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I see that now "Blood and Chrome" was deep sixed by SfFy. The comparisons between this show and the Matrix Films- Great premise, started off great- tons of fan interest- writers cant find out what to do, go in odd directions that make no sense to get to an ending that is only enjoyed by the most ardent (read: stupid) fanboys is quite shocking- this could have been the greatest sci-fi show of all time, and it ended up not being close. Boned after New Caprica into Boned oblivion. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on April 8, 2012, 8:33 pm - (-1 votes)
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Voted boned after New Caprica. The first season was excellent with 12 episodes all of great quality. Then the network wanted season 2 with 20 episodes, at the same price. Season 2 had some of the best episodes, but also the season had the first bomb episodes. The mystery of the show from season three through 4 lost me, almost worse than the X-files dogma lost me. Overall though still one of the best sci-fi series ever made! -- Submitted By: (dauntless) on April 30, 2010, 4:23 pm - (-1 votes)
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I wonder which of the writers thought it was a good idea to keep changing main characters into cylon double agents? It became a joke "Gee I wonder who is a Cylon this week...". It was dull enough during the New Caprica occupation section, but then just got silly. A couple of agents are okay, but soon the list is Tigh, Tyrol, Sharon, Starbuck's husband, Ellen (tigh's wife), aside from the other six. For that matter (I am a few episodes from seeing the end as I write this) they're are leaning Starbauck towards being a Cylon (corpse in crashed ship on planet, so I guess she really did die in her ship's explosion many episodes earlier and the one that returned is the next version of her). Either way, the fish was boned when everyone seemed to be a cylon and I hear the ending is controversial so I wonder if the last episodes are worth it... -- Submitted By: (Evan227) on March 23, 2010, 12:03 am - (-1 votes)
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Is anyone even watching Caprica (the BSG prequel) after how bad this trainwreck burned the fans the last season and the now infamous horrific ending? Starbuck is an "Angel" man it gets worse the more you think about it! Pass the Slaw Ron Moore! -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on February 24, 2010, 6:44 am - (-1 votes)
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The finale was an odious way to end a show that once held so much promise, but Battlestar Galactica truly boned after the New Caprica story (which I loved, btw). All of the contemptible plot points that culminated in the dreadful ending ("the final five," "dead Starbuck," "Watchtower," etc.) have their roots in the ashes of New Caprica. It's also right around the same time when Jane Espenson became a producer. -- Submitted By: (pbrain) on December 5, 2009, 10:08 am - (-1 votes)
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I'm continually amused by how far this once great show has fallen- now the complete Ret-Conning has gone full circle with the release of the DVD "The Plan". Which tries to explain the horribly done "shock writing" of the final five and the miserable and poorly regarded finale of this show. It's amazing since like the horrible ending of the anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion" they TRIED to go back with the two movies "End of Evangelion" and "Death/Rebirth Evangelion" to end that series properly- both failed miserably and the series is still not ended in any proper way with Hideki Anno shitting on the fans- Ron Moore and Co have now matched Anno in almost every aspect of BSG 2004- and the ret-conned attempt to "end the show" after it was completed in such a half assed way over the last season- here is some advice- actually hire real writers and plan out what you are going to start and end with instead of making up plot twists and nonsesne to shock the fans with no proper ending. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on October 31, 2009, 8:27 pm - (-1 votes)
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Jumped at the beginning of Series Three. The show had been mostly good up until that point. A bit po faced, pretentious and macho with a tendency for sound and fury melodrama but it was mostly a solid show that held up and was worth a watch, and the Pegasus episodes were the show's best.
Then in Season 3 things turned really mean spirited, with Conoel Tigh having his eye gouged out for no good reason, and his wife sleeping with a Cylon (there'd been a horrible whiff of misogyny in how the show presented Tigh's wife but here it just went too far), and then when Tigh found out he killed her. It was just completely out of character for Tigh to do that to his wife, and it was forced in a very brutal way.
After that we got the episode Collaborators which was more of the same kind of character assasination where suddenly the cast of characters lost all conscience or genuine sense of will and motivation and simply became pawns for a wrtiting team that loved to make them commit amoral and murderous actions for sensationalist purposes. The whole thing became impenetrably pretentious and devoid of any humanity. Everything about that season was just mean spirited, depressing, meandering, self-involved rubbish that destroyed all good will I had to the show and left me completely unable to care about what would happen next to the characters. The only redeeming aspects of the third season were the interrogation and trial of Baltar with Adama making a brilliant speech about the madness of the lynch mob that Galactica had become. But other than that I did not watch beyond the third season and have no desire to in the future. -- Submitted By: (Tanlee) on October 28, 2009, 5:39 pm - (-1 votes)
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I voted the New Caprica business. I think it was a pretty good sci-fi show up to that point, even despite a tendency towards just loud sound and fury (I thought the scene in Season 1 where Cally is held hostage on the prison ship and is nearly raped was needlessly nasty and sensationalist). But all the same the Pegasus episodes in Season 2 were the best of the bunch. Then come Season 3 it went downhill. I'd always felt quite uncomfortable with the misogynistic portrayal of Conoel Tigh's wife, but here it went into nasty extremes with her sleeping with Cyclons to gain her husband's release only for Tigh to find out and poison her to death. This just seemed so out of character for him and forced in a very brutal way. From that point on the show just became impenetrably pretentious and nasty with no genuine humanity to it, characters simply became subservient pawns for the writers when they wanted them to do something amoral or sensationalist and to have no conscience about it. The whole season from there was just so depressing and meandering and mean spirited that it destroyed all good will I had for the show, and I ceased to care what happened to the characters anymore. Only the lead up to Baltar's trial (particularly Adama's brilliant speech about how 'we're not a civilisation anymore, we're a gang') made it just about worthwhile watching. But other than that I haven't bothered with it since Season 3. -- Submitted By: (Tanlee) on October 28, 2009, 5:22 pm - (0 votes)
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Just amazing how great this started out, and what a lousy end to the last season or so. It became battlestar vinegar and slaw... -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on July 27, 2009, 6:35 pm - (-1 votes)
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The first episode was crazy w/ Red spinal columns, they shoulda just changed it to a diff. series called Battlecrotch Galactica. -- Submitted By: (ChrissyM) on July 14, 2009, 9:07 am - (0 votes)
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Tricia Helfer & Katey Know how ta Fight and act! -- Submitted By: (ChrissyM) on July 13, 2009, 6:02 pm - (0 votes)
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The whole premise of the show was that machines hated us and were bent on our destruction. They looked cool even in 78, now they look like us and you couldn't tell. That did it for me, I wanted evil robots by God! -- Submitted By: (Bobsuruncle) on June 9, 2009, 12:50 am - (0 votes)
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The show went off into left field when established characters all became Cylons at the end of Season 3, it's been one long lame-fest ever since- go watch your season 1 and 2 dvd's- you'll still get your money's worth there. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on March 15, 2009, 8:52 pm - (0 votes)
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