Season 4 BSG Wishlist
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selenakAs in addition to TW finale and DW season opener goodness, we're approaching the start of the new and final season of Battlestar Galactica, here's my hopeful wishlist for said season:
1) Show, I know I can rely on you for terrific season opening episodes until ca. ep 4-6, and upon great finales, but it would be really nice if you avoided the mid-season slump this time. Pretty please?
2) No more Kara/Lee in any shape or form. Kara and Lee as friends again (a la Maelstrom) is fine.
3) On that note, no more romantic entanglements with Lee Adama as one of the participants, full stop. I used to like Lee very much indeed until and including Home II in season 2, and went back to liking him very much indeed during the final season 3 episodes, when the old Lee/ethics dilemma pairing was back with a vengeance. (Kudos whoever thought of making Lee part of Baltar's defense team. Arguably the best decision made for character salvage on this show.) In between, he didn't seem to have other storylines than being involved in various geometric shapes of romances and being self-pitying about it, which is a waste of a good actor and made the character irritating, to put it mildly.
4) More civilian view points. Laura Roslin isn't enough, since she's the President (and far too cozy with Adama these days). Rosco Lampkin was a neat new civilian character last season; more of same?
5) On that note: last season, you teased us with Zarek in the opening episodes, and basically ignored his existence for the rest of the season where he was The Invisible Vice President. V. v. v. frustrating, that, show. Either kill him off or actually use the character.
6) Speaking of using your potential: season 2 demonstrated what a terrific actress Tricia Helfer can be if you let her. You severely underused her in season 3. Pray rectify this. (Actually, the promo pictures make it look as if you will.)
7) Most of what you did with Gaius Baltar through three seasons was original and inspired, show. Keep that up. As long as you don't pull a Dukat or Brother Justin on him, I'm fine with everything.
8) This reminds me: I loved the Baltar and Roslin scenes in s3 in their unexpectedness (meaning: they weren't about Roslin, due to being awesome, pwning Baltar, as fanfic would have it, but Roslin finding herself ethically challenged). I already mentioned I loved the Zarek scenes (all of which were with Roslin). And Lords of Kobol, did I love the Roslin and Lee courtroom confrontation. I think the common denominator is: I'd like to continue seeing Roslin with people not Bill Adama, as they tend to challenge her more. Not that Laura and Bill aren't cute together, but, you know - CHALLENGE.
9) Which in turn reminds me: it was absolutely unforgivable to delete the Laura-meets-Six scene last season (and also, it made some of both Roslin's and Six' later statements incomprehensible for every viewer who didn't watch it online). I do hope this has occured to you, too, show, and you will give us a lot of Laura and Six (with or without Sharon) in season 4.
10) Whoever the last of the Final Five is: I want a sensible explanation why someone like Tigh, who fought in the first Cylon war where they didn't yet have the ability to look like humans, can be a Cylon. My own guess is that this is because the final five were not created by the Cylons themselves - as the seven were - but I want whatever explanation there is spelled out in canon, on screen, no deleted scene.
1) Show, I know I can rely on you for terrific season opening episodes until ca. ep 4-6, and upon great finales, but it would be really nice if you avoided the mid-season slump this time. Pretty please?
2) No more Kara/Lee in any shape or form. Kara and Lee as friends again (a la Maelstrom) is fine.
3) On that note, no more romantic entanglements with Lee Adama as one of the participants, full stop. I used to like Lee very much indeed until and including Home II in season 2, and went back to liking him very much indeed during the final season 3 episodes, when the old Lee/ethics dilemma pairing was back with a vengeance. (Kudos whoever thought of making Lee part of Baltar's defense team. Arguably the best decision made for character salvage on this show.) In between, he didn't seem to have other storylines than being involved in various geometric shapes of romances and being self-pitying about it, which is a waste of a good actor and made the character irritating, to put it mildly.
4) More civilian view points. Laura Roslin isn't enough, since she's the President (and far too cozy with Adama these days). Rosco Lampkin was a neat new civilian character last season; more of same?
5) On that note: last season, you teased us with Zarek in the opening episodes, and basically ignored his existence for the rest of the season where he was The Invisible Vice President. V. v. v. frustrating, that, show. Either kill him off or actually use the character.
6) Speaking of using your potential: season 2 demonstrated what a terrific actress Tricia Helfer can be if you let her. You severely underused her in season 3. Pray rectify this. (Actually, the promo pictures make it look as if you will.)
7) Most of what you did with Gaius Baltar through three seasons was original and inspired, show. Keep that up. As long as you don't pull a Dukat or Brother Justin on him, I'm fine with everything.
8) This reminds me: I loved the Baltar and Roslin scenes in s3 in their unexpectedness (meaning: they weren't about Roslin, due to being awesome, pwning Baltar, as fanfic would have it, but Roslin finding herself ethically challenged). I already mentioned I loved the Zarek scenes (all of which were with Roslin). And Lords of Kobol, did I love the Roslin and Lee courtroom confrontation. I think the common denominator is: I'd like to continue seeing Roslin with people not Bill Adama, as they tend to challenge her more. Not that Laura and Bill aren't cute together, but, you know - CHALLENGE.
9) Which in turn reminds me: it was absolutely unforgivable to delete the Laura-meets-Six scene last season (and also, it made some of both Roslin's and Six' later statements incomprehensible for every viewer who didn't watch it online). I do hope this has occured to you, too, show, and you will give us a lot of Laura and Six (with or without Sharon) in season 4.
10) Whoever the last of the Final Five is: I want a sensible explanation why someone like Tigh, who fought in the first Cylon war where they didn't yet have the ability to look like humans, can be a Cylon. My own guess is that this is because the final five were not created by the Cylons themselves - as the seven were - but I want whatever explanation there is spelled out in canon, on screen, no deleted scene.
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Date: 2008-04-03 10:09 pm (UTC)Okay, fine, so it's a huge reach. But less of a reach than Tigh, with a history going back DECADES, having been a Cylon all that time. Solves the Nicky Tyrol problem as well, not to mention how many times all four have nearly been killed.
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Date: 2008-04-04 05:48 am (UTC)I do like the "host" idea, though - after all, with the whole "downloading" concept, it could be the Five have found a way to do without artificial bodies altogether and download in existing ones.
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Date: 2008-04-04 06:47 pm (UTC)Okay, fine, so the justifications for my host body idea are paper-thin. But unless Moore & Co. pull a metaphorical rabbit out of the backstory hat, any canonical justifications will be paper-thin too. In Season 1 and early Season 2 it never would've occurred to me to doubt that they could do it. In early Season 3 I doubted but was optimistic that they could now get over Season 2.5's sophomore slump. Now, I have lots and lots of doubt.
I'll be thrilled if they can get back to the tight plotting that was once a feature of the show, but I've been burned often enough that I'm not going to assume they know what they're doing and any perceived inconsistencies are part of the brilliant master plan. I'd love to be pleasantly surprised by Season 4 and have them pull it all together in a way that makes sense, so here's hoping.