Meh, I'm not so irritated with the webisodes. I actually think they're marginally better than last year's in terms of acting and storyline. But to be fair, last year's weren't great either. The murder mystery thing is maybe a little blah, but I also don't know who did it and am vaguely interested in that.
Mostly I just think that webisodes suffer rather than benefit from the few-minutes format and the lack of budget is really obvious.
I'm kind of resigned to the fact that like last year they'll be fairly bland and boring with a few interesting issues raised if we're lucky. I'm already a little disappointed that the Eight who knew Gaeta was secretly helping them because I'd hoped that they were going to explore the fact that even though these cylons are on your side now, they are the same guys who (even if it was with good intentions) oppressed the fuck out of you on New Caprica.
It's really gratifying to hear you echo my sentiments. I don't think everything that BSG ever put together was fabulous by any means. I mean, dude, BLACK MARKET. And there are whole swathes of issues I think they've messed up. But like you say, it's so much better than most everything else on TV, and it deals with so many unusual topics so well there's just a part of my brain that doesn't understand the desire to criticise it.
But I'm sure that many, for instance, Whedonfans would think the same of my snark about Dr Horrible.
Re: the final cylon, I think Gaeta is too obvious and also if they make him a cylon they'll have the uncomfortable double-"coming out" of the closet. They already made their lesbian evil, and even though cylon =/= evil now, it's still something I think would be...not awesome in terms of subtext. Also as I said, I think that "Oh, btw, it's this person," and having it be a reveal of the same nature as the final four would be a big let down.
Zarek would be better. But at this point, I care less about shock value and more about it making sense. And really, revealing anyone as the final cylon is probably going to be a disappointment to me if that reveal doesn't also include a very compelling reason why they didn't know until now/why we as viewers didn't know this about them if the character knew.
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Date: 2008-12-25 08:04 am (UTC)Mostly I just think that webisodes suffer rather than benefit from the few-minutes format and the lack of budget is really obvious.
I'm kind of resigned to the fact that like last year they'll be fairly bland and boring with a few interesting issues raised if we're lucky. I'm already a little disappointed that the Eight who knew Gaeta was secretly helping them because I'd hoped that they were going to explore the fact that even though these cylons are on your side now, they are the same guys who (even if it was with good intentions) oppressed the fuck out of you on New Caprica.
It's really gratifying to hear you echo my sentiments. I don't think everything that BSG ever put together was fabulous by any means. I mean, dude, BLACK MARKET. And there are whole swathes of issues I think they've messed up. But like you say, it's so much better than most everything else on TV, and it deals with so many unusual topics so well there's just a part of my brain that doesn't understand the desire to criticise it.
But I'm sure that many, for instance, Whedonfans would think the same of my snark about Dr Horrible.
Re: the final cylon, I think Gaeta is too obvious and also if they make him a cylon they'll have the uncomfortable double-"coming out" of the closet. They already made their lesbian evil, and even though cylon =/= evil now, it's still something I think would be...not awesome in terms of subtext. Also as I said, I think that "Oh, btw, it's this person," and having it be a reveal of the same nature as the final four would be a big let down.
Zarek would be better. But at this point, I care less about shock value and more about it making sense. And really, revealing anyone as the final cylon is probably going to be a disappointment to me if that reveal doesn't also include a very compelling reason why they didn't know until now/why we as viewers didn't know this about them if the character knew.