oh yes you WILL be forgotten!
So. You know how Adama is all in denial and thinks that his ship is just peachy when he suddenly has to acknowledge that Galactica is falling apart around him? Once his noticed one crack, he started seeing it everywhere.
Well my friends, that's how I feel about this frakking show in general. I was fooled into thinking it was brilliant and epic, and the finale finally made me acknowledge that the writers were just pulling story lines out of their ass. My friend and I (usually optimistic about the show and cheerleaders for its awesomeness) felt mightily displeased with the finale (to put it lightly...sobbing hysterically into each others' shoulders and drunkenly cursing the show), and once we started discussing one plot hole that particularly bothered us, we started noticing ALL of them.
I seriously don't even know where to begin. First of all, I feel like BSG started with the purpose of telling a good story and then somehow transformed into being about tricking the audience and being DRAMATIC and SHOCKING. Not to mention how I don't see much of a satisfying resolution for most of these characters and stories they (again, for impact!) pulled out of their asses!
-Hera is SPECIAL. The fate of humanity rests with her and her SPECIALNESS. Galactica men and women are willing to risk their lives to save SPECIAL Hera. We don't exactly know WHY she's so SPECIAL. But anyway, they save her. Yay. But then. They never actually show or prove how she's so SPECIAL. SO POINTLESS AND CONTRIVED.
-If someone kidnapped my child and then returned him/her to me, I'd be so grateful to have my baby in my arms again that I'd be willing to forgive any past deeds. If not forgive, then at least let be. But maybe I'm just less bloodthirsty than Athena? I was prepared for Boomer to save Hera and then die, but I thought it was really ridiculous that Athena was the one who pummeled a bunch of bullets into her in front of her own child. :(
-Am I seriously supposed to believe that Galactica and a handful of crew members destroyed the Cylon colony? That Cavil had been so willing to compromise and then so easily commit suicide? If it was that easy, it should have been seasons ago!!! *facepalm*
-The flashbacks were interesting in the first part of Daybreak, and it seemed as if they were going to offer some profound insight into these characters we've spent five years with and loved, but then...actually, yeah, there was no point to those either. :/
-Daniel. Who the fuck is suddenly-an-extra-Cylon-never-mentioned-before Daniel? Why mention him if it never gets addressed again? Why make blatant connections between him and Kara and her father and the music and the opera house CD and etc. and then NOTHING?!
-Speaking of Kara, *siiiiigh*. Okay, Kara's ending is what hit the nerve. WTF. I thought maybe they had a good reason for her dying and resurrecting in season three (e.g. making peace with her past and finally free with a new slate). But it's clear to me now that they killed off one of the main (and beloved) characters because it was SHOCKING and HEARTBREAKING. But then they had no idea what to do with her after that. Basically, she was resurrected from the dead as NOTHING MORE than a plot point to lead humanity to a habitable planet. Forget how wonderfully complicated and human she was. Forget her relationships with others. I mean, why not JUST bring her back for the finale so she could be an angel/goddess/whatever the fuck she is to plug in the coordinates and save humanity rather than falsely string people along the way an entire season? An entire series, actually.
I also feel like the writers were trying to do a little of everything with Kara to make everyone happy. Some people want her to be a goddess or an angel? Okay, that's a possibility. Some people want her to be a half-cylon or a cylon? That could work too; we'll just work that in by never explaining exactly what she is(!!!). People want her with Sam? Alrighty, she'll frak him a couple of times, be a good wife by his bedside while he's comatose/a hybrid, and give him a loving farewell. People want her with Lee? We'll give them a couple of brief moments of kissing and FLASHBACKS. People want her alone? She disappears into thin air. POOF. End of line. ...You can't have it all ways!!! Isn't Kara a character you'd particularly want to have planned out, like, from the very beginning?! No closure for her character whatsoever.
