Re: BSG

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, pcg wrote:
> I'm quite excited because, as much as I loved the show, I never got to 
> see the final season. Can't wait to see how it all finishes out. Without 
> giving away any spoilers, any opinions on how well the finale wraps 
> everything up?

Oh, man.  All the political subtext is lost in favour of increasingly 
elaborate soap-opera mythmaking.  And the only reason the mythmaking gets 
so ridiculously elaborate is because the writers figured they had to stop 
making things up as they went along and try to *explain* everything -- but 
all the constant retconning just makes it that much more obvious that they 
were making things up as they went along all along in the first place.

And *then* they produced a TV-movie, The Plan, which basically tries to 
fill all the gaps from the first two seasons in light of the back-story 
that was invented while they wrote seasons three and four.

I mean, seriously, no real spoilers here, but there is a point in season 
four where someone gets shot in the head, and *SUDDENLY THEY REMEMBER LOTS 
OF STUFF* and they go on and on and on filling out the back-story with a 
lot of exposition.  Really lazy, gimmicky writing, that was.

*Some* things work very well in the fourth season, though.  I shouldn't 
complain *too* much, as the show had quite a bit going for it.

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