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[cold_nostalgia]

After checking in with a couple of my friends and a few of my colleagues at work, it turns out I was the only one who for the most part hated the BSG finale last night.  Oh sure, a couple thought there were a few flaws here and there, but they enjoyed it nevertheless.  Huh.  Just me then.

I was going to write a proper review of it.  Mention how I liked the ending to the Roslin/Adama storyline; how I thought it was fitting.  I was going to give props for the CGI, the lovely little scene between Cottle and Roslin.  Then I was going to slate the hell out of it:  The pointless flashbacks, 'the resolution' to Starbuck's storyline, the head angels, the cop outs, Baltar's speech, the wtf truce, Galen killing Tori, Cavil killing himself, the dead hand of doom, the opera house vision, Lee deciding to get rid of their technology, the fast forward, The robot montage of doom!

Then I was going to talk about the  non-characterization of Boomer from season 2 onward.  Talk about Tori some, how she was handled badly as soon as she was revealed as a cylon.  Deplore the mishandling of Simon and Doral.  Maybe even mention Dee as well.

But you know what, I can't be bothered.  I think I'm still annoyed,  so here's a picture of Daffy instead.

Comments

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I totally hated it. You know, as much as I'm capable of hating something that's been utterly disappointing since the beginning of this season and I've mostly detached from.

From your quick thoughts, it seems like we had many of the same issues: Tory's violent death, Boomer's mishandling since season two, the logic issues, etc.

I'm admittedly biased in my Kara love, but her ending has grown on me, even though I'm still very annoyed by the non-resolution. Everything else still sucks as much as I first thought it did.

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

To be really honest, I started noticing a decline in quality around half way through season three, but the good still outweighed the bad. The show rallied a bit and then really started to go downhill. It felt like they were padding out the irrelevant aspects for shock value and ignoring/skipping over the actual bare bones of the show.

Ultimately, I think BSG was a series with some superb ideas but they never knew or cared to follow up on them.

Shame really.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

Mid-season 3 is exactly where it started going downhill for me, too. I think the first two seasons are brilliant, and the start of season 3 is great even if they jumped the shark a bit with skipping the year and not developing characters through that. I...suspect that the Final Five plot is what derailed the show. It did pretty well when they had a simplistic mythology running in the background with a focus on character and their journey. But once the Final Five bit got introduced, the mythology go so complex that they had time for nothing else, and the characters got shafted. A lot.

I'm just bitter that the suckiness of the last bits is going to affect my early love for it. It had awesome potential and it wasted much of it away for cool effects and plot 'twists.'

[cold-nostalgia.livejournal.com]

Yup. Those are my feelings exactly.

At times it felt like Whedon at his worst on speed.

Ah, who knows maybe they'll do another remake. :)