Except for the multitude of episodes you haven’t actually seen, right?
naturally
Apart from the word “Cylon,” this is different from real life how?
One of the best Hitchcocks ever.
My brother had the DVD box and asked me several times if I wanted to borrow it, but since I never liked science fiction very much, it took awhile before I put it on. In twenty minutes, I went, wow, this is really good drama and I was very excited in an un-Wakinyan way to follow a tv series. I just needed to know where this story went.
However, three things makes a thumbs down for me:
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The writers throw out a lot of interesting questions, but then just leave them in the bin; for instance, the opening scene of the miniseries: “Are you alive?” It really sparked my interest, but after watching all the seasons, I must conclude that the writers just threw that out without other thought than having a cool opening scene. I simply feel like someone fooled me, robbed me of my time. There are several hints and hooks like this which turns out to be nothing, just left behind.
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Some episodes are unbearably bad writing. (“Scar” episode is one I remember.) Not only does this series which generally is very well done suddenly become very poorly done (I quit watching it for a couple of episodes it was so bad, but then my wife said its gotten back to standard I started watching again), but these particual episodes also destroys the internal logic of the series. They build up a world you believe in with characters you believe in, and then in an episode just tears it all down, and then – like the point 1 above – just keep going as it didn’t happen (this happens in two or three seasons). It is like they needed to fill the season with two episodes more but didn’t know what the heck they should write and asked a bloke at the buss station to do it for them, and then get back to business.
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The ending sucks very hard, more or less due the last episodes being largely a combination of the two above.
I feel so let down by Battlestar Galactica, that now I will have a glass of wine and cry a little. Bastards.
I’ve posted about these kinds of posts before.
I don’t get it. If I was going to post about something like this(popular on the SDMB but that I didn’t like), I would post
“What am I missing? I just don’t seem to get…”
and then hope to listen to others about what I missed.
I’ll give an example, which I’ve talked about before. I know that Discworld is popular here and I so deeply trust the Dopers’ opinion, I know I’m missing something. I’ve tried two times to get into those books and apparently both times, I chose the wrong books(Mort and Colour of Magic).
Now, I have not posted a thread “Discworld sucks” and I won’t. Instead, I have thought about posting “Explain Discworld to me and help me get into it.”
I mean, what do you hope to gain by posting just a pure “this sucks” thread? Instead, next time, I suggest you post more like “Wow, I did not enjoy BSG. Am I wrong and if so, how?” and see what you get.
I have never seen a single episode of Top Gear, but I am fairly confident in saying that that I am absolutely correct in knowing that it is shit.
Sometimes you just know stuff.
I feel the series started very well but then became a mostly descending roller coaster.
The biggest problem is that they write on the opening screen of every episode about the Cylons “and they have a plan” but the writers/producers had no grand plan for the Cylons.
You’re just confused.
I knew in like the first second that Starbuck was the greatest character ever created. When the camera cut to something that wasn’t her face it was all downhill from there.
There is no possibility of offending the fine gentlemen here because I trashed a show they like. Nothing to lose and the only thing to gain is the fun of talking trash- because gentlemen enjoy talking trash, I guess. I dunno.
Exactly. I think this summary describes your post exactly. Ya’ dunno.
:dubious:
If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. I don’t understand Ensemble Overload, though. I thought it was pretty clear who’s who. Oh well, your loss.
The problem is that it has a large cast but it’s not an ensemble at all. I don’t give a fuck how many people it has as long as they compliment each other and they don’t just exist in their own little bubbles. If they can’t coherently write the story to make them all part of the same thing then reduce the number of characters to reduce the jumblefuck.
Well, that would be polite.
Watch the whole series and realize you are wronger than Dolly Parton with a one meter penis…we win…
Watch the whole series and realize you were right and still bitch and moan about how it sucks…we still win…
It’s not incoherent. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
I have to say, I never found this show difficult to follow at all(assuming you watch the episodes in order). I mean, it’s way less complicated and involved than Babylon 5 or X-files(both of which I followed with minimal problem too).
Dude, Lost is more complicated than BSG.
X-files actually is kind of complicated, I’ve rediscovered, because it slips in those stand alone episodes that aren’t part of the ongoing story. It’s easy to forget what happened the episode before last, unless you have Netflix and watch them, plus the movie, in the same weekend like I did. Shit was awesome. AWESOME.
I think Walmarticus has watched more of the series that (s)he is revealing. The mini-series and the first couple of episodes were the highlight of the series. They built up huge expectation and anticipation of what was to come in the following episodes. It was how they resolved and concluded the show that was the real problem.
Walster… if you really hated the first couple of episodes, stop now, run, do not walk away from the rest of them. Find another distraction. If you post in another 2, 3 weeks (or months) about how crappy you think the entire run was you are nothing but a putz.
Am I the only one who realizes that Walmarticus is whooshing everyone? I mean, nobody ever says something like “I knew in like the first second that Starbuck was the greatest character ever created. When the camera cut to something that wasn’t her face it was all downhill from there.” about something they actually don’t like.