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Post of infinite hate
So the grand finale of the show is a handful of white guys, mostly old, looking at the "Natives" and joking about breeding with them. And again, when the decision is made to abandon their physical culture, technology, and displace the current inhabitants of ReallyEarthThisTime, it's still a mostly male planning-group. Yes, tell me again how this show is arguably non-racist, non-misogynistic, or non-ageist.
Oh, and as to the interminable denouement? Fuck it. It's a litany of the bad choices everyone made before the apocalypse, and it's not explanatory, just embarrassing -- for the characters, the actors, and the creators.
I'm honestly trying to come up with my usual post-BSG-I-actually-watched attempt-at-comedy post, but nothin' doin'. The thing fucking makes fun of itself, and what little isn't second-to-second self-parody is just so infuriating as film making and politics that I can't seem to bring myself to engage with it in any mode but angry disdain.
As it actually ends, the one ray of hope is that given the hominids we saw, they're SO FAR BEFORE the agricultural revolution that they obviously all die out within a decade or two, century at most, and the non-invading hominids actually get their chance, rather than being replaced by obnoxious space-perverts.
OK ACTUAL ENDING IS AN ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!
Oh, and as to the interminable denouement? Fuck it. It's a litany of the bad choices everyone made before the apocalypse, and it's not explanatory, just embarrassing -- for the characters, the actors, and the creators.
I'm honestly trying to come up with my usual post-BSG-I-actually-watched attempt-at-comedy post, but nothin' doin'. The thing fucking makes fun of itself, and what little isn't second-to-second self-parody is just so infuriating as film making and politics that I can't seem to bring myself to engage with it in any mode but angry disdain.
As it actually ends, the one ray of hope is that given the hominids we saw, they're SO FAR BEFORE the agricultural revolution that they obviously all die out within a decade or two, century at most, and the non-invading hominids actually get their chance, rather than being replaced by obnoxious space-perverts.
OK ACTUAL ENDING IS AN ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!
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You know, the problem to me isn't the body count, it's the fact that the women are consistently portrayed as emotional, irrational, and insane in a manner more in line with Victorian stereotypes of women than reasonable attempts at psychologically complex characters. Or that the women are much more regularly pay dearly for their actions when they make mistakes than the men.
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First off, as agrumer said, casting would need to have been more diverse. Edward James Olmos would not be passing for white (although to be fair, perhaps the actor never was. He's just light-skinned.) The show needed more re-occurring, racially diverse characters who were NOT Cylons. The cannon fodder Viper pilots from Season 1 were very diverse, but they all died within three episodes.
The body count at the end was actually TOO LOW. Roslin and Kara were already walking dead. Anders was in-a-tub-babbling dead. They don't count. Tory and Boomer were obvious kill-offs Who Had It Coming.
I would have been fine if Boomer somehow managed to survive. If CAPRICA SIX can find forgiveness and happiness, even though she caused more damage than Boomer ever did, then that option should be available to Boomer as well. However I do concede that Caprica made choices that made it easier for her to do so. Boomer kept fucking up.
Helo really should have died. I see no way he could have survived his injuries. It may have worked better if he died during the mutiny.
Honestly, I was certain Bill Adama would fly off into the sun with Roslin after he said farewell to the Icky Twins.
Perhaps the Simons could have defected. Doctors are in high demand!
Dee should not have offed herself. That fate could easily have been transferred to another supporting named character.