A little Lost a little Battlestar Galactica.
From the past episode or 2.
Again I have to say the show is very watchable but it feels more and more like the empty consumption of cotton candy or some other sweet and nutritionally valueless confection. More and more questions, less and less answers. And as more episodes come and go it seems more and more likely many things will never be addressed and that coincidence exists within the show just for its own sake and the conceit of its creators.
Where’s my monster?
Where’s Penelope?
What’s the Dharma initiative (a question also asked by Dwight on Office Space last week as pat of a traing initiation).
What’s with all the conincidental connections between characters?
We get further away from some of these early questions and get new less interesting ones thrown in instead.
Why didn’t the Polar Bear eat Eko?
Is or was island #2 cloaked as well?
Does Ben have a spinal tumor and if so why doesn’t the island heal him as it does others?
What’s with Desmond getting all clairvoyant?
Why are the Others so creepily into the nature of Kate and Sawyers relationship?
Does Jack have a magic intercom in his subterranean aquarium room?
Is the father of Sun’s kid language guy who jumped onto Jin’s car?
Will anyone still care in another year?
As for some recent particulars the whole fake chip in Sawyer was kind of lame. And then Ben playing it off as some ultimate con was even lamer. As was the final reveal of that place George always wanted, that Ben was taking Sawyer to see, being that damn island.
Jesus frakking christ haven’t we seen enough of that island? I got to get all worked up about getting a different view of it?
All that Of Mice And Men stuff was nice though. That Sawyer is such a reader. Took advantage of his jail and island time to touch on the classics. Ben of course used to be in a book club.
Being alone will drive a man nuts.
Why aren’t the Others more worked up about the whole EM event at the end of last season?
Perhaps the only new question I care about is what if any connection they have with the hatches and the Dharma Initiative.
I mean when it went down Gale, as we knew him then, and the rest didn’t seem all that concerned. And it was Gale that tried to fool Locke into not pressing it. Why do that if it could take away the islands protective whatever or have even destroyed the island if Desmond doesn’t turn the key. How could Ben have known desmond was even there with a key and would turn it? He didn’t even know Desmond had a boat.
Does this mean the Others have little clue about what goes down in the hatches? It seems unlikely since the islands cloaking seems to be something they must be aware of.
So why set Locke up to not press the button?
Now there’s 2 shows left before they go on a 3 month or so hiatus. If the show is really reaching and filling as much as it sometimes seems what do you want to bet the big exit into the break will deal with them killing off another character. It seems a couple of times a season they pull that out for shock value and to make us think anything can happen. Anything but get realistic interaction and a few answers that is.
So I’m guessing in the next 2 weeks either Charlie, Eko, Ben, Hurley, Jin, Sun, or less likely maybe someone bigger like Kate or Sawyer, get offed.
And a new question will get thrown out there with no sign of resolving any old ones.
Then in late February or so something huge happens that many will refer to as the shows official shark jumping moment.
But I hang in for my dear Penelope.
And Sawyer coming up with stuff like Chinatown and Costanza as he did this week.
And Hurley and non-clairvoyant brother Desmond.
And what still is a well written and acted even if plot-challenged show.
But it’s not gonna last forever.
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On BG I’m only past the opeing 2 hours and was torn by some things.
An occupation.
Illegal detention.
Torture
Talk of winning hearts and minds but with fear as the old Cylon guy puts it.
Welcome us with…oh never mind, as he later says.
Ok I get it. Iraq parallels.
Let’s not go too crazy with them. I say this because the suicide bombings were a stretch. Seems pretty unlikely that people would be willing to blow themselves up after just 4 months of a rather vague sort of occupation, or that they would have gotten to that point despite knowing you can’t really kill the Cylons.
It’s also hard to imagine Apollo letting himself go this much at all, much less in such a short period.
Or the old man getting all friendly with #8.
And Starbuck as the captive bride of an obsessed Cylon reeks of 80′s Soap Opera storylines I’ve seen dozens of times.
I’m iffy on all this hybrid stuff too though in the real world I welcome the merger of man and machine.
It’s just kind of X Files for TV.
But the overall intensity was good, I liked Gaeta playing both sides, Tigh and Tyrol as the lead resistance fighters, and the whole execution order thing.
New Caprica makes me long for the confined dreariness of a battleship.
I hope we’re not going to be there all season.
And I hope Baltar has fun again.
Poor misunderstood Baltar.
And maybe someone can give me a rationale for how Cylons evolved from Centaurian toaster units to perfect human replicas and yet have had such issues with the whole pregnancy thing? Especially when the original metal Cylons don’t seem all that creative.
And I can’t wait for Adama to shave.
Or 6 and 8 to make out.
And speaking of sex BG totally riffed on Seinfeld with that whole swirl and circle move stuff with Ellen.
Just as Lost referenced them with that Costanza nickname.
Again we see all things come around to Seinfeld in the end. All that was and ever will be was contained in those 9 seasons.
Gold, Jerry, gold!.
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