Battlestar Galactica

[bop_radar]

This post is about the spoilers for the Battlestar Galactica finale that Katee Sackhoff leaked in Portland. If you do not want to be spoiled for the finale PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS POST.

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[chani86]

You probably know I'm in complete agreement, but I do feel the need to vent apparently, sorry that it became so long, feel free to skip it if you've had enough of this BS:

I can honestly say I have never been so upset about any other TV show, it's ridiculous and I thought they couldn't do that to me anymore.

People are rationalising it that the writers/producers saw that they could get something extra out of MT and KS performances because of their friendship and that's why they went in that direction. But that doesn't make it any better, if this wouldn't have been the final season, okay, but they this was going to be the end, they should have had their priorities sorted. Sometimes you have to pass an opportunity up to keep with the overall goal and integrity of what you're doing! And to be honest they didn't exactly blow my mind in those scenes, was it really worth it? worth 4 episodes?

The crux of it for me is that the writers did not have a clear enough vision of Kara's endpoint as a character. If they did, they would never have wasted time like this vacillating between Lee and Sam and ultimately deciding who she ends up with based on real life context (however tragic). This is a failure of authorship

I'm pretty sure they didn't have any vision of anyone's endpoint as a character, they might have had a thought on how to end the show plot wise and struggled with filling in the middle part. The whole seesaw of Kara's love life is seriously the most dreary thing to watch and eats away at both romantic stories.RDM reminds me of someone who has written the first and last page of a novel, thinking he was a genius for crafting that. But these are the easier parts, the intensity and appeal is helped along by the newness or respectively the nostalgia of the approaching end. There is nw way the finale can redeem the show no matter how "profound and surprising" it is. It's like a novel with a good, solid start and a remotely poetic last line but pages full of disjointed sentences and a few smilies drawn in between, you can't call that literature!

I wish Katee had never let that slip and we would have never known about an alternative to this season's mess, but on the other hand it does explain a lot of things. The disjointed storylines, the build up to nothing, the absence of storyline consistency. I'm still dumbstruck at the thought that the writers seem to have forgotten everything about story construction, drametic effects, how you use already established stories and character points and build up on them. But then I remind myself that these are the same writers that thought suggesting the lack of love could kill a baby, was a good, edgy idea (instead aof an appallingly stupid one). I jsut wish RDM would overcome his own ego for one second, read a good book with well developed characters and realise he screwed up on various levels!

[bop_radar]

feel free to skip it if you've had enough of this BS:
Hee! Nah, I enjoy your snark. ;)

o be honest they didn't exactly blow my mind in those scenes, was it really worth it?
*lol* It's have to be bloody mindblowing TV to justify it, imo. And it really wasn't THAT great. I wouldn't even say it was the strongest material we've seen on BSG!

.RDM reminds me of someone who has written the first and last page of a novel, thinking he was a genius for crafting that
Hee! Seriously. I'm an editor and I am just constantly ITCHING to edit the fuck out of him. He needs to be sat down and told some very basic home truths about writing and storytelling. Like 'if something is going to be significant later in the story, introduce it earlier on so it doesn't look like it comes out of your ass nowhere' and 'don't expect your audience to accept all leaps in logic on goodwill alone'.

pages full of disjointed sentences and a few smilies drawn in between, you can't call that literature!
HEE! I think the middle's more like some really purple prose and a handwritten note from the author in the margin saying 'wasn't this bit AWESOME!?!!?!'

the writers seem to have forgotten everything about story construction, drametic effects, how you use already established stories and character points and build up on them
Yes, yes they have. I'm so chuffed someone else is noticing this and it's not just me, I just needed to chorus my agreement. ;)