There’s like 30,000 main characters that I’m supposed to give a crap about. It’s too many! The first episode, we see the butch girl playing cards and I’m like “awesome, she’s so cool. I can’t wait to watch her do stuff.” Then, we’re introduced to the seductive girl, long haired guy, the black girl, breast cancer woman, breast cancer woman’s assistant, possibly-Hispanic man, Asian girl, white pilot, white mechanic, etc. I refer to these people like this because I have no idea what their names are. There’s just too many of them.
At the end of the second episode we learn the Asian girl is a cylon spy. If I don’t even know her name, I’m not going to give a fuck. And it isn’t my fault I have no idea who these people are. There’s just too many of them.
I’m also not going to watch any show with wooshing space ships. If a space ship must make a noise and the director wouldn’t have it any other way, it’s gotta make a sufficiently sciencey noise, like a TIE fighter. I’m not going to listen to bombs going BOOM, but I can stand a seismic charge going BWAAAAAANG.
BUT, that doesn’t mean I feel it necessary to dump all over it or dump on the fans.
There are lots of people who obviously enjoyed the program. They aren’t forcing you to watch or forcing you to get involved in discussions about the show. And it’s not like there’s any widespread advertising for the show, now that it’s over.
I despise all those manufactured Disney teen idols, but I don’t waste my time venting about it.
How does the fact that plenty of viewers did understand who those people were, after exactly the same amount of viewing time you’ve had, figure into this hypothesis?
I had the same problem after watching episode 1. It turns out you are actually supposed to start with the “miniseries” episodes, which are the real introduction to the series. IMO without seeing the miniseries first, episode 1 doesn’t make much sense.
Not without a pen, notepad and multiple viewings. Looking here, there’s like thirteen characters within two episodes, most of which never have anything to do with each other. I know who they are supposed to be: black pilot, butch girl, English scientist- I just don’t give a fuck because they are like strangers on Google street view.
I bought the first season on DVD because I had a number of people tell me it was terrific, I’d like it, etc., including threads on this board about the show.
I made it through 3 episodes (I think). This show sucked. The totality of the stupid is so great, every individual thing about it can be described as “dumb as hell”.
I paid like $30 for the DVD set and I think I got $5 for it at Zia. It was a painful lesson, but one that took: now I have Netflix.
You’ll feel better once you do, as the show really does blow.
I can follow along just fine. It’s just so scattered that I don’t give a crap. I actually like the overarching story about humanity on the brink trying to find mythical Earth. However, every episode is an ADD fest.
“Lost” has 14 main characters introduced in the first episode. Then more come along in later seasons. I wouldn’t tire your pretty little head over that either.
“I didn’t like it” is a complete thought. It’s ok. You’re allowed to not like some things that are widely popular. However, your justification that there are “too many characters” is beyond stupid. Most serial dramas have many characters.
Well, of the two of us I’m the one who watched it the whole series, so I think I’ll stick with my opinion of liking it. But I promise to feel bad about every 33 minutes for a while if that will make you happy.
Like in Firefly, I had no idea who anybody was at first but I knew they all had something to do with each other. Stuff like talking to each other, sitting in the same room, being effected by common circumstances makes it coherent.
This thread needs more people trashing BSG and less people defending it, because I want to win but I got shit to do.
There’s too many characters because none of them have anything to do with each other except in the broadest terms. Like, broader than they happen to be on the same ship (of 50,000 people), but more like they happen to be part of the same species. That’s enough to earn you a primary character slot in this scatter brained show- being a human.
I don’t hear anybody trying to defend the wooshing noises. Maybe because you know you can’t.
First of all, plenty of the characters have pre-existing relationships: the commander, his best friends and XO, his son, his son’t best friend… that’s half the cast right there.
Second of all, the characters who don’t have pre-existing relationships develop relationships as the show goes on. I know you’re not familiar with the concept of “drama”, but just so you know, a large amount of it is watching character relationships develop and evolve. I mean, I’ve even read stories where none of the characters knew each other at the beginning, but by the end, some of them were even friends! How wild is that?
Complaining about noises in space for sci-fi is, at this point, tilting at a windmill that even Don Quixote would recognize as not being a giant.
Furthermore, if you cannot keep track of a dozen characters that can easily be reduced to simple stereotypes (which, in your description, you clearly have done)… you need to watch programming for younger viewers.
Much younger viewers. Much, much, much younger. My 3yo niece can keep track of well over a dozen My Little Ponies in “Friendship Is Magic”, so you’ve really got quite a ways down to go.
… Perhaps there’s a “Pong” show. No whooshing noises, at least.