2 Hours of Brutal Crap
I guess I should have known this was coming after the mini-episodes bored me to tears (though admittedly, I stopped watching after the first four because it was so boring).
The problem with the characters is that (with the possible exception of Starbuck) there is no one to cheer for. They have all done something so stupid or evil at this point, that they deserve whatever they have coming to them.
The problem with the writing is that even if there were good bits (and I'd have to have someone point out the good bits from last night), I still have to sit through all of the horrible crap to get to it. Lee went "soft" and became a fat fuck in a year? Adama can no longer get pilots to run drills? in a year? Hey, everybody married everybody! And some had kids!
And I get it. You think we should have sympathy for the Iraqis blowing themselves to shit. I certainly disagree with that sentiment, so all of the "drama" of that is lost on me. It is especially inane because they can't actually hurt the Cylons (they just reboot) and the Cylons acting all concerned because the humans didn't have power for a couple of weeks was more terrible writing. So we should have sympathy for the people who were idiots in the first place and came down to the planet ("der, the Cylons will never find us here, der"), and no are mad about it so they blow each other up out of spite. If Adama really had 2000 people left on those ships, he's got enough DNA that he should have just kept going.
And ug, the Cylons needing whats his name to sign the execution order so that God wouldn't hold them responsible for murder...I should have turned it off then.
The problem with the characters is that (with the possible exception of Starbuck) there is no one to cheer for. They have all done something so stupid or evil at this point, that they deserve whatever they have coming to them.
The problem with the writing is that even if there were good bits (and I'd have to have someone point out the good bits from last night), I still have to sit through all of the horrible crap to get to it. Lee went "soft" and became a fat fuck in a year? Adama can no longer get pilots to run drills? in a year? Hey, everybody married everybody! And some had kids!
And I get it. You think we should have sympathy for the Iraqis blowing themselves to shit. I certainly disagree with that sentiment, so all of the "drama" of that is lost on me. It is especially inane because they can't actually hurt the Cylons (they just reboot) and the Cylons acting all concerned because the humans didn't have power for a couple of weeks was more terrible writing. So we should have sympathy for the people who were idiots in the first place and came down to the planet ("der, the Cylons will never find us here, der"), and no are mad about it so they blow each other up out of spite. If Adama really had 2000 people left on those ships, he's got enough DNA that he should have just kept going.
And ug, the Cylons needing whats his name to sign the execution order so that God wouldn't hold them responsible for murder...I should have turned it off then.
posted by Tom at 8:53 AM
1 Comments:
I am loving this arc, as it is moving all the characters in interesting ways, and that and a break from space means it feels even less like Star Trek etc. I love that they take risks with the direction and the characters.
As for your Iraqi comment, I listened to Ron E Moore's podcast, which is basically him at home commenting as the the show plays on his television. He is pretty brutally honest about the show, and he mentioned the Iraqi thing as a common question he gets, but definitely not the writers aim (they ar emore buffs of history than current affairs). Resistance is resistance, and has been for centuries, and he really doesn't care for making this a 'message' about whatever current flavour-of-war the public is entranced by currently. He just like having the characters in interesting situations, and god knows this arc has been an inspiration for Saul Tigh, who started to show a little of what it is that Adama probably needed him for.
If anything, the show certainly makes us take nothing for granted, and no doubt about it, peoples varied reactions to storylines suggests that it has a place very close to many peoples hearts.
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