My theory, seriously, is that someone somewhere on the writing team suddenly was like "Hey, these people are living on the edge every day, have lost pretty much everything, and we should really have a couple of episodes where these characters are on the verge of suicide, cause that would be real." And then they wrote them.
Yeah, the show's one wobble from brilliance. But "Downloaded" was freaking awesome! How cool was that when Caprica Six downloaded and THEN THERE WAS BALTAR IN HER HEAD?? My jaw dropped, I swear, and that episode redeemed my flagging love in the show. And the new season? Better than anything they've done before. I'm going to skate the edge of spoilers here to tell you this much: Anders (Starbuck's man that she can't forget after a whole what, 3 months back on Caprica?) annoyed the CRAP out of me last season. I hated how quickly Starbuck fell for him and how utterly focused on him she became after all of five minutes of screen time together. I felt like he was nothing but a thinly veiled excuse to keep her and Lee at odds, and an all too obvious foil for Lee.
My opinion was not improved by the season finale, just FYI. HOWEVER. This season? We're what, four episodes in, and I LOVE ANDERS. He is not a cardboard cutout, nor merely an excuse to come between Kara and Lee this season, no, he rocks in his own right.
and really, I cannot tell you enough how much Season 3 rocks. It is really, really good. And it sounds like you're getting close enough to the end of S2 that I need to be popping some DVDs in the mail of S3, am I right?
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Date: 2006-10-24 04:00 pm (UTC)Yeah, the show's one wobble from brilliance. But "Downloaded" was freaking awesome! How cool was that when Caprica Six downloaded and THEN THERE WAS BALTAR IN HER HEAD?? My jaw dropped, I swear, and that episode redeemed my flagging love in the show. And the new season? Better than anything they've done before. I'm going to skate the edge of spoilers here to tell you this much: Anders (Starbuck's man that she can't forget after a whole what, 3 months back on Caprica?) annoyed the CRAP out of me last season. I hated how quickly Starbuck fell for him and how utterly focused on him she became after all of five minutes of screen time together. I felt like he was nothing but a thinly veiled excuse to keep her and Lee at odds, and an all too obvious foil for Lee.
My opinion was not improved by the season finale, just FYI. HOWEVER. This season? We're what, four episodes in, and I LOVE ANDERS. He is not a cardboard cutout, nor merely an excuse to come between Kara and Lee this season, no, he rocks in his own right.
and really, I cannot tell you enough how much Season 3 rocks. It is really, really good. And it sounds like you're getting close enough to the end of S2 that I need to be popping some DVDs in the mail of S3, am I right?