tv gives me feelings
The BSG reboot was a great series by many standards. The characters it created were multidimensional and flawed and wonderful; the stories got messy, but in a way that felt real as opposed to gratuitous except for a couple of very particular instances; and it was, on the whole, less terrifically white and male-dominated than the vast majority of SciFi series. It tackled social issues, and especially class issues and issues of power structures, in bold and meaningful ways. And "Daybreak" did not do the series justice.
What the last half hour of "Daybreak" amounted to, for me, was "It was god(s) the whole time!" It's not that I think that tack is lazy, necessarily, but it had seemed like things had been building toward something more complicated and ultimately more meaningful. I just don't think it does justice to the characters they've created.
(Also, it doesn't actually make sense. The prophecies were true... except they weren't! Because God! That is terrible logic.)
Sigh. And I was really looking forward to rewatching the series, or parts of the series, and writing meta about portrayals of disability and race and the intersections thereof, and now... I don't know how I'll feel about rewatching anything other than "Unfinished Business," given that I know how things turn out. I'll probably feel better in a couple of months. And in the meantime, I suppose there's always Law & Order: UK. JAMIE BAMBER.
What the last half hour of "Daybreak" amounted to, for me, was "It was god(s) the whole time!" It's not that I think that tack is lazy, necessarily, but it had seemed like things had been building toward something more complicated and ultimately more meaningful. I just don't think it does justice to the characters they've created.
(Also, it doesn't actually make sense. The prophecies were true... except they weren't! Because God! That is terrible logic.)
Sigh. And I was really looking forward to rewatching the series, or parts of the series, and writing meta about portrayals of disability and race and the intersections thereof, and now... I don't know how I'll feel about rewatching anything other than "Unfinished Business," given that I know how things turn out. I'll probably feel better in a couple of months. And in the meantime, I suppose there's always Law & Order: UK. JAMIE BAMBER.