Watched the two-hour season premiere …<\/p>\n
… and what I’m trying to figure out is … why?<\/em><\/p>\n It’s not bad, in and of itself. It’s muddled as all hell, as every single speaking character manages to get a part, an amazing number of them sympathetic (no matter which side or sides they’re on). Even in two hours, you can only fit so much, and BG seems to try to squeeze in three times that amount. And, yes, the Cylons have gone back to being largely black hats (sometimes literally). And, yes, the pointed moral ambiguity of resistance vs collaboration vs sacrificing oneself vs sacrificing No, the show hasn’t “jumped the shark,” as some are claiming. Not yet, anyway. Plenty of time for that, perhaps, if the clich\u00e9s continue to increase, but not yet.<\/p>\n But … why?<\/em><\/p>\n That was part of what I didn’t understand at the end of Season 2, as everything we’d known about the show was, with one plot element and a single caption, completely twisted around — as though Ricky had quit his show biz career to watch the kid, Lucy had opened a bar, and Fred and Ethel had become IRS auditors. Yeah, you can do a show about that, but weren’t you already doing a very satisfying show about something else, with plenty of material left to milk in it? Was this where it was all leading, Better analogy: the GM who decides he’s tired of the campaign as it is, and just picked up a new game setting book, and so decides to shift everyone’s characters from The Realms of Agrnar<\/em> to Modern-day Earth<\/em>, only instead of adventurers<\/em>, they’re spies<\/em> instead, and, oh, by the way, the President<\/em> they work for looks a lot like the Evil Vizier from Murgeroth, <\/em>and … <\/p>\n Again, it’s not necessarily a bad thing in and of itself (though, as I said, while some of the humans are struggling, the Cylons are becoming much more smugly bad guys — and self-righteously smug ones, at that — so there’s plenty of momentum starting to drift downhill), but it’s a huge gamble the creators are taking, recasting (figuratively) everything and everybody into a different setting, and hoping the stories told there will be as good and as gripping. <\/p>\n I’ll keep watching, but I hope I don’t start hearing that shark splashing around …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Watched the two-hour season premiere … … and what I’m trying to figure out is … why? 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\nothers vs How Far Would You Go sometimes topples over in its own self-important weight, but …<\/p>\n
\nor did you just have a case of writers block?<\/p>\n