I've been meaning to read and comment on this! Excellent review. You said a lot of things I would've liked to, if I wasn't too busy screaming like a little girl, so THANK you. :) I mean, this sums it all up, doesn't it:
What a lovely collection of deleted scenes. What a truly weird movie.
I didn't find any of The Plan especially surprising or enlightening, just totally enjoyable. Moment to moment, there was enough epicness to outweigh any parts I actively disliked. At the same time, the whole way it was structured was almost embarrassing. I love your comment about how, you know, they might've done better not to hang the main plot on a series of unrelated events, and carry the narrative on the back of so much stuff we've literally seen before.
I mean, I think they were riding on the selling point of "we'll go back and ~answer questions~ from another POV" just to justify the existence of this thing, but that's where the problem started. (I only disagree on the point that "Razor" succeeded that much more where this one failed, 'cause I'm the patron saint of "y'all are giving Razor too much credit." Heh.) It's just weird to see so many little things done right and also feel let down by the wasted potential. I had ridiculously low expectations for this movie which it COMPLETELY EXCEEDED, but why not expect more?
On a happier note -- your summary of Cavil's epiphany is brilliant and dead-on and should be read by, like, everyone. *applauds*
This ain't True Blood, people! AHAHAHAHA I thought the same thing! And I agree that it would've been slightly less uncomfortable if this were the *first* episode of a new thing, and it was like "This is what we do! We have women's breasts casually hanging out in the background, because we're edgy!" But no, Porno Battlestar is just NOT RIGHT and it will distract the hell out of me in scenes where I should not be distractred. Like, for example, the emotional climax of Simon's storyline.
I'm pretty sure in that final scene when the Cavils are being walked to the airlock and you see all of the Final Five, that the legs above Tory are supposed to be Laura's. I did notice that!!! *g* You know, I can't say I would've loved to see more Laura, because almost every time they showed a random clip of Baltar, I was like O_o and I couldn't get past the fact that it was old footage and felt *weird*. However, it also bothered me that she was excised from two scenes (both involving airlocks!) that we know she was in, and that does make me wonder if there was a contractual issue going on.
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Date: 2009-10-23 04:44 pm (UTC)What a lovely collection of deleted scenes. What a truly weird movie.
I didn't find any of The Plan especially surprising or enlightening, just totally enjoyable. Moment to moment, there was enough epicness to outweigh any parts I actively disliked. At the same time, the whole way it was structured was almost embarrassing. I love your comment about how, you know, they might've done better not to hang the main plot on a series of unrelated events, and carry the narrative on the back of so much stuff we've literally seen before.
I mean, I think they were riding on the selling point of "we'll go back and ~answer questions~ from another POV" just to justify the existence of this thing, but that's where the problem started. (I only disagree on the point that "Razor" succeeded that much more where this one failed, 'cause I'm the patron saint of "y'all are giving Razor too much credit." Heh.) It's just weird to see so many little things done right and also feel let down by the wasted potential. I had ridiculously low expectations for this movie which it COMPLETELY EXCEEDED, but why not expect more?
On a happier note -- your summary of Cavil's epiphany is brilliant and dead-on and should be read by, like, everyone. *applauds*
This ain't True Blood, people!
AHAHAHAHA I thought the same thing! And I agree that it would've been slightly less uncomfortable if this were the *first* episode of a new thing, and it was like "This is what we do! We have women's breasts casually hanging out in the background, because we're edgy!" But no, Porno Battlestar is just NOT RIGHT and it will distract the hell out of me in scenes where I should not be distractred. Like, for example, the emotional climax of Simon's storyline.
I'm pretty sure in that final scene when the Cavils are being walked to the airlock and you see all of the Final Five, that the legs above Tory are supposed to be Laura's.
I did notice that!!! *g* You know, I can't say I would've loved to see more Laura, because almost every time they showed a random clip of Baltar, I was like O_o and I couldn't get past the fact that it was old footage and felt *weird*. However, it also bothered me that she was excised from two scenes (both involving airlocks!) that we know she was in, and that does make me wonder if there was a contractual issue going on.