tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575209851731621303.post2650526563079576661..comments2023-10-20T10:51:08.657-04:00Comments on The Beveled Edge: Series Review: Battlestar GalacticaBevimushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14924337684790883853noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575209851731621303.post-34474872919245591272013-06-03T13:56:21.781-04:002013-06-03T13:56:21.781-04:00I would need to know why you didn't get on wit...I would need to know why you didn't get on with the first season to know whether or not investing more time in it would make you more or less disappointed. Perhaps at some point we can have a discussion about it.Bevimushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14924337684790883853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575209851731621303.post-16842908824365046942013-06-03T10:40:43.637-04:002013-06-03T10:40:43.637-04:00Given how little I enjoyed the first season, readi...Given how little I enjoyed the first season, reading that it falls apart in the third leaves me with very little desire to pick the show back up again. Do you think I ought to, Bev?John Wiswellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416044628686736927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575209851731621303.post-82340652791294722052013-06-03T02:48:41.897-04:002013-06-03T02:48:41.897-04:00It's a pity they failed to deliver for you, be...It's a pity they failed to deliver for you, because it sounds like you really got on with the first two seasons. From your review, I get the feeling that they did the fatal thing, they let the arcs take over! Babylon 5 started that trend, they have a lot to answer for when you have to have the entire previous history of a series in your pocket to understand what is going on in later eps. I don't mind arcs, they add a background continuity to a show, but the primary word here is 'background'. When an ep serves only to move an arc along and it doesn't have its own plot (or the plot is so thin it needs CPR), the series is no longer a series, it's a part work and changing that nature in the middle of a run is not fair, but I have seen so many series do it. And to do that 3 times - my sympathies.<br /><br />I'm a fan of the original BSG - and they did the same thing to us with Galactica '80 - although I remember enjoying 'space scouts' as a kid ;P My fav ep on that last original season though was the 'what happened to Starbuck ep', because Starbuck was always my favourite, despite, with hindsight, knowing that he's a womanising, gambling twat a lot of the time :D.Sophie Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14768033409563305140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5575209851731621303.post-3252464669436478392013-06-02T19:58:41.668-04:002013-06-02T19:58:41.668-04:00Yeah kara was sure a wtf moment haha and it did dr...Yeah kara was sure a wtf moment haha and it did drag in the middle for sure. But it was surely a series worth watching. Unlike it's wannabe clone Stargate Universe.Pat Hatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745293224202430152noreply@blogger.com