For me, the show started falling apart an episode or so after the exodus from New Caprica. The stories stopped extrapolating. Until then, just about everything progressed logically: what happens next? if that happened, then what happens? Then what? Given that circumstance, what happens next? After New Caprica, we start getting these out of left field soap opera plots, characters being moved around in service to plots rather than developing organically, etc.
The problems in season 4 are a result of those issues coming to a head and the writers having to clean up the mess they'd made, while still trying to make sense. In the end, the story, and the audience, suffered.
The moment I gave up on the series is when Callie died. It's not her death I had a problem with. It's that the show had to spend an entire episode convincing me that Callie was depressed enough to kill herself when that action was totally unbelievable based on everything she'd done before. Tory could have killed Callie just as easily without Callie putting herself in the airlock first. Like you said, it's not the story we were shown that's the problem so much as the obvious and better alternatives.
The problems in season 4 are a result of those issues coming to a head and the writers having to clean up the mess they'd made, while still trying to make sense. In the end, the story, and the audience, suffered.
The moment I gave up on the series is when Callie died. It's not her death I had a problem with. It's that the show had to spend an entire episode convincing me that Callie was depressed enough to kill herself when that action was totally unbelievable based on everything she'd done before. Tory could have killed Callie just as easily without Callie putting herself in the airlock first. Like you said, it's not the story we were shown that's the problem so much as the obvious and better alternatives.
Carrie V.
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