-And then, they basically shat on all over us Kara/Lee shippers. They've established this pairing from the very beginning. The promos. The sexual tension (that was still unresolved after they had sex). The way they could be buddycops/wonder-twins/so wonderfully supportive of each other but obviously had a lot of issues (mainly their guilt) and individual maturing to do before they could be together. Didn't Lee just say that all that matters is that "I'm here and you're here"???? Even the flashbacks in this VERY episode seemed to hint to Kara/Lee. I honestly thought they'd at least get some sort of closure. At least Kara telling Lee that she loves him before she disappears. And then NOTHING. Lee suddenly wants to go "exploring" and even though everything has always been first and foremost about Kara Thrace for him, he suddenly doesn't seem to care all that much? And then she just disappears into thin air?!
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I haven't really processed this crap ass ending for the pairing yet. Should I be in denial and pretend it didn't happen? That Adama blessed them as a couple before getting into the raptor with Roslin, Lee and Kara then built a cabin together that they would return to between their travels? Or can I even go back as far as Maelstrom and pretend that the other proposed story (in which Kara didn't die and Lee and Kara finally committed to one another) actually happened? Or has it killed my desire to ship them at all anymore? I have to admit, their ending left a particularly sour taste in my mouth, and I kind of just want to forget all about them (and the stupid show) in general. WOE.
-And as much as I am entertained by Baltar/Caprica (and kinda went aww at their scenes together), are you frakking kidding me that the two people who are mainly responsible for the death of BILLIONS (which they pointed out to us again in one of their lovely random flashbacks) get one of the shiniest, happiest endings?! SO WRONG. Not to mention, when exactly did Baltar become so religious? I believed he was harping on about religion as a way to protect himself in the fleet and take advantage of his harem, but his sudden genuine belief in a higher being made no sense whatsoever. Also? I won't forgive the show for the harem plot line. Baltar would be awesome and funny in any situation you put him in, but could they at least gave him one that made an ounce of sense and fitted into the overall story?
And then, after seeing the finale, it is so obvious how many past plots like the harem (why the cylons were so interested in Kara's ovaries, the child trafficking, etc.) were just the writers shooting the breeze. Don't pass your show off as being some grand story when you yourself don't even know what the fuck you're going to do with it or the characters! :P
-Also? They're going to give up toilets and other conveniences for primitive life? LOL LOL LOL!!! They won't even last a month! Starvation, disease, attack from the natives, you name it! It'd be funny if all of the humans/cylons that settled on Earth died out and become some archeological anomaly the descendants of real Earthlings can never figure out.
Adama ends up alone. Lee ends up alone. Tyrol goes off on his own. Kara, goes off to then air all on her own. Sure, the Agathons, Baltar and Caprica, and the Tighs get their bright and shiny futures, and as glad as I am that not as many characters died as I expected, I wasn't nearly as invested in them throughout the series. It felt lonely and as if everyone was disassociated from the other. WHY EXACTLY WOULD LEE NEVER SEE ADAMA AGAIN SINCE BOTH ARE STILL ALIVE?!?! GOD. Both your girlfriends die/disappear into thin air and you can't find solace in bonding with the only family you have left?! Oh, Adamas. You were always so clueless on the family front. I'd rather the show have ended with them as a community on Galactica than everyone parting ways. :(
And after the way they ended each characters stories, I HATED seeing the scenes in the future (and RDM's effing face in particular). It was too jarring and felt like I was suddenly watching a different show. :/
-DESTINY CAN SUCK IT. BSG wasn't about humanity or breaking out of any vicious cycles. It wasn't about a particular group of people fighting for survival, and it certainly wasn't about free will. No, it was about a higher power orchestrating everything as it wanted (for its own shits and giggles, I guess?). I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was suddenly watching the Religious Network.
And if this show is about humanity, it just proves to me yet again that we are full of FAIL. FUCK HUMANITY. FUCK THAT SHIT.
