SFF: addendum (Daybreak episode review)
BSG: I killed some deer in here, sorry (no, really, 3500+ words...)
*props feet up*
So. I sort of meant to do this over the weekend and didn't.
Some of this is a bit colored by other peoples' comments and episode reviews. (now I can go read my flist)
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*props feet up*
So. I sort of meant to do this over the weekend and didn't.
Some of this is a bit colored by other peoples' comments and episode reviews. (now I can go read my flist)
( Read more... )
Anyway, after being severely disappointed by almost everything in the second half of the finale, I'm focusing on the things I did like :) Which are, incidentally, a lot of things you've discussed :p
Simon could read the phonebook to me and I'd listen.
Oh, this. After "The Farm" I was sorely disappointed at his lack of presence and characterization. I thought he always seemed like the most reluctant (or at least ambivalent) of Cavil's co-conspirators (he was concerned about Hera having not eaten anything), so what were his feelings about everything that happened? I want to see The Plan right now.
The centurions with their military gestures made me so very gleeful. I SQUEAKED at it, and decided it was Very Hot. Which is scary, I'll admit.
Um, yes. I've been fascinated with them since the miniseries, but in this episode they were just... really hot. If that's wrong, I don't want to be right!
14. Leoben. I almost forgot how annoyed I was that he was shafted as well.
Word. Like, I get that Callum Keith Rennie had to go shoot other stuff or whatever, you'd think there could've at least been dialog in which other characters (like say, Kara) talk about him. He and Kara had huge (and traumatizing) influences on one another; I have a hard time believing that they're all just merrily Over It.
16. Tyrol.
Even more problematic than the fact he killed Tory, though, was the total lack of consequences for his actions. No one else seemed bothered by what he did; hell, Tigh sounded almost happy for him. After Ellen's numerous speeches about how important it is for the Final Five to love their "millions of children", I'm not buying that either of them would be so flip about Tyrol's actions.
And what was the point of Caprica's baby and Caprica/Tigh if there's no fall-out at all?
I read that, had the writers' strike not happened, the show was going to end with Ellen "turning" to Cavil's side out of spite and jealousy, after she found out the Caprica was pregnant with Saul's baby. They scrapped that ending, but then were stuck having to do something about the fact that oops! Caprica is preggers. So we ended up with a wtf-y hot mess quasi-plotline instead.
I ache for Boomer. She tried so hard and she was betrayed and knocked down and programed and then, in the end, suckered by a cute kid.
I have a problem with Athena shooting Boomer. For one, other characters have done things equally bad, or worse, and received no punishment (Tyrol, for example: letting Boomer go in the first place). Also, Athena and Boomer are the same. Athena's a turncoat too; she ran away with Helo in S1 and, in a way, stole Boomer's life. Athena ended up with the happy life in the fleet that Boomer once had (and still wanted, I think). They're not different, and I think Athena's actions toward Boomer were a little hypocritical.
I also wonder about the rammifications of male writers always choosing sex as a female character's outlet to display her neuroses
...to say nothing of the way all the human female characters are, um, dead by the end of the show. The only remaining females are "Other": cylons. Those two things taken together equals some serious yuck, but I'm just going to replay the parts with Simon and centurions and machine gun!Six and not dwell on it.
I... I just don't seem to be very sympathetic to most of the human survivors. It's my Cylon-loving tendencies. :/
My sympathy levels for the human survivors plummeted when, after dealing with the trauma of near-genocide, they decided that it would be awesome idea to commit genocide-- with grisly biological weapons, no less. What's the sound? Why, I do believe it's the Moral Highground crashing down.
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Bwah. Considering how long I rambled? No worries. Sadly, though, most of my response is "word" and "Yeah!" and such. I think NCIS and Bones have fried our brains.
Even more problematic than the fact he killed Tory, though, was the total lack of consequences for his actions.
Yes, this. Others have commented on it, thank goodness. I sort of missed it in my analysis. Sigh (partially because I only watched it the once)
the show was going to end with Ellen "turning" to Cavil's side out of spite and jealousy,
... .... .. That... That is actually worse than I'd expected. WTF. God. They really do just throw darts at a board!
.to say nothing of the way all the human female characters are, um, dead by the end of the show.
Now that's an entirely frightening point. I sometimes forget Cylons aren't humans. And I am actually a bit floored by that. You're right, though. We don't know how any of the human women settled, just the Cylon. And while I love them...
Sigh.
I honestly can't track when I started loving the Cylons. Possibly as far back as season one.
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