FormCritic wrote:Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica started slow...largely because the creators obviously convinced themselves they had "something to say"...to "make us think."I think they got a lot of fanmail like the angry note I sent them. Basically, "You are not as smart as you think you are...now get back up there and start shooting at Cylons!"They must have read all of it because they got back on track by the end of the season.Battlestar Galactica is fun to watch while listening to the producer commentary podcast. They are essentially a bunch of bedwetting Lefties putting on a show about a reality in which bedwetting Lefties are dead butt wrong all of the time.Mark
Badmike wrote:In contrast the Lost finale really delivered, a lot of viewers were pissed that nothing seemed to happen the first two seasons....Mike B.
FormCritic wrote:Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica started slow...largely because the creators obviously convinced themselves they had "something to say"...to "make us think."Mark
Kingofpain89 wrote:I have never really understood why people that watch Lost, or TV shows in general, make statements like this. Lost has been one of the most intriguing, baffling, entertaining shows to come along in awhile. There have been a few episodes that were nothing but "filler" and didnt really add to the overall plot or move the story along as quickly as they might like. But if every episode did what these impatient viewers wanted the show would last a single season...maybe two...and where would be the fun in that?I am actually surprised that a show like 24 has lasted as long as it has. Every episode is chock full of action and devastating events for the most part...it just never slows down. But after six seasons the same old stuff is getting not only boring but downright predictable and unbelievable. Typical episode plot: Jack is happy, terrorists blow up something, Jack hunts terrorists, Chloe is a bitch and does something stupid, CTU is compromised, Jack interrogates bad-guy, Jack finds terrorists, terrorists escape, Jack foils (insert disaster) plan, a bunch of people die, Jack is unhappy, end of season. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy watching 24, but they just rehash the same old plot year after year with a few minor differences.For the most part I think Lost has been very well paced and I have always enjoyed the back story of most of the characters. Another great thing about the show is they have no problems killing off a popular character. I was stunned when Mr. Eko was killed and it remains to be seen whether Locke will survive the gunshot wound (I Tivo'ed the episode and havent seen it yet so if he did....DON'T SPOIL IT!!!). A lot of important events happenned all throughout the first two seasons. I think that there are just a bunch of impatient viewers that didnt pay attention to detail and thought otherwise.
Badmike wrote:And, to agree with you some more, besides the comments on "fluff" or "filler" episodes, most fans are upset that "everything hasn't been explained to them". Get real. Nothing kills a show like having A. The romantic leads finally consumate their love; B. The romantic leads getting married and pregnant; C. The Main Baddie getting caught and sent to jail; D. Or having all the mysteries explained in detail.Mike B.
Badmike wrote:That's funny you say that Mark...I have a friend, she's a huge BG fan, and she said the same thing....Her words were along the lines "It's like the writers are self-loathing leftists", so I guess that means the Hollywood Limosine Liberal writing the show doesn't really believe his/her beliefs? Guess I'll have to watch the season to see what everyone means.Mike B.
FormCritic wrote:(Of course, I am a viewer who watched the pilot of McGuyver...and saw that in the very first, opening, dire situation, McGuyver captured a gun and tossed it aside...and I immediatly changed the channels and never watched another episode. McGuyver didn't believe in guns...which ought to have made things very tricky when the guns turned out to believe in McGuyver.)
Granted...we still have to put up with a BSG universe in which women routinely do things like win boxing matches with men and score record marks on strength and agility...but, hey, it is science fiction.
And, while I'm droning on, the 70's version of Battlestar Galactica, a romance about pretty Mormons in space, was also a product of the politics of its own time.
FormCritic wrote:The Hollywood people behind Battlestar Galactica are the same Lefties that run most television in America. Here they are, caught portraying the military in a positive, heroic light.
FormCritic wrote:And, while I'm droning on, the 70's version of Battlestar Galactica, a romance about pretty Mormons in space, was also a product of the politics of its own time. The pacificists in that series were responsible for the lack of vigilance that nearly destroyed mankind...and yet those pacifist leaders remained stubbornly blind to what must be done. The parallels with America, the Soviet Union and the growing anti-war/anti-nuke movement of the era were obvious at the time.
bclarkie wrote:Now lets stop with the politcal bullsh*t on this forum, it has no place here, the things that are being said are utterly false and its starting to piss me off. Yeah me one of the "weak" lefties.
bclarkie wrote:Without trying to get to political, lets try and remember that some of those lefty types who don't think a gun in every persons hands is the solution to the worlds problems, also visit this forum. I should also point out because those lefty types think violence should be the last resort makes in some way weak or inferior, is also total and complete bullsh*t. Aside from the fact that its utter bullsh*t, in my experience the first one looking to reach for their weapons are almost always the one who are afraid that they are going to get their ass kicked in. I also find it quite hypocritical and farnkly pathetic that a vast majority of the folks in the goverment who are "pro-war" & "pro-gun" are also the exact same ones who found ways to weasel out of going to Vietnam when it was thier turn, i.e like Bush & Cheney and the ones who are considered "weak lefties" Kerry & Murtha spend years fighting in Vietnam. Its always easiest to put up a tough guy facade and then send someone elses kid to go get f**king killed. Now lets stop with the politcal bullsh*t on this forum, it has no place here, the things that are being said are utterly false and its starting to piss me off. Yeah me one of the "weak" lefties.
sleepyCO wrote:"Mormons in space"????? Must've missed that version; what cable station was that version on? I always had the impression that the original version was more biblical-based (even with tribal names that were our 12 signs of the Zodiac), more similar to the story of Moses leading the 12 tribes of Israel out of Egypt and the 40 years of wandering.
Keith the Thief wrote:So it would seem that this new version of BSG is actually a good show (?) I was so utterly appalled by the original series that I never even bothered with the new one.Does the Sci-Fi Channel re-run episodes so that someone can start from the beginning and catch up on the storyline?
FormCritic wrote:Also, the show is available on DVD and, I think, online.
FormCritic wrote:To be accurate, bclarkie, the one being overtly political is you. If you will read over your own posts, you will find that the one most frequently sounding off about politics and the Bush Administration is you.
FormCritic wrote:One could criticize my post for being off topic...except that this is the off topic thread.