I suppose I can see your complaint, but I guess, for me, the experience, the acting, the cinematography was all...just awesome. And I loved the vague return to early season one where you didn't get downtime. It was, if not "realtime" at least marvelously compressed to the point that you saw everything as it was moving forwards. Like the start of season two when we spent nearly two whole episodes surviving a single Cylon attack.
I think, though, that stuff did happen. We get answers as to Starbuck's experiences. We learn about her mystical sense that's directing her toward Earth and her responses to the jumps going in the opposite direction. That cliffhanger certainly moves the plot forwards.
We also get Anders sending the Cylon fleet away, not to mention a huge and awesome space fight. Lee deciding, absolutely, to leave the military, and Baltar becoming the head of some creepy religious cult. All quite large developments, I think.
I'm disappointed it's the last season too. I think perhaps it was less to do with the ratings actually being bad and more to do with them being average and perhaps not as stellar as some of the other trash on TV due to the fact it's on SciFi and it's named "Battlestar Galactica."
On the other hand, I'm glad that the writers know this will be their last season. It means that they can tie up everything properly and have time to "get things in order". I'm also hoping it'll stave off the second-half-of-the-season "lull" that happened in the longer second and third seasons, where, between the mid-season finale and the actual finale, they didn't seem to know what to do with the show.
Ultimately, I'm busy being glad that it won't end up "Farscaped", and I think that having a closed canon might create the opportunity for some interesting critical thinking on the entire series. Well, I say critical thinking. I mean pseudo-academic rambling. ;)
But yes, I think after six months once the fandom's no longer so active I will feel a...gaping hole. BSG was why I got and LJ, and how I met most of the people I know here. And I don't have a fandom lined up to take its place. I mean...I never do. When I skipped out on TXF, I fell into Farscape. When Farscape ended, I fell into BSG. I'm not sure where I'll "fall" next, but I hope I fall into something because...I'm a fan. There's always Star Wars, but that's more something that's always continuing in the background because of the various release schedules, etc. Though I notice that I have been spending more time in that world during this ludicrous year-long hiatus. So we'll see...
Regarding CAPRICA - yeah, I thought it was going ahead, somehow, slowly... I'm not sure what it'll be like, but I do trust RDM a fair bit, so I'll wait and see what they do with it before deciding it'll piss over anything. I still really think they need to explain Tigh though. Even if it's just that they replaced him. Though I hope not: I like the idea that the Cylon aren't literally copies of any original humans.
One of my personal theories is that "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again," means that the final five are cylons from the last time around, making them...really, really ancient and sort of...the puppet masters or ancient guardians of this entire historical repetition? That would make Tigh's existence not-a-problem and would explain why a humlon existed as the humlons were still being developed this time around.
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I think, though, that stuff did happen. We get answers as to Starbuck's experiences. We learn about her mystical sense that's directing her toward Earth and her responses to the jumps going in the opposite direction. That cliffhanger certainly moves the plot forwards.
We also get Anders sending the Cylon fleet away, not to mention a huge and awesome space fight. Lee deciding, absolutely, to leave the military, and Baltar becoming the head of some creepy religious cult. All quite large developments, I think.
I'm disappointed it's the last season too. I think perhaps it was less to do with the ratings actually being bad and more to do with them being average and perhaps not as stellar as some of the other trash on TV due to the fact it's on SciFi and it's named "Battlestar Galactica."
On the other hand, I'm glad that the writers know this will be their last season. It means that they can tie up everything properly and have time to "get things in order". I'm also hoping it'll stave off the second-half-of-the-season "lull" that happened in the longer second and third seasons, where, between the mid-season finale and the actual finale, they didn't seem to know what to do with the show.
Ultimately, I'm busy being glad that it won't end up "Farscaped", and I think that having a closed canon might create the opportunity for some interesting critical thinking on the entire series. Well, I say critical thinking. I mean pseudo-academic rambling. ;)
But yes, I think after six months once the fandom's no longer so active I will feel a...gaping hole. BSG was why I got and LJ, and how I met most of the people I know here. And I don't have a fandom lined up to take its place. I mean...I never do. When I skipped out on TXF, I fell into Farscape. When Farscape ended, I fell into BSG. I'm not sure where I'll "fall" next, but I hope I fall into something because...I'm a fan. There's always Star Wars, but that's more something that's always continuing in the background because of the various release schedules, etc. Though I notice that I have been spending more time in that world during this ludicrous year-long hiatus. So we'll see...
Regarding CAPRICA - yeah, I thought it was going ahead, somehow, slowly... I'm not sure what it'll be like, but I do trust RDM a fair bit, so I'll wait and see what they do with it before deciding it'll piss over anything. I still really think they need to explain Tigh though. Even if it's just that they replaced him. Though I hope not: I like the idea that the Cylon aren't literally copies of any original humans.
One of my personal theories is that "all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again," means that the final five are cylons from the last time around, making them...really, really ancient and sort of...the puppet masters or ancient guardians of this entire historical repetition? That would make Tigh's existence not-a-problem and would explain why a humlon existed as the humlons were still being developed this time around.
Anyways, those are my thoughts, at least. :)