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BSG 2x10
Normally I don't post on BSG, but this time there's one thing I just have to comment on.
I'm gonna have to do a little ranting on this episode. It's the first one where I've felt slightly put out.
I was *really* surprised by the Pegasus crew. It was as if every last one of them could have walked up and said, "Hi. I'm Bob Jackass." This show had always taken great care to paint in shades of grey. Hell, the *cylons* are at times sympathetic characters. So why there was a whole mess of mwahaha-ing, soulless, one-dimensional pricks is beyond me.
In the past, I never felt like I was being told who to love and who to hate - just given complex information and left to make up my mind about things. But in this episode, there were so many black hats it wasn't funny. Bah.
ETA: There seems to be some confusion - it's not that I care if these people are bad. I could fully buy that Cain could sway them. My complaint is that these characters were written very one-dimensionally. It would have been just as bad if they had all been wonderful, super people who were flat. We see this kind of writing all the time in the majority of TV shows. It took me by surprise because on BSG we really haven't seen much of this yet.
I'm gonna have to do a little ranting on this episode. It's the first one where I've felt slightly put out.
I was *really* surprised by the Pegasus crew. It was as if every last one of them could have walked up and said, "Hi. I'm Bob Jackass." This show had always taken great care to paint in shades of grey. Hell, the *cylons* are at times sympathetic characters. So why there was a whole mess of mwahaha-ing, soulless, one-dimensional pricks is beyond me.
In the past, I never felt like I was being told who to love and who to hate - just given complex information and left to make up my mind about things. But in this episode, there were so many black hats it wasn't funny. Bah.
ETA: There seems to be some confusion - it's not that I care if these people are bad. I could fully buy that Cain could sway them. My complaint is that these characters were written very one-dimensionally. It would have been just as bad if they had all been wonderful, super people who were flat. We see this kind of writing all the time in the majority of TV shows. It took me by surprise because on BSG we really haven't seen much of this yet.