Irritated
So I'm more than a bit annoyed with the writers on Battlestar these days. Basically they are trying, and frankly succeeding, to make Lee Adama the least likeable character on the show. He's always been angsty and messed up, but now it's getting to the point where he's just unstable, easily manipulated, and basically traitorous.
I'm not happy about this. There was a time when I liked the character but with each passing episode he elicits less and less sympathy from me. Last night's episode, and the teaser for next week's, was the final straw.
This better just be a passing character arc. I realize the dramatic reason for doing what they are doing with the character, but that doesn't mean I like it. The truth is the writers have never really known what to do with Lee, and in all likelihood this new direction will just end up another aborted attempt to give him something to do.
I'm more worried, though, that they'll make this change permanent and follow through with it for the rest of the series, which would be even worse. Maybe they should have just killed him off.
Season 3 has been...different. I don't want to say disappointing because there's been some great stuff, but the great stuff has tended to be outstanding, well-acted individual episodes or even just moments within an episode.
The acting is still superb, but it feel like the overall plot has suffered. That's what's been bugging me this season, the plot. Some of the individual episode plots have been weak and the overall direction of the series has gotten a bit hazy. After the first four or five (incredible) episodes, after they got back into space, just nothing has really happened (other than killing off various characters that I really liked; that seems to be a big goal of theirs for this season. ATTENTION WRITERS: yes, killing off characters can heighten the drama, but you can only do it so many times before people start to notice that killing off so many is just an attempt to cover up the fact that no one is really DOING anything).
So hopefully the show will find its way again. I'll be interested to see what happens in the season finale. The trial should definitely be suspenseful, and because it's Battlestar I have no doubt they will throw some crazy ass twist cliffhanger ending into the season finale like they always do. Ron Moore says he sort of sees the show taking five seasons to fully tell the story. He's done three and he's at least got a fourth, and hopefully the show will get renewed for a fifth as well. He also said that the show has just begun the third act of what he sees as a four act story, so I assume he knows where he's going with it.
It's still a fantastic show, still the best show on television by far. I just hope that it can maintain/regain its momentum to finish the story before it gets bad.
I wonder if anyone has done any studies on why all television series, even the good ones, eventually get bad if they stay around too long. I think it must have something to do with the fact that they tend to overindulge the things that made the show good in the first place, making it either formulaic or just overwrought, collapsing under the weight of the mythos they've built around themselves.
Either that or the writers just run out of ideas.
I'm not happy about this. There was a time when I liked the character but with each passing episode he elicits less and less sympathy from me. Last night's episode, and the teaser for next week's, was the final straw.
This better just be a passing character arc. I realize the dramatic reason for doing what they are doing with the character, but that doesn't mean I like it. The truth is the writers have never really known what to do with Lee, and in all likelihood this new direction will just end up another aborted attempt to give him something to do.
I'm more worried, though, that they'll make this change permanent and follow through with it for the rest of the series, which would be even worse. Maybe they should have just killed him off.
Season 3 has been...different. I don't want to say disappointing because there's been some great stuff, but the great stuff has tended to be outstanding, well-acted individual episodes or even just moments within an episode.
The acting is still superb, but it feel like the overall plot has suffered. That's what's been bugging me this season, the plot. Some of the individual episode plots have been weak and the overall direction of the series has gotten a bit hazy. After the first four or five (incredible) episodes, after they got back into space, just nothing has really happened (other than killing off various characters that I really liked; that seems to be a big goal of theirs for this season. ATTENTION WRITERS: yes, killing off characters can heighten the drama, but you can only do it so many times before people start to notice that killing off so many is just an attempt to cover up the fact that no one is really DOING anything).
So hopefully the show will find its way again. I'll be interested to see what happens in the season finale. The trial should definitely be suspenseful, and because it's Battlestar I have no doubt they will throw some crazy ass twist cliffhanger ending into the season finale like they always do. Ron Moore says he sort of sees the show taking five seasons to fully tell the story. He's done three and he's at least got a fourth, and hopefully the show will get renewed for a fifth as well. He also said that the show has just begun the third act of what he sees as a four act story, so I assume he knows where he's going with it.
It's still a fantastic show, still the best show on television by far. I just hope that it can maintain/regain its momentum to finish the story before it gets bad.
I wonder if anyone has done any studies on why all television series, even the good ones, eventually get bad if they stay around too long. I think it must have something to do with the fact that they tend to overindulge the things that made the show good in the first place, making it either formulaic or just overwrought, collapsing under the weight of the mythos they've built around themselves.
Either that or the writers just run out of ideas.