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This is the topic you requested from Eric Osterweil's blog/homepage. I make no guarantees that it is factual, interesting, or that it has been spell checked.
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BSG Bites the Dust, and HARD |
So, it's been almost a week, and I've had time to consider what's happened. I think it goes w/o saying that any real fan of
BSG is now asking themselves the same question: "What the hell happened, and who the hell can I kill over this retarded plot
direction?!?!"
I just can't imagine what the hell those damn writers have been thinking! OK, let's just go over the retarded state of the union:
- Starbuck decides that a nose dive into a planet is the best way to show mommy that she really was a good girl. This, incidentally
leaves the number of (active) main characters at between 10 and 15.
- Baltar manages to get exonerated for the shit he's done (I guess this isn't such a big deal to me).
- Apollo turns in his wings to be a lawyer... Uhh... OK, random/lame plot twist, but I can dig it.
- Starbuck magically shows back up and seems just fine? Well, maybe this is one of those lame "figment" characters
that really only exists in Apollo's head. That would be retarded, but I can only imagine (in a bad way) how else they
magically brought her butchy-ass back from the dead.
- AND <drum roll> Colonel Tigh, Mr. Starbuck (the futuristic water polo player), the Presidents aid, and chief Tyrol are all
members of the final-five?!?!?!</drum roll> WHAT?!?!?! This means that roughly 1/3 (4 out of ~15) of the main characters
are really Cylons!
OMFG! OK, this is soooo stuuuuuuuupid that I can barely take it. What is WRONG with these writers?!?! The main characters keep
getting killed/defilled/etc... I can respect trying to surprise the audience (us), and not every twist needs to be a crowd pleaser, but
dammit! Now the writers have completely painted themselves into a corner because some of the best characters are either dead or worse (Cylons)!
On top of how stupid this all is, Colonel Tigh doesn't even make sense as a friggin' Cylon! In the first war (according to their own
story line) the Cylons had: been built, lived, and fought from the same planets as the humans... There were no "skin-jobs" that
looked like people. Colonel Tigh fought in the first war... He could not have been a Cylon. My only guess is that they'll try to
explain how either: 1) he was kidnapped, and replaced, or 2) the Cylon's magically had secret skin-jobs way back when... Either way...
BSG really pissed me off!
Dammit... I'll bet the shark they just jumped over was really a Cylon shark that was also part of the final-five. I think my favorite
show since Dragonball Z has just ended its own life. :( I am not planning to *sniff* watch it anymore. Unless I hear a teaser that
somehow undoes this travesty (which I currently think is impossible) I have to say this: "You bastards were doing such a great job
that it makes it much MORE painful to see what you've done to the FORMERLY greatest show on television!"
You killed Kenny, You bastards!
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:38:29 PDT
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