Battlestar Galactica
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sparkfrostFinished the series. Thank you, LJ buddies, for not spoiling me, unlike certain idiotic Facebook friends.
So! Let's talk about it!
Boomer ended up pissing me off throughout. Too easily mislead, too ready to believe in the Cylon god, too ready to not understand how humans would react to a Cylon invasion. Basically, too ready to be lead anywhere that was away from what her experiences led her to understand. Seriously, when I saw her making out with Cavill, I gagged.
Speaking of Cavill, basically a spoiled child who thought he wasn't the favored and flipped out because of it, yeah? I did not like him during season 3, then I watched the episode where Ellen Tigh wakes up and I liked him even less. Because, seriously, it seemed like he was a petulant little kid who got everything that he asked for and then whined because it wasn't what he expected. Especially once Ellen started laying out what he'd done to each of the Final Five, he just came across as a fussy toddler denied his fave passie.
The whole "Mutiny" thing- though I hate a lot of Jacob's recaps, gotta agree with him regarding the mutiny. They got the trashiest established characters to go along with it, and somehow expected us to sympathize? After her speech to Sam, I wanted Seelix dead. It is my personal canon that she did die. Same with the civilian who'd previously been on the "jury"- he turned his legitimate grief over his son into a bloody vengeance scheme, and didn't learn his lesson TWICE! As for Gaeta- I'm sorry you lost your leg, and I'm sorry you fell in love with a murderous Eight, but you need to own your fuck-ups, and not blame them on everyone else.
Gah!
Anyhow, speak to me, about any character, I would honestly love to discuss the whole series, including characters that I've dissed. Let's talk!
So! Let's talk about it!
Boomer ended up pissing me off throughout. Too easily mislead, too ready to believe in the Cylon god, too ready to not understand how humans would react to a Cylon invasion. Basically, too ready to be lead anywhere that was away from what her experiences led her to understand. Seriously, when I saw her making out with Cavill, I gagged.
Speaking of Cavill, basically a spoiled child who thought he wasn't the favored and flipped out because of it, yeah? I did not like him during season 3, then I watched the episode where Ellen Tigh wakes up and I liked him even less. Because, seriously, it seemed like he was a petulant little kid who got everything that he asked for and then whined because it wasn't what he expected. Especially once Ellen started laying out what he'd done to each of the Final Five, he just came across as a fussy toddler denied his fave passie.
The whole "Mutiny" thing- though I hate a lot of Jacob's recaps, gotta agree with him regarding the mutiny. They got the trashiest established characters to go along with it, and somehow expected us to sympathize? After her speech to Sam, I wanted Seelix dead. It is my personal canon that she did die. Same with the civilian who'd previously been on the "jury"- he turned his legitimate grief over his son into a bloody vengeance scheme, and didn't learn his lesson TWICE! As for Gaeta- I'm sorry you lost your leg, and I'm sorry you fell in love with a murderous Eight, but you need to own your fuck-ups, and not blame them on everyone else.
Gah!
Anyhow, speak to me, about any character, I would honestly love to discuss the whole series, including characters that I've dissed. Let's talk!
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Date: 2011-05-08 07:29 pm (UTC)MY LOVE FOR ATHENA AND HELO AND ATHENA/HELO, LET ME SHOW YOU IT:
IT IS THIS BIG: ___________________________________________________________
AND THEN SOME.
I kind of love the cylons - some of them as people, but all of them as an IDEA. And *siiiigh* I still ship Starbuck/Anders like it's my JOB. and CHIEF. ILHIM SO HARD.
/flailing
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Date: 2011-05-08 07:32 pm (UTC)oh, oh self. *facepalm*
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Date: 2011-05-10 09:20 pm (UTC)I also did love Starbuck and Anders, but I think I liked Starbuck and Apollo more. I don't know, it just seemed that she and Anders just leapt on into a marriage without really knowing anything about each other. Kind of the same way that Dualla and Lee were all of a sudden a couple. With no prior buildup to the relationship at all. Blech.
Chief... torn on him. Loved him at first, then kind of really didn't like him for beating up Cally and then marrying her. Felt sympathy for him as he figured out that he was a Cylon, but then he killed Tory and no one said or did anything about it. Yes, she killed his wife, but that wife was clearly suffering from depression and paranoia, and who knows what she would have done. I just... idk. Like I said, torn.