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Mar. 13th, 2009 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skywaterblueHey there, Battlestar. My brother and I watched you tonight.
Well, when you have muddled character motivations after so many retcons and recons of their backstory on Caprica and the colonies, of course the flashbacks are going to rank from weakest-to-strongest based on the character's strength of original vision.
Which is why the Gaius one rocked. I also liked Sam's, because even though they've monkeyed a lot with him, the flashback reminds you that you liked the original creation. It was nice that they gave Sam lines.
Meanwhile, they monkeyed so much with Roslin's backstory -- she was education secretary and her mom had cancer, no wait but you didn't know the rest of her family died horrible, no wait she's an orphan AND she only got her job from fucking the nominee. ETC. It's very who gives a shit. They're only keeping her alive because they don't want her to die until the very end, whereas her death and absence would have still had meaning if she had done so a couple of episodes ago.
All I have to say about the rest: dismantling the picture wall was easily the saddest bit of the scrumming of Galactica. There are people on the wall whom no one remembers anymore. Doc Cottle can't go on the suicide mission.
COME OVER COME OVER, GAIUS BALTAR, COME OVER. He has to cross the line! He has to do it because it will symbolically close circle for him in the most perfect way possible. He can give up his life and seat in safety to save Helo's daughter, only conceived because of Helo sacrificing himself for Gaius. They should have had him do it in that scene, it would have been a touch of sublime perfection -- the sort sorely missing in these ending episodes.
Well, when you have muddled character motivations after so many retcons and recons of their backstory on Caprica and the colonies, of course the flashbacks are going to rank from weakest-to-strongest based on the character's strength of original vision.
Which is why the Gaius one rocked. I also liked Sam's, because even though they've monkeyed a lot with him, the flashback reminds you that you liked the original creation. It was nice that they gave Sam lines.
Meanwhile, they monkeyed so much with Roslin's backstory -- she was education secretary and her mom had cancer, no wait but you didn't know the rest of her family died horrible, no wait she's an orphan AND she only got her job from fucking the nominee. ETC. It's very who gives a shit. They're only keeping her alive because they don't want her to die until the very end, whereas her death and absence would have still had meaning if she had done so a couple of episodes ago.
All I have to say about the rest: dismantling the picture wall was easily the saddest bit of the scrumming of Galactica. There are people on the wall whom no one remembers anymore. Doc Cottle can't go on the suicide mission.
COME OVER COME OVER, GAIUS BALTAR, COME OVER. He has to cross the line! He has to do it because it will symbolically close circle for him in the most perfect way possible. He can give up his life and seat in safety to save Helo's daughter, only conceived because of Helo sacrificing himself for Gaius. They should have had him do it in that scene, it would have been a touch of sublime perfection -- the sort sorely missing in these ending episodes.
