I've just finished watching Lost's 4th season over the last couple of weeks and I just never got into it. I've given up caring about these characters and their pasts and futures. I found the flash forwards manipulative and I'm sick of the ridiculous interconnections of the people on the island. The fact the events on the island make little sense is annoying me. And I've stopped finding the surprising events surprising. The last time it shocked me was when Micheal killed Ana Lucia and Libby.
I think my basic problem is I don't like any of the main characters - between the drug addictions, criminal behavior, and insanity I'm starting to feel that the world may be better off with all of them trapped on the island. I'm caring less and less about how the Juliet-Jack-Kate-Sawyer quadrangle turns outs. I'm sick of the repeated floods of new characters at the start of the season only to have most of them killed off by the end of the season.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Battlestar Galactica - 4.11 "Sometimes a Great Notion"
Only slightly less depressing then the third season opener "Occupation" (a debatable point, but I find a society held captive and subjugated more depressing than one that discovers their promised land is a nuclear wasteland and has lost almost all hope for the future) the opening of the second half of the final season of Battlestar Galactica features one of the most unexpected, but understandable in retrospect, suicides I've witnessed on-screen.
Over all I enjoyed the episode despite the fact I had the urge to kick the Admiral in his drunken caboose when he went asking Tigh to kill him. There was something utterly selfish about a parent looking to commit suicide after his son's wife did, leaving the son to try to fix the hopeless and demoralized civilization.
I'm still not buying Ellen as the fifth final Cylon - I have the feeling it should be more shocking than that. I'm leaning towards Ellen being an older version of Six theory or that Tigh is confusing Six and Ellen again. Is anyone surprised Ellen's a Cylon? Most people suspected her back in the first season when she was introduced. Most of the Colonials would just accept Ellen as a Cylon as it would explain her personality quirks. I'm hoping it's a red herring so the revelation of the 5th is a shocker later. I'm still hoping for a resurrection revelation (That has always seemed like the most fun way of revealing it from a writer's point of view - kill off a group of characters and have one of them resurrect while everyone else is in mourning - lots of trauma to go around for everyone, especially for the poor unsuspecting Cylon waking up in a resection pool) - It's not clear that the Final Five were using the same resurrection apparatus as the other 7 and that destroying the Hub would affect their ability to resurrect (Or that the 1s, 4s and 5s couldn't rebuild the Hub).
I also lead toward the 13th colony Cylons having been wiped out by the remnants of the 13th tribe after the Cylons had nuked the 13th colony and moved in as the Cylons were doing on Caprica. (This also explains why the Cylons were convinced they needed to wipe out the Colonial survivors after they nuked the 12 colonies - they had a belief the humans would come back and kill them because they had before).
Over all I enjoyed the episode despite the fact I had the urge to kick the Admiral in his drunken caboose when he went asking Tigh to kill him. There was something utterly selfish about a parent looking to commit suicide after his son's wife did, leaving the son to try to fix the hopeless and demoralized civilization.
I'm still not buying Ellen as the fifth final Cylon - I have the feeling it should be more shocking than that. I'm leaning towards Ellen being an older version of Six theory or that Tigh is confusing Six and Ellen again. Is anyone surprised Ellen's a Cylon? Most people suspected her back in the first season when she was introduced. Most of the Colonials would just accept Ellen as a Cylon as it would explain her personality quirks. I'm hoping it's a red herring so the revelation of the 5th is a shocker later. I'm still hoping for a resurrection revelation (That has always seemed like the most fun way of revealing it from a writer's point of view - kill off a group of characters and have one of them resurrect while everyone else is in mourning - lots of trauma to go around for everyone, especially for the poor unsuspecting Cylon waking up in a resection pool) - It's not clear that the Final Five were using the same resurrection apparatus as the other 7 and that destroying the Hub would affect their ability to resurrect (Or that the 1s, 4s and 5s couldn't rebuild the Hub).
I also lead toward the 13th colony Cylons having been wiped out by the remnants of the 13th tribe after the Cylons had nuked the 13th colony and moved in as the Cylons were doing on Caprica. (This also explains why the Cylons were convinced they needed to wipe out the Colonial survivors after they nuked the 12 colonies - they had a belief the humans would come back and kill them because they had before).
Monday, January 12, 2009
What I want to know by the end of Battlestar Galactica
Besides the obvious of what happens to the main characters and whether the human race even survives I really need to know the following:
- What the frak has been talking to Baltar, Starbuck and Caprica Six? The Cylon God(if so why does Baltar need to talk to two versions?), the Lords of Kobol, hallicinations? Whatever it is, I really need to know before the end.
- Is there really only twelve Cylon model or is there one for each tribe and there exists a thirteenth the Cylons don't even know about?
- What happened to Starbuck while she was missing/dead and what returned?
- What happened to the thirteenth tribe?
- How did Lee and Kara meet?
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