I guess having missed all of the foreshadowing, it really just took my by surprise. At the time, I had all of the thoughts I describe above, but the episode did not seem to be the worst episode ever. Looking back, however, it's like the crack between two great shows. Everything changes after Maelstrom, not just Kara, but the whole show jumps headlong into the cylons world and the mysticism. Maybe I'm too much of a sci-fi readerly geek, but Maelstrom and her return later signify a reduction in reliance on humanity as a race that can problem-solve and survive in deference to a higher power controlling everything. The thing I loved about the show pre-Maelstrom (and maybe a few eps dotted before that) was that humans had to be ingenious, clever, resourceful in order to survive. I feel like that was lost when the show began to sink into mysteries hooded in religious and mysticism. I have no problem with those to things, per se, but for me, someone re-imagined the re-imagined series - right in the middle of the run.
(I hope this all made sense - it's pretty early in the morning here.)
The thing I loved about the show pre-Maelstrom (and maybe a few eps dotted before that) was that humans had to be ingenious, clever, resourceful in order to survive.
x2. Exactly the same thing I loved about "Lost", and exactly the same thing that show forgot about as it started to lose direction.
(I hope this all made sense - it's pretty early in the morning here.)
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x2. Exactly the same thing I loved about "Lost", and exactly the same thing that show forgot about as it started to lose direction.
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