Kevin G. says we didn't like the BSG finale because it made us think
greycoupon linked me to this, and I'm stealing her quotes and everything. And cut-tagging, for spoilers.
ScriptPhD.com interviews Kevin Grazier
ScriptPhD.com interviews Kevin Grazier
SPhD: We had talked a little earlier about some controversy regarding the science content of the finale, with some unfortunate, and rather pugnacious, internet attacks against you personally. I would like to offer you ScriptPhD.com as a forum to address some of these attacks and set the record straight. Go for it!
KG: Okay. There is a saying in Hollywood, “If you make people think they’ve thought they’ll love you, if you make them really think, they’ll hate you.” And I think that’s nowhere better seen than the end of the storyline with Kara [Thrace, “Starbuck”]. Kara, as you know, just literally vanished, and people were upset and saying “Well, we don’t know the end of her story.” Do we know the end of her story any better or worse than we do Lee [Adama]’s? Do we know that Lee didn’t get bit by a tse tse fly or some kind of biting insect and die of some kind of disease two days later? No, we don’t! We don’t know any of those stories. We know that one person’s lineage survived, well arguably three. We know Athena, Helo and Hera’s line survived to some extent. And we also know that various human religions and literature are full of supernatural or spiritual characters who took corporeal form to perform a task or “set things right”, only to disappear after: Jesus Christ, Vishnu, Obi-Wan Kenobi (I mean really, was he there in “Star Wars” or a projection of the Force?). So, we don’t know their [projected] stories, but people hated that. They were so angry. And of course, one group of people guaranteed to hate that were the shippers. Do you know who shippers are?
SPhD: I am WELL aware of the shippers.
KG: Yeah, they’re the Lee/Kara shippers-they’re all about the “ship”, the relationship- and there was the Sam/Kara shippers, and instead of one group being able to go “Na na na na, [our relationship won]”, instead they were both furious! When Ron made you think-because it was Ron’s story-when there’s ambiguity, people get all angry! I couldn’t believe that. I thought-OK, let me say this upfront, I thought the ending was fantastic. I am totally on board with the ending. I loved it. But it kind of goes to show you how quickly people are willing to nitpick and to be really, vehemently, furiously upset and to go off.
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So. Rundown.
We didn't like it because we just didn't get it (it was Art, you know, and it Made Us Think).
We were furious. Which, well, yeah. I was furious that it basically ended WITH EVERY SINGLE FEMALE CHARACTER WHO SURVIVED THE MINI-SERIES BEING DEAD WHILE ALL THE MEN WERE STILL ALIVE, YOU ASSHOLE.
My anger NEVER had to do with the Kara poof (I actually loved it), though I hated Sam's lack of plotline.
And. And. There are people who have ripped to shreds his evolutionary bull-shit.
HEY KEVIN. Maybe you should stick to physics, BECAUSE BIOLOGY DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
ScriptPhD.com interviews Kevin Grazier
ScriptPhD.com interviews Kevin Grazier
SPhD: We had talked a little earlier about some controversy regarding the science content of the finale, with some unfortunate, and rather pugnacious, internet attacks against you personally. I would like to offer you ScriptPhD.com as a forum to address some of these attacks and set the record straight. Go for it!
KG: Okay. There is a saying in Hollywood, “If you make people think they’ve thought they’ll love you, if you make them really think, they’ll hate you.” And I think that’s nowhere better seen than the end of the storyline with Kara [Thrace, “Starbuck”]. Kara, as you know, just literally vanished, and people were upset and saying “Well, we don’t know the end of her story.” Do we know the end of her story any better or worse than we do Lee [Adama]’s? Do we know that Lee didn’t get bit by a tse tse fly or some kind of biting insect and die of some kind of disease two days later? No, we don’t! We don’t know any of those stories. We know that one person’s lineage survived, well arguably three. We know Athena, Helo and Hera’s line survived to some extent. And we also know that various human religions and literature are full of supernatural or spiritual characters who took corporeal form to perform a task or “set things right”, only to disappear after: Jesus Christ, Vishnu, Obi-Wan Kenobi (I mean really, was he there in “Star Wars” or a projection of the Force?). So, we don’t know their [projected] stories, but people hated that. They were so angry. And of course, one group of people guaranteed to hate that were the shippers. Do you know who shippers are?
SPhD: I am WELL aware of the shippers.
KG: Yeah, they’re the Lee/Kara shippers-they’re all about the “ship”, the relationship- and there was the Sam/Kara shippers, and instead of one group being able to go “Na na na na, [our relationship won]”, instead they were both furious! When Ron made you think-because it was Ron’s story-when there’s ambiguity, people get all angry! I couldn’t believe that. I thought-OK, let me say this upfront, I thought the ending was fantastic. I am totally on board with the ending. I loved it. But it kind of goes to show you how quickly people are willing to nitpick and to be really, vehemently, furiously upset and to go off.
....
So. Rundown.
We didn't like it because we just didn't get it (it was Art, you know, and it Made Us Think).
We were furious. Which, well, yeah. I was furious that it basically ended WITH EVERY SINGLE FEMALE CHARACTER WHO SURVIVED THE MINI-SERIES BEING DEAD WHILE ALL THE MEN WERE STILL ALIVE, YOU ASSHOLE.
My anger NEVER had to do with the Kara poof (I actually loved it), though I hated Sam's lack of plotline.
And. And. There are people who have ripped to shreds his evolutionary bull-shit.
HEY KEVIN. Maybe you should stick to physics, BECAUSE BIOLOGY DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.