Churning
The ending of Battlestar Galactica is in sight, but the story still stops and starts. The latest episode had a power vacuum, with Roslin missing. Perhaps there could have been an exciting struggle between Bill Adama and Zarek, or Lee Adama and Zarek, or Zarek and the Council, or the Council versus the military. Instead, we had a pointless philosophical battle between Lee and Romo. Romo is the lawyer who defended Baltar, and we never needed him in the first place. The producers seem to have a love affair with him, but I find his character annoying and his scenes tired and empty. (There are only 40,000 humans left alive, all on the run, and the producers mistakenly think they deepened the show by wasting our time on legal niceties and pseudo-philosophical speculation.) I sighed when I saw the character was being reintroduced--and then, worse, he took over the hour. (And the other main character was Lee, who is also boring--they keep giving him new jobs, hoping one of them will matter.)
For that matter, why lose Roslin at all? We want an exciting show where the Cylons are chasing and messing with the humans (and each other) while the search for Earth continues. Instead we're getting all sorts of mystical nonsense that slow down the story.
Speaking of which, Starbuck sure snapped back to form. A few weeks ago, she was going crazy trying to find Earth, willing to mess with the Galactica if necessary, and Adama backed her all the way, letting her go off on a search party with some of the top people available. Now this week, Adama goes nuts chasing after Roslin, sending out search crews. And who calls him crazy? Starbuck.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:15 AM
2 Comments:
Was there any doubt that Lee was going to be president? So the Romo-Lee scenes were especially silly. And for me, it was a real low moment when Romo points the gun at Lee and Lee TALKS him out of pulling the trigger. Were we supposed to see this as a more compassionate resolution to a conflict -- a stark contrast to the Bill-Saul fist fight?
59 minutes of imaginary cats and 1 minute of shocking pregnancy news. I didn't think cylons could get other cylons pregnant.
(I always comment late because I get the shows late.)
What Irene said!
I guess the Final Five can get cylons pregnant. But the level of unreality is huge. My latest gripe: In the previous episode, the oily-haired Six says "We know that the Five are among you, because our raiders didn't attack." Doesn't this prove only that AT LEAST ONE of the Five is among them?
But for the first time in a long while, they had a touch of humor... when the Chief says, "Well, at least we'll get to find out who the fifth one is."
Hmmm. Look, I'm just commenting about the previous episode. Maybe cuz this one was all Lee and whining.
Btw, I still think Lee is the fifth cylon.
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