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They screwed up BSG. (spoilers)
I know I sound like a disgruntled nerd, but I didn't like it. In fact, I was 2 seconds away from turning it off.
Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it, stop reading.
At the outset, the acting was good, and the characters were believable. The topics the writers chose however, made me nauseous.
I absolutely hate casting humans under Cylons in the light of contemporary politics. And what a heavy hand too. At one point, I yelled: “I get it!†at the TV hoping that they would just stop already with the parallels. Look, part of the appeal of Sci Fi is escape from reality. We see the middle east drama every day, I have absolutely zero interest in seeing it in fiction as well.
The Starbuck/Casey drama is what almost made me turn it off. If I hate politics in fiction, I completely despise using kids as a manipulative plot point. It was contrived and despicable. Again, we read about news stories where bad things happen to kids. I don't want to see it on shows that I watch voluntarily. It's upsetting.
I don't mind being upset for a plot point. Good drama involves the full range of human emotion. But don't pull stories one and two from the front page and cram them down my throat. It will only make me barf and that's pretty much what I did after I watched the show.
Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen it, stop reading.
At the outset, the acting was good, and the characters were believable. The topics the writers chose however, made me nauseous.
I absolutely hate casting humans under Cylons in the light of contemporary politics. And what a heavy hand too. At one point, I yelled: “I get it!†at the TV hoping that they would just stop already with the parallels. Look, part of the appeal of Sci Fi is escape from reality. We see the middle east drama every day, I have absolutely zero interest in seeing it in fiction as well.
The Starbuck/Casey drama is what almost made me turn it off. If I hate politics in fiction, I completely despise using kids as a manipulative plot point. It was contrived and despicable. Again, we read about news stories where bad things happen to kids. I don't want to see it on shows that I watch voluntarily. It's upsetting.
I don't mind being upset for a plot point. Good drama involves the full range of human emotion. But don't pull stories one and two from the front page and cram them down my throat. It will only make me barf and that's pretty much what I did after I watched the show.
Comments
Now, I cannot tell you about the pilot of Season 3 of BSG because I have not seen it yet (though I spoil myself constantly reading ainititcoolnews), but I bet it is not that bad. In addition, anything you have heard in the last 4 to 6 months about kids being hurt probably has zero influence on how they shot the pilot. The show is about genocide and group fighting for survival on the raggedy edge against it. It could easily be a parallel to Vichy France circa 1940 then anything currently on CNN. It is not as if an insurgency is anything new in concept and honestly, Caprica would technically fit that better since France was attacked and occupied and then tried to resist. Instead of their "evil" head of state removed and the Germans stayed to try to fix their government. Therefore, I would consider it more the French underground resistance then the Iraq insurgency.
(Ok, so I'm kidding about that, but if they could have, they would have).
So, you mean the doctor who kept having visions of the cylon woman is a cylon?
What were the parallels? Because, last season it would have only been a parallel if the president had remained in office and not been replaced by the guy promising "bread and circuses"...
People get tired of living in fear and when someone comes out and says, "vote for me and there will be no more fear," many people fall for it...
/Women Cylons are hot
//Especially blonde Cylons...
They also don't try to make the resistance seem noble. Tigh admits that they are doing evil, that they are men at the right hand of the devil. This is not a character prone to make comments in jest. They know what they are doing is wrong, but they took his eye, and both sides seem to be trying for some old-school justice.