Battlestar Galactica

[Zaz]

Aight, this'll contain spoilers for the mini-series and seasons 1 and 2, so if you don't wanna be spoiled, go away. In saying this, please don't post spoilers from season 3 onwards either.

So I finally got around to watching BSG (up to season 2) after getting the DVDs off a mate. Was anyone else really disappointed with the second half of season 2? After the Pegasus stuff, which was awesome, instead of building to the finale, they essentially had five stand-alone episodes (Black Market, Scar, Sacrifice, The Captain's Hand, Downloaded) and then had a finale which seemed very rushed and with no real purpose. It seemed as if they wanted to get to that point of the surrender as the big finale, but instead of building up to it, they put some mediocre episodes that only did one or two things for the entire scope of the show, which made the finale seem like a big cop out. Hell, both season 1 and 2 finales started with them flukily finding a planet which they became the focus of the episode.

Shows like Lost, Prison Break and Heroes spend the majority of the season building up to events in the finale, whereas BSG seemed to have a couple of story arcs they wanted to use that had no real enduring effect on the major storyline. It's still a good show, I'm just a bit disappointed with some of the writing and direction of it.

[Herr Matzat]

The new season is back to being crap again. To bad it started out realy great some years ago.... now, the only cool thing is baltar and maybe adama senior. :-(

I could have don without most of the Nazi stuff (season 3 i belive) but the first two seasons overall were lots of fun fun.

Edited April 21, 2008 by Michael Matzat on a Plane