Stallion Cornell's Moist Board

As far as I know, HM was a GINOfan like me who defected because he couldn't accept the decisions of the Supreme Leader about the show.

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Not a 'fan' per se.... I was a member of this board before I became a regular viewer.

In season 1, I didn't ever think the show was as horrible, tho as people here were making it out here. Season 1 actually had a consistency and a suspense to it, that seemed to be going in a genuine direction. The big bragging point the fans had back then, was 'gritty realism' -- it was realistic. It happened in space, but it dealt with situations, emotions, events that could conceivably happen to its viewers, in the real world.

But shared visions of an opera house, a planet of Cylons who all got killed in a war 2000 years ago, when Cylons were supposedly invented on Caprica 50 years ago... true love being a necessary ingredient for conception... 'head characters'; these are not concepts grounded in reality.

EJO always swore he'd walk if they ever happened upon an alien planet; aliens, you see, aren't gritty & realistic, they are fantasy. But mystical visions, apparitions, beings in glowing white robes, 'special destinies'... these things are fantasy, as much as aliens are. I don't see the difference.

It was when the show seemed to just leap away from its original premise, right around the year jump... I always figured they ran out of ideas to keep that same premise alive, so they did the year jump to just toss it all & start off in a much hokier direction-- if I ever was a 'fan' I quit being one, about then.

Still... I watch it every week, so I have to admit, I must like the show on some level.

That's strange. I found the visions at the Opera House, Inner Baltar and Head Six the BEST of BSG, and the fact they disregarded it is the main reason why I rejected the show at the moment. I was really intrigued by the concept of "Supernatural Science Fiction", it was something that was never tried before, and sounded genial to me. Or at least, very promising...this could have really changed the concept of Sci-fi and would have been a landmark of the genre.

Instead of "supernatural sci-fi", we got granny fucking around, sado maso love story between elder people and top models, cheating wives and plotholes.

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Well, I liked head-Six & Baltar... but at the time, it was really the only 'inexplicable' part of the story.. everything else was some kind of futuristic mystery & secrecy, but nothing outright impossible to explain. the 'fantasy' elements were minor... as you'd expect them to be in a 'mostly realistic' scenario. The fact that the whole show had a realistic feel to it, made head-six, that one fantastic element, really unusual.


My main problem with the Opera house tho is, I didn't think they ever really resolved any of the loose threads from season 1 after the year jump. The opera house visions were just some big twist that took the whole show in a new direction that nothing to do with what we already saw, and I figured it was just a matter of time before they'd toss it all for a new big 'twist', & the new stories would have nothing to do with any of the visions.

Turns out I was right.

The show is for those with only short term memory, and hazy about the past, or don't give a damn about the past storyline.

Ironically, I considered the Opera House the BEST of BSG, it embodied the esoteric and mythlogical aspect of the show that I supposed existed at that time, like the Temple of the Five it seemed that it contained a lot of masonic references, in this case to the Royal Arch, and I really thought that the prophecy of Baltar, Caprica 6 and Hera forming a "family" of some sort was a flash of genius.

Of course, the Final Revelation was that this was just a delusion and in the end, I overrated the esoteric lore of Ron Moore.

In my defense, I can only say that I wasn't the only to be fooled:

http://www.galactica.tv/battlestar-gala ... pdate.html

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I like this one:

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=81024

It's one of the more sane threads BSG fans have taken part in

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Anyone else hate Battlestar Galactica?

I’m usually the first to ignore/laugh at people going on rants and raves about how awesome/rubbish something is, but I truly can’t believe the ultra-high praise Battlestar Galactica has received over the years. Gritty and realistic? Try depressing and tedious.

I guess it’s just a philosophical divide: I watch sci-fi for escapism, fun adventures in space, weird aliens, colourful characters and exciting giant space battles. BSG does only one of those things (the space battles). It shits all over the others, and I find watching it a miserable experience.

I hate the characters. I hate the (frequently contradictory and nonsensical) plotlines and I find the ‘shocking’ twists contrived and stupid.

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