What I took away from Battlestar Galactica

[erastes]

Now I’ve finally finished it: (spoilers)

1. The entire thing was a monotheistic morality tale.  A civilisation is reduced from billions to 30,000 because it needs to realise that there is ONE TRUE GOD and not lots of them.

2. The first humans were was mainly white, (nearly all the people of colour were shot before landing) and Lee Adama is the missing link

3. Mitochondrial Eve was in fact a white girl and half robot

4. Starbust was what? An angel?

5. Ditto Six and Gaius’s avatars?

6. Centurions don’t get to live on earth, despite having thoughts and feelings.

7. A series that is unremittingly angst, with no light moments, will get hugely dull.

8. I don’t need to be preached at by a fucking tv programme, thank you.

9. That’s 75 hours of my life I won’t get back.

Comments

[arionrhod.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole thing was a major let down. I became disenchanted with it during the first season (and I NEVER liked Starbuck!) but I kept watching out of my love for Jamie Bamber (Ah, Archie Kennedy, my hero!) and because I hoped it would get better. But it didn't - the story had some interesting elements, but these were ignored pretty much in favor of the angst and emo. And yeah, the heavy handed message was pretty extreme, without them even ever really explaining how Cylons came to be religious in the first place.

The lack of any humor got REALLY old, didn't it? I kept waiting for someone to crack a joke or something, and it never happened.

Sigh. I'm not watching Caprica, because who needs more of same? And I'm with you about the minorities - it seemed like they were determined to kill off almost every person of color before "the landing". :P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No - I'm not sticking with Caprica, I watched the pilot and one episode and that's all for me - not after seeing the end of BSG. I'm too confused as it is.

Bah.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about it. Well, as far as #2 goes, the native folks where they landed in Africa were probably dark-skinned, so if you mix a batch of boat people in with the locals, you get the color scheme into the mix. But... sorry, if the local people had human DNA, what point was there in the Caprica/Cylon people landing at all? That's the problem with putting in a superhuman god-type entity. Nothing the people do really means anything. All effort is essentially futile.

I think that was what pissed me off the most--not the choppy pacing, the squirrely character-morphing in Apollo, the nails-on-chalkboard Ellen Tigh character, the 15-hours-of-space-dogfights per 15 minutes of character development, the loose ends. It was the whole puppetmaster "don't call it God" entity.

Excuse me. So what was the point of any of it, then? The point of Starbuck coming back as an "angel" when, at any point in the whole frakkin' mess, the ENTIRE FLEET could have been jumped to Earth by the Deus Ex Machina Express? The point of a billions of people being killed? It doesn't matter what anyone does, or how screwed up things get, at the last minute, "god" will step in and fix everything.

That's a pretty pitiful attitude for something that calls itself 'science' fiction.

I think Ron Moore got into the whole angel schtick because wanted to show the fangirls who wanted Lee and Kara to get together -- 'uh,uh, it's my toy." He had all that "stolen ovary" subplot... I missed a couple of episodes; did they ever do anything with that? After two+ years of unrelentingly bleak storylines, I think he got bored (given the subject matter, and lack of humor, one can hardly blame him) and decided to wrap everything up and say "Oh, it's a supernatural being, that ties up all the loose ends. Magic!"

And you'll never convince me that 30,000 people ALL decided to do without electricity and medical care. NEVER.

And apart from one Asian woman being the only survivor... did you notice that the only women who survived were Good Mommy and a couple of skinny fashion-plate blondes? Every strong, tough, not-necessarily-pretty woman got the chop. Sure sign of a fanboy at the helm.

I haven't thought much of anything Moore's done so far. Technically, he's brilliant, and his casting was sheer genius. But somebody who's going to introduce mystic, mythic themes might've considered that all deep spirituality eventually focuses within the individuals and on the connection with all other life--not some Big Daddy pulling the strings from outside. In the end, all he did was a variation on the orignal mormon fairytale, with a bigger budget and a better cast.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hear hear - I think I'd be saying - "no no no" you can have your planet with NO TOOLS and all these settlers straggling along with suitcases" (because the ships couldn't settle them in the right places????) "and I'll take this nice ship and go and find somewhere else thank you very much. I LIKE ALGAE. And the centurions are coming with me."

Yes, the ovaries - I was wondering about that too.

I don't think I have the strength to watch Caprica. My head is still too exploded.

[angrboda]

Now I'm glad I gave up halfway through S3...

Not even JB being hot could distract me from the fact that I couldn't convince myself to respect his character. Or anybody else's characters really.

I liked the first season. The second season was okay. And then it just went terribly wrong for me.