what you gonna do when the flames go up?
After reading the AV club recaps of the BSG mini and "33," I got nostalgic, and started rewatching, and then I couldn't stop, because it's always so compelling, even knowing how it ends (and my complicated feelings about the end). So I just finished through Resurrection Ship part 2, and honestly, if they'd ended the show there, it'd be a pretty
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Exactly! It means people are picking up the clues you're laying down! That is how telling a story works! Not everything has to be a surprise twist. Sigh. A logical completion based on what happened before is really satisfying.
but Lee Adama's Idiotic Slingshot Into The Sun. I really can't believe anyone would agree that this plan was a good idea. You'd have to downgrade tech, sure, but flinging EVERYTHING into the sun? And saying the problem with New Caprica was that they tried to build a city? That was one of the dumbest lines EVER.
Yeah, that was another boneheaded thing to do. Like, so much of the emotional stuff worked for me, but plot-wise it was such a mess.
I think the "and they have a plan" thing got repeated so much that people started expecting it to be real instead of accepting that, much like X-Files, there was no long-term coherent plan beyond "nuking the colonies and chasing the remnants of humanity down". I think the long, long waits between seasons (and halves of seasons) didn't help.
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