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morwen_peredhil

What's next?

Mar 21, 2009 12:43

Have had a bit of sleep now and have calmed down. You know what really pushed me over the edge from mere eye-rolling disbelief to pure frothing rage? The epilogue. As someone on TWoP said, why does my series finale have to be a PSA? Way to disrespect your audience, RDM. *golf claps* (But then you have been openly insulting us pretty much since the ( Read more... )

scc, tv, bsg, kings

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hercircumstance March 21 2009, 17:44:45 UTC

Kings could be fun if you think of it as a miniseries maybe. Unless it rebounds a lot it won't get a second season, but I think they went into it wanting what they filmed to be a complete story of sorts so it still should be very enjoyable. Not in a 5 year relationship enjoyable though. I am interesting in seeing if the ratings rebound for Kings. I have been pimping the show like mad all week and I feel like a lot of people interested in it didn't realize it started last Sunday and caught up on Hulu or iTunes and are now up to date. If it retains who watched it last Sunday and gets the new people on board hopefully it could edge up in the ratings ( ... )

morwen_peredhil March 21 2009, 17:48:02 UTC

Yes, I think I shall try to think of Kings as a miniseries. That helps a bit.

xanath March 21 2009, 18:43:09 UTC

OK, I admit I've only watched the miniseries--which, frankly, left me cold--but there are two fans on my FL who have a POV you might like to read: el_mcgruffle and solarbird. I don't know if you'll agree, but I thought they both had good points.

Still, after reading your blog entries about BSG, I have to say I don't feel like watching this series for a long time. Characters are paramount for me, and I think knowing how it ends would just have me curled up in a sobbing ball after every episode, knowing that basically they're going to a slightly better hell than what they've been living.

morwen_peredhil March 21 2009, 18:55:50 UTC

It was only my love for some of the characters that kept me going through the seemingly endless stretches of suck that came after mid-S2. Now I can't believe it was all worth it, for them or for me.

miniglik March 21 2009, 18:57:50 UTC

What was the preachy part?

I only ever have a couple shows I like at one time, myself. Right now I like Chuck, Legend of the Seeker, and I'm still interested in Kings. I also have occasional watching of TSCC and SPN and would watch True Blood and Doctor Who if/when they come back. There's nothing right now I feel is truly deep and interesting and awesome, but that's rare for me anyway.

(Coming soon: a rant about SPN's "decades of torture" and how I don't mind the ridiculous of the plots, just the implausibility of the emotional reactions. I.e., no one would be tortured every day for 30 years and retain most of their personality.)

morwen_peredhil March 21 2009, 19:31:51 UTC

I'm still a bit incoherent with rage, but here goes:

It started with the let's give up the technology we have left and all scatter to live as hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers and teach the natives to talk so we can breed with them, yay! Which I think is a terrible idea no matter how many defenses of it I read. RDM would probably claim that we aren't meant to think that the message is TECHNOLOGY = BAD, but he often claims to have meant/not meant things that the show itself just doesn't support, in my opinion.

This was followed by the atrocious 150,000-years-later PSA starring Head!Six and Head!Baltar, who are apparently something akin to both angels and demons, depending on their mission at the time - the power that has been orchestrating this hideous cycle over and over again is something like a force of nature, neither good nor bad. (Baltar actually ended up being right about that, but at least he wasn't Jesus. The closest thing to a messiah was actually an unknowing Kara Thrace. Do not get me started on that, though. ( ... )