Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica
i'm a huge geek/fanboy/science fiction nerd wrapped up inside a hipsters body. this should surprise anybody and therefore big surprise i am a loyal BC fan and i thought i would offer the two cents about season 3's finale last night.
i will have to admit i have gotten to this show later than everyone else. i didn't start watching from the beginning but because of the wonders of dvds i have seen every episode including the miniseries. therefore i feel like i have the ability to offer my piece on this amazing show. but first my gut reaction on this season: Meh.....
It started off amazingly with the humans making a break for it off of New Caprica and all the shit dodging/shots firing/starship battles that any ten year old could enjoy. in there they through in political oppression, unlawful imprisonment, and unjust punishment which made for compeling television the likes i haven't seen on more than maybe two shows in the past 6 years.
then they left New Caprica and the shit started to hit the fan. in the episodes that followed we saw people get thrown out an airlock, people jump out of an airlock, box each other in a crappy ring and more hookups, breakups, and bitching about hookups and breakups that i thought i was watching Desperate Housewives. i just think that they ran out of ideas and didn't have the ability to hit everyone with the pretentious political revisionist banter that have fueled so many past episodes. every line just seemed to lack power and punch that would make you analyze things to no avail. plus the revealing of the mythology took on a Lost style pace in that in an episode full of virutally nothing you got 1 minute of answers crammed at the end.
but i'm gonna have to say the finale was ok. Baltar was acquited in a nice courtroom finale that actually brought back that lovely punch of political analysis that i have loved about this show. we found out (maybe) 4 of the final 5 Cylons were (Tigh, Tyrol, Anders, Tory) which was ok and not all that surprising. and then the final climatic scene where the Cylons were attacking for the first time in god knows how long and then all of a sudden Lee was seeing Starbuck (who was apparently deceased in the shows attempt to stir things up) and she said she could show him where earth was. bam. done. see you again in 2008.
WTF! ok fine it was a so so ending but whatever it wasn't shocking. it was just all crammed together and the fact that we have to weight 9 months for the next installment is just bullshit. it's said to say but i think this show is starting to jump the shark. they are out of twists and turns and the politics is getting overrun. but i am a fan through and through. therefore i am gonna watch when it comes back on. let's just hope that i don't forget about the damn thing in the meantime. oh well. at least Entourage is coming back.
stay away from lasers.
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