WHO LET JANE ESPENSON WRITE ONE OF THE FINAL BATTLESTAR EPISODES? WHY IS SHE WASTING THE LITTLE PRECIOUS TIME WE HAVE LEFT WITH THESE CHARACTERS? AAARGH!
Word, word, wordy McWordpants on EVERYTHING you said (particularly Ellen and Tyrol).
I rather suspect Helo and Athena have spent the past two episodes in their quarters, trying to persuade the pop tart to come out from under the bed. Poor kid's probably all freshly re-traumatized.
And that's a good thing (not the re-trauma, but the offscreen-ness). If they're off-camera during these episodes, their characters can't be assassinated.
That's true! If they're off screen nothing bad can happen to them! And that's important since the Agathons seem to have terrible luck when they're on screen.
Tigh's "My great-grandfather was a power [something]" line was funny, but other than that I can't think of any really funny lines to balance out the parts that made me annoyed. :/
So the same woman who wrote the last two crap episodes wrote this episode? It all makes sense now!!!
This episode was far from her worst, but mostly it felt like a "filler" waste episode to me, but not a complete waste.
Agree with most of what you said except the Baltar plot. Baltar's character is clearly going to be key to the final solution to everything and after his revelation that he had to go back and take care of his flock, we needed at least a quarter episode on that. That said, this specific plot (he stayed away "awhile), guns etc. was kinda stupid. It would have been way more interesting if he had come back quickly and come to this conclusion.
I think the new fracked up world order does include giving Baltar guns. They know he won't use them to try and overthrow the ship, and everyone else has guns too...so really, at worst a bunch of idiots shoot each other.
She also evidentally wrote The Hub and co-wrote the webisodes. So she's not totally hopeless, just someone needs to work with her on scripts to match this show I guess?
No, she is kind of a nutty, bad writer who may be a little too proud of herself (read her blog.) I can't believe they gave her executive producer-ship. UGH.
I think we're in agreement about Baltar. It was the specific story and the amount of time it took (half an episode unrelated to anything else) that bothered me, not the fact that it was a heavily Baltar episode. It needed fewer scenes with Baltar and groupies, a few more scenes (or at least one more) with Adama/Lee/Roslin leading up to them agreeing to give him guns. The balance of the story just felt out of whack.
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I rather suspect Helo and Athena have spent the past two episodes in their quarters, trying to persuade the pop tart to come out from under the bed. Poor kid's probably all freshly re-traumatized.
And that's a good thing (not the re-trauma, but the offscreen-ness). If they're off-camera during these episodes, their characters can't be assassinated.
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(..yep, that's all I got. Jane = funny = Jaime = happy. I'm easy. ;P)
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This episode was far from her worst, but mostly it felt like a "filler" waste episode to me, but not a complete waste.
Agree with most of what you said except the Baltar plot. Baltar's character is clearly going to be key to the final solution to everything and after his revelation that he had to go back and take care of his flock, we needed at least a quarter episode on that. That said, this specific plot (he stayed away "awhile), guns etc. was kinda stupid. It would have been way more interesting if he had come back quickly and come to this conclusion.
I think the new fracked up world order does include giving Baltar guns. They know he won't use them to try and overthrow the ship, and everyone else has guns too...so really, at worst a bunch of idiots shoot each other.
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