I hate Apollo. I mean, really, really hate him. He has become the most offensive, sniveling, self-absorbed character on the show. Which really sucks, because I know the writers intend for him to be this pure, noble idealist. But he's not. The man has had his spine surgically removed. The only time he takes a stand is when some obscure, abstract point of navel-gazing morality stands in the way of practical, pragmatic solutions to immediate problems faced by the few remaining survivors of the human race. He hasn't achieved anything of his own--command of the Pegasus on down has been handed to him on a silver platter, and he has the audacity to whine about this because life somehow isn't fair on a cosmic scale. Please, somebody, frakkin' kill him now.
Galactica won't be back until 2008, and I don't think I care. If blowing up the Pegasus wasn't their "jump the shark" moment, then basing an entire episode around Dylan's (or Hendrix's depending on your tastes) "Along the Watchtower" is most definitely a great white moment. Talk about destroying any semblance of verisimilitude with a gross anachronism like that. Since the show actually showed Earth in the psychedelic closing sequence, I think we have to accept Starbuck's contention that she's been there and can lead the fleet to it at face value. The other contention of the episode, that Col. Tigh, Chief Tyrol and those other two are actually Cylon sleeper agents and members of the "Final Five" (as ill-conceived a macguffin as any I've ever seen) is utter and complete bullshit. Tigh's got a 40-year service record. The android Cylons are a relatively new invention--unless they plan to explain that the real Tigh was abducted and replaced with a Cylon duplicate just a few years prior to the miniseries, they're facing some horrible continuity blunders that I don't think I can overlook. Especially when this "Final Five" idea itself is a fairly recent development--hell, I can't find it now, but at the time Lucy Lawless showed up as a Cylon model Ron Moore said in an interview that we'd now seen all the Cylon humanoid models, that the other models had been "boxed" as flawed. That plan, apparently, is out the window. They're rapidly losing all credibility with me--making it up as you go along is one thing, but pretending that you're not is just weak.
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Jeez think you are being a tad rough lol. I disagree with you on Apollo a bit. I thought tonights acting and his character was pretty good. "We are not a Civilation we are a Gang"!!!!
ReplyDeleteAnywho I thought what theywere doing with his Character was interesting.
THe Show's intro might say the Cylons have a plan but I think it is fair to say the producers plan has been a tad fluid. Tigh as you mention does present a problem. But in many ways the whole Timeline of the Humans history and their complete lack of what should be recent "world History" as to the lost Colony is sort of weird.
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(1) They are really Cylons. I know some people might be thinking Cylon trick but I don't think so. I thought the acting and script there was great. You knew they were morally Certain of the fact
(2) Tigh does present a problem. But to be honest how much do we really know about early Cylon development. Not much. They evolved but what if Tigh for instance was a very very early model like before the war. We don't know exactly how all this happened
(3)My bet is the ones we see that were revealed tonight are a Cylon resistance movement or faction. We see how in just a limited time the Cylons interactions with humans change them. Could it be that not all Cylons were all with how to treat their Human fathers and mothers?
(4) I watched this show twice tonight? How do we know this is the is the same Cylon fleet that has been trailing them? LOngshot here but the other Cylons don't know and don't talk about the others. Could this be a different Cylon groups with models of Tigh and Chief etc running around
(5) Does Cavil know more than the other Cylons and that was one reason he boxed the 3's
(6) I am not sure we can be totally sure what the Final five are yet. I am not jumping to conclusions. There seems to be a mixture of Colonial and Cylon religion mixing up here.
(7) How do we not know that perhaps Cylon Technolgy was being experimented with way back on Korbel. IF they can jet off the planet 2000 years ago why not?
(8) i know some people hate the theology og the show but that has a loyal segment of the fan base. That should get really interesting
Give it a day and watch it again.
I predict the addition of a 'Cousin Oliver' in 2008.
ReplyDeleteI hear they're adding a dog robot that talks to the show. And then in season 10 it will be revealed it's a godfersaken Cylon. By that time, they will have merged Battlestar with Deep Space Six and Space 1999, and it will be a space adventure about friendly homicidal cyborgs who wander the universe planting trees and giving everyone high-fives...that they immediately die from due to the palm poison.
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