Posted on 03/22/2009 7:26:48 AM PDT by KevinDavis
This week in SciFi:
Sun:
8/7 -- Kings (Dystopian Future) -- NBC
Wed:
8/7 -- Lost -- ABC
Fri:
8/7 -- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles -- Fox
9/8 -- The Dollhouse -- Fox
I stand corrected.... Alternate history is SciFi... I wonder what happened to the US in the Alternate timeline..
Well, out of the 35,000 humans, they stated that scientists had determined all humanity descended from one “Eve” which was the cylon-human hybrid.
Looks like things did not work out for the human or cylon survivors.
Looks like things did not work out for the human or cylon survivors."
Good point. I didn't catch that. Maybe that was the writers' attempt at an antidote to the end scenes of unequiped people walking off into an apparent green paradise.
Well it kinda fit in the whole Battlestar Mythos.. There are those who believe that life here began out there..
Yeah, I caught that, too. Spoiler alert. My big take-aways from it were Cavil blowing his brains out and Tyrol wringing the life out of Tory regardless of the consequences. That was cool. I thought the battle was a big of a muddled mess. The big ending wasn’t bad but I didn’t think it was particularly great, either. The death of Roslin was handled well but the ending of Starbuck wasn’t, in my opinion.
While I liked seeing the original Cylons, I thought the original show’s music just didn’t fit the new show.
I agree, it’s one thing to start over and it’s quite another to be stupid and wasteful. I thought it was a dumb message personally. Overall the ending was pretty good but I found some of it a bit over the top in the human progress is bad dept.
So did you watch Kings and is it a glorified soap opera?
I have to watch for a bit longer to make it a determination..
Can’t be all bad then if you want to keep watching LOL
LOL!!!!
“I thought the battle was a big of a muddled mess.”
I’ve been in combat, a muddled mess is an apt description. That part was probably the most realistic. In battle, there are bullets flying, you don’t know if they are coming or going, everybody is running, all of the plans you talked about ahead of time go out the window and you just do what you are trained to do and take the order of the guy in charge of you and hope for the best.
That battle was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. Everybody is running and gunning, CO is on the line trying to hold his ship together to buy enough time for his crew to complete their mission, nobody knows exactly what they are doing but they fall back on training, interlocking fire, fire and retreat, finding cover. It was pretty cool.
“The big ending wasn’t bad”
Considering how bad most SciFi shows end, this one was pretty good. It was pretty consistent with the show as a whole and it didn’t feel like they pulled the ending out of their buttocks at the last moment.
Some have argued that nobody would walk away from their tech but after 5 years of living in metal eating artifical food with tech chasing them down to kill them, going native would not be a hard sell.
It wasn’t that human progress was bad, it’s that they had gotten themselves into a cycle. Remember “all of this has happened before and all of it will happen again”. They gave up all their technology to try to break that cycle, because if they kept the cycle they know how it ends (with the world destroyed, again). And then the tagger in the modern day was just asking the question, did they break the cycle? We’re making robots “again”, making robots that look like people (well sort of) “again”, will they be Cylons, will there be another Cylon rebellion, will it ALL happen again? Or did we learn some essential truth having to build up to this the long way that will break the cycle? It’s not that progress is bad, it’s that progress has risks, we develop tools that are good for living AND killing. And now that we’re developing tools that will probably have some level of self awareness that has potential problems, it’ll be a very bad thing if the robots of the future go all Spartacus on us.
While a muddled mess may be realistic, it isn’t necessarily right for novels, TV shows, or movies, where an audience has to follow what’s happening. In fact, part of the magic of “reality” shows is that they turn a muddle mess into a narrative that the audience can follow because most people don’t like watching muddled messes.
Irony: 1000 SF fans at a hotel for a convention the night of the BSG finale -- and the hotel doesn't carry the SciFi channel! Tee hee!! Now try to spoil it!
Some desperate fans generously tipped the waitress in the bar to turn up the sound on the TV and turn down the stereo system. (The bar had it's own satellite dish unrelated to the hotel's offerings.)
Well my DVR timer did work, so if you have one it should work..
You left out the two hour Stargate SG-1 movie Friday evening.
Queen's brother bankrupts the treasury because he is in a pissing contest with King, as Captain (outsider/hero) romances the King's daughter, and the King's son plays the playboy as a cover.
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