Yes, I agree with a lot of this. I think this show was virtually impossible to end gracefully.
I wouldn't re-write the last half-season though, I've been really enjoying it! Especially on re-watching (yes, I do spend a lot of time watching TV, why do you ask?) I think it's been multi-layered and well thought out. A return to form, to the BSG I loved to begin with. Little things have come together in a way that I think makes sense. To me. It makes perfect sense to me.
I was OK with Lee being left to his exploring. He'll be OK. He'll go and stand on clifftops and brood, and do The Right Thing, and meet a nice girl and die in his sleep. There, I just wrote commentfic. Lee Adama's happy ending. :-P
I've been involved in BSG fandom part-time over the years, so I got pretty invested. I'm fiercely loyal; it takes a lot for me to get disillusioned and abandon something. So the decline in support and eventual rage I've seen in response to season four has made me sad. It has decreased my enjoyment, so I'm kind of reconsidering fandoms with open canon.
Mind you, if the rumours are true about impending Companions on Who, combined with the new Doctor being a 15 year old with bad hair, I may be abandoning that much-beloved show...
I can't trust my judgment right now. I have a severe head cold.
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Date: 2009-03-24 04:19 am (UTC)I wouldn't re-write the last half-season though, I've been really enjoying it! Especially on re-watching (yes, I do spend a lot of time watching TV, why do you ask?) I think it's been multi-layered and well thought out. A return to form, to the BSG I loved to begin with. Little things have come together in a way that I think makes sense. To me. It makes perfect sense to me.
I was OK with Lee being left to his exploring. He'll be OK. He'll go and stand on clifftops and brood, and do The Right Thing, and meet a nice girl and die in his sleep. There, I just wrote commentfic. Lee Adama's happy ending. :-P
I've been involved in BSG fandom part-time over the years, so I got pretty invested. I'm fiercely loyal; it takes a lot for me to get disillusioned and abandon something. So the decline in support and eventual rage I've seen in response to season four has made me sad. It has decreased my enjoyment, so I'm kind of reconsidering fandoms with open canon.
Mind you, if the rumours are true about impending Companions on Who, combined with the new Doctor being a 15 year old with bad hair, I may be abandoning that much-beloved show...
I can't trust my judgment right now. I have a severe head cold.