BSG: Razor (& Extended Edition) **STRIKETHROUGH FIXED**
Sooo, finally getting around to posting about Razor, which I liked. But be warned, spoilers for the whole thing (and the extended edition) follow. And it's really really really long. Sorry. I just started typing and found it hard to stop even though I think I've repeated myself loads. I guess I'm getting back into the swing of this slowly
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D'oh!
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The UK release is December 26th though I'm not sure if that's the extended edition.
Huh - just checked Amazon and I think it is the extended edition.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battlestar-Galactica-Edward-James-Olmos/dp/B000WISSOK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1198502459&sr=8-1
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Why thank you. ;) I look forward to any thoughts you might have!
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Her conversations with Kara when they dance around the point; both of them sneaking down to abuse substances and threaten each other and be just the same kind of person, separated by a razor-edge. It tells us enough. We don't need Kendra to start trying to talk about Cain to Kara, or Kara to bring up her mother. It belittles the weight of both of those women's relationships with...those other dead women.
I agree. I’m about half way through the DVD commentary and it sounds as if in early drafts of the script there would have been even more Kara/Kendra conversations. I think this is a perfect case of it’s better to show us then tell us and hasn’t the series, in Kara’s case at least, shown us enough?
Likewise I didn't think that Cain's backstory was necessary. Okay, it gives us one more reason she is how she is. But...I don't want one more reason. It's not enough to explain why, forty years later, she makes the choices she makes…..The bravery of telling the story of a girl abandoning her sister is somewhat lost by the fact I ( ... )
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Adama comes along for the ride and promises not to steal the reigns. But he does anyway. Okay, I think, he's the Admiral and this is the military; he's allowed to do that. But then, after having stuck his fingers into Lee's command, he hands command back at a really tricky moment, that he got them into, and on top of that has the balls to act like he's the moral authority and he's reluctantly trying to teach Lee a lesson about the burdens of command ( ... )
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I totally agree about Cain's backstory. ugh, what clumsy, cliched storytelling. and I only sort of half paid attention to the extended edition while showing it to friends.
I found the portrayal of Cain in Razor to be quite incoherent. I like that you interpret that as a positive thing -- as its own nihilistic brand of war narrative. the movie came with an insurmountable structural problem, which is that they set out to somehow tell Cain's story in a way that presumably would complicate or humanize her, but within the show's economy she must remain basically incomprehensible and inhuman as the foil to the Adama-Roslin contingent. if the idea is that she's just like them, ultimately, the whole show makes even LESS sense. and yeah,
I really hated him saying, "From a tactical viewpoint it's hard to disagree with anything she did."also, because it's BS! proceeding with an attack when it turns into a suicide mission is NOT tactically savvy. if RDM wanted us to sympathize with Cain's choices on some level, they needed ( ... )
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