Battlestar Galactica: SPOILERS for season 4

Post by **River** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:44 pm

Remember that book he wrote and smuggled out of prison while awaiting trial? That started it. And then, after they rescued him, they spotted him talking to his imaginary Six and it escalated from there.

Post by **yovargas** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:56 pm

I guess I'll pretend that the book was a religious tract following a fervent-but-unseen religious awakening instead of a political tract protesting the power of the rulers. Blergh.

Secret of the Opera House coming up next!! (I'm loving Season 4 despite the vast issues it presents with so much of what came before.)

PS - I think the hybrid is coool.

Post by **yovargas** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:14 am

So....I'm done. And...I'm not sure what to think.

ETA --- NEVERMIND!!!!!!!!!!!! I DIDN'T NOTICED THERE WAS A SEASON 4.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Though unfortunately I just allowed myself to read a crapload of spoilers thinking I was very anti-climatically done.

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Post by **River** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:42 am

yovargas wrote:So....I'm done. And...I'm not sure what to think.

ETA --- NEVERMIND!!!!!!!!!!!! I DIDN'T NOTICED THERE WAS A SEASON 4.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All I'll say about Season 4.5 is that, if you thought things couldn't get more intense, you're wrong.

Post by **yovargas** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:10 am

Jeez. Yeah. Things go from bleak to...bleak.

The writing at this stage may be the best it's ever been. Which pretty much makes it about the best writing ever in a TV show.
(Despite persistent irritations such as - what the hell does Saul have to do to lose his XO rank??????? Sheeeeeeesh.)

Post by **River** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:07 am

Remember two things. One, Adama is a self-admitted softie and Tigh's his BFF. Second, it's not as if he has a lot of back up.

Post by **vison** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 5:21 pm

Shoot. I keep mixing up Battlestar Galactica with Babylon 5.

Post by **yovargas** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:32 pm

#1 is kind of a crappy actor. Always bugged me.

(===INFOOOOOOOO DUUUUUUUUMMMMP!!!!!!===)

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:22 am

Down to the last two episodes (I CAN'T STOP WAAAAAAAAAAAATCHING) and I just gotta say - that damn little girl better have something good up her sleeve.

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:53 am

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:03 am

But tell us how you REALLY feel about it, yov.

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:28 am

I LOVED IT!!!

Post by **River** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:39 am

So you enjoyed it then?

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:18 am

Toldja.

And is or is not Adama and Roslyn the best, most painful, most human love story ever? (Ever on TV, anyway.)

Just sayin'.

Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:35 am

That is not at all the reaction I expected after the finale, but I'm glad you feel that way.

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:22 pm

Primula Baggins wrote:And is or is not Adama and Roslyn the best, most painful, most human love story ever? (Ever on TV, anyway.)

Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

MaidenOfTheShieldarm wrote:That is not at all the reaction I expected after the finale, but I'm glad you feel that way.

I didn't either. Quite frankly, I'd given up on them pulling off even a half-decent ending. Too much messing about with the mythology of it all. But even though on a more literal-minded level there are still lots of problems with that ending, on a more poetic level, it all felt so right to me. Silly on several levels, but beautiful, and beautiful in just the right way. To me, of course.

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:15 pm

One thing I was unhappy with: the Chief. I loved him and his character. They put him through so much hell - his first love betrays them, his second commits "suicide", his son is not his own, his memories are false, one of his supposed allies is Kalli's murderer - they take everything away from him by the end and leave him with absolutely nothing. And he gets no ending. Last we see him, he's a broken man sitting there after killing Tori. He deserved more than that.

Post by **Erunáme** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:47 pm

yovargas wrote:Haha, oh, yeah? Do tell? How come? (I'm a couple eps into #4 so I'm spoiler-safe up to that point.)

It was her self righteousness. In the beginning of season 4 she wouldn't let Kara go off searching, but yet remember the time she sent Kara off against orders to go search for the arrow?

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:53 pm

Very true. I think one of the things the show did very well was show a certain corrupting influence of power. While neither Adama or Rosalind were ever "evil" they both did some extremely morally questionable things "because I said so". It felt like a very realistic portrayal of what power can lead you to.

Post by **yovargas** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 1:44 am

Old quote from b77's thread wrote:Obama Depressed, Distant Since 'Battlestar Galactica' Series Finale

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/ob ... tant_since

Seriously, what am I supposed to do with my life now?