I’ve just finished watching the first season of Battlestar Galactica.
For years I’ve heard about how great it was.
If I’m honest… I’m not that impressed. It’s not bad. It’s just not great and I was expecting greatness.
I’m starting the second season and it seems to be picking up the pace a bit so maybe it gets better as it goes. Maybe Gaius will be killed off. That would improve things.
We officially have two Gaius-haters in our friend group then. Em couldn’t get into the show because of that character.
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Dangit, I posted to another email account again. Stupid auto-fill. Here’s what I said in the original:
We officially have two Gaius-haters in our friend group then. Em couldn’t get into the show because of that character.
It’s not just that he’s awful. It’s that it’s too big a stretch that he wouldn’t be caught out for his weird behaviour from the very beginning.
Even if everyone thinks you’re a genius, they’ll still want to see what you’re doing and try to understand it.
He does whatever he wants without anyone ever questioning it. He’s caught doing some pretty weird stuff that wouldn’t be passed off as just eccentric and they just ignore it.
The entire premise of the Cylon detection is ludicrous. Nobody cares how it works or wants to see the results. They just accept his word that it works even though it’s never detected a single Cylon and he’s actively hiding the results.
If the Cylons wanted them all dead, they’d all be dead. That’s all there is to it. If they DON’T want them all dead, then why are they putting so much effort into killing them when they find them?
“Even if everyone thinks you’re a genius, they’ll still want to see what you’re doing and try to understand it.”
He said, confidently, as if there aren’t living examples of exactly this in reality today.
We’re nearly done season 2 now . It’s getting better. I’m finding myself more interested in what happens next than I was during the first season.
So that’s good.