Letter to TPTB

[woodface]

Dear Battlestar Galactica,

During the miniseries and S1 I fell utterly and truly in love with you. You have kick ass characters and a plot that was intrigueing and kept me clustered to my television. My love for every single character, even the shady ones like Baltar, was due to the depth of how they were drawn and how even if they frakked things up, you still wanted to see them go through it.

Then came Kobol Last Gleaming and you parts of it made me cringe. You planted seeds of doubt in my mind and I became scared that the cringe worthy elements would become many instead of few in S2. Sadly enough, I have to acknowledge that S2 has been filled with these moments. Your plot which was fascinating at first, is starting to scare me. Still, you managed to not yet topple completely over the edge and disappear into the shady world that is better known as crappy television and ridiculous plotlines. And now, after Home, it seems that you are given a new chance to get back on track. So please, my beloved show, take this chance.

Please give up the lazy story writing. As much as you seem to think that podcasts are funky, you forget that most of your viewers do not get a chance to listen to them (or can't be bothered to). You mentioning vital information in them does not make it canon and leaves a large part of your viewers in the dark.

Stop skipping so many things. I went out on a limb with The Farm and bend all kinds of directions to make this episode work for me. I was happy to do it, because it did work. However, the huge skip after the tomb in the last episode was kinda annoying and pretty much sucked. I'm sure you'll explain why in your podcast but I won't be arsed to listen as I refuse to hate the show because your producer is stuck up and thinks he's the best thing since bread came sliced. I beg you to please go back to the solid writing of S1 that did not ask me to continually ignore plotholes or cringe worthy scenes. Thank you very much.

And for the love of god, please stop ruining the characters. Don't turn Adama into a freaking pacifist because he's not. Stop making Roslin some religious leader and please let Billy make her see some sense. Kara is awesome as she is and does not need to be abused any further, please give her time to breath and let her be her cocky self again. Let Lee finally grow up and get over his teenage angst over his parents. Stop turning Cally into a psycho who will kill out of jealousy over her one unreturned crush. Please kill Boomer or at least give her a miscarriage, no one wants babies on Galactica and this plot is one of my biggest cringes in the show. Stop turning Helo into a lovesick puppy who has no brains and does everything his favourite toaster tells him to. Let him be more than just a sperm donor and let him get drunk together with Kara instead of standing there be angsty over his insane pregnant appliance. (I'm alright with most of the other characters.)

Could you please do this so I can go back to enjoying the show without having to fear for its sanity every week? Please?

Thank you very much,

Jara

Comments

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

I actually liked the last ep
Adama is just trying to get the fleet together again and i just love his little boomer!die! scene

Roslin will die soon now that she has "led them back to earth" she gets whiny

Boomer showed some character althoguht the whole pregnant thing doesnt interest me at all (and there prob be some fighting between her 2 men somewhere along the road)

They just need to shove Gais out of an airlock together with his oversexed headcase

So now the remaining eps they can fly to earth and kill some cylons on their way.......and make it look good

[woodface]

I didn't hate the episode, but it seems that they finally tied up the storyline to KLG and it would be nice if they leave the "omg this can lead to much suckage" plots behind and move along.

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

dude, this whole show is about NOT moving on, they finally wrapped up something.

it can lead to suckage, but there is also the twist of intoducing new cylons in copies we didnt knew before

[woodface]

OH, I know. I just realised that since the end of S1 I'm kinda fearing what RM is capable of. There are so many holes and leaps of faith that have to be taken lately, I'm just hoping they get a better grip on their story telling. Also the whole "omg anyone can be a Cylon" thing is getting tiresome. Finding out that RM does actually have no clue where he is taken the Cylon story has made me very suspicious of what is to come and it's giving me flashbacks to DS9 where the religion thing SUCKED.

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

he, i jsut keep getting that matrix feeling cause those cylons keep preaching on what will happen as if it already happend before and the "gods" just keep redoing it untill they get it right

and that whole what do cylons remember of their copies and do they only get info on a "dead" copy's or are they just linked all the time

[woodface]

Hrm, well the whole repeating thing kinda remind me of Nietzsche, but then Matrix ripped him off so...

Ha, I think they are linked all the time. And dude, dead Sharon apparently still is aware of what's happening;

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

yeah i was afraid of that, i just hoped that flashback was just edited in the wrong place

but if they are linked all the time the cylons know where the fleet is *all the time* esp with 8 other copies in the fleet

which basically makes no sense coz the cylons could find earth themselves knowing the prophesies and with plenty of time to get the arrow

so the fuck is the purpose of this whole cylon attack??

i hate this show! ;)

[woodface]

Ah, but the Cylons aren't meant to find Earth. The scrolls clearly say that the survivors have to find Earth and go into the tomb etc.

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

then why does boomer help them? oh, wait she has a virus in her programming;)

it doesnt make any sense, why did the cylons start a war then ? wasnt there some purpose to find earth and make lots of babies;)

[woodface]

Because her baby is meant to be born in that cell. *shrugs*

Bite me =oP

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

yeah which means Boomer wont be dying for the coming next 8 months or so;)......unless they can tranfer more then just a concience....which would make the series *very* sci fi.....not to mention very mockible ........which can actually be fun.......FOR A COMEDY! :)


Ha!

[woodface]

*stares*

*runs away*

[mylo1012.livejournal.com]

OMG I made Jara speechless on a BSG entry

*feels accomplished*

:)

[woodface]

Bite me =oP

[amykay73.livejournal.com]

Finding out that RM does actually have no clue where he is taken the Cylon story has made me very suspicious of what is to come

Oh, I shouldn't have read this. I've been going along with this happy little thought in my head that RM had this plan all along and started the show knowing exactly who was a Cylon and who wasn't.

I started to get a little leery of the show during KLG2 too. The exact moment when I first rolled my eyes with the plot lines was when Boomer told Helo she was pregnant. It didn't shock me, they had the little signs leading up to it, but when she announced that I cringed and wondered where they were taking the story.

When the first couple of episodes of this season didn't 'wow' me, I thought I lost my favorite show. But it slowly brought me back. I still don't think this season has the same impact at the first one, but it has many high points, and I am still really enjoying it.

So, while watching The Farm I had many WTF? moments throughout the ep, but I shrugged off most of it. I am interested in what they have planned for Starbuck, but I do fear for her too. I liked the way they did the tomb and the map to Earth. I even shrugged off how quickly they got back to Galactica (this was also the first time I actually wanted to listen to the Podcast to see if RM explains that scene better) because I was happy that they wrapped up all the dangling plot lines and had a sense of closure.

Seeing the teaser for the next ep makes me hopeful. My favorite eps are the ones that centered on Galactica trying to solve the latest problem they encounter, and hopefully the next few eps will go back to that formula.

[woodface]

*nods* I know, that's pretty much my attitude. I think I just needed to pronounce my fears and hope that they won't come true. I'm enjoying the show and I knew that S1 was just so strong that S2 probably wouldn't be able to hold up to that. I still love and enjoy it, but I'd kidna like stop being suspicious about everything.