{"id":9844,"date":"2006-10-22T21:37:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T04:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/22\/another-week-of-battlestar-galactica-and-doctor-who.html"},"modified":"2006-10-22T21:37:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T04:37:45","slug":"another_week_of_battlesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/another_week_of_battlesta.html","title":{"rendered":"Another week of Battlestar Galactica<\/i> and Doctor Who<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The second part of “Exodus” in Battlestar Galactica<\/em> manages to pay off the long slog of the first episodes this season. In the end, the plot advances, the cast is thinned, and things move on. The heroes get to be heroic, the villains angstily tormented, and plenty is set up to continue matters back “the way they were.”<\/p>\n

So, was it all a good thing? Hard to say. I feel the New Caprica chapters were, simultaneously, too much of a diversion and too scantily engaged in. In some ways, it would have been better had it been a full season (as impractical as that would have been in some areas). And it did manage to refocus some of the characters, cut away some of the deadwood (or distractions), and get us back to where we really should have been. <\/p>\n

The trick, of course, will be, what now? What’s up for the various survivors, on both sides (I’ll stay ambiguous here for those who may still not be caught up)? How the producers and writers answer that — walking the tightrope between returning to what made the show good, and honoring that things have in fact changed — will determine whether BG continues on in greatness or tapers off into third season limbo.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, on the Doctor Who<\/em> front, we have “The Girl in the Fireplace,” which manages to span both the futuristic and period piece styles of the Doctor’s adventures. <\/p>\n

TGitF is an odd episode, in that the Doctor … behaves oddly, swept up into a romance that, in some ways, seems atypical. One of the challenges of the new DW series is managing to bring in some deeper dramatic themes, but if you bounce characters around too much, you’re liable to make them a heck of a lot less believable. Here, the Doctor’s infatuation with the guest protagonist feels force, out of character, too quick. Meanwhile, Rose and Mickey are relegated off to comic relief (with
\na bit of “boy, there he is, jerking me around again” on Rose’s part). <\/p>\n

The end, though, was a nice touch; Rod Serling would be proud.<\/p>\n

Not one of the best episodes, and, honestly, another case of Series 2 (and David Tennant) not living up to the Series 1 promise. But it’s still a heck of a lot better than most of the alternatives out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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