[Primateus]

worrywort, on 27 June 2012 - 09:55 PM, said:

PG's right on that. I'm not sure if you're saying you didn't watch all of Airbender, or just that the movie tainted your experience but you watched it all anyway. But if you've seen it all, then Korra is to it what presumably the Karsa trilogy will be to MBOTF.

I watched some of it, I can't really remember how much. But then I watched the movie and I just couldn't get myself to go back to the cartoon.

[Beezulbubba]

Hell yeah! Getting pumped for season 3 (starting this October).

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

BeardstadSlaphammer, on 09 July 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

Hell yeah! Getting pumped for season 3 (starting this October).

DISH dropped AMC...[insert many foul expletives here].

On the other hand, I get to watch Alf reruns on HUB.

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[Beezulbubba]

OMG!!!! Merle!!!!

[Slow Ben]

Nerd confession. I've never watched Battlestar Gallactica.Hey hey calm down I'm watchin it now! And enjoying the hell out of it.

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[HoosierDaddy]

Slow Ben, on 14 July 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

Nerd confession. I've never watched Battlestar Gallactica.Hey hey calm down I'm watchin it now! And enjoying the hell out of it.

The new gritty one?

Dude. Have fun. 33 might be one of my favorite episodes of any show, ever.

[Slow Ben]

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Nerd confession. I've never watched Battlestar Gallactica.Hey hey calm down I'm watchin it now! And enjoying the hell out of it.

The new gritty one?

Dude. Have fun. 33 might be one of my favorite episodes of any show, ever.

Just finished that one. Yeah, it was badass.

[Tiste Simeon]

Comicon announcements for cast of season 3 of GOT

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Slow Ben, on 14 July 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

Nerd confession. I've never watched Battlestar Gallactica.Hey hey calm down I'm watchin it now! And enjoying the hell out of it.

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The last season...actually, beginning with the season 3 finale...is a confusing mess that made it pretty clear that the writers were just making crap up as they went. (Similar to the last season of Lost, but far, far worse.) If Jar Jar Binks had turned out to be one of the final five, it would not have made any less sense.  cylon003.gif (398bytes)
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I still love the show, and I started a season 2 rewatch recently, but I will probably conclude my DVD collection with season 3. Hope I didn't pee in your cheerios. Enjoy the hell out of it for as long as you're able.  cylon-pancarte08.gif (886bytes)
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[worry]

There's still some really great episodes in the final season, even if they did flub some of the big stuff.

[stone monkey]

HoosierDaddy, on 14 July 2012 - 04:25 AM, said:

Slow Ben, on 14 July 2012 - 04:08 AM, said:

Nerd confession. I've never watched Battlestar Gallactica.Hey hey calm down I'm watchin it now! And enjoying the hell out of it.

The new gritty one?

Dude. Have fun. 33 might be one of my favorite episodes of any show, ever.

imo 33 is probably the best first episode of any tv show ever bar none (and that includes the first episode of Lost, which was epic). Just the idea of opening it when everyone has already been awake for 5 whole days is a supremely ballsy move and it pays off big time.

[McLovin]

Oh, BG. Man I love that series, miniseries & back half of Season 3 notwithstanding. Hands down my most favorite TV show, ever. I must re-watch soon.

We sure had some awesome TV in the mid-'00s.

[Abyss]

Low points aside, as a whole the BSG remake was a brilliant tv epic and i'd go farther to say it's probably the single best episodic 'sci fi in space' series ever done.

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

But it wasn't episodic. It was serial. That was the main (really, the ONLY) problem with BSG. They ought to have planned their conclusion further in advance, so the "answers" made more sense. In any case, I agree that the episodes themselves...even in season 4...are brilliant. Maybe they were just better at faking it during the first 3 seasons, but it becomes SO obvious in season 4 that they were just making it up as they went, that it really detracts from the enjoyment.

[Slow Ben]

Damn this show is fracking good!

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 16 July 2012 - 02:58 PM, said:

Low points aside, as a whole the BSG remake was a brilliant tv epic and i'd go farther to say it's probably the single best episodic 'sci fi in space' series ever done.

Kruppe, on 16 July 2012 - 05:40 PM, said:

But it wasn't episodic. It was serial.

I mean episodic in the sense that any tv show is told in a series of episodes, a week or more apart. Some connect directly and some have a discrete 'end' within the bigger story.

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That was the main (really, the ONLY) problem with BSG. They ought to have planned their conclusion further in advance, so the "answers" made more sense.

Agreed to an extent. It's painfully obvious that, as with LOST, HEROES and various other shows, the production team never expected to make it as far as they did and so they never had an end-game properly planned out. Ultimately i thought that what they did pull together was solid. It could have been better in some, maybe many respects, but it worked.

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In any case, I agree that the episodes themselves...even in season 4...are brilliant. Maybe they were just better at faking it during the first 3 seasons, but it becomes SO obvious in season 4 that they were just making it up as they went, that it really detracts from the enjoyment.

No denying there were some eps that were truly dismal, and some plotlines that plain outright never made sense, including some damn important ones.

But as a whole work, beginning to end, well...

Slow Ben, on 18 July 2012 - 03:16 AM, said:

Damn this show is fracking good!

...pretty much sums it up.

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Abyss, on 18 July 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:

Agreed to an extent. It's painfully obvious that, as with LOST, HEROES and various other shows, the production team never expected to make it as far as they did and so they never had an end-game properly planned out. Ultimately i thought that what they did pull together was solid. It could have been better in some, maybe many respects, but it worked.

You're right. I shouldn't single out BSG, because that's really the problem with most, if not all, serial dramas these days. These are the types of shows that MOST REQUIRE advance planning...yet they are also the ones LEAST LIKELY to get it, since they are so risky and prone to sudden cancellation.

What I was looking for with BSG (and Lost, for that matter) were concluding seasons that were surprising, yet made perfect sense in retrospect. (Similar to how the ending of Sixth Sense seemed to come out of nowhere, yet made absolute sense when you went back and looked at the clues.)

Instead, what we got were answers that no viewer could have guessed, because there were no clues. And there were no clues, because the writers themselves didn't know ahead of time.

Perhaps that's an impossible standard, but that's the standard I held BSG to, as a result of the almost unprecedented brilliance of the show. In that sense, BSG is a victim of its own success. What might have been...what might have been...

[amphibian]

Kruppe, on 18 July 2012 - 03:16 PM, said:

What I was looking for with BSG (and Lost, for that matter) were concluding seasons that were surprising, yet made perfect sense in retrospect. (Similar to how the ending of Sixth Sense seemed to come out of nowhere, yet made absolute sense when you went back and looked at the clues.)

Instead, what we got were answers that no viewer could have guessed, because there were no clues. And there were no clues, because the writers themselves didn't know ahead of time.

Perhaps that's an impossible standard, but that's the standard I held BSG to, as a result of the almost unprecedented brilliance of the show. In that sense, BSG is a victim of its own success. What might have been...what might have been...

The Wire, Breaking Bad and One Piece have all done lived up to those standards (even if The Wire's slightly truncated final season made the newspaper arc a bit glib).

I would have said Arrested Development too, but it seems that somehow, it's not yet dead and will be revived in some format on Netflix, so judgement must be reserved.

[worry]

The Shield definitely lived up to those standards, and stands as one of the most consistent, coherent from start to finish serialized shows in history. I would wager that Breaking Bad (despite being a more outrageous show at heart) has taken it as its gold standard, in fact.

[Abyss]

I thought Breaking Bad was still going for this one more season (in two chunks)?