A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!
Posted on 01/18/2009 7:42:09 PM PST by KevinDavis
This weeks Sci-Fi Thread:
Tues:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
Fri:
10/9 -- Battlestar Galactica -- SciFi
dude.. can you add me to this ping list? I love the scifi channel.
Friday’s ep of Battlestar Galactica was great. I was so frustrated that it could only be an hour long.
And Fringe is the best new Sci-Fi show— I just hope they stick a little more to reality or at least unexplainable mystery. That dude going through a wall and the other guy teleporting at the end of last year’s cliffhanger was kind of gay.
Can you explain why you thought the last episode was great? While I thought some of the plot twists related to “Earth” were interesting, they were soon destroyed by the incomprehensible behavior of various characters. It’s like the writers just make the characters do things to create plot twists without any attempt to have them flow naturally from coherent characterization or motives.
I agree that there was an excessive amount of scenery chewing over what clearly would have been a terrible shock, but they seem to have gotten it under control by the end of the episode. If they keep that tamped down, and untangle the questions that arose, it looks very good to me.
I thought the acting was fantastic. It was very emotional.
It’s definitely one of the best shows on TV.
I think what is going on with the Cylons is more interesting than all of the confused behavior on Admiral Adama’s BattleSex Galatica starship. And does anyone on that ship do any house cleaning chores?
I think the acting on Battlestar Galactica is top notch. It’s the characterization and writing that’s a problem. I get no sense of most of the characters as real people because they whipsaw back and forth between people who have their act together and people who are totally falling apart and seem to have no consistent personality, values, or goals that maintain continuity across even a few episodes, never mind the show. It’s like they’re angst machines rather than real people. Maybe they’re all Cylons and that’s what a Cylon is.
Add me to this ping list..........Please
thanks
That was the WHOLE POINT! You are traveling through space...there are only 50,000 of you left. Cylons are killing you off left and right. Before you know it...there are only 30K humans left and the only ray of hope you have to hang your hat on is finding Earth. You spend a couple of years zooming through space dodging cylon raiders...your best friends getting wacked left and right only to find a planet that is a radiological wasteland; not the paradise and new home you had hoped for.
Now...imagine that is you. How are you going to hold it together? How would you react? Some people will keep going...some people will react violently...and some people will chose to end it all (like Dee).
I thought it was a perfect testament to human nature. Their behavior would certainly be incomprehensible...their faintest of hopes were dashed.
And the human response was more than appropriate in light of the circumstances. I loved the scene at the end when Adama arms up to walk to his bridge and he passes graffiti on the wall “Frak Earth”. The Dee actions were amazingly powerful.
However, the Cylons were what inhabited the planet was a major shark jump IMO. The whole point of the series was humanity earning its right to live again after its prior actions and playing Godd with creating a sentient being was one of them. All that to find out that Cylons existed thousands of years ago?
WTF?
KevinDavis, please add me to the list.
I agree the characters seem to jump around quite a bit. The previous season had me scratching my head at times.
The final cylon was out of left field and really didn’t make a whole lot of sense. I can see why a normally ‘together’ person might lose it (Dee), but man, she was one of my favorite characters.
I am watching season 1-3 again in between new episodes.
Given that many of them spent quite a bit of time on New Caprica and know that the possibility of other planets to inhabit exist, not the way that they reacted in the show. The remaining survivors all experienced that "game over" scenario multiple times by now and know from the experience on New Caprica that that there might be other worlds that they could find to live on.
I thought it was a perfect testament to human nature. Their behavior would certainly be incomprehensible...their faintest of hopes were dashed.
Real human beings have experienced all sorts of disasters and I've read and seen plenty about how people react. While it's true that some people exhibit incomprehensible behavior during disasters, the people in the show have experienced so many disasters that dashed their faintest hopes that I find entirely new behavior from them unbelievable. The people inclined to give up have already had more than enough reason to do so.
The other problem is that the new behavior is always a slide toward being a self-centered pathetic jerk. Does nobody that survived have any nobility in them? As such, I think the show reflects postmodernism run amok (no good or evil or right or wrong -- only narcissistic self pity and despair).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.