Am I Missing Something?
Battlestar Galactica often takes big leaps in its storyline, but, unlike Lost, they all too often don't pay off. That's what comes from making it up as you go along, I guess.
They found Earth, which was the whole point of the show, and are now moving on. It makes things feel adrift. I don't know what the galaxy is like, but if they're just looking for a nice planet where they can live, is it that hard? They already did that, in fact.
The real question is what sort of threat are the Cylons--except the Cylon threat has been on the backburner for a while. If they can live with them, they can take it easy, after all. But, since the beginning, the whole forward movement of the show has been based on the threat of the Cylons. I realize the show is trying to be subtle, but it used to be a life-and-death battle against evil robots--now we've got Cylons versus Cylons and humans versus humans while we lose a sense of a bigger architecture.
And have they ever explained where Baltar's Head Six comes from, or have they just dropped that?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:08 AM
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They have never explained Head Six. The only explanation that she has offered is "I am an angel of God." After hearing that a bunch of times, I started to wonder -- maybe that's true!
But they've only got eight episodes left to introduce some real gods, and at this point it would feel artificial. If the show had any real pacing, they would need a few episodes in which the characters discuss the gods before a big reveal, and I see no sign of that.
Caprica Six had a Head Baltar. His existence destroyed all of the theories that I had at the time of Head Six. However, the writers seem to have forgotten about him, and now she seems happily coupled with Tigh.
My new biggest complaint about the show: Right now, the war in Iraq is winding down, just as the Cylon-Human conflict is winding down. Suppose, tomorrow, your parents revealed to you that you were adopted, and your biological parents were Iraqis. Would you start referring to the American troops as "your troops" and the Iraqi government as "us"? Would you pack up your stuff and move to Iraq? That seems to be what Chief Tyrol is essentially doing.
It just reveals that the writers haven't a clue about what motivation is.
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