...I could go on pointing out plot holes and stupid story lines (Hera's SPECIAL blood being able to heal Roslin's cancer just once, anyone?!) or angsting over how the finale for me was like having this amazing and brilliant friend for years and then suddenly becoming aware that they've been playing you all along for their own sick ,sadistic reasons, but now that I released some of my RAGE, I'm so drained. I can't change what they did, and I can't take back all the hours I spent watching this show. But I can stop wasting time thinking about it. And that's it. :(
Well my friends, that's how I feel about this frakking show in general. I was fooled into thinking it was brilliant and epic, and the finale finally made me acknowledge that the writers were just pulling story lines out of their ass. My friend and I (usually optimistic about the show and cheerleaders for its awesomeness) felt mightily displeased with the finale (to put it lightly...sobbing hysterically into each others' shoulders and drunkenly cursing the show), and once we started discussing one plot hole that particularly bothered us, we started noticing ALL of them.
I seriously don't even know where to begin. First of all, I feel like BSG started with the purpose of telling a good story and then somehow transformed into being about tricking the audience and being DRAMATIC and SHOCKING. Not to mention how I don't see much of a satisfying resolution for most of these characters and stories they (again, for impact!) pulled out of their asses!
-Hera is SPECIAL. The fate of humanity rests with her and her SPECIALNESS. Galactica men and women are willing to risk their lives to save SPECIAL Hera. We don't exactly know WHY she's so SPECIAL. But anyway, they save her. Yay. But then. They never actually show or prove how she's so SPECIAL. SO POINTLESS AND CONTRIVED.
-If someone kidnapped my child and then returned him/her to me, I'd be so grateful to have my baby in my arms again that I'd be willing to forgive any past deeds. If not forgive, then at least let be. But maybe I'm just less bloodthirsty than Athena? I was prepared for Boomer to save Hera and then die, but I thought it was really ridiculous that Athena was the one who pummeled a bunch of bullets into her in front of her own child. :(
-Am I seriously supposed to believe that Galactica and a handful of crew members destroyed the Cylon colony? That Cavil had been so willing to compromise and then so easily commit suicide? If it was that easy, it should have been seasons ago!!! *facepalm*
-The flashbacks were interesting in the first part of Daybreak, and it seemed as if they were going to offer some profound insight into these characters we've spent five years with and loved, but then...actually, yeah, there was no point to those either. :/
-Daniel. Who the fuck is suddenly-an-extra-Cylon-never-mentioned-before Daniel? Why mention him if it never gets addressed again? Why make blatant connections between him and Kara and her father and the music and the opera house CD and etc. and then NOTHING?!
-Speaking of Kara, *siiiiigh*. Okay, Kara's ending is what hit the nerve. WTF. I thought maybe they had a good reason for her dying and resurrecting in season three (e.g. making peace with her past and finally free with a new slate). But it's clear to me now that they killed off one of the main (and beloved) characters because it was SHOCKING and HEARTBREAKING. But then they had no idea what to do with her after that. Basically, she was resurrected from the dead as NOTHING MORE than a plot point to lead humanity to a habitable planet. Forget how wonderfully complicated and human she was. Forget her relationships with others. I mean, why not JUST bring her back for the finale so she could be an angel/goddess/whatever the fuck she is to plug in the coordinates and save humanity rather than falsely string people along the way an entire season? An entire series, actually.
I also feel like the writers were trying to do a little of everything with Kara to make everyone happy. Some people want her to be a goddess or an angel? Okay, that's a possibility. Some people want her to be a half-cylon or a cylon? That could work too; we'll just work that in by never explaining exactly what she is(!!!). People want her with Sam? Alrighty, she'll frak him a couple of times, be a good wife by his bedside while he's comatose/a hybrid, and give him a loving farewell. People want her with Lee? We'll give them a couple of brief moments of kissing and FLASHBACKS. People want her alone? She disappears into thin air. POOF. End of line. ...You can't have it all ways!!! Isn't Kara a character you'd particularly want to have planned out, like, from the very beginning?! No closure for her character whatsoever.
