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Oh BSG, why do you make me so bitter? Why can't it be the same as the X Files, sure I know I won't get a commitment and emotional support a mythology that makes sense and Scully back to her badass early seasons self, but I can still have a good time with it during rewatches.

But thinking about it, had I had a livejournal at the time of Closure airing, it would have been full of "starlight? The fuck? All that time and she was magic starlight that you only even bring up now? WHAT THE FUCK CHRIS CARTER, YOU SUCK!" and the like. And even then it wasn't immediately followed up with Mulder and Scully getting doomed to a life and death at the hands of nature and worse, bending over for it! Turns out that naive underestimating nature is a real pet peeve of mine, and while it is believable of a bunch of urbanites stuck in spaceships for years (though the whole unanimous agreement to it is a wall banger) the fact that from interviews I get that RDM also underestimates it that really frustrates me. It's that kind of thinking that leads to getting eaten by bears, people! Yeah, nature sucks, and will screw you over not because it is a robot with mommy issues but because it just does what it does. Wonder if Baltar will be talking about God being a force of nature when he's seeing nature up close.

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So it turns out watching countless nature documentaries of lions eating zebra entrails while it's still alive all my life did probably have an effect on me.

So yeah, I'm still just a wee bit bitter ;). And that's not even going into the whole using "it's about the characters" to drop the hard to solve plot problems that came from screwing over the characters for cool plot points and then screwing over the characters for a cool plot point, and then getting the science of that cool plot point wrong.

I need a new fannish obsession to break my heart and make my old ones look good.

(And seriously Chris Carter, starlight?)

I hate these two so frakking much!

Not the actors, who are awesome, or Caprica Six or Gaius, how are awesome or, well, Gaius. The Head Characters, or