Battlestar Galactica
This post is about the spoilers for the Battlestar Galactica finale that Katee Sackhoff leaked in Portland. If you do not want to be spoiled for the finale PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT READ THIS POST.
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I can honestly say I have never been so upset about any other TV show, it's ridiculous and I thought they couldn't do that to me anymore.
People are rationalising it that the writers/producers saw that they could get something extra out of MT and KS performances because of their friendship and that's why they went in that direction. But that doesn't make it any better, if this wouldn't have been the final season, okay, but they this was going to be the end, they should have had their priorities sorted. Sometimes you have to pass an opportunity up to keep with the overall goal and integrity of what you're doing! And to be honest they didn't exactly blow my mind in those scenes, was it really worth it? worth 4 episodes?
The crux of it for me is that the writers did not have a clear enough vision of Kara's endpoint as a character. If they did, they would never have ( ... )
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Hee! Nah, I enjoy your snark. ;)
o be honest they didn't exactly blow my mind in those scenes, was it really worth it?
*lol* It's have to be bloody mindblowing TV to justify it, imo. And it really wasn't THAT great. I wouldn't even say it was the strongest material we've seen on BSG!
.RDM reminds me of someone who has written the first and last page of a novel, thinking he was a genius for crafting that
Hee! Seriously. I'm an editor and I am just constantly ITCHING to edit the fuck out of him. He needs to be sat down and told some very basic home truths about writing and storytelling. Like 'if something is going to be significant later in the story, introduce it earlier on so it doesn't look like it comes out of your ass nowhere' and 'don't expect your audience to accept all leaps in logic on goodwill alone'.
pages full of disjointed sentences and a few smilies drawn in between, you can't call that literature!HEE! I think the middle's more like some really purple prose and a ( ... )
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I was kind of pleased I did manage to enjoy the flashbacks (mostly: I squirmed at the gender stereotyping of Kara and Laura) despite the surrounding nonsense.
he separates characters from plot, like they're two unconnected aspects of the show,
And therein lies the problem. I think his days on DS9 probably did him no good there.
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Ha spot on, especially the last bit! I think you're right, maybe with some footnotes added saying "I originally planned on doing this and that, so this used to make more sense but I left it all out to write some more perverted sex scenes and pimping women out and figured the readers would know what happened off the page."
Mmm, I guess I am naive but I sort of want to believe that RDM will look back on BSG later in life and think 'we could have ended that better'I don't know, I think he'll always have enough people sucking up to him to sustain his ego, but who knows. That whole attitude of BSG being a innovative philosophical masterpiece of television is so irritating to me, if more people just acknowledged that it's a mediocre TV series like many others, I think I'd be cooler about it ( ... )
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Too bad this didn't really translate on screen. KS and MT still have all the spark of wet cardboard, comatose or not.
Too little, too late.
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Yes. This.
Also, at this point, I'm feeling very zen (or numb) because we're so close. I'm very...curious...just to see how it all plays out from a story standpoint.
I do hope someone asks RDM after it's all over if it's true that they changed an original K/L ending to a K/S one because of real-life events. (I hesitate to believe Katee can affect these things as much as she thinks she does.)
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