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Battlestar Galactica

Cassie said:
It would help if it wasn't so blatantly obvious that they are trying to make us ponder the social implications. Genocide, racism, class structure.. blah blah. I just want to escape reality for an hour, not get a lesson. That's not to say that I don't enjoy sci fi that has religious and social themes, but BSG is not presenting them in a believable manner anymore.

If you were watching the current season you'd probably be pissed.
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I agree. Television should be an escape, not a school lesson.
 
Baltar is hawt

Baltar is one of the most believably consistent characters on the show. He's still nuts, James Callis is a terrific actor-or he was just made for this role. The writers haven't screwed around with his character trying to teach us plebs a great message.

Tigh has also remained a great character on the show.. My other favorite character. He just tells it like it is.
 
From a very superficial perspective I'll state that BSG is one of the crappiest shows I have ever had the misfortune to learn of. It's NYPD Blue in space. The fact that it takes place in space is probably the only thing remotely 'Scifi' about it.

Of course, I have yet to watch an entire episode front to end, so my opinion might be SLIGHTLY ill-informed.
 
I've been on the brink of giving it up lately. Like Cass says the recent episodes have been preachy one week and soap operas the next. The beginning of the season was of course fantastic and it was going great until it gave up focusing on the Cylons. With the exception of Six and Athena there haven't even been any Cylons for the last few weeks and that seems to have taken away the series' direction. I get the feeling they're trying to put us and the characters into a safe sense of security, but they should've considered the narrative more thoroughly instead of using clichés of characters having affairs or daydreaming about their dead ex-wives.
 
I'm up to the episode with the algae planet (Kat-centric) and season three's been pretty good so far...I guess it must be downhill from here?
 
I still enjoy the show. After "Eye of Jupiter" there are a handful of slower bottle shows that feel like meandering filler, but they're not horribly bad. As in "anything in Enterprise" bad.

The last episode, "Maelstrom" (3x17) was kind of mind blowing and quite controversial. And from what I hear, the remainder of the season is supposed to be nothing less than outstanding.
 
^Yeah, I enjoyed Maelstrom, and I was spoiler-free, but kinda figured what would happen. But, I have my theories on that, and not the popular ones.

Hopefully BSG can get out of the funk they've put themselves in so s4 will kick cylon ass.
 
I think the problem is, people don't look deeply enough into the message the show is sending, or trying to send. Or they may not approve of it, because they either disagree with it or think the show's going in the wrong direction, or they just plain can't figure it out.

My philosophy, both with this show and with "Lost", has always been to wait and see what happens.
 
Tisiphone said:
AMUCK AMUCK AMUCK
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I thought Cranky didn't watch television?

I'm not up to Season 3 yet anyway. But hearing that it's turning into fluff is not something that encourages me. If Ron Moore loses his edge I will personally find him and beat his ass down. Moore is meant to be above crappiness.

As long as Heroes continunes to be the most awesome thing on TV and it keeps the level of excellence that we have enjoyed in its first season I will live though.
 
Mentalist said:
I thought Cranky didn't watch television?
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You saw the pics of the bedroom? I have an enormous screen set up for the porn reviews.

We watch BSG on DVD. Everything we watch is on DVD. Fuck commercials. I won't watch season 3 until it comes out on disk.
 
Maelstrom was very good, although I already knew what was going to happen, just not how it would happen. It was really well done and I also have my own theories. No idea if they're popular ones or not, but mine relate to the vagueness of the effects shots of the last few seconds of the important event.
 
My theory relates to the shot of her hand by the ejection lever thingy! I don't believe it all happened the way it looked like it happened and if it did I'm gonna be pissed.

BTW I thought Maelstrom was a great episode too. Much better than the last 3 or 4 episodes.
 
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