I can't believe there isn't more screaming and hollaring about the BSG finale on my friend's list. Is there really nothing to say? Or are people just speechless?
LOL! Well, you should have been in chat last night. My feeling is that everyone is pretty shocked by the huge time jump and are still trying to process the whole thing.
That sounds about right. In a way, I'm kind of annoyed, because it seems pretty close to a reset button, but it does pretty much ensure that things next season will be kept 'fresh'. So... I dunno.
I know that sister and I were up until one in the morning talking it over because we were both trying to process the whole thing. I will say that it was pretty frakking awesome! The time jump was interesting -- BSG isn't a show to just "reset" this big jump and go back to the time of the election somehow, but if this "future" stays, the show is completely different. Geez, why is October so far away?!
It certainly was an unexpected twist, but then that seems to be RM's style. And October? Yikes! It makes one wonder what kind of programming they've got planned for the summer!
I loved it, but am mostly stuck at Eeeeeee!!!!! The Dee/Apollo thing still squicks me, not because I like Apollo/Starbuck, but Dee/Apollo has so little chemistry.
The one year later rocks for fanficcers. Plus, really, resettlement is rather boring and a year is such a short time really.
I spent a half-hour car today trip with tying to explain to my husband how I thought the time-jump could be a "cheat" – not that is was, mind, just that it could be.
In my opinion, BSG spends focus on characters before anything else. They take an episode and focus on the development of a character, sometimes I feel, to the detriment of everything else in the show. Still, it does an amazing job and is always worth watching.
So, suddenly skipping a year in the life of characters that I find intriguing and complex and then telling me "Hey look, this is how they all are now, without showing the me the process of how they got there" is, IMO, a cop out. There are so many things I like to see, so many questions I'd like answers to. If Starbuck's been married a year, did she kick her drinking problem? How as she settled down to a non-war dominated life? Who does the dishes, her or the hubby? And Roslin. She's happy teaching school, huh? Why? Where's her civic outrage that Gauis is running New Caprica like his own fiefdom – especially since she knows he's in with the cylons at some level? I could go on, but I'm sure you understand what I'm saying.
I don't mind where they ended up. In fact, I love where they ended up. I just wanted to see them get there. After pointing out that a year of "getting settled" could be boring, Wil – brilliant husband that his is -- asked me a really good question: Would I have been happy if they would have ended with landing on New Caprica and then spend an episode or four setting up everything to this point. Yes, I said, that's exactly what I want.
And then it hit me: That's probably what they are going to do. BSG loves doing flashback episodes. They can easily intersperse all of the "how they got here" bits in between the stories of the first couple of episodes. They may even do a complete hour long "here's what happened" show, kinda like Lost did when they wanted to tell us what happened to the tail section people.
At least, that's what I'm hoping. Because I don't want to have to figure out all these stories by myself.
Honestly, I feel like I need to see it again so I can process it. Because I'm just in shock. Of all the things I could be shocked over, I can't get over the fact that Kara. Hugged. Tigh. And he hugged her back. I'm not sure, but I believe that is a sign of the apocalypse. Heh.
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Date: 2006-03-11 07:36 pm (UTC)The one year later rocks for fanficcers. Plus, really, resettlement is rather boring and a year is such a short time really.
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Date: 2006-03-11 08:21 pm (UTC)=Love= your Wickham icon, btw :-)
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Date: 2006-03-12 01:49 am (UTC)In my opinion, BSG spends focus on characters before anything else. They take an episode and focus on the development of a character, sometimes I feel, to the detriment of everything else in the show. Still, it does an amazing job and is always worth watching.
So, suddenly skipping a year in the life of characters that I find intriguing and complex and then telling me "Hey look, this is how they all are now, without showing the me the process of how they got there" is, IMO, a cop out. There are so many things I like to see, so many questions I'd like answers to. If Starbuck's been married a year, did she kick her drinking problem? How as she settled down to a non-war dominated life? Who does the dishes, her or the hubby? And Roslin. She's happy teaching school, huh? Why? Where's her civic outrage that Gauis is running New Caprica like his own fiefdom – especially since she knows he's in with the cylons at some level? I could go on, but I'm sure you understand what I'm saying.
I don't mind where they ended up. In fact, I love where they ended up. I just wanted to see them get there. After pointing out that a year of "getting settled" could be boring, Wil – brilliant husband that his is -- asked me a really good question: Would I have been happy if they would have ended with landing on New Caprica and then spend an episode or four setting up everything to this point. Yes, I said, that's exactly what I want.
And then it hit me: That's probably what they are going to do. BSG loves doing flashback episodes. They can easily intersperse all of the "how they got here" bits in between the stories of the first couple of episodes. They may even do a complete hour long "here's what happened" show, kinda like Lost did when they wanted to tell us what happened to the tail section people.
At least, that's what I'm hoping. Because I don't want to have to figure out all these stories by myself.
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Date: 2006-03-12 04:52 am (UTC)Starbuck is going to be in the shower in October.
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Date: 2006-03-15 09:06 pm (UTC)Who isn't?
O_O
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