BSG has gone way, way, way downhill.
(48 hours earlier) Chris stares at the screen, mouth agape. "IDIOT!!!" he yells ineffectually at the screen, as Apollo tries to pull off a trick that cannot possibly work.
(48 hours earlier) Chris stares at the screen, mouth agape. "IDIOT!!!" he yells ineffectually at the screen, as Apollo tries to pull off a trick that cannot possibly work.
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Personally I feel like they ran out of steam. They were producing a finely tuned creation, and I think you can only do that for so long before you wear out. It feels like we were in someone's creation and now that entity has been outsourced. (It felt like one person's vision, but it might just have been a really good team.)
Or the were producers overspending their budget, or the Sci-Fi channel smacked them saying "we want more <>".
The question is, "Is it better than the original series?"
But, if it turns out that it really is going south, I agree that the Roslin/cancer/cure thing will have been its doom. I definitely groaned about that. She's my favorite character on the show, so naturally I'm glad to still have her around. But her death would have opened some really awesome storytelling possibilities. I felt like the writers chickened out - something I didn't expect from Ron Moore.
There's only so many times I can watch characters I'm supposed to care about agonizing over 'decisions' which are not only not difficult, but where it wouldn't even occur to me there was a decision to be made, because the other 'choice' was so stupid as to be ignorable.
I actually suspect it was never all that far uphill to begin with... I just assumed that some of the apparently-stupid things people were doing were actually for good reasons we just hadn't seen yet, and it was worthwhile to think about why they were doing them. Nope. They're just badly written.