BSG Season 4 thoughts
Apr. 14th, 2008 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progSo 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.)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-04-14 11:34 pm (UTC)It did seem lame, but I think they might be going somewhere more interesting with this. The humans battled the cylons when they were all Toasters. Either the Toasters, "the one true god", time-travelling skin jobs (or whatever) cause the 12 skin job models to come into existence. The skin jobs don't want the original cylons filling their soft bodies full of holes, so they somehow convince them/force them to accept inhibitors that turn them into a race of slaves. Not very nice way to treat your creators/old family members, but seemingly par for the course with these guys.
The thing that gets me is "a cyclon voting against its model, that's never happened before." Oh give me a break. We've already seen multiple instances that look like an individual Boomer or 6 betraying their model, and we're supposed to believe that they're shocked at a difference in opinion in a vote?