That's More Like It
After a lot of meandering, Battlestar Galactica is back on track. With the mutiny plot, we finally get some action, and the human-Cylon dynamic is front and center again.
Lately it seemed the plot had stopped dead. I don't mind character exploration, but keep the action moving forward. You need characters to want things and have a bigger obstacle than the need to stop whining. It was refreshing to see Starbuck, Roslin, Adama and Baltar no longer moping around and, staying true to character (or maybe reverting to character), actually doing something.
There aren't many episodes left, but I now have hope we're going somewhere. The show no longer feels like a post script.
PS I still didn't see the need for Adama and Tigh to stick around at the end. Whatever cover they offered was minimal.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:24 AM
3 Comments:
Unlike most shows, BSG's webisodes are an integral part of their show. The recent webisode series, "Face of an Enemy", explains Gaeda's motivation. Without the webisodes, his behavior is inexplicable.
Still, I thought that the writers were still being boneheaded in this episode. There's a revolt against Adama and Roslin, who have saved the human race again and again. Fine, I can buy that. But why does the revolt turn savage and brutal (e.g., telling Helo that they plan to rape his wife) within the first ten minutes?
That's unbelievable. But more importantly, it's a cheap way for the writers to force the viewer to emotionally side with Adama. Otherwise, we might be tempted to agree that trusting the genocidal cylons is a bad idea.
My new theory: Bob Dylan is the key to the whole thing. (He has already appeared inexplicably via song, and if Earth is Cylon, then he's a cylon.) What will happen is that Adama will win, and convince the humans to trust the Cylons. Happiness. Then the Cylons will wipe out all the remaining humans, turn to the camera, and say, "You guys are idiots." Fade to black, with a verse from a Bob Dylan song, rearranged for Indian instruments, as before:
When the Second World War
came to an end,
We forgave the Germans
and we were friends.
Though they murdered six million
in the ovens they fried,
The Germans now too
have God on their side.
I recognize some flaws in the storytelling, but at least they're moving forward again, and the characters are acting in ways that made us interested in the first lace.
Agreed. The episode was exciting, and the heroes kicked ass instead of whining!
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