-And then, they basically shat on all over us Kara/Lee shippers. They've established this pairing from the very beginning. The promos. The sexual tension (that was still unresolved after they had sex). The way they could be buddycops/wonder-twins/so wonderfully supportive of each other but obviously had a lot of issues (mainly their guilt) and individual maturing to do before they could be together. Didn't Lee just say that all that matters is that "I'm here and you're here"???? Even the flashbacks in this VERY episode seemed to hint to Kara/Lee. I honestly thought they'd at least get some sort of closure. At least Kara telling Lee that she loves him before she disappears. And then NOTHING. Lee suddenly wants to go "exploring" and even though everything has always been first and foremost about Kara Thrace for him, he suddenly doesn't seem to care all that much? And then she just disappears into thin air?!
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I haven't really processed this crap ass ending for the pairing yet. Should I be in denial and pretend it didn't happen? That Adama blessed them as a couple before getting into the raptor with Roslin, Lee and Kara then built a cabin together that they would return to between their travels? Or can I even go back as far as Maelstrom and pretend that the other proposed story (in which Kara didn't die and Lee and Kara finally committed to one another) actually happened? Or has it killed my desire to ship them at all anymore? I have to admit, their ending left a particularly sour taste in my mouth, and I kind of just want to forget all about them (and the stupid show) in general. WOE.
-And as much as I am entertained by Baltar/Caprica (and kinda went aww at their scenes together), are you frakking kidding me that the two people who are mainly responsible for the death of BILLIONS (which they pointed out to us again in one of their lovely random flashbacks) get one of the shiniest, happiest endings?! SO WRONG. Not to mention, when exactly did Baltar become so religious? I believed he was harping on about religion as a way to protect himself in the fleet and take advantage of his harem, but his sudden genuine belief in a higher being made no sense whatsoever. Also? I won't forgive the show for the harem plot line. Baltar would be awesome and funny in any situation you put him in, but could they at least gave him one that made an ounce of sense and fitted into the overall story?
And then, after seeing the finale, it is so obvious how many past plots like the harem (why the cylons were so interested in Kara's ovaries, the child trafficking, etc.) were just the writers shooting the breeze. Don't pass your show off as being some grand story when you yourself don't even know what the fuck you're going to do with it or the characters! :P
-Also? They're going to give up toilets and other conveniences for primitive life? LOL LOL LOL!!! They won't even last a month! Starvation, disease, attack from the natives, you name it! It'd be funny if all of the humans/cylons that settled on Earth died out and become some archeological anomaly the descendants of real Earthlings can never figure out.
Adama ends up alone. Lee ends up alone. Tyrol goes off on his own. Kara, goes off to then air all on her own. Sure, the Agathons, Baltar and Caprica, and the Tighs get their bright and shiny futures, and as glad as I am that not as many characters died as I expected, I wasn't nearly as invested in them throughout the series. It felt lonely and as if everyone was disassociated from the other. WHY EXACTLY WOULD LEE NEVER SEE ADAMA AGAIN SINCE BOTH ARE STILL ALIVE?!?! GOD. Both your girlfriends die/disappear into thin air and you can't find solace in bonding with the only family you have left?! Oh, Adamas. You were always so clueless on the family front. I'd rather the show have ended with them as a community on Galactica than everyone parting ways. :(
And after the way they ended each characters stories, I HATED seeing the scenes in the future (and RDM's effing face in particular). It was too jarring and felt like I was suddenly watching a different show. :/
-DESTINY CAN SUCK IT. BSG wasn't about humanity or breaking out of any vicious cycles. It wasn't about a particular group of people fighting for survival, and it certainly wasn't about free will. No, it was about a higher power orchestrating everything as it wanted (for its own shits and giggles, I guess?). I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was suddenly watching the Religious Network.
And if this show is about humanity, it just proves to me yet again that we are full of FAIL. FUCK HUMANITY. FUCK THAT SHIT.
...I could go on pointing out plot holes and stupid story lines (Hera's SPECIAL blood being able to heal Roslin's cancer just once, anyone?!) or angsting over how the finale for me was like having this amazing and brilliant friend for years and then suddenly becoming aware that they've been playing you all along for their own sick ,sadistic reasons, but now that I released some of my RAGE, I'm so drained. I can't change what they did, and I can't take back all the hours I spent watching this show. But I can stop wasting time thinking about it. And that's it. :(