I’ve honestly only seen the first two episodes. I’m not surprised they couldn’t nicely resolve series considering the incoherence I’ve seen so far. People in this thread have talked about them arbitrarily dropping story elements. In the first couple episodes, I guess my problem was arbitrarily picking up story elements.
I didn’t even realize.
The show blows but that character is several magnitudes of adorable. I never said I didn’t like Starbuck and I never will. BSG could be as terrible as Lost and I’d still love that character.
My friendly advice, give up on the series now. Me, I enjoyed most of the ride. You, you won’t. Stop now and find something you will think better suited.
Don’t know if it’s a legitimate whoosh, but the thread does come as a huge relief because now I know that any thread, any contribution he makes I can safely skip over and know I’m not missing much. Why–because I disagree with him? Hardly.
It’s because he manages to act infantile, entitled, and aggressive in just exactly the right tonal combination to be overwhelmingly irritating. He’s clearly trying to be cute or jovial or irreverent in his demeanor at times, but he just comes across as a royal prick. But even pricks have legitimate arguments, cogently articulated; all he has is this one dead horse he keeps beating and beating, as if the act of repetition alone will convince others. It won’t. Remedial “analysis” (I use the term liberally in his case) at its delusional worst.
I’ve just watched 5 episodes and the miniseries so far–started watching it last week. And I *love *it.
I watched the original show when I was young and loved that, too. I think the new series retains the spirit of the original remarkably well while cutting back on the corniness (but not too much).
Some things don’t appeal to some people. I can’t get into Buffy, for example. If you don’t like BSG enough to write the OP, give up.
I’m forced to keep repeating myself because people keep misunderstanding my complaint with the show. I’m not trying to convince others to buy my complaint, but to stop misunderstanding.
I say, “this show is bad and you should feel bad”. You say “no fun allowed”.
Now, how do I say it respectfully, …oh hell forget it. The regulars already know and I ain’t even gonna try now. Have fun, enjoy or not as you see fit.
Or he could just watch the miniseries and get all the introductions to the characters and their backgrounds. Currently he is doing the equivalent of watching only episodes six and seven of Lost and declaring it to be shit because he doesn’t understand who the characters are and how they relate to each other.
Of course when/if he watches the miniseries he’ll still declare it to be shit as his mind is made up.
Dude, if you’re a fan of Starbuck you should feel bad. She’s a horrible character and an all around horrible human being. She’s gotta be on par with the President for “people on BSG who make me want to punch them in their self-absorbed mouth at least twice per episode”. Oh, also Head Six. God, but does she need a smack in the gob too.
It’s too bad that the OP doesn’t understand BSG, ah well. It’s really not very complicated.
The last episode was fucking horrible though. Out of all the ways they could have ended the series, the way they did really felt like a huge letdown. After a series spent being fairly edgy, right up to setting up suicide bombers as the good guys on New Capcrica… the end was just like eating a big pie made of sand. Truly shitty.
Putting a lot of your comments together, it’s starting to look like trolling to me. Trolling, as you know, is against the rules, so you may want to rethink your strategy here.
You may tell people what you think. You may not tell people what they should think.
Personally I gave up when Starbuck came back from the dead. And was an angel. Who knew the way to Earth by listening to the fucking song of space. At this point the retardation was just too much to bear.
I watched the first episode without having watched the miniseries, and I was completely hooked. I hate bad exposition–nothing takes me more out of a story than bad exposition (Dark City, I’m looking at you)–and so this story that basically gave the finger to exposition was right up my alley. Sure, I was almost as confused by it as Walmarticus, but I figured that was a meta-technique: it threw me off-balance and made me anxious and therefore got me into the heads of the characters.
I really enjoyed the first couple seasons. I didnt mind the slow development, and the interesting mysteries and questions it raised.
If I could go back in time, I’d warn myself not to even start the series because it ended up devolving into stupidity and character inconsistencies that made it all but intolerable.
But then, I had long before that realized that the series was actually fantasy under a thin veneer of science fiction, so the fact that they went with a fantasy ending didn’t bother me. After all, I love both genres equally.