I need to get my unhealthy reaction to the last few hours of BSG off my chest I guess. I apologise for bad spelling mistakes and general incoherence in advance. ( Obviously spoilers for the last episode )
I know how you feel - I've been through that a couple of times; most recently a week before the finale aired, when I had an inkling of how bad things were going to be and I just couldn't watch it.
No one could imagine how bad it would Really be. Anders isn’t what’s eating most of us at all. Indifference and cruelty towards two amazing characters that can’t be justified *is*. But it’s great that you were at least prepared more than others. And I can’t tell you how glad I am that you didn’t watch the finale.
At this point I don't have a single positive feeling towards RDM - even when I'm managing to hide behind simple numbness, I see how much my friends are hurting and I want to nail him to the wall using iron spikes through his eye sockets.
Could you do that to my brain with those iron spikes please? It’s flooded with poisoned imagery that doesn’t leave me alone and haunts me even in my dreams. Burning DVDs or deleting all footage from my hard drive won’t solve anything, because the vision in my head is too fucking real and vivid.
Numbness is good. You’re ten steps ahead of me. At least you don’t fall apart sobbing like an idiot.
Worst of all, he betrayed the most important aspects of storytelling; he completely ignored the audience need for catharsis and resolution. He abandoned a four-season long plot that was essential to the fabric of the show for no reason, tried to retcon their every moment together with some insane flashbacks and then invented excuses. I'm never watching anything he works on again - I have no respect for anyone who abandons their viewers that way, who treats the fans with such fundamental disrespect.
Yes, Yes and Yes. The most incredible thing is that RDM is the very same person who gave this world Kara&Lee in the first place - he gave us the most wonderful gift one could imagine… and then he took it away and tore it up to shreds.
Indifference and cruelty towards two amazing characters that can’t be justified *is*. Some of the reactions have been downright surprising. People I never expected to have any sympathy for Lee are suddenly acting like human beings towards him. Ron's ending was so disjointed, so openly incongruous that the oddest people have picked up on it.
And yet he insists that it's art, that he's happy with the story, that this is the ending he wanted. I'd say he's talking out of his ass, except I'm not sure if it's possible to do that while he's got his head lodged there.
It makes me livid to think about what he's done - and that's helping, because anger is something I can concentrate on.
And I can’t tell you how glad I am that you didn’t watch the finale. I was more prepared than some - but nowhere near enough. All it did is give me enough distance to make sure I never watch the finale - so I can't see the mangled carcass he left where there was once a good show.
Burning DVDs or deleting all footage from my hard drive won’t solve anything, because the vision in my head is too fucking real and vivid. If only something that simple could. The depth of your reaction is proportionate to the amount of love you have for the show, and the amount of trust you placed in the writers; it's also a measure of how ashamed they should be. And yet I can't do anything about that, other than watch them continue to talk in the same arrogant vein.
he gave us the most wonderful gift one could imagine… and then he took it away and tore it up to shreds. Grace Park indicated in an interview at the end of S3 that the writers wanted to know if she had any ideas for plotlines for her characters. She said she was hoping they had some. That lack of thought, that indecision, seems to be in everything; TPTB strung us along with just enough to keep interest up and to leave themselves options, and then evidently decided at some point close to the end to just screw us all rather than come up with a better answer.
No one could imagine how bad it would Really be. Anders isn’t what’s eating most of us at all. Indifference and cruelty towards two amazing characters that can’t be justified *is*.
But it’s great that you were at least prepared more than others. And I can’t tell you how glad I am that you didn’t watch the finale.
At this point I don't have a single positive feeling towards RDM - even when I'm managing to hide behind simple numbness, I see how much my friends are hurting and I want to nail him to the wall using iron spikes through his eye sockets.
Could you do that to my brain with those iron spikes please? It’s flooded with poisoned imagery that doesn’t leave me alone and haunts me even in my dreams. Burning DVDs or deleting all footage from my hard drive won’t solve anything, because the vision in my head is too fucking real and vivid.
Numbness is good. You’re ten steps ahead of me. At least you don’t fall apart sobbing like an idiot.
Worst of all, he betrayed the most important aspects of storytelling; he completely ignored the audience need for catharsis and resolution. He abandoned a four-season long plot that was essential to the fabric of the show for no reason, tried to retcon their every moment together with some insane flashbacks and then invented excuses. I'm never watching anything he works on again - I have no respect for anyone who abandons their viewers that way, who treats the fans with such fundamental disrespect.
Yes, Yes and Yes. The most incredible thing is that RDM is the very same person who gave this world Kara&Lee in the first place - he gave us the most wonderful gift one could imagine… and then he took it away and tore it up to shreds.
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Some of the reactions have been downright surprising. People I never expected to have any sympathy for Lee are suddenly acting like human beings towards him. Ron's ending was so disjointed, so openly incongruous that the oddest people have picked up on it.
And yet he insists that it's art, that he's happy with the story, that this is the ending he wanted. I'd say he's talking out of his ass, except I'm not sure if it's possible to do that while he's got his head lodged there.
It makes me livid to think about what he's done - and that's helping, because anger is something I can concentrate on.
And I can’t tell you how glad I am that you didn’t watch the finale.
I was more prepared than some - but nowhere near enough. All it did is give me enough distance to make sure I never watch the finale - so I can't see the mangled carcass he left where there was once a good show.
Burning DVDs or deleting all footage from my hard drive won’t solve anything, because the vision in my head is too fucking real and vivid.
If only something that simple could. The depth of your reaction is proportionate to the amount of love you have for the show, and the amount of trust you placed in the writers; it's also a measure of how ashamed they should be. And yet I can't do anything about that, other than watch them continue to talk in the same arrogant vein.
he gave us the most wonderful gift one could imagine… and then he took it away and tore it up to shreds.
Grace Park indicated in an interview at the end of S3 that the writers wanted to know if she had any ideas for plotlines for her characters. She said she was hoping they had some. That lack of thought, that indecision, seems to be in everything; TPTB strung us along with just enough to keep interest up and to leave themselves options, and then evidently decided at some point close to the end to just screw us all rather than come up with a better answer.
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