Thoughts on Battlestar Galactica
1. WHERE IS LEE?
2. As if I didn't dislike Sam enough, he shot Gaeta (who's one of my favourites). At least the shooting shocked Kara back into behaving like a Kara I actually recognise and don't dislike.
3. I am disenchanted with BSG in general. I've never really liked the mystical/prophecy aspects of the show, or the 'how Cylon society works' ( Read more... )
Still, I've been reading everything I could about the new episodes, so...
I am disenchanted with BSG in general. I've never really liked the mystical/prophecy aspects of the show, or the 'how Cylon society works' aspect - the part of the show that drew me in was 'how does human society cope with almost total destruction?'.
I've read at least three posts along the same lines on LJ, and a few comments at the Realm, just in the past few days.
Right with you there. It started in S3, and it seems to be continuing...
I also have doubts about the way the storyline seems to be progressing to human-Cylon reconciliation, because I would have a hard time finding that believable.
Oh boy. Do I have issues with this one.
queenofthorns wrote a post putting her own thoughts on the subject into words. I agree with pretty much everything she said, and she says it a lot better than I ever could...
That was one of my issues with S3, because by then, it already seemed like RDM was trying to make us like the Cylons, and I'm so far from being ready to do that. I can like a few individual Cylons (the ones who acknowledge that the genocide was wrong and that they don't deserve forgiveness, for example), but don't ask me to root for Leoben or Cavil or Six, please...
As a race, they still don't think that what they did was wrong, and now we have to think of them as the good guys? Yeah, not so happy with RDM, right now... I just hope he has a plan (another plan, that is).
Sigh.
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Ah yes, have been meaning to read that. bop_radar has also written a post on the topic that I agree with wholeheartedly and she puts it all very well.
RDM was trying to make us like the Cylons, and I'm so far from being ready to do that.
Exactly. One of my issues is also that we've never been given the Cylon viewpoint of why they committed the genocidal attacks - there's never been any background on the reasons for their war against humanity (I think) apart from general 'humans built and enslaved us'. Not that I'm saying there is any justification for their attack, but it would help to understand it. (Plus I would be very interested to learn more about the background to the human-Cylon conflict, the first war etc - seems a missed opportunity to me - although I suppose while they were planning to make the Caprica prequel it made sense not to cover it in BSG).
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xwacky and I had a rather long discussion about the reasons behind the two wars and Cylons and RDM, here.
I'm too lazy to re-write it, but, yeah. Yet another thing that I would have liked to see, instead of Leoben talking about destinies and Kara buying into it...
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