Huh. I liked BSG a lot more than you did. Unusual.
Maybe I was just so happy to see issues like civilian unrest and food shortages getting screentime that I gave it a pass. What characterizations did you find unrecognizable?
I think you have a much better ear for dialogue than I have, because there was nothing in Roslin's exchange with Caprica that pinged false for me.
I hear what you're saying about Caprica being passive, but she did do some bodily harm to those guys who attacked her physically. I don't really have a problem with her passivity when dealing with Ellen and Saul, for a number of reasons having to do with her spiritual beliefs as tied to her pregnancy, and to what they (Final Five!) represent. I can see her fighting back if she thought either of them were directly threatening the baby, but beyond that, I really do think she'd wait and see. Which is what happened. Now that the baby's lost (and no, I don't think it's because Tigh's love wavered: I assume two Cylons still cannot produce a child), I'm curious to see where she's going to stand.
And I loved the soap opera part. They're three of my favorite characters. (:
With you on the missing information about the food shortages, though.
I think you have a valid point about Caprica Six's behavior. I think I also could have gotten behind the love triangle if it hadn't veered so far into melodrama and repeated showing instead of telling, because there is the kernel of an excellent drama there. As it was, though, everything just felt so off and unbalanced and overstated and wrong that I hated it all, pretty much. It's interesting what pings for us, and what doesn't.
Yours seems to be the majority opinion, actually. I'm kind of surprised, in retrospect, that I liked it as much as I did -- I'm not usually the loner on this stuff, and lately am far more likely to be critical than not. ::shrug::
Maybe I was just so happy to see issues like civilian unrest and food shortages getting screentime that I gave it a pass. What characterizations did you find unrecognizable?
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I think you have a much better ear for dialogue than I have, because there was nothing in Roslin's exchange with Caprica that pinged false for me.
I hear what you're saying about Caprica being passive, but she did do some bodily harm to those guys who attacked her physically. I don't really have a problem with her passivity when dealing with Ellen and Saul, for a number of reasons having to do with her spiritual beliefs as tied to her pregnancy, and to what they (Final Five!) represent. I can see her fighting back if she thought either of them were directly threatening the baby, but beyond that, I really do think she'd wait and see. Which is what happened. Now that the baby's lost (and no, I don't think it's because Tigh's love wavered: I assume two Cylons still cannot produce a child), I'm curious to see where she's going to stand.
And I loved the soap opera part. They're three of my favorite characters. (:
With you on the missing information about the food shortages, though.
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