Is it just me- or does Galactica's third season BLOW?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Saturday, November 29, 2025 17:23
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I'd have to say that yes, it suffers the same problems with season 2 (great beginning, middle and final episodes), only this season, the weak episodes are more pronounced. I know when I got to the big Starbuck episode near the end (won't spoil it for you), I was convinced that BSG had officially jumped the shark. But that finale was incredibly warped and has me eager for season 4. I'm still concerned that it'll be more of the same. Great beginning few episodes, weak run of three or four, the mid-season break episodes will be spectacular, the next 6 or so is just them spinning their FTL drives, and then the finale will blow everyone's minds.
I didn't mind a fat Lee. It was good to see someone other than Tyrol not having an Aryan physique of glistening muscles. What I did mind was that there wasn't too much of it, and that it literally melted off in a week. As someone whose weight has fluctuated over the last few years, it really ticked me off.
And as per humor, BSG has never really been a funny series. And that lack of humor has always been a problem for me. It's always been stern um drang, fate of the universe is in the balance, one loud noise away from a complete nervous breakdown. Individual moments may have been somewhat humorous, but on the whole the has as many laughs as Dick Cheny.
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Sorry guys, but I just watched Exodus 1 & 2...ho hum.
OK Chris, in my book you've given it a good try, and you don't like it - kudos to you for effort (my inner parent showing I guess!).
Funny though, I have a friend who said EXACTLY the same thing (ho hum) at the news of the upcoming comic series about Shepherd Book. He LOVES Firefly, and was one of the last two or three holdouts watching at the Sunday VShindigs on AIM, coming almost weekly for over three years (I'm another of the last few). He saw Serenity once at the theater and hasn't bothered to see it again, he was so disappointed. Bought the first comic, read it, and gave it away. He hasn't read any of the rest. Just not his thing. Me, I'm not bouncing-off-the-walls excited, but I'm looking forward to it. He couldn't care less. But he's a Brother in Brown, so it's cool.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
It's just dark for darkness' sake...at least for me...I like moral ambiguity, but not in EVERYBODY.
Gimme Luke Skywalker, Apollo from the original series, John Sheppard, heck, even Mal isn't so frakked-up...I need a reasonably pure anchor in the storm of gray...
Plus, it's just seeming a little weird...FAT LEE???
If you can get into it, great...like I say, I like Ballistic: Ecks VS Sever, so I'm no judge of guilty pleasures.
Biggest peeve though- WHERE ARE THE GORRAM VIPERS????????????
Darkness for it's own sake? Yeah, I can see that. Still, as RR says, it's just not a humorous show. I think they tried with the cyclon acting as a preacher on Galatica. You know, the actor from Quantum Leap (I don't know how else to ID him -that's the only thing I think of when I see him.) They tried to do a little Whedonesque humor with him, but it didn't seem right to me. Fell flat.
Anyhow, my problems with season 3 came in other places, which I won't spoil for you Chris. But what I've figured is that the show had too many writers and some plotlines that started but didn't get developed. There just isn't one overall vision to hold things together, and that leaves dangly threads and gaps filled with soapy episodes. Still, I'd rather watch that than just about anything else!
And I didn't mind Fat Lee. Just think of it as BSG's version of humor - the really bad fat suit.
Oh - but the fat makeup is better than the pinstripe suit they put him in later on. Gawd! It's awful! Gangstuhs-R-Us LOL!-----------------------------------------------
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Quote:If I hear, like, "OMG, BSG just pulled an amazing comeback in season 4!!!!!" I could be persuaded to go farther, but honestly, I'm expecting "What? Adama a Cylon? And Sharon's FATHER TOO? And everyone on Earth is a CYLON??? So those few thousand last humans go to a new planet called EDEN to start anew???? WTF?????"
Originally posted by DarkJester:
OK Chris, in my book you've given it a good try, and you don't like it - kudos to you for effort
That would be the "HOLY S**T" ending I'd expect from Moore at this point....
Preposterous Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Sorry guys, but I just watched Exodus 1 & 2...ho hum.
It's all so frakkin convoluted for the sake of effect...
Chris, I usually enjoy your posts even when I don't agree with them, but I'm seriously beginning to question your analytical abilities. You're criticizing BSG for being convoluted, and yet you praise SGA, one of the most contrived SF shows ever produced, so full of technobabble it puts all the combined Trek shows to shame.
I agree with others who admit that there are quite a few BSG episodes that should never have been filmed, but many of the others are some of the best I've ever seen. Yes, it is a downer most of the time, but I can deal with that since in their world it literally is the end of the line that they are facing every day.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
Chris, I usually enjoy your posts even when I don't agree with them, but I'm seriously beginning to question your analytical abilities.
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You're criticizing BSG for being convoluted, and yet you praise SGA, one of the most contrived SF shows ever produced, so full of technobabble it puts all the combined Trek shows to shame.
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Yes, it is a downer most of the time, but I can deal with that since in their world it literally is the end of the line that they are facing every day.
I demand much more from a 'serious' series, FF & Dark Angel delivered most, if not all of the time...SGA is just a fun comic book, no more.
BSG is as dopey as SGA, while trying to be more heady than Serenity.
Please.
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More to pile on:
Why, if they HAD them on New Caprica, did they not STATION Cylon Centurians among them so they couldn't do secret stuff?
Or why not just nuke the site from orbit just to be sure? Oh, 'cause certain Cylons wouldn't want that? Are these the same Cylons that okayed the nuking of the Colonies killing billions?
They have the ability to make themselves 'human'(as much as they desire, anyway) based on earlier genetic experimentation with live human subjects, but for some reason they NEED humans ALIVE NOW?!?!?!?!
Can you say 'desperate bunk'?
Chrisisall
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I really, really liked BSG Seasons 1 and 2. Not as much as FF and Dark Angel. Or Veronic Mars and Angel. Or Dexter and Burn Notice. But more than Heroes and Terminator: SCC. I probably like it as much as Buffy. I don't have cable, so I can only watch them after they come out on DVD.
Here is my question. Is Season 3 worth buying? Or should I just rent?
(I ended up only buying Buffy S. 1 + 2, if that helps your recommendation.)
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Edward James Olmos on a potential ending for Galactica: Everybody dies. Olmos said this is a possibility if the writers stay true to form and he would be O.K. with that. Of course, the fans wouldn't be... Remember, April 4th at 10pm ET marks the return of Galactica.
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Between your perpetual trashing of this great show, and your chamioning of the mediocre dark Angel, I too am questioning your analytical skills, Chris.
For my part, S3 of BSG did have some of the weakest episodes of the series, but what it did right, it did great. I loved the occupation storyline. I appreciate when writers explore current issues through the lens of sci-fi, and I found it to be very compelling drama on it's own terms. The post-occupation stuff back on the ship was really well-played, I felt. It did drag towards the middle of the season, and the big revelation at the end of the season was a bit dubious - but they've earned my trust enough to see where they're taking things.
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