It seemed like 10 gallons stuffed into a 2-gallon hat, which meant a lot of texture got left out. Sort of like reading the headlines of a newspaper, without actually reading any of the articles.

Yep, that's how I felt too. As I said in my post, I felt like we were being told a story rather than watching it. Which I read now and think may be hypocritical given my proclaimed love of storytelling, but I think there's a distinction between storytelling and being told a story. More summary than scene is what it was.

The generally positive reaction is making me see things in a little better light, in that I'm at least cautiously interested in where they're going with this, rather than, "WTF? Whatever."

I also agree with Nutty in that the Alias time jump was handled better (at least in the cliffhanger sense). With that, stories were coming to a close anyway, so a time jump didn't necessarily kill potential. Here, it's like we were denied a significant amount of material.

I was thinking last night that rather than make the jump so abrupt, they could have done what they did at the end of "Scar." A catch-up montage of material we hadn't already seen. Kind of like the previouslies!

I was thinking last night that rather than make the jump so abrupt, they could have done what they did at the end of "Scar." A catch-up montage of material we hadn't already seen. Kind of like the previouslies!

The one thing that was useful about the podcast is that it drove the point home (at least for me) the severe budget constraints they were under. So there was a lot of crap I wish I would have seen, but I just don't think they had the budget for it.

P-C, can you shoot me a link to your LJ? I would love to read it.

Here you go. Click on the BSG tag to read all my previous BSG posts as well.

I loved it. I don't think we were told a story - I think we were hint at the story to be. Honestly, I couldn't have watched the disinigration of the colonies over weeks - that would have been way too painful.

Adama and the choice. I think Adama has really taken the question " does humanity deserve to survive" to heart. What makes us worth being. I think with his military background, and the general religious background of the colonies - Truth/ honor , etc. are very important parts of humane humanity - the good parts in us.

I'm with beth--I think that they've done an excellent job of leaving us plenty of backstory to investigate next season, between what exactly happened between Lee and Kara to sever their ties to each other, what drove Tyrol (btw, did he look yummy in that full beard and glasses, or what!) to become a union leader, what got Kara and Tigh so huggy...oh, so many things I want to learn!

Holy FUCK, that was brave.

I think Adama was standing up for a principle. If we steal elections we are no longer on the side of right. There has to be some line beyond which you will not go, or you can't honestly say you have a system of ethics. Note Laura's utter relief when she decides not to steal the election.

Is it Philip Marlowe who says that if you live outside the law, you have to be honest? Well, Laura and Bill have been living on the ragged edge of the law for a long time, and they finally found the thing they could not do.

Is it Philip Marlowe who says that if you live outside the law, you have to be honest?

I don't know about Marlowe, but Bob Dylan certainly did.

I've been meaning to mention a fanwank I had two weeks ago when they showed that Caprica!Six was in love with Baltar.

If they want to explain away the glowy spine thing from the pilot, they can say that Caprica!Six was in love, and being the first Six to do so, the glowy thing was never noticed.

I liked how the actress who plays Six showed us a Caprica!Six who was holding herself back from jumping Baltar right then and there. It was like "it's him! Him! Him! Him! Him! Baltar! It's Me! Me!!"

I was amused.

Then I'm sure it was Dylan I was thinking of.

Now I'm thinking of the attack montage with Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower," as done by Jimi Hendrix, played over it.

There must be some way out of here
Said the joker to the theif
There`s too much confusion
I can`t get no relief...