Comments | ace_and_sep: But we just want to pet your hair

ace_and_sep

But we just want to pet your hair

Mar 14, 2006 22:05

Sep - don't read the comments on this one. We'll try to keep you spoiler-free.

I just watched the second season finale of Battlestar Galactica and !! Great holey moley! I almost blacked out at one point - honestly! I think I was holding my breath.

Genius. I did not expect any of that.

( I try to say more about the finale, but am still mostly speechless with surprise )

nerdy sci-fi love, a whole world of wtf, tv

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y8s March 15 2006, 14:35:11 UTC

i know, kinda leaves you speechless. married? say wha?

ace_and_sep March 15 2006, 17:19:11 UTC

I know! And Lee got fat!

I'm glad, though, that they skipped the year *before* the break until October, rather than springing it on us then. It's easier to take that way.

--Ace

nzraya March 15 2006, 18:36:00 UTC

I had some crazy mixed feelings about that ep. I do think the show got back on its skis in eps 2-18--2-20 after some dangerously shark-jumpy stuff there in between 2-10 and 2-17. But dude. All that time wasted on picking lint out of Lee and Kara's navels (and I agree with jennyo that those two characters just are not nearly as interesting when treated separately from the "grown-up" cast), and now we SKIP a year? Not saying the jump wasn't justified by legitimate storytelling considerations, but it can really frak with a gal's sense of pacing when you spend one episode living painfully and in slower-than-real-time through three minutes in the life of one character, and the following week find yourself skipping over AN ENTIRE YEAR in the blink of an eye. If the writers had planned out the arc better, maybe we could've had some consistant sense of momentum and suspense (and avoided the loose-endiness and strained credibility of the "A.N.S.W.E.R" and "black marketeer" plots -- where are those folks now??), instead of yawning our asses off ( ... )

ace_and_sep March 15 2006, 19:44:41 UTC

Agreed that there were some really crappy and rudderless episodes there for a while. I never lost my faith, though, the way I have with the steaming ass being served up as "Veronica Mars" this season.

Black Market is interesting to me in retrospect because it's when Lee started to recede from view. I knew him less at the end of that episode and he has moved further and further from the core of the show until we se him, one year later, bloated and virtually alone. I'm not sure where they're going with that, but I suppose it could be interesting (Lee is not my favorite character, so I'd like to see him be interesting.)

But I consider putting the year skip before the season break enough of a boon that the fact that it happened doesn't bother me to much. For some reason, that season of Farscape that starts off skipping what everyone did while separated bothered me a lot more. And I don't mind plot developments in the previouslies too much -- I actually think it's a quite clever way to deal with being constrained to 20 40-minute episodes ( ... )

nzraya March 15 2006, 20:40:03 UTC

Do you listen to the podcasts? Ron Moore did recently compare Baltar to Clinton,

Well crap, then that pretty much confirms my diagnosis. In my previous comment I was speaking from my own casual observations rather than any pretense of understanding the writers' intent. (I don't listen to the podcasts, but the resemblance between what they showed us of Prez!Baltar and the picture the Republicans like to paint of the Clinton Oval Office was pretty striking....as was the "See what happens when you insist on "free and fair" elections and choose a namby-pamby atheist Eurotrash appeasement candidate instead of a proper faith-based ass-kicking candidate who understands the importance of regulating women's wombs to the War on Terror Cylons?" subtext.) Now... well, I can't help but notice that the miniseries essentially validated Guantanamo (OMG that random innocent guy Baltar fingered as a Cylon really WAS one!!) and throughout the show, the moments that I've been thinking of as brilliantly complicating certain philosophical/civic ( ... )

boliver March 21 2006, 03:45:59 UTC

As a good staunch liberal, I don't feel like the writers tricked me into anything; there might be commonalities with our current-day situation (as in V for Vendetta, but with much less obviousness), but the two worlds and cultures and stakes are so vastly different that I don't feel constrained as a viewer by the guidelines that I follow today ( ... )

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