I have a second post I've been working on on and off all day trying to get an idea of how I feel about it all because I'm still not sure. Overall, I still like it, but, yeah there are problems. It's like it went off the rails once they landed on earth. But earth isn't the problem with Kara's lack of closure.
Romo Lampkin as president, even for a few hours, was a joke. I think Paula would have been a better choice or one of the ships captains.
'All Along the Watchtower' worked surprisingly well for me. I had my doubts when it was first introduced, but they maintained the thread and tied it to earth.
Personally, I wish they had not relied so heavily on divine intervention, however that aspect of the series has been there since the mini and so it's not shocking that they went in that direction. I'm actually looking at watching Head Six's scenes much more closely on my next rewatch.
I agree with you about Tory and Tyrol, but I'm not feeling the rage you are. On an intellectual level I certainly see your points and even I thought Tory's death was more graphic and disturbing than need be, but I also don't particularly care about the characters.
I was reading a tiny bit about Mitochondrial Eve, populations bottlenecks, and Toba Catastrophe Theory earlier and trying to figure out where the Colonials and Cylons actually fit in all this. They could have created an evolutionary jump, they became us without breeding with those already populating the earth, but then how did all that knowledge become lost?
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Date: 2009-03-22 12:42 am (UTC)Romo Lampkin as president, even for a few hours, was a joke. I think Paula would have been a better choice or one of the ships captains.
'All Along the Watchtower' worked surprisingly well for me. I had my doubts when it was first introduced, but they maintained the thread and tied it to earth.
Personally, I wish they had not relied so heavily on divine intervention, however that aspect of the series has been there since the mini and so it's not shocking that they went in that direction. I'm actually looking at watching Head Six's scenes much more closely on my next rewatch.
I agree with you about Tory and Tyrol, but I'm not feeling the rage you are. On an intellectual level I certainly see your points and even I thought Tory's death was more graphic and disturbing than need be, but I also don't particularly care about the characters.
I was reading a tiny bit about Mitochondrial Eve, populations bottlenecks, and Toba Catastrophe Theory earlier and trying to figure out where the Colonials and Cylons actually fit in all this. They could have created an evolutionary jump, they became us without breeding with those already populating the earth, but then how did all that knowledge become lost?