Battlestar galactica

POSTED BY: killerbanana
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 00:27
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Well, first off, Zoic studios does the effects for BSG. Zoic also did the effects for Firefly and a handful of effects for Serenity. I met Lee Stringer, one of the animators, at a convention a couple years back and talked to him about both series' - the "handheld" look of BSG was definitely inspired by the style from Firefly according to him.

At any rate, BSG is a great series, but it's really started to flounder IMO in the second half of season 2. There's character development that just doesn't make any sense. Some particular things bothered me, and if you don't want to be spoiled, stop reading this right now.

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Magic President-healing Cylon blood. This was just ridiculous - as much as I like the President's character it was a complete cop-out to use this "Star Trek"-ish plot device to keep her alive. I hate when characters who are "going to die" don't. It's irritating (and the reason I loved Babylon 5 so much). When you make a show, let the cast know that their characters may die. It makes it SO much more interesting for those of us watching. Plus, I think it would have been MUCH more interesting to see what would happen with President Baltar in charge.

Lee Adama hearts hookers. What? This was the most random bunch of crap I've ever seen in the show. So, I'm to believe in this episode that Lee, who has never shown any behavior like this before, is stupid enough to fall for a hooker? That he's apparently been seeing for a long time? Because she reminds him of someone from Caprica who we've NEVER been introduced to before and will probably never see again? This whole episode just blew my mind on how random and stupid it was. It has since been erased from canon continuity IMO.

Dualla and Lee. You could practically smell Billy's imminent death, they were pushing the Apollo/Dualla thing so much. This was a relationship that just exploded from out of nowhere. No indication of anything between the two of them (other than that little work out scene which was nothing to me) and suddenly within a span of 2 or 3 episodes, they're madly in love? This makes no damn sense, especially given that a couple episodes BEFORE this, Apollo was busy spreading STDs on the whore ship (see last paragraph).

And the most recent episode with the whole abortion side plot just irritated me for some reason. Not because of the subject matter, but because this show has done SUCH a good job of dealing with current issues while keeping them WELL hidden within the plot, but this one they pretty much just pull in some random girl, talk about how she wants an abortion and beat you about the head with the issue. I'm great with my sci-fi shows hitting on big issues, but this one was just handled terribly.

And this whole Cylon sympathizers plot? No thank you. I could SO do without this. As much as I can appreciate what they're trying to do with this whole plot line, it doesn't make ANY sense. This is (to me) the equivalent of a bunch of Jewish people getting out of a concentration camp during WW2 and saying that the Nazis really just want peace and that they deserve a fair shake. The Cylons have made it pretty clear they're out for the whole genocide thing - you know, by destroying all the colonies and trying to destroy the fleet multiple times. This group is so unsympathetic to me, it's ridiculous. I can't wait to see the long arm of the military smack these fools down and I hope that's what happens.

This season has had its share of good episodes, too. I loved the Pegasus 3 parter (just amazing) and "Scar" was a really neat idea. I love the fact that the Cylon ships "resurrect" as well and are capable of developing personalities. I hope they hit on this plot again. And pretty much everything before the whole Pegasus plot was pretty solid still - it's just since season 2.5 started that I've really started to have problems...

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*covers her eyes and runs away from the spoilers*

Not everyone is watching on the US schedule...

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Originally posted by LittleAlbatross:
*covers her eyes and runs away from the spoilers*

Not everyone is watching on the US schedule...

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Hence my handy spoiler warning at the end of the second paragraph. Sorry to have spoiled anything for you. I'll go back and make it bigger.

EDIT: Okay, the spoiler warning is more pronounced now and I did the spoiler text for the rest of the post - again, sorry!

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Originally posted by Bishop76:

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Originally posted by LittleAlbatross:
*covers her eyes and runs away from the spoilers*

Not everyone is watching on the US schedule...

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Hence my handy spoiler warning at the end of the second paragraph. Sorry to have spoiled anything for you. I'll go back and make it bigger.

EDIT: Okay, the spoiler warning is more pronounced now and I did the spoiler text for the rest of the post - again, sorry!

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Thank you! I have no doubt there was a warning, it was just that my eyes skipped down a bit when I was skimming the posts. Sometimes even just a couple lines of empty space helps, if you don't want to use the tags.

Thanks again!

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Another nod for Galactica. I was a big fan of Galactica Classic, so Galactica Reimagined was kind of a shock for me at first. But when I realized it was better then a cheesy space opera, and actually had some wonderful story-telling and dramatic flare I was hooked. Now I'm glad Starbuck's a woman because I like Galactica Reimagined so much more.

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Where's the KABOOM?! There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom! *sigh* Delays...delays...

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