Battlestar Sandboxica

for cryin' out loud!

"Paper shortage"

I forgot there were still embittered Dirk Benedict groupies out there.

I'm lately just unhappy with the show's tendency to want to cover up poor plotting with tons of flashbacks and "3 days ago..." story structure. It's gimmicky and doesn't really do justice to the depth of character that the show has proven itself capable of.
As a for instance, we end the boxing show with Dee glaring from the corner of the ring and 'buck and Apollo clinched and mumbling bloody nothings in each other's ear. So next episode, we'll address all that, right? No? We're gonna kill Kat? For no particular reason?
I'm not digging the sloppiness at the moment.
Still good tv, tho.

can't relate to you naysayers, i think this season has been the strongest yet!

Apparently, one of the upcoming eps will feature Chief Tyrol & his New Caprica union, which marks the first time that we've had any mention or focus of organized labor in sci-fi in, what, forever?

(the off-screen BSG teacher strike doesn't count)

Also, check your torrents, people. There's a pretty good gag reel floating around out there, mainly from season 3 footage.

Babylon 5 got there first unfortunately...Whole episode about a dockers strike iirc.

That's what I've been saying!

-- turd burglary (still.bevens@(g)mail.com), Today. (later)

what have they been doing besides running in place?

I'm about ready to give up on this show at this point. I think they had twelve episodes of story and twenty six slots to fill. The Verheiden stuff is especially bad; last night's episode was a worst example of the "character development" via torture. Beating up and/or spotlighting characters does not equal development; I don't know anything more about Chief and Cally's relationship than I did before and it didn't develop in any way... plus, it's not as if I really believed y'all were gonna kill them, so why should I give a damn about this story?

Meanwhile, a'la 'Lost', their have been so many major changes that go undiscussed for no reason. Say, don't you all have a Cylon in captivity? Remember last season, when that was good for six episodes and a near fleet riot? Why is it unremarakable now? For that matter, where did the fleet go? The only action these days is on Galactica.

Again: about ready to give up.

Yeah, I wish they'd do more with this storyline rather than Cally/Chief angst.