"Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II"
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davidlevineHerewith my thoughts on the Battlestar Galactica season 2 finale.
I admire the writers for making such an enormous change. Series television is supposed to be about constancy. I love it when writers break the rules.
I'm appalled at the new situation. It is so hopeless... every bit as bad as the worst moment after the destruction of the Colonies, but in addition the two Battlestars are falling apart, half the crew has gone civilian, the other half is lazy and out of training, there are no more antibiotics, Baltar's a dictator, Apollo's gone to pot, and Adama's mustache is scary.
I mean, this situation is the exact worst situation that could possibly happen to each character. Roslin didn't just lose the presidency, she was disgraced. Adama isn't just superannuated, he's left practically alone on a ship that's wearing out. Starbuck isn't just grounded, she's stuck in a muddy tent with a sick idiot. Baltar doesn't just have power he can't handle, he finds he's betrayed humanity to the Cylons... again.
It's a nightmare.
I want the nightmare to be over. I want to go back to the shiny ships and the space battles and the politics and the intrigue. I want my show to be the way it was.
But I would be so disappointed if it all turned out to be a dream, or a hoax, or an imaginary story.
If it isn't a dream, there are only two other possibilities:
1. We get some kind of reset, perhaps via time travel, that undoes all the bad stuff and puts us back to where we were right before the election. But that would be as much of a cheat as "it was all a dream."
2. This is reality, and it sucks, and it's what we have to cope with in season 3. Everything's worn out, humanity is defensless and under the thumb of the Cylons. Which is too depressing for words. (I mean... that mustache!)
But if this is reality, why is it that the priest Cylon said the Cylons were going their own way, but now they have returned to care for (i.e. enslave) the remnants of humanity? It seems unreasonable for them to change their minds so drastically twice in one year.
(What has happend to the two priest Cylons, anyway? And Boomer?)
I admire the writers for making such an enormous change. Series television is supposed to be about constancy. I love it when writers break the rules.
I'm appalled at the new situation. It is so hopeless... every bit as bad as the worst moment after the destruction of the Colonies, but in addition the two Battlestars are falling apart, half the crew has gone civilian, the other half is lazy and out of training, there are no more antibiotics, Baltar's a dictator, Apollo's gone to pot, and Adama's mustache is scary.
I mean, this situation is the exact worst situation that could possibly happen to each character. Roslin didn't just lose the presidency, she was disgraced. Adama isn't just superannuated, he's left practically alone on a ship that's wearing out. Starbuck isn't just grounded, she's stuck in a muddy tent with a sick idiot. Baltar doesn't just have power he can't handle, he finds he's betrayed humanity to the Cylons... again.
It's a nightmare.
I want the nightmare to be over. I want to go back to the shiny ships and the space battles and the politics and the intrigue. I want my show to be the way it was.
But I would be so disappointed if it all turned out to be a dream, or a hoax, or an imaginary story.
If it isn't a dream, there are only two other possibilities:
1. We get some kind of reset, perhaps via time travel, that undoes all the bad stuff and puts us back to where we were right before the election. But that would be as much of a cheat as "it was all a dream."
2. This is reality, and it sucks, and it's what we have to cope with in season 3. Everything's worn out, humanity is defensless and under the thumb of the Cylons. Which is too depressing for words. (I mean... that mustache!)
But if this is reality, why is it that the priest Cylon said the Cylons were going their own way, but now they have returned to care for (i.e. enslave) the remnants of humanity? It seems unreasonable for them to change their minds so drastically twice in one year.
(What has happend to the two priest Cylons, anyway? And Boomer?)
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Date: 2006-03-15 05:40 pm (UTC)You know that somewhere along the line, we are going to get "Galactica: The Missing Year", whether it be onscreen or comic book or... say... Could this whole thing be one of those "flashforwards"? On a really big scale? Are they going to start season 3 with the subtitle "Nine months ago"?
We didn't see how Joss could bring Buffy back without some lame "With one leap Buffy was free of the grave" handwaving, but we believed he would manage it somehow, and he did. I don't know that these guys (I find it telling that I don't even have a name or personality to associate with the creative side of BGv2) have given us as much reason to trust them as Joss did over the course of 5-6 years of Buffy, but it's been a damn good series so far. Let's hope they know what they're doing here.
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Date: 2006-03-15 06:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-16 02:21 am (UTC)Dunno about Boomer but I think there was mention of chucking the priests out into space.