Post by THawk on Dec 6, 2017 2:41:03 GMT
Dec 6, 2017 0:58:59 GMT @graham said:
Great show, if somewhat flawed.It ultimately destroyed itself with one moment. "And they have a plan."
I'm told Ron Moore didn't write that, some other guy did. And that one phrase made it seem as if the show was being written to a long term plan. It made it seem as if Moore had a plan in mind for the series, that each thing that happened on the show was part of some grand design that would gradually become clear.
Only... he didn't. He was just making it up as he went along.
Sadly, like most efforts to invent a long-running continuity on the fly (I'm looking at you, X-Files!) this meant that the show wound up increasingly complicated, confused, contradictory, and meandering. Alas, the last season or so is increasingly unwatchable.
This of course culminated in the one-off special "The Plan", which revealed that the titular "Plan" was a combination of a handful of Cylons in the fleet trying whatever they could think of on any given day, and doing wacky stuff like suicide bombings pretty much entirely at random. Thus making the colonials (and audience) look hilariously foolish for ever thinking that there was a grand plan at all.
Still, it did have some great stuff in it.
The extreme hate that this show, particularly the ending, has accumulated online is pretty much because it dared not to have a secular philosophy at the end. Atheists often have a problem with spiritual material; but what they absolutely despise to the core of their being is being led to believe they are enjoying something secular, only for it to turn out something else.
Extremely few shows, maybe 2 or 3, have managed to match up to BSG's quality since it ended in 2009.
