寶的基本需求，
『浪漫』『體貼』『愛』是什麼....？
就是可以讓我再多睡ㄧ小時嗎？或是，
可以帶孩子出門散步一小時再回家嗎？

大喜媽咪 xxx