BSG - Season 4 in ONE word
POSTED BY: Calhoun
UPDATED: Saturday, May 17, 2008 04:19
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One word? "Lost." Lost in the single-minded sub-plot of who is a Cylon or not: drawn out, over and again, getting more twisted at every turn. It all started with Boomer. Now that was original, gripping, and exciting. And now it's about nothing but who's a Cylon. Kinda reminds me of The Matrix II: in the first installment you had the one Mr. Smith, an original, great character. But by the time they did their first sequel, all of a sudden there were thousands of Mr. Smiths. At which time you know they frakked it up.
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Originally posted by Causal:
It gets boring watching everybody jump on the "let's-hate-on-this-cause-it's-fashionable" bandwagon. Oh, I know: many of you genuinely dislike it. But ever since the prequels, hating something that might/should be popular has seemed oh so avant garde.
And sometimes people 'hate' a thing because they love it -- or wanted to love it. The Sarah Conner Chronicles leaps to mind: I *wanted* to love it, and thus became extra sensitive to its faults. That seem right to you?
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The cylons destroying themselves seems like a much more plausible ending than the humans winning the war does.
Good point. And it would not be without a sense of irony, either: they modelled themselves after Man just a mite too well. And what was it that the Terminator said in T2? "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." Right on.
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Originally posted by Causal:
The cylons destroying themselves seems like a much more plausible ending than the humans winning the war does.
Good point. And it would not be without a sense of irony, either: they modelled themselves after Man just a mite too well. And what was it that the Terminator said in T2? "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." Right on.
That's what I was thinking! I've been wondering how they'd resolve the human/cylon war plot. Guess this might be a possible way to do that...
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One word?
Leeless.
I miss those biceps. Damnit, where is he???
"Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach one thousand years of masculine ineptitude? Why do you think there are so few women historians? I'll tell you why. Because history is not such a frolic for women as it is for men... History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. History is women following behind with a bucket and a mop." - Alan Bennett, "The History Boys"
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