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Battlestar Galactica season "3.0" recap
Dec. 19th, 2006 05:36 pmWith Battlestar Galactica now on a short hiatus, I thought I might try and set down a few of my thoughts about the first part of its third season. On thinking about it, though, I began to wonder if one of the most significant things for me is that there's now much less of a gap between when the episodes are first shown on the Sci-Fi Channel and when I can see them on Space. This did let me avoid the hiatus between the two halves of the second season, but now I don't have to keep away from the reactions of others quite as much as I did then... and I'm left wondering if the discussions are all that pleasant at times, if the show is transitioning into that awkward stage where the fans know what they want but the creators can't quite seem to read their minds.
Of course, some reactions I saw to Lee and Kara sort of getting back together were half-incoherent with "shippy" joy, and some were kind of annoyed. There's no grim consensus yet! That might let me try and define my own reactions at last. The episodes seem to divide into three parts: in the first, everyone tries to escape from Cylon occupation on New Caprica, in the second, the repercussions of that escape develop... and in the third, there are a series of revelations about different characters. Beyond whatever reactions I had or didn't have to the specific revelations, I did start to wonder in a mostly amiable way if the characters are somewhat set in their ways by now, if the revelations are an easy way to produce one episode's worth of story. Against that, though, is something of a feeling that certain parts of the show (one ship defending what's left of humanity, and just who's where on it) have been restored. I shouldn't pretend that all the characters are unmarked, of course. Perhaps the most ominous conclusion I might yet draw from all of it is that, to keep from drawing back from the series itself, I just might wind up drawing back from the reactions of others again.
Of course, some reactions I saw to Lee and Kara sort of getting back together were half-incoherent with "shippy" joy, and some were kind of annoyed. There's no grim consensus yet! That might let me try and define my own reactions at last. The episodes seem to divide into three parts: in the first, everyone tries to escape from Cylon occupation on New Caprica, in the second, the repercussions of that escape develop... and in the third, there are a series of revelations about different characters. Beyond whatever reactions I had or didn't have to the specific revelations, I did start to wonder in a mostly amiable way if the characters are somewhat set in their ways by now, if the revelations are an easy way to produce one episode's worth of story. Against that, though, is something of a feeling that certain parts of the show (one ship defending what's left of humanity, and just who's where on it) have been restored. I shouldn't pretend that all the characters are unmarked, of course. Perhaps the most ominous conclusion I might yet draw from all of it is that, to keep from drawing back from the series itself, I just might wind up drawing back from the reactions of others again.