September 24, 2005
[exhausted] 10:27 PM
so. tired. but good.
tomorrow kyle fly home.
Just finished the BSG finale. I hated pretty much everything about it, from the score to the plot developments to the complete ignorance of anything involving earth or chains of command aside from Adama/Cain pout-offs. I'm anxious for January just so I can have this stupid new direction taken care of before it gets too retarded.
It's like someone greenlit a poorly conceived piece of fanfic. Giant. Mis-step.
from an email I sent...
it's as if ron moore had run out of gas - after HOME part 2 we got final cut and flight of phoenix, which were decent hours at best, and they felt the need to bring in a nazi-ship, albeit a homage to the original series, to shake things up. it's something that i would have expected in season 4 or 5 of a series, not the finale of season 2, or at the very least not had them become supreme evil beings. to me this is the alan alda/jimmy smits of west wing, or the slayer's in training brought onto buffy. there shoudl be, and is, enough to sustain storylines inside the established universe with a modicum of changes, not the need of bringing in the bizarro mirror universe fleet. the crew and admiral of the pegasus are two-dimensional twirly mustache villains, and unless there's an unbelievalbe twist coming in the next few episodes i'm going to try to just block out the whole thing from my mind.
part of BSG's massive appael to me is it's handling of characters, and the exploration of dimensional people on television. i just sat through an hour of my favorite characters fighting colonial decepticons.
I know you'll hate me for this, but AFAIK that's not the last episode of the season. There's a BSG wiki with spoilers on it...
Posted by: David at September 25, 2005 3:08 AMit's a mini season finale. it pulled a 2001 felicity.
Posted by: kyle at September 26, 2005 12:51 PMI happened upon this post...I knew I shouldn't have read further!
First off - I JUST got introduced to BSG. Watched the entire first season within a week. About to watch episodes 6 - 10 of season 2. What more am I looking to watch?
And dood. I am ADDICTED. something I never thought I'd say about a space show. but this one...this one rocks. and yes, part of the appeal is the characters. they're so... I can totally empathize with each of them.
*sigh* I am addicted, and it's so sad. what kind of person am I: sex and the city and BSG...
Posted by: tokitikki at September 28, 2005 4:45 AM
