That didn't really answer any of my questions

[trinityvixen]

BSG. Last night. What the frak?

I fully confess I was a flagon past tipsy watching it, which was great because Ms. Beans and fiance were there with me. (Probably less fun for the always more responsible feiran.) But not so great for understanding the story, akshully. I can has rewatch?

No, you know what bothered me? Is that it was an exposition dump. It was 60% exposition dump. That may even be a conservative estimate. And the sort of things they got into didn't have to be told that way, which is annoying plus infinity. They just left it too late. That's my entire beef with this season--why are we only getting into this now? Stupid third season was a waste of space, and now the stuff that's interesting gets two minutes (if we're lucky) to come out in the most tell-y way imaginable? Frak.

What I especially don't get are the exact non-answer to questions we've had since we found out who the majority of the Final Five were. Once they established that the Four, if not all Five, had no memories of being robots, and no instincts about what Cavil (alone, apparently, and so much for Cylon democracy while we're at it) was about to do...we're back at the frakkin there's-no-way-they-should-have-survived-the-nuking-of-the-colonies. Except Ellen gives them all a pass and says Cavil did program them somehow to avoid what he was doing. Which only leads to more running around in circles trying to figure out why he a) would bother if he hates them so much and wouldn't just keep them on ice; b) couldn't just recall them before the holocaust and have them locked up with Ellen since nobody ever poked their nose into his quarters, apparently (which would have the added benefit of keeping them from meddling and saving the human race like all the frakking time); and c) didn't just dissect their brains a long time ago, when he, you know, was already elbow-deep in gray matter programing them to be blanks.

I also call bullshit on how the Five were inserted into human life. Saul and Ellen, fine, they can pop in after the first Cylon war and just go right on living. Anders, Tory, and Tyrol wouldn't have been born at that time to be the "ages" they are now. So they were dropped in five years ago? And nobody found that suspicious after what happened to frakking Boomer? Anders was a frakking sports star; his background was probably raked over thirty ways from Sunday. Tyrol has memories of growing up, specific ones, unlike Boomer. Boomer sort of just stopped at the five-year mark as far as thinking about her memories was concerned and kept a picture of her "parents." I guess Tyrol could be the same way, but it just takes all the poetry out of his reminiscing about how he smoked, drank, and looked at porn in the temple because he hated his stupid religious parents that much. Stupid being a Cylon

(You'll note that Tory? Has no back story that would get in the way of her being a Cylon. Because why would this show spend that much time giving her any character other than heartless bitch? Oh, and we're just forgetting about that airlocking Cally thing forever, right?)

More bitching to come, for sure, when (if?) I watch again. John Hodgman though? Terribly cute, don't get me wrong. (He's why those stupid Mac ads fail because the PC is just too freakin' adorable and the Mac guy is a smarmy asshole.) Just...jarring to see here. He's just not that great an actor, and his crazy enthusiasm, while character-appropriate, was just out of place.

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He's still supposedly involved with the baby, but regardless, that is the way they seemed to play that line: Kelly goes "I could have told you she was trouble;" the Chief says "It wouldn't have mattered." What else could that mean? He's saying that regardless of a warning, he would have married her and ended up the same way.