Battlestar Gallactica
Spoilers for most recent episode....
I was catching up on various tv programs I had tivo'd last night, and watched BG, but came very close to turning it off about 2/3rds of the way through. Ick. I'm used to the show being dark, but this was a black hole of an episode, with Kara writhing and screaming endlessly that they were going the wrong way, Adama being just... mean, Roslin being cold and mean and looking like she's had a really bad face lift that left her skin stretched too tight; and Baltar alternately acting like a sleeze and some pseudo-savior who'd actually "seen the light" of the "one true God", and conversing with an even oilier version of himself that is just peculiar and inexplicable; and the schmoopy, endless "Goodbye, Lee" scenes. Bleh.
Then there were the scenes with the Cylons, which were far more interesting, but somewhat murky. Didn't quite get the thing with the one Boomer disagreeing with the other Boomer. I assume that any Boomer is assumed to speak for all of them, since they 'can't' disagree with one another, but that was proven to be not true, so that was the big change, but all that wasn't exactly crystal clear. But even those scenes seemed repetitive, like they just wanted to draw it out.
That's how the whole episode felt - drawn out. Like they only really had three ideas: Say goodbye to Lee; let Kara suffer; make Baltar seem ambiguous - oh, and show tension between the four BS crewmen Cylons without resolving anything. And they had to make those three ideas last an hour. Well, it seemed more like two hours by the end. At least to me. I'm not going to last long if this is how things are going to go.
I was catching up on various tv programs I had tivo'd last night, and watched BG, but came very close to turning it off about 2/3rds of the way through. Ick. I'm used to the show being dark, but this was a black hole of an episode, with Kara writhing and screaming endlessly that they were going the wrong way, Adama being just... mean, Roslin being cold and mean and looking like she's had a really bad face lift that left her skin stretched too tight; and Baltar alternately acting like a sleeze and some pseudo-savior who'd actually "seen the light" of the "one true God", and conversing with an even oilier version of himself that is just peculiar and inexplicable; and the schmoopy, endless "Goodbye, Lee" scenes. Bleh.
Then there were the scenes with the Cylons, which were far more interesting, but somewhat murky. Didn't quite get the thing with the one Boomer disagreeing with the other Boomer. I assume that any Boomer is assumed to speak for all of them, since they 'can't' disagree with one another, but that was proven to be not true, so that was the big change, but all that wasn't exactly crystal clear. But even those scenes seemed repetitive, like they just wanted to draw it out.
That's how the whole episode felt - drawn out. Like they only really had three ideas: Say goodbye to Lee; let Kara suffer; make Baltar seem ambiguous - oh, and show tension between the four BS crewmen Cylons without resolving anything. And they had to make those three ideas last an hour. Well, it seemed more like two hours by the end. At least to me. I'm not going to last long if this is how things are going to go.