Friday, March 06, 2009
Season 4.5: Islanded in a Stream of Stars
10:07 PM
If I were Adama, I'd say "let Hera die, I don't want the Cylon race to survive. The galaxy isn't big enough for humans and Cylons." But the wuss is going to mount a rescue expidition.
"Athena" is having a mental breakdown because Hera was kidnapped. I still don't understand why "Boomer" was able to beat up "Athena" so easily, because they are supposed to be identical. Maybe "Boomer" has been working out.
Oh no! The Galactica is falling apart at the sames. The Battlestar could survive combat with Cylons, but can't survive just floating in space.
10:19 PM
The Cylon Base Ship is going to be the new military command for the fleet. I feel safe now. We can trust the Cylons.
The new council is looking forward to scavenging the Galactica for its parts. Lee is mortified.
"Boomer" isn't as good with children as "Athena" was.
10:30 PM
Starbuck mentions the Cylon detector to Baltar while he's shaving. I thought everyone forgot about the Cylon detector.
And perhaps more relevant to the plot, Baltar thinks the Number Six in his head is an angel.
Talking about angels, are we ever going to see the Ship of Lights before this series ends?
Then Starbuck visits Anders at the Cylon Base ship. They've hooked him up to the hybrid tank. He starts spouting off hybrid mumbo-jumbo. It seems to effect everyone in the fleet. Ooooh, psychic Cylon powers.
10:45 PM
OOPS, I was srong about Anders, he's hooked up to a hybrid tank on Galactica! He can control the Galactica with his brain. Tigh demanded that he be unplugged.
Was Roslin smoking a joint???
"You're job is to follow orders. Do you understand?" No, Helo has never understood that he's supposed to follow orders. He thinks he can do whatever he wants.
At the funeral, Baltar says that Kara Thrace died, and is now an Angel. Bill Adama And Kara/Starbuck are pissed.
11:00 PM
Hera is now in Cavil's evil clutches.
Bill Adama decides to abandon ship.
The previews show us that next week, the "truth" will finally be revealed. And there will be a "one way trip" for those who are willing.
: 3/06/2009 11:02 PM"Lost" actually got its act back together. Instead of plots and mysteries that seemed to go nowhere, the plot started to move and questions got answered. It even found time to create new questions. Of course, since they have answered previous questions, the viewer has confidence these will be answered as well. By no means is "Lost" perfect, but it is entertaining.
Meanwhile "BSG" seems to have gone on the final drinking binge before hitting bottom. Even after having two years to script out 20 episodes for a series finale, it still feels sloppy. People involved with show talk about how key scenes were left out or left on the cutting room floor because of time constraints. Then they gleefully add about how some of them will be on the DVDs. That's sloppy and insulting. If you can't put it on the screen at the time of broadcast, I don't want to hear about it in some podcast or DVD extra. The last couple episodes have been emo filled soap opera and the one before that was such a data dump as to suck the life out of a lot of questions. Only the mutiny episodes have been decent (and those suffered from deus ex machina and poor plotting). Anyways, my point is that RDM has failed to make use of his time to wrap up his show. Instead he's looking like David Lynch with "Twin Peaks." "BSG" is breaking down like the ship that bears its name.
: 3/08/2009 7:17 PMAdama doesnt want his girl to die, but he has no choice. And that is a twist at the end that we had to have. The show is closing, Galactica cant be left alive for some unknown series of events we will never see. She has to die, last episode will probably be it, a suicide run of her into the Colony Caville controls, or some glorious end. But we probably will barely see anything about the Admirals flag transferring boats. I am a believer Adama and Tigh are going to end Galactica in a ball of fury taking out Caville and his seperatists. The finale will probably have alot of deaths and then a bright future with a new planet. Happy yet sad ending.
: 3/09/2009 8:46 AM : 3/09/2009 10:36 PM : 3/09/2009 10:39 PMI personally feel the last few episodes have improved. Maybe because the end is near.
You know, if you really want to be a snob and blast the series, you could do so by saying it is nothing but an expansion of P.K. Dick's 1953 short story, "Second Variety."
I have enjoyed the series. Yes, I personally found the political aspects of it a huge bore, but some people got into that. (Or at least said they did.) A bigger problem for me than the weak episodes was the on-again, off-again schedule. You'd see a great episode and then hear, "We hope you enjoyed these six new episodes. Be sure to watch Battlestar Galactica when it returns in a year and a half!" You kind of lose your momentum.
Example:
Adama and Roz fight,
Apollo and Roz become friends,
Apollo and Adama fight
Adama and Roz become friends
Apollo and Roz fight
Apollo and Adama make up
Apollo and Roz make up
Adama and Apollo fight....
repeat until find Earth.
The old Star Trek was sometimes called a "Space Western". BSG in my opinion is a "Space Soap Opera"
Plus there are lot of loop holes. Too many. When Boomer escaped with Helen Tigh how did she know 'where to jump' to find BSG?
Also how come the gang of 5 was so damned eager to listen to Anders reveal the truth but when Helen Tigh comes back with her memory intact no one cares to ask anything? Why?
Reason is it is inconvenient for the script it seems and this isn't a first.
BTW...Notice how they started mentioning a "Daniel" who was an artist and poet and whatnot. Is it possible that he is Starbuck's dad (Mr. Piano Player)? That Starbuck isn't a cylon but half of one?
Anyway the whole thing plays out like a bad Ed Wood movie.
: 3/13/2009 5:24 PMThe more character development they did, the less I liked the characters. Starbuck was cooler when she was just a surly troublemaker. And Tigh in this touchy-feely Mr. Cylon Mom capacity goes against everything in all the previous seasons. Laura never made sense to me. She is vulnerable and self-questioning 95% of the time, but she suddenly makes ruthless decisions like the old Tigh would have done. There is nothing in her backstory that would make those decisions seem remotely plausible.
The first couple of seaons were a lot of fun but after that, like you said, it became a space soap opera.
: 3/13/2009 7:49 PMSo, Rozzie is smoking a joint??! She also has seemed to be a stoner hog. When Adama tells her about those interrogation drugs, Roslyn looks like she's thinking "I want some of those!!"