Battlestar Galactica
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.
( Thoughts within )
( Thoughts within )
I don't know if they will, it's the end of the show anyway and noone expects Caprica to have big ratings. But yes I agree a lot more people seem to come out of the closet and admit to be upset about it even in fandom, the regular viewer, idk, there are not that many left and I just can't imagine them to have high expectations after all the jumbled mess of the last eps. I find it amusing how especially David Eick always says about the ratings that the name of the show harmed it, like that explains why the ratings dropped continuously, liek all of the sudden after season two people went: "wait what's this called? I'm outraged and shall stop watching" yeah good logic there!
Katee herself feels quite disconnected from the fans, otherwise she wouldn't have said what she did, just like that, she probably focuses on herself, not that it matters, she's not the one telling the story.
About the flashbacks, I can't even enjoy them, because it's just yanking our chain. no storyline purpose whatsoever. All the quotes I've read from RDM just goes to show that he separates characters from plot, like they're two unconnected aspects of the show, he says so himself, so I guess it's no wonder he couldn't hold up the whole narrative, in conclusion a failure of storytelling, I completely agree.
Apparenty I could rant on forever so I'll just stop now.
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I was kind of pleased I did manage to enjoy the flashbacks (mostly: I squirmed at the gender stereotyping of Kara and Laura) despite the surrounding nonsense.
he separates characters from plot, like they're two unconnected aspects of the show,
And therein lies the problem. I think his days on DS9 probably did him no good there.
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Ha spot on, especially the last bit! I think you're right, maybe with some footnotes added saying "I originally planned on doing this and that, so this used to make more sense but I left it all out to write some more perverted sex scenes and pimping women out and figured the readers would know what happened off the page."
Mmm, I guess I am naive but I sort of want to believe that RDM will look back on BSG later in life and think 'we could have ended that better'
I don't know, I think he'll always have enough people sucking up to him to sustain his ego, but who knows. That whole attitude of BSG being a innovative philosophical masterpiece of television is so irritating to me, if more people just acknowledged that it's a mediocre TV series like many others, I think I'd be cooler about it.
But then I remind myself that out of all my RL friends two people are aware of the shows existence and both have stopped watching after season 2, if I told any of the others that I'm really depressed about how a show called bsg was ruined for me they'd laugh in my face! (and these people are politics, sociology and philosophy students, I doubt they would consider BSG a meditation on what it means to be human, ridiculous)
I'm much calmer and detached now that I know the ending and have resigned myself to it, so I think that's one good thank coming out of Katee's comments, watching it unfold unspoiled would have been terrible. I still admire your determination to cherish the first seasons, because in my mindset right now, I've got absolutely no desire to rewatch anything, or read fanfic maybe after some time has passed.
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