After watching the mini-series episode of the Battlestar Galactica series, I’m not sure how I feel about the show. To start, I felt like the entire episode was extremely dragged out. I guess I sort of feel like the episode allotted a lot of time to describing the back-story of the Cyclone’s and the relationship that this powerful robot-race has with humans, but yet, I didn’t feel like I really knew what was going on. On top of that, I think that the sex scenes were a bit excessive. It’s one thing to include a sexual scene that is instrumental in the relationship between two characters, but I feel like the sex scenes in BSG were sort of uncalled for. It’s really a shame, because I think that the scenes made it difficult to really appreciate the plot of the episode. Instead of thinking about the plot, I couldn’t stop thinking about how desperate the writers and producers of this show must have been to include so much sexual content in the first episode. It’s just cheap in my eyes.
Though I wasn’t head over heels, I did appreciate the symbolism that the show carries. I think it’s interesting that the cyclones have evolved to look like the humans. I think that this metaphor can be carried throughout many other aspects of our lives; sometimes it’s difficult to distinguish the enemies from the good guys among us. All in all, you could say that I appreciate Battlestar Gallactica. However, I can’t say that I’d take the time to watch the series. During the miniseries, I just got a vibe that the show sort of desperate. I’ve heard that it gets really good, but I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way.
I agree with you about how desperate the writers of the show are..the sex scenes are a bit much
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the show. Like I think that maybe the reason it felt long was because it was the miniseries and not an episode, but I was definitely more distracted by the sex scenes than I was intrigued by them.
ReplyDeleteI like how you say that "it's difficult to distinguish the enemies from the good guys" because, even though the evil robots turned into humans, the humans that we live with (that are considered "evil") were always human and are on the same moral level as electronic beings that were created for mediocre purposes.
ReplyDeletei agree sometimes by the time you understand the depth of some of the story line, like cutting the babies head of, you have already made up your mind whether to watch another episide or not.
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