I was watching the new Battlestar Galactica (I watched the old one too! I'm so old!) and they got to a season where the entire plot was focused on having older, White terrorists doing suicide bombings.
I dropped that shit so fast... picked it back up when they got over themselves. The ending was still both absurd and terrible in so many ways. Overall: a complete waste of time. The OS was more intelligently presented.
When it first aired, I loved the BSG remake. Upon subsequent viewings I've enjoyed it less and less. It has some amazing parts to it (the space battles and music is amazing, and some of the storylines), but it gets incredibly nihilistic and depressing, with tons of needless character drama and "shocking twists!!!", lots of "are we the baddies?" critiques of humanity, and "the cylons are victims too!" relativist bullshit, with allegory to modern events that have all the subtlety as a sledgehammer to the face, just to pad out the story.
The same thing happened with the TV show Vikings. Subsequent viewings of the show has made me hate all of the characters, as they've done needlessly stupid and evil things purely for drama. It was shows like this that were stepping stones to the "morally gray" slop that we have everywhere nowadays.
I loathe that form of story telling. They authors of this poison hide under excuses like "our characters are complex", to justify their obvious intent to paint good people as bad, and evil people as good, to depress and brainwash the audience with ugliness, evil, and lies, to take away our heroes, to take away the characters we're supposed to emulate, to take away the virtues we're meant to embody, and to take away the lessons we're supposed to pass on, through our stories.
To me BSG couldn't quite nail down how to lean into the lore and spirituality they created. They'd have an episode with the scrolls seeming to be right and the god's existed and then the next episode it was all hooey
The best part of the show was watching the battles and tactics and just about any of the stories about the ship itself 'as a character'.
Warping your aircraft carrier into the atmosphere of a planet to bypass a blockade and release your fighters while in free-fall, then warping back out before you hit the ground, might be one of the coolest fucking things I've ever seen.
Nathan fillion is a terminally leftist faggot, though. The one cult show he got famous on is incredibly overrated, and everything halo he's in post bungie is actively shit.
It was an interesting premise: older guy joins LAPD because he's idealistic. Lots of meat there to explore themes that contrast him with his younger colleagues and show the pluses and minuses of working in a career like that with significant life experience beforehand.
I made it to where he was a training officer himself, and no longer saw the point. This show had long moved past its original premise then should have been renamed "the veteran" or "the mid-career officer".
Certain topics are far more suited to the English style where they release shows as a miniseries. If those get renewed for another season it's basically a sequel miniseries. You're never left with a cliffhanger for a show that was canceled, and they don't milk the story to squeeze out 30 episodes of season.
Is that from the series Rookie? Used to be great in the beginning but turned into a total BLM shitshow in season 3 IIRC.
The bait and switch has become so predictable that my household has all but given up on modern television.
I was watching the new Battlestar Galactica (I watched the old one too! I'm so old!) and they got to a season where the entire plot was focused on having older, White terrorists doing suicide bombings.
I dropped that shit so fast... picked it back up when they got over themselves. The ending was still both absurd and terrible in so many ways. Overall: a complete waste of time. The OS was more intelligently presented.
When it first aired, I loved the BSG remake. Upon subsequent viewings I've enjoyed it less and less. It has some amazing parts to it (the space battles and music is amazing, and some of the storylines), but it gets incredibly nihilistic and depressing, with tons of needless character drama and "shocking twists!!!", lots of "are we the baddies?" critiques of humanity, and "the cylons are victims too!" relativist bullshit, with allegory to modern events that have all the subtlety as a sledgehammer to the face, just to pad out the story.
The same thing happened with the TV show Vikings. Subsequent viewings of the show has made me hate all of the characters, as they've done needlessly stupid and evil things purely for drama. It was shows like this that were stepping stones to the "morally gray" slop that we have everywhere nowadays.
I loathe that form of story telling. They authors of this poison hide under excuses like "our characters are complex", to justify their obvious intent to paint good people as bad, and evil people as good, to depress and brainwash the audience with ugliness, evil, and lies, to take away our heroes, to take away the characters we're supposed to emulate, to take away the virtues we're meant to embody, and to take away the lessons we're supposed to pass on, through our stories.
To me BSG couldn't quite nail down how to lean into the lore and spirituality they created. They'd have an episode with the scrolls seeming to be right and the god's existed and then the next episode it was all hooey
It's always good when the actors and actresses themselves don't even know what the fuck the show was trying to communicate.
Kara finding her own body and them just being like 'OH SHE'S AN ANGEL NOW' was so retarded.
It was a storyline that was about the war in Iraq at the time.
Yes, correct, also the typical PLO suicide bombing at the time too.
"See? Even White people will become organized suicide bombers!" which is contrary to all recorded history.
The best part of the show was watching the battles and tactics and just about any of the stories about the ship itself 'as a character'.
Warping your aircraft carrier into the atmosphere of a planet to bypass a blockade and release your fighters while in free-fall, then warping back out before you hit the ground, might be one of the coolest fucking things I've ever seen.
That first episode "33" is such amazing television.
Yep.i quit watching the show for that reason
Ditto. I was willing to look past SO much in that show because I like Nathan Fillon, but after that episode I stopped watching.
And somehow it’s on season 7 now?
Nathan fillion is a terminally leftist faggot, though. The one cult show he got famous on is incredibly overrated, and everything halo he's in post bungie is actively shit.
Yep, I wanted to support him too. I can only imagine what the show turned into.
It was an interesting premise: older guy joins LAPD because he's idealistic. Lots of meat there to explore themes that contrast him with his younger colleagues and show the pluses and minuses of working in a career like that with significant life experience beforehand.
I made it to where he was a training officer himself, and no longer saw the point. This show had long moved past its original premise then should have been renamed "the veteran" or "the mid-career officer".
Certain topics are far more suited to the English style where they release shows as a miniseries. If those get renewed for another season it's basically a sequel miniseries. You're never left with a cliffhanger for a show that was canceled, and they don't milk the story to squeeze out 30 episodes of season.
Not really. Even in the first episodes the wokeness was there.
I watched a few episodes cause Nathan was allright in the first couple seasons of Castle before they turned him into a total cuck pushover.
The YouTube algorithm keeps suggesting clips and almost everyone has a girlboss in it.