So the Ori have Jaffa now too huh? How creative. They can't even be bothered to throw us good episodes at the end and beginnings of seasons anymore and that is truly sad to me. I adore Claudia Black, but friday's episode was so boring that even her presence only brought it to "tolerable". BSG, meanwhile, contniues to amaze. Who cares about the Oscars? The real crime is that Battlestar hasn't won every Emmy ever.
SG1: First 35 minutes - completely disposable. I understand that using the Arthur motif has committed them to using medieval imagery, but it doesn't make it any less fruity. Now, as always, there are the little gems tucked away that are one of the main reasons I still watch (and out a the same feeling that LotWrit has about BSG - a desire to know the facts in the end). Daniel giving up on the elegant solution and pulling a Jack O'Neill was classic. Predictably, I loved the last 10-15 minutes. Apparently I can't get enough of spaceships blowing the crap out of each other. But I must say, the opening of the supergate and the subsequent arrival of the 4 ("there's only four!?" - "Maybe it's just the first wave?")) Ori ships was suitable terrifying. For anyone who's played Master of Orion II, all I could think of was Stellar Converters. I AM curious to see how this resolves, but it still makes me sad that a show that I used to love primarily for all the little greatnesses only really gets me with the huge cliffhangers now.
Atlantis: Much better. I still hold out some hope for this show. The characters are starting to develop an amusing dynamic, although it is still (understanderbly) a little Rodney heavy. I thought the awkwardness that everyone had working with the wraith was well done. Now if only we could toss Tayla overboard and replace her with the girl who was in Rodney's head for an episode. She was fantastic.
BSG: I have to run to work so I will keep this brief. I was very pleased with the finale. The one year jump was ballsy but well worth it. We all knew he would be a terrible president and any saliant details about his failings in that year were either already revealed or can be through some exposition (or flashbacks, but I'm wary of overusing those). I need to put this out there. I don't care what "the fans" think. In fact, I tend (not always) to like it when a director/writer fucks with the fans. A TV show is a work of art just as a movie, or a book or an album is. It is (or rather, should not be) not subject to any sort of democratic process in its creation. Juvenile threats of "I will stop watching if you don't write your show the way I want" should be ignored as the childish whining they are. No one is required to be gratified by everything that occurs in a story based work of art (especially in a serial form, like a TV show), and even Ron Moore admits when he thinks an episode has failed. But at the end of the day, he is the artist, and it is his decision. I would rather something coherent all of which I did not like, than a twisting protean mess that is the television equivalent of a politician in an election year.
See, I think RDM did reveal part of the Cylon plan the last minute or so of the show – there was Six’s voiceover that humans needed help learning how to be better people, and the Cylons were going to show them, by acting as their totalitarian overlords. This is a slight switch from their previous thought process that humans were fatally flawed and needed to be gotten rid of, so that the Cylons could take their place. Sure, it’s not totally explained, but who cares. It takes them an entire damn season to do anything on shows like “Lost,” and people still seem to like that. Not me, but some people. I’ve been told.
And as to Prometheus’s assertion that “The only gripe I had about it was that it basically rendered previous S2 episodes such as "Black Market" and "Scar" completely modular,” all I can say to that is Thank the Gods. Because a lot of shows in the second half of season two? They kind of sucked. They’ve hammered home the point that life in the fleet on the run can be monotonous. They’ve done it enough times that it’s gotten boring. Finally, we can move on from that and explore new problems with the cylons – now that they’ve become the Nazis marching through Paris. God that last image was awesome! Damn you October!
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So the Ori have Jaffa now too huh? How creative. They can't even be bothered to throw us good episodes at the end and beginnings of seasons anymore and that is truly sad to me. I adore Claudia Black, but friday's episode was so boring that even her presence only brought it to "tolerable". BSG, meanwhile, contniues to amaze. Who cares about the Oscars? The real crime is that Battlestar hasn't won every Emmy ever.
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While we've got you here, LoWrit, what did you think of the SG-1 season finale?
SG1: First 35 minutes - completely disposable. I understand that using the Arthur motif has committed them to using medieval imagery, but it doesn't make it any less fruity. Now, as always, there are the little gems tucked away that are one of the main reasons I still watch (and out a the same feeling that LotWrit has about BSG - a desire to know the facts in the end). Daniel giving up on the elegant solution and pulling a Jack O'Neill was classic. Predictably, I loved the last 10-15 minutes. Apparently I can't get enough of spaceships blowing the crap out of each other. But I must say, the opening of the supergate and the subsequent arrival of the 4 ("there's only four!?" - "Maybe it's just the first wave?")) Ori ships was suitable terrifying. For anyone who's played Master of Orion II, all I could think of was Stellar Converters.
I AM curious to see how this resolves, but it still makes me sad that a show that I used to love primarily for all the little greatnesses only really gets me with the huge cliffhangers now.
Atlantis: Much better. I still hold out some hope for this show. The characters are starting to develop an amusing dynamic, although it is still (understanderbly) a little Rodney heavy. I thought the awkwardness that everyone had working with the wraith was well done. Now if only we could toss Tayla overboard and replace her with the girl who was in Rodney's head for an episode. She was fantastic.
BSG: I have to run to work so I will keep this brief. I was very pleased with the finale. The one year jump was ballsy but well worth it. We all knew he would be a terrible president and any saliant details about his failings in that year were either already revealed or can be through some exposition (or flashbacks, but I'm wary of overusing those).
I need to put this out there. I don't care what "the fans" think. In fact, I tend (not always) to like it when a director/writer fucks with the fans. A TV show is a work of art just as a movie, or a book or an album is. It is (or rather, should not be) not subject to any sort of democratic process in its creation. Juvenile threats of "I will stop watching if you don't write your show the way I want" should be ignored as the childish whining they are. No one is required to be gratified by everything that occurs in a story based work of art (especially in a serial form, like a TV show), and even Ron Moore admits when he thinks an episode has failed. But at the end of the day, he is the artist, and it is his decision. I would rather something coherent all of which I did not like, than a twisting protean mess that is the television equivalent of a politician in an election year.
See, I think RDM did reveal part of the Cylon plan the last minute or so of the show – there was Six’s voiceover that humans needed help learning how to be better people, and the Cylons were going to show them, by acting as their totalitarian overlords. This is a slight switch from their previous thought process that humans were fatally flawed and needed to be gotten rid of, so that the Cylons could take their place. Sure, it’s not totally explained, but who cares. It takes them an entire damn season to do anything on shows like “Lost,” and people still seem to like that. Not me, but some people. I’ve been told.
And as to Prometheus’s assertion that “The only gripe I had about it was that it basically rendered previous S2 episodes such as "Black Market" and "Scar" completely modular,” all I can say to that is Thank the Gods. Because a lot of shows in the second half of season two? They kind of sucked. They’ve hammered home the point that life in the fleet on the run can be monotonous. They’ve done it enough times that it’s gotten boring. Finally, we can move on from that and explore new problems with the cylons – now that they’ve become the Nazis marching through Paris. God that last image was awesome! Damn you October!
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