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Blog.wired.com Is Battlestar Galactica Doomed ? (buffy mention)Wednesday 6 December 2006, by Webmaster It is with a heavy heart that I am forced to confront the possibility that the once-great show Battlestar Galactica may be heading to fraktown. After Friday’s head-clutchingly bad episode, which combined boxing scenes with barfy romantic flashbacks, my sense of foreboding has escalated into franchise panic. Will our beloved show go Star Trek:TNG season 7 on us? Or, worse, Buffy season 6? Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. Read on for the ten signs that Battlestar Galactica is turning a dangerous corner ... 10. Show co-creators Ron Moore and David Eick are both developing multiple other projects. Moore is working on BSG prequel show Caprica, and Eick is working on both Bionic Woman and Them. 9. Crucial subplots, such as the fate of Sharon and Helo’s hybrid baby, are left dangling for more than three episodes. 8. Rather than developing characters via personal transformation, character development is charted via hair length, presence/absence of beards, and weight gain/loss. 7. The only way the writers imagine they can showcase Edward James Olmos’ considerable acting talents is via long-winded speeches. 6. Cylon threesomes. 5. Too much intimacy with the mysterious Cylon enemy in their SM dungeon ship makes them seem campy rather than scary. 4. Entire episodes are clumsily devoted to single-word social issues like "torture" and "genocide." 3. Eick promises next season will bring more flashback-heavy episodes that focus on romantic entanglements and/or childhood trauma. 2. A retcon turns Adama into the cause of the Cylons’ attack on the twelve colonies, thus making him both improbably important and too much of a bastard. 1. Boxing is used as a thin excuse for an episode that could have been written (better) by shippers. 3 Forum messages |
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