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woolly_socks) wrote2009-03-23 08:24 am
woolly_socks) wrote2009-03-23 08:24 am
What a lot of fun, you guys have been real swell
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.
You know what, I always thought the ending would be a little clumsy. I have never quite lost sight of the fact that RDM is a bit of a fuckwad sometimes. Remember when he thought it was a really good idea for Baltar to go into the opera house on Kobol and meet God, played by Dirk Benedict? /o\
So I was steeling myself for some industrial strength WTF, but I'm guessing by the reactions I'm hearing, that most were not. Oh well. *sigh*
I love that the uneasy truce with Cavil fell apart because of something so small and human as a secret murder of someone's wife. I just DIG that, the juxtaposition of the grand and sweeping and epic and the small and (cosmically) petty.
I love that Kara was not explained. There's nothing I hate more than being given ALL the answers. Some is fine, thank you. \o/
(BTW, there are some answers here, if you swing that way. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarah_actually for the link)
I'm not going to go through every single little thing I loved and did not love. The thought is just exhausting. Suffice it to say, I was satisfied.
I did giggle my way through the last couple of minutes on contemporary Earth, partly because I was exhausted and hysterical by that point and partly because it was as subtle as a sledgehammer.
I'm happy with the unanswered questions. I like unanswered questions! Isn't that what fandom thrives on? As long as there aren't too many, and I think there was just the right amount here.
The Chief remains my favourite character, and not just because I want to #$!!% Aaron Douglas. I think hermitude is a sensible choice to deal with your anger management issues, especially when there doesn't appear to be any psychologists around to help everyone out with their epic multi-layered PTSD.
Go live on an island! Climb mountains! Have babies! Curl up and die! These are all valid lifestyle choices, after a journey like that.
I only have one very silly thing to say about Kara, which I was about to use for a subject line but then realised how spoilery it was: SHE'S NOT THE MESSIAH, SHE'S JUST A VERY NAUGHTY PILOT!!
Hee. ♥. Nice one, RDM. Goodnight, good work, I'll most likely kill you in the morning. If the rest of the fandom doesn't beat me to it.
Bye bye, show. I'll be seeing you again, over and over, I expect. Except for the episodes that I violently hate, but this wasn't one of them.
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.
You know what, I always thought the ending would be a little clumsy. I have never quite lost sight of the fact that RDM is a bit of a fuckwad sometimes. Remember when he thought it was a really good idea for Baltar to go into the opera house on Kobol and meet God, played by Dirk Benedict? /o\
So I was steeling myself for some industrial strength WTF, but I'm guessing by the reactions I'm hearing, that most were not. Oh well. *sigh*
I love that the uneasy truce with Cavil fell apart because of something so small and human as a secret murder of someone's wife. I just DIG that, the juxtaposition of the grand and sweeping and epic and the small and (cosmically) petty.
I love that Kara was not explained. There's nothing I hate more than being given ALL the answers. Some is fine, thank you. \o/
(BTW, there are some answers here, if you swing that way. Thanks to
sarah_actually for the link)I'm not going to go through every single little thing I loved and did not love. The thought is just exhausting. Suffice it to say, I was satisfied.
I did giggle my way through the last couple of minutes on contemporary Earth, partly because I was exhausted and hysterical by that point and partly because it was as subtle as a sledgehammer.
I'm happy with the unanswered questions. I like unanswered questions! Isn't that what fandom thrives on? As long as there aren't too many, and I think there was just the right amount here.
The Chief remains my favourite character, and not just because I want to #$!!% Aaron Douglas. I think hermitude is a sensible choice to deal with your anger management issues, especially when there doesn't appear to be any psychologists around to help everyone out with their epic multi-layered PTSD.
Go live on an island! Climb mountains! Have babies! Curl up and die! These are all valid lifestyle choices, after a journey like that.
I only have one very silly thing to say about Kara, which I was about to use for a subject line but then realised how spoilery it was: SHE'S NOT THE MESSIAH, SHE'S JUST A VERY NAUGHTY PILOT!!
Hee. ♥. Nice one, RDM. Goodnight, good work, I'll most likely kill you in the morning. If the rest of the fandom doesn't beat me to it.
Bye bye, show. I'll be seeing you again, over and over, I expect. Except for the episodes that I violently hate, but this wasn't one of them.
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LJ has been riling me up a lot recently, even on truly important issues that I agree with like this whole Amazon business, and I've been trying to figure out what's so agitating to me. I think what it comes down to is that it is all about the soapbox; in a rush to be seen and heard, instead of trying to organize a productive response, everyone grabs the pitchforks (in this case, lots of bold and underline and large font). I don't respect that type of response on LJ or in RL politics. It's not like I'm apathetic; hell, I'm probably going to start working full-time as a lobbyist for a public interest advocacy group pretty soon. I definitely recognize that there's a place for incendiary public protests, mostly as part of a greater organizational effort. But there's a certain type of self-righteousness about public protest activity that gets on my last nerve. Particularly when the sum total of the protest amounts to an LJ rant about [fill-in-the-black ism] in [fill-in-the-blank show], which is mostly just preaching to the choir.
Anyway, just following up because it was on my mind. Sorry for cluttering your inbox!
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People love feeling self-righteous. They LOVE IT. I do myself, sometimes. The moral high ground feels so good.
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