Comments | woolly_socks: What a lot of fun, you guys have been real swell

woolly_socks

What a lot of fun, you guys have been real swell

Mar 23, 2009 08:24

Wow, I'm seeing so much BSG-rage on my flist, with tiny little pockets of squee. Fascinating.

So, I have to put my two cents in, for anyone who cares. I fall into the squee camp, with smatterings of WTF? But there is no rage.

( spoilers for the BSG finale )

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meresy March 22 2009, 21:03:02 UTC

I fall into the squee camp, with smatterings of WTF?

Me too, mostly. Maybe more WTF than \o/, but my reaction when watching was mostly omgomgomgwhat? Because there was all this tension and awesome battle and then... oooo-kay.

After I let it percolate for a while more things started bugging me, though. >:( But no rage.

woolly_socks March 22 2009, 21:06:17 UTC

I have to watch it again before I can get it straight in my head, I think. There was plenty of WTF, but I was totally expecting that! I wonder if people appreciate how difficult it is to end a story like that at all, let alone to the satisfaction of zillions of people. it required a massive contextual shift in the narrative, and that's always going to give the viewer a bit of whiplash.

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woolly_socks March 22 2009, 21:55:17 UTC

*g* I would have posted yesterday, but I was frantically finishing an assignment that is due today!

I definitely have to watch it again, to absorb it properly. couldn't watch with us yesterday so I'll be watching it again with her. \o/

i can't belive it's over! I mean, I can, but it's weird!

blue_raven March 22 2009, 21:36:37 UTC

I fall into the squee camp, with smatterings of WTF? But there is no rage.

Yup. As far as endings go, it was a great one. Not Six Feet Under great, but still fantastic. And I even teared up. I really did.

...yeah, I can see where people would feel let down and be disappointed. There were many things I had issues with over the run of the show, but overall, I still found it better viewing than some other shows out there. :)

woolly_socks March 22 2009, 21:53:12 UTC

Dude, I cried BUCKETS. I usually do. *g* I started when it looked like Helo was going to die, and I never even liked him that much! When the Prez died I lost it completely.

There were many things I had issues with over the run of the show, but overall, I still found it better viewing than some other shows out there. :)

Yep. Absolutely. Not perfect, but damn good, and not far off what I was expecting.

whyoffry March 22 2009, 22:13:39 UTC

HEE! I thought it was going to be good, but I can't get up the energy to be ragey. Mostly just disappointed. As you say, RDM is a fuckwad.

woolly_socks March 22 2009, 22:15:04 UTC

This isn't news though, right? People are acting like it's news!

whyoffry March 22 2009, 22:16:09 UTC

Indeed. People should know this, but... it is the finale after all.

woolly_socks March 22 2009, 22:18:20 UTC

Uh huh. People expect all of the awesome of previous episodes to be squished into the last one.

utterfrivolity March 23 2009, 14:26:10 UTC

I'm so happy you enjoyed it! I was actually pretty content. I mean, would I re-write the entire last half of this season if I had the chance? Hell yeah. But I wasn't bothered by most of what happened, and some of it I absolutely loved. I'd been bitching all season about the Gaius/Caprica relationship being neglected; not that I care about that relationship more than others, but I thought it was important, and that it had gone from being central to the series to nearly nonexistent. To see them together again as a key part of the series made me happy enough that I could shrug off some of the most ridiculous elements of the finale (e.g. everyone being super-awesome with giving up all their technology ( ... )

woolly_socks March 24 2009, 04:19:56 UTC

Yes, I agree with a lot of this. I think this show was virtually impossible to end gracefully ( ... )

utterfrivolity March 24 2009, 13:06:20 UTC

So I was really just unhappy with the four episodes directly preceding the finale. I'd really enjoyed most of the episodes before that. And it's a fair point that I might enjoy them more upon re-watching. I think a key source of my discontent was my impatience and frustration with the fact that they kept picking up and dropping storylines left and right when they were supposed to be wrapping up the show. And in general I get frustrated with ensemble shows that ignore characters and relationships for whole episodes. It's not so bad when there's some indefinite number of episodes left to make up for the neglect, but it drove me nuts knowing that the series was ending and I had no idea what was happening with certain characters ( ... )

woolly_socks March 26 2009, 08:11:29 UTC

I think a key source of my discontent was my impatience and frustration with the fact that they kept picking up and dropping storylines left and right when they were supposed to be wrapping up the show.

Interesting. I saw it as them bringing all the threads together, the ones I was worried they'd forgotten about, and making them all make sense. I found it really satisfying.

There are some episodes of Doctor Who that I loved on first viewing that now make me think of someone's dissertation on sexism or whatever.I HATE that. I think it's easy to find sexism in things if you're looking for it. It's easy to find a lot of things if you're looking for them. Some people have their soapboxes they want to get on, and if it's going to dampen my enjoyment of the show, I don't want to play ( ... )

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