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BSG Season 4 thoughts
So I've been watching and enjoying the latest BSG episodes. Here are some thoughts.
Punting two tier-one characters outside of the main story setting seems extreme. (Starbuck getting benevolently exiled, and Apollo switching careers over to the civilian fleet.) I wonder how this will be handled, narratively. The expectation is that the POV will stay with those on board Galactica, but there's no reason they won't end up splitting it up a bit. I predict that we'll get some Meanwhile, on board the SS Boobyhatch action after a couple more eps, similar to how POV visits to the Cylon flagship's shiny interior aren't uncommon now.
Speaking of which, I don't care much who the final Cylon is. Maybe because, in-show, only the Cylons really care about that, and they're so bloody weird about everything that while I love watching them be all freaky at each other, I can't really share their level of concerns about things. Also the fact that most of the Sci-Fi channel's Season-Four marketing campaign is "Ooh! Ooh! Whoooooo could it beeeee?" has gotten on my nerves.
I guess I liked "We removed the functional inhibitors" more than "We installed emotion chips" a la Star Trek. Still strikes me as kind of lame though.
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classicaljunkie wondered aloud if the Cylons who got shot up are gonna wake up to find themselves boxed, since it's been suggested before (with D'Anna's story) that the resurrection process is prime time to be pullin that shit on an unfortunate model. This possibility would explain why those models flipped out and tried to run away... (Then again it's not clear how to box up all the other instances of the model who running around in prime condition, short of all-out civil war.)
Punting two tier-one characters outside of the main story setting seems extreme. (Starbuck getting benevolently exiled, and Apollo switching careers over to the civilian fleet.) I wonder how this will be handled, narratively. The expectation is that the POV will stay with those on board Galactica, but there's no reason they won't end up splitting it up a bit. I predict that we'll get some Meanwhile, on board the SS Boobyhatch action after a couple more eps, similar to how POV visits to the Cylon flagship's shiny interior aren't uncommon now.
Speaking of which, I don't care much who the final Cylon is. Maybe because, in-show, only the Cylons really care about that, and they're so bloody weird about everything that while I love watching them be all freaky at each other, I can't really share their level of concerns about things. Also the fact that most of the Sci-Fi channel's Season-Four marketing campaign is "Ooh! Ooh! Whoooooo could it beeeee?" has gotten on my nerves.
I guess I liked "We removed the functional inhibitors" more than "We installed emotion chips" a la Star Trek. Still strikes me as kind of lame though.
classicaljunkie wondered aloud if the Cylons who got shot up are gonna wake up to find themselves boxed, since it's been suggested before (with D'Anna's story) that the resurrection process is prime time to be pullin that shit on an unfortunate model. This possibility would explain why those models flipped out and tried to run away... (Then again it's not clear how to box up all the other instances of the model who running around in prime condition, short of all-out civil war.)
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Starbuck's already been apart from the fleet for an extended period, though.
Honestly, I actually expect something close to the Gun On Ice Planet Zero in concept, and that could be fun.
As for Apollo going civilian, that doesn't really take him out of play. The civilian government has been central to the plot for the entire series.
And...
...the President is dying...
Tom Zarek won't be her successor. Gaius Baltar won't be her successor.
But will Lee Adama?
Speaking of which, I don't care much who the final Cylon is.
I'm with you on that. The whole "final five" thing honestly seems to be a poor fit with the original concept anyway.