I finished watching Battlestar Galatica through season 2.5. With only a few gripes (2 people being in love with a cylon? wtf?) the show has been really good. It's better than really good. Then the last episode of 2.5 comes New Caprica, President Balthar, and the fleet bails. It looks totaly lame. Now I'm reading the show totally tanks in season 3, which is supposed to be released in August on DVD.
Apparently the Sci-Fi channel has ruined Stargate as well.
Quite often when we're watching DVD's or teevee, I tell John that I should be producing these shows. I would be armed with a bunch of softballs, and when writers propose the absurd "that wouldn't happen dumbass" type moments, I would throw the softballs at the writers as hard as possible. This would motivate them to stop writing these fucking stupid story lines in otherwise quality shows.
The story line in BSG with the two Galatica crewmen in love with the Cylon, who just assisted with the extermination of billions of humans? I'd drill the fucking writer right between the eyes with the softball as hard as possible and tell him to go back and write a more plausible plot or be fired. I can't stand it when movie/tv characters behave in totally unrealistic ways. Artistic license is one thing. Expecting somebody to fall in love with a machine that helped exterminate billions is one of the all-time most fucking retarded moments in teevee history.
I'm going to be exceptionally disapointed if season 3 sucks, because there's not much else to watch. The quality of teevee is horrendous. "Heros" is an abortion, and people think it's a "hit".
Just throwing this out there.. if there is a teevee executive that wants to develop a program that kicks ass from begining to end, drop me a line... I know how to get the best out of people.. a softball thrown at 80 miles an hour, right at their heads, will generally do the trick.
I also have a few ideas of my own.
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I actually liked season 3, but I also liked the Sharon storyline. To me, it's plausible because they were in love with her before they knew she was a cylon.
The first part of season 3 is awesome, and then it sorta dies off and goes into a really fucktarded love triangle thing...which I don't like. However, toward the end they have a very "Inherit the Wind" esque trial sequence which I REALLY like.
You actually think it's plausible? Billions of dead human beings.. she's a toaster, part of the machine that killed those billions.. and that's plausible?
I actually found that little plot device to be one of the most absurdly rediculously dishonest tripe that I've ever seen in tv. It's worse than the idiots that stay in the haunted house.
I should write a movie.. Somebody is in love with this guy.. The guy kills say.. 500 people, including the entire family of the person who is in love with him.. and it turns out the guy is not even human himself, but just an animated computer. Then, the person in love with him turns out to be a lawyer who valiently tries to defend the killer, because there is no denying that "love".. and in the middle of the movie, we'll have a "Ghost" scene, like when Patrick Swaaze (or however the fuck you spell that) comes upon his wife making a vase, and have some really sappy music in the background while they hug and mush their hands together in the clay.
Shit.. that's so plausible.. I should have thought of that earlier. I could sell that screen play.
But remember she never even knew she was a toaster AND they were both in love before they knew. Could you just stop feeling that way for somone? She isn't responsible, the rest of her race is. That's like holding all of Islam responsible for the terrorists. It doesn't work, and rational people like Tyrol and Helo know that. I think you might understand it more in season 3.
I just thought of this. That would also be the equivalent of aliens holding the entire human race accountable for the actions of Hitler or GW. It doesn't make sense.
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