| |
|
After the last episode, I thought this one was significantly less interesting and actually quite clumsy in a range of ways. For a start it was pretty bloody obvious that you could use the disease as a weapon from the middle of last episode when they first discovered ill Cylons. Not really a revelation when Apollo comes up with his 'brilliant' idea. Yeah, Apollo, give yourself a chocolate bar.
I thought Helo's, "But then we become like them" line was bluntly offensively stupid. I can't tell you how many times you hear that line in sci-fi shows and how cheesy and stupid I've found it over the years. And for people to have accepted Athena into their lives and still view all Cylon as robots was also pretty ridiculous. One - accept that they're sentient creatures, just extraordinarily alien and weird ones. Two - accept that they've destroyed many billions of your people and want to exterminate you, your family and your civilisation at all costs, that there are many more of them than you and that there are very few possibilities that will emerge from this space. The BSG crew and their audience are smarter than this. They're not going to buy these arguments. It might be an unpleasant or desperate move, but I'm afraid it's pretty clearly the right move to make in the circumstances.
And finally, what the fuck!? I mean how many more traits will the Cylons have to evidence that make them clearly biologically different from humans before people start actually saying that they can easily spot them! For example, they produce an enzyme or whatever that humans don't that breaks down the virus. Secondly they can stick electrical cables in their arms and connet with them through some kinds of ports. Hello! Spottable!? Also, and I know this is an off the wall notion - their fucking spines glow when they shag things. Maybe look for people with three bar electric heaters in their vertebrae!?
Now no one's really talked about Cylons in the midst of the human population for a long time now, but it might be a good time for them to say that with Baltar gone and Doc Cottle exploring the case that actually it's not enormously hard to test for Cylon in the fleet.
All of which is not to say that I'm not enjoying the series, becuase I totally am. Just that this last episode really fell straight in the middle of a bunch of boring old clichés and exposed a bunch of crappy problems that they've been able to avoid interrogating but probably can't now... |
|
|
