That MAJORLY bothered me. Everything you said is so so right. At best, RDM left all of Tory's character development on the cutting room floor, and realized he needed to solve the Cally/Tory/Chief issue and had like 30 seconds to do it. At worse, (and much more likely), Tory is a female character that got a little too powerful for her britches and needed to be punished/put down. Ew. Ew ew ew. The Tory/Galen backstory clearly had NO REASON TO BE THERE and ended up just making him kill her way more like domestic violence. Totally triggering. NOT OK.
As for the colonialism, I see no silver lining. The humans and cylons can reproduce so there WAS NO REASON TO HAVE "NATIVES" ON EARTH. RDM did not need to do that and made the whole ending really disgusting for me. Him killing off the speaking characters of color (except for Hera/Helo/Athena) in the beginning of the episode just made it feel worse. (Hmmm. What to do... I know, Kill Skulls Again!) Sigh. It was all so unnecessary from a plot POV. >:(
I WANNA GO ON THE PARTYSTAR WITH THE CENTURIONS
On a side note, I love your recaps. They really helped me get thro 4.5!
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Date: 2009-03-23 09:57 pm (UTC)That MAJORLY bothered me. Everything you said is so so right. At best, RDM left all of Tory's character development on the cutting room floor, and realized he needed to solve the Cally/Tory/Chief issue and had like 30 seconds to do it. At worse, (and much more likely), Tory is a female character that got a little too powerful for her britches and needed to be punished/put down. Ew. Ew ew ew. The Tory/Galen backstory clearly had NO REASON TO BE THERE and ended up just making him kill her way more like domestic violence. Totally triggering. NOT OK.
As for the colonialism, I see no silver lining. The humans and cylons can reproduce so there WAS NO REASON TO HAVE "NATIVES" ON EARTH. RDM did not need to do that and made the whole ending really disgusting for me. Him killing off the speaking characters of color (except for Hera/Helo/Athena) in the beginning of the episode just made it feel worse. (Hmmm. What to do... I know, Kill Skulls Again!) Sigh. It was all so unnecessary from a plot POV. >:(
I WANNA GO ON THE PARTYSTAR WITH THE CENTURIONS
On a side note, I love your recaps. They really helped me get thro 4.5!
-Pigeonface