SF Friday

[lyssie]

SG-1:

Sam! Cam! Barrett! Teal'c being SNEAKY! (and weary. OMG. He needs a hug and a cry and a big bowl of ice cream, STAT)

Oh, look, they followed my suggestion and beamed the building into space.

And Ba'al has clones. Can we clone Kara now?

WAIT. This means Ba'al is a Cylon.

You heard it here first, folks.


Lantis:

So. Bored. Like, the actors were bored. SO BORED. And Martin needed to stop re-watching The Village, because it made it even MORE BORING OMG.

Wraith-girl and Teyla bond, because OMG they both have VAGINAS.

This episode? Could have been scrapped and no one would have missed it, least of all those of us who had to suffer through it. Those of you who know me well will understand just how bad when I say I kept asking if the genii would show up soon, please.

Seriously. The plot had holes that needed trucks to traverse.

The only good bit was Ronon and Teyla, and that was only because he will be able to hide behind her vagina when Shep gets pissy at him for disobeying orders. "But Teyla told me to!"

Bet Ford never tried that.

And next week, as is predictable *yawn* Shep is infected with the retrovirus (and so is half the city, too, I'm sure).

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Let me pause for a moment, to note that, again, SG is trying to pull the "slavery is bad" commentary. BOTH episodes had it. SG-1 had Garek torturing someone with a painstick (Hi, Peter deLuise). SGA had the Wraith Girl who Wanted to be Human.... Sigh. I think I actually prefer these to Galactica's preachiness...
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BSG: The Nique Snarky Recap

For a show that keeps claiming to have Impact, I'm really not seeing it. Prediction: There will be lots of sacrifice and bloodshed on Kobol! For there is Payment in Blood for Prophecies and Maps!

Actual reality: One person we vaguely cared about died (and I found her fucking irritating, and cheered). Oh, and two of Zarek's henchmen were shot.

Yeah. That's, um, impact and Payment in Blood there. Yup.

NOT.

Seriously, if you have a show where at any moment anyone could die, it would be nice to have some fucking follow-through. Billy, Lee, Kara, Tyrol, Helo, Sharon--ALL of them could have died.

Instead, only Teh Ebil Conspirators died.

Shucks.

What was that about shades of grey again?

Roslin's apparently broken, or something. Whatever.

Kara tried to talk about Caprica, and Roslin apparently tried to, as well.

Adama really bored me. A lot.

Lee was barely there, either. Sigh.

Adama didn't hug Kara. wtf?

Crying emotional Kara on 'Earth' was kind of silly.

Also, er, can't they do a plotting thing? They know that the stars will be in a certain configuration (y'know, even after thousands of years of the universe expanding/contracting), can't they plot the coordinates in three-d in some way? (maybe I should stop reading Science Fiction books)

And the ending of this episode... wow. Um. Bored again. SGA's ending was better. Seriously.

There's all of this build-up, "OMG! You suck!" "No! You suck more!" "I'm making this channel moderated and none of you have voice!" crap, and then....there's a boring speech and clapping.

*yawn*

Not impressed.

Btw, how did they get out of the tomb? Because not showing that was a handwave worthy of Star Trek. "OMG we've written ourselves into a corner and have no fucking clue how to get out." "Hey! Quick-cut to speech!" "Yay."

Comments

[amykay73.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if you have a show where at any moment anyone could die, it would be nice to have some fucking follow-through. Billy, Lee, Kara, Tyrol, Helo, Sharon--ALL of them could have died.

For the most part I really liked this episode. I even liked the tomb star mapping thing, and ignored their magical exit route. However, I was disappointed in the final death count on Kobol. I saw your prediction about Billy, and thought that would be a great death. I also thought Sharon could have died (and then done another Cylon switcheroo - Helo, that Sharon wasn't really YOUR Sharon, but here she is for real this time and really pregnant, we promise!). But once Boomer did the whole 'trust me' speech to Helo, I knew Zarek's henchman was dead. I also knew bald henchman was dead when he made his obligatory scene cameo in the very beginning. So when all the 'main' characters were standing around looking at all the C-list characters who just got offed, I was a bit annoyed with the show.

[ilanala]

As much as I'd hate to see BSG characters I like die, it really does hurt the show that they haven't killed anyone we really care about. I'm starting to get the feeling that they're just wimping out and it annoys me.

And I completely agree with you on the ending. You can't have them get to the place they've been looking for all this time and then just cut to a Dramatic Speech without explaining anything about how they got back or what happened after that.

Did BSG use to be better than this? I swear it was at some point...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

The mapping thing was, er, ok.

And, yeah. Boomer. Sigh. Never believed she'd kill Adama. Oh well.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Maybe? *hides*

It's just, we had the first half (which had a HORRIBLE climax), and then this one plodded on and ON AND ON.... And then... yeah. It's a pacing issue (SG-1 has the same problem).

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

Adama didn't hug Kara. wtf?

I think he might have, if stupid Sharon hadn't ruined the moment just then.

Crying emotional Kara on 'Earth' was kind of silly.

Actually, I kind of liked it. It's like, all this religious stuff that she's been reluctantly believing in all her life is really true, and she's overwhelmed by it. I dunno.

[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

Also, er, can't they do a plotting thing? They know that the stars will be in a certain configuration (y'know, even after thousands of years of the universe expanding/contracting), can't they plot the coordinates in three-d in some way? (maybe I should stop reading Science Fiction books)

Devil's advocate time: even if they've got a computer powerful enough to check the stellar positions of every point in the galaxy, it would probably be one so complex that it would be easily hackable by the Cylons, who could take the opportunity to steer the fleet right into a Cylon flotilla, or just the center of a sun.

My bugbear, however, involves Lee's recoginizing of the nebula. Unless he's a heretofore unrevealed galactic traveler, he should only have seen the nebula from one direction, and thus one perspective. The nebula, even if it was visible from Earth, should look completely different (unless Earth happens to be directly between the 12 colonies and the nebula).

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I wanted a hug. *pouts*

I think I'm getting tired of her crying, though. I mean... dude, do women really cry that often? sigh.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Good point. And, gosh, I guess this means it doesn't matter if they found a map, because they can't use it without the Cylons hacking them.

Yeah, that was iffy, too.

[bijoux.livejournal.com]

Maybe they do when they're faced with the destruction of their home world, their people, and everything they hold dear to them. I mean, she's been holding it inside for a few months. She was bound to crack.

Still, I get what you're saying. I want ass-kicking Kara back.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Wraith-girl and Teyla bond, because OMG they both have VAGINAS.

I totally said at that point, "And now Teyla will tell her about Woman Things."

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

yah. I hated this episode a lot.