Comments on: Thoughts Following a Battlestar Galactica Marathon

By: a random John

a random John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:00:21 +0000

Ian,

at least they all got a lot of sleep…

By: CS Eric

CS Eric — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:15:44 +0000

This is the reason I have come to prefer Babylon 5. Even though it couldn’t touch BSG in many ways, but it told a complete story. Its problems were more technical, based on its relatively poor budget, but it had a real beginning, middle, and end, and the end was in sight from the beginning.

By: Ian Cook

Ian Cook — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:20:08 +0000

As a whole, I think BSG was a great series, the first two seasons were superior, but the last ones weren’t horrible by any means. My main irritation was the who’s sleeping with who aspect. I think they spent way too much time on that.

By: a random John

a random John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:08:53 +0000

Clark,

I was going to mention the Hero episode with Bulldog as an example of why season three sucked, but I figured I didn’t need to go into detail to prove that.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:06:08 +0000

John what bugged me is that back in season 3 they had that segment with Adama and Tigh that suggested his “spy” raid into Cylon space may have precipitated events. That whole subplot is dropped and makes zero sense with the ending.

By: Rose Tyler

Rose Tyler — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:21:20 +0000

The thing that scares me about technology is our reliance on it. If and when it fails us I’m afraid we may never recover. Hopefuly our technology won’t turn on us and hunt us down but it’s still very dangerous. The more we push science and technology the closer we get to creating things we shouldn’t. It’s the old notion just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Look at BSG, if Gallatica hadn’t been there waiting to be a museuam all humanity would have been lost. The Cylons disabled all their fancy technology. If that relic hadn’t been there along with something else that was considered a relic, Bill Adama, they would have been lost. Maybe the problem lies more with us then the actual technology. We can’t leave well enough alone. We’ll never be satisfied. So starting from scratch, rebooting our ambitions, sounds sane to me. Of course being humans we are damned to repeat our mistakes rather then learn from them.

By: a random John

a random John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:58:16 +0000

Clark,

There is no way they can retrofit in some sort of explanation from the Cylon POV that will make it make sense. They clearly didn’t have a long term plan that they were all aware of since John was pulling the strings. John’s plan was a petty and deeply evil attempt to show his “parents” up. Perhaps the moral calculus becomes skewed when you are basically immortal, but killing off an entire civilization that hadn’t done anything to you personally just to experiment on your parents is pretty sick.

The best they’ll be able to do is show in more detail how the Cylons infiltrated human society and then perhaps make up more after the fact answers that will be less satisfying than what we got in the last few episodes.

By: a random John

a random John — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:35:33 +0000

danithew,

watch the miniseries and the immediately watch the first two episodes of season one. If you don’t want to watch it after that your taste in TV is felgercarb.

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:14:59 +0000

Well there’s your problem danithew. You watched BG. You need to watch BSG.

As far as my contribution to this conversation, I totally agree with Clark in comment #20 and 95% of what Dan said in #17 and #19.

By: danithew

danithew — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:48:53 +0000

I tried watching BG and had trouble getting into the story. But I’ll give it another try …