BSG Redux?

BSG Redux?

We all saw it, that big bad beautiful Battlestar ramped up and jumped the shark last season. 4, or maybe 5 (it depends on Starbuck I guess), of our main characters "turned out" to be the "final five" Cylons. It still pisses me off. Hell, Colonel Tigh served in the first war, before there were skin jobs...

*focus Eric, focus*

OK, anyway, I watched the latest BSG movie, Razor and it was actually pretty good. I haven't had a chance to see the unedited version (we can only hope there are more "unedited" Tricia Helfer scenes in there), but it was back to the good old grit that BSG had at the beginning. I don't know if their plan was to lure us back after pissing off most of the fanbase w/ that final 5 carp, but it may have worked out that way.

We start off w/ pre-fat-suit Apollo getting command of the Pegasus and some flashbacks about Adama in the first war. There's a nice single-serving bad guy to hunt down (no spoiler here) that ties Apollo's command to Adama's flashback. *Yawn* Pretty lame. But, it gets good when we flash back to how the Pegasus got away, and their story.

The Pegasus was commanded by Admiral Kane. She was a tough chick that used to be pretty hot, but isn't now. In Razor, we find out that she likes other chicks... That's always kinda kewl, but I'm still not really interested at this point. BUT her girlfriend was Tricia Helfer... Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! :-P In addition to the hottie and the oldness, Razor had this smokin' hot little Australian chick (Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen) who starts off all lame and star-struck when she boards the Pegasus, and turns into an absolute badass by the time the flashbacks catch up to "modern day" Pegasus. Damn, she's hot and a badass? I always thought that was too much to hope for! I was really bummed at the end though... They made sure we don't get to see anymore of her. Why they gotta hate like that? :(

In addition, Razor had a bunch of badly needed action scenes. It was a damned pleasure to watch some ass-kickin' combat because (as we all know) some/most of the BSG epi's were... how you say... a little light on action? The Pegasus escape is kicked off by a surprise attack, and we get to see some pretty awesome combat... Friggin' Battlestars getting Pwnd, strafing runs by raiders, lots of explosions, people getting stranded on a space-station because they were too friggin' slow to get back on board the Pegasus... "No no... please don't leave me because I'm a lame slow piece of carp... arrrgggghhhh..." More please! Then we get to see some ass kickin', guerrilla style, as the Pegasus just goes balls out against the Cylons! It's not wall to wall, but I thought it was pretty frackin' awesome. Admiral Kane may not be hot, but she has balls of steel! We finally get to see how shit went down when she went all section-8 and capped her own XO! Good stuff lady, you're all aces in my book.

Anyway, the point is, maybe the writers have stopped smoking crack and are back on their meds? Or maybe they're all on strike and there are some scabs that are actually writing better than them? Ah, who am I kidding, this was prolly written months ago before those stupid leech-writers decided that they were entitled to more than the should be, and started pitching hissy fits!

It's funny how things turn out. Now that I'm advocating that people watch BSG again, and am actually looking forward to it myself, I may have to hunt down and bludgeon some of these writers if they cause any more delays in the premier of BSG... You know, set some examples? ;) Of course, I must be kidding because I would never advocate violence against any of the FSM's special little creatures, right?

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:35:51 PST

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