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I don't know about that episode.
So... I'm mixed on this one. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this episode makes me quite nervous about the future direction of where this show is going.
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I didn't like the Earth music used, since it seemed too much of a contrivance.
I felt like they continued their tendency to blow their load entirely too early, like a teenager suffering from abnormally premature ejaculation. Starbuck coming back not two episodes after her "death"? Like the New Caprica affair, the Roslin Cancer affair, the Baltar Trial affair and so on, they get something interesting, and then write it out faster than you can say "frak".
Which makes me happy that at least Roslin's cancer came back.
Apollo, who seems to have been becoming more and more of an irritating, annoying dickwad since S2's Black Market, had a really good speech in that last episode--it almost redeems him, though I dislike the courtroom shenanigans. The objection the prosecution had was that he could make points that ought to be found in closing arguments--all well and good, except after his big speech... no closing arguments.
That said, the Baltar trial left me sorta dissatisfied as well, in that now I don't know how much further his character has to go. He's also turned into a messiah-type figure for crazed women, which makes me hope that he gets assassinated, if only to really hammer home how bat**** he was/how crazy his followers are; if they turn him into a Cylon, however, I shall be truly displeased.
As far as the final five, I don't mind two of the four revealed. Tigh's the most interesting thing of the bunch, because it means the humanocylons have been around forever, for at least 40-60 years--long enough to make a close bond with someone like Adama. Plus, it's cute with the Three/D'Anna Biers possibly recognizing him and apologizing.
That's why I don't mind Tyrol being one, either--he's been around awhile, allowing him to be close to Adama, and somewhat interesting, particularly in the light of his having been with the Eight formerly known as Sharon Valerii. I'm kinda disappointed, though, in that now there's potentially another hybrid baby.
With another hybrid baby, there's even less reason to give any story time to the Agathons, who seem to be increasingly relegated to the back burner.
Tory's a stretch. She's close to Roslin, but her appointment to that position seemed more to be luck than anything, so it's kinda shaky; we also don't have much established about her backstory at all.
Anders is the one that bugs me. It's very, very, very much a stretch to have him organize a resistance group after having been an athlete, running into Starbuck, starting a relationship, losing the relationship, and so on. He's not even that important in the grand scheme, unless one thinks of a good cop-bad cop routine with Leoben Conroy, but even then, that's a very weak link. I'm disappointed by this choice--it seems like they were casting about for someone to make interesting by turning them into a Cylon, and him and Tory (though I'm not as irked with her) got the nod.
I felt like they continued their tendency to blow their load entirely too early, like a teenager suffering from abnormally premature ejaculation. Starbuck coming back not two episodes after her "death"? Like the New Caprica affair, the Roslin Cancer affair, the Baltar Trial affair and so on, they get something interesting, and then write it out faster than you can say "frak".
Which makes me happy that at least Roslin's cancer came back.
Apollo, who seems to have been becoming more and more of an irritating, annoying dickwad since S2's Black Market, had a really good speech in that last episode--it almost redeems him, though I dislike the courtroom shenanigans. The objection the prosecution had was that he could make points that ought to be found in closing arguments--all well and good, except after his big speech... no closing arguments.
That said, the Baltar trial left me sorta dissatisfied as well, in that now I don't know how much further his character has to go. He's also turned into a messiah-type figure for crazed women, which makes me hope that he gets assassinated, if only to really hammer home how bat**** he was/how crazy his followers are; if they turn him into a Cylon, however, I shall be truly displeased.
As far as the final five, I don't mind two of the four revealed. Tigh's the most interesting thing of the bunch, because it means the humanocylons have been around forever, for at least 40-60 years--long enough to make a close bond with someone like Adama. Plus, it's cute with the Three/D'Anna Biers possibly recognizing him and apologizing.
That's why I don't mind Tyrol being one, either--he's been around awhile, allowing him to be close to Adama, and somewhat interesting, particularly in the light of his having been with the Eight formerly known as Sharon Valerii. I'm kinda disappointed, though, in that now there's potentially another hybrid baby.
With another hybrid baby, there's even less reason to give any story time to the Agathons, who seem to be increasingly relegated to the back burner.
Tory's a stretch. She's close to Roslin, but her appointment to that position seemed more to be luck than anything, so it's kinda shaky; we also don't have much established about her backstory at all.
Anders is the one that bugs me. It's very, very, very much a stretch to have him organize a resistance group after having been an athlete, running into Starbuck, starting a relationship, losing the relationship, and so on. He's not even that important in the grand scheme, unless one thinks of a good cop-bad cop routine with Leoben Conroy, but even then, that's a very weak link. I'm disappointed by this choice--it seems like they were casting about for someone to make interesting by turning them into a Cylon, and him and Tory (though I'm not as irked with her) got the nod.
So... I'm mixed on this one. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this episode makes me quite nervous about the future direction of where this show is going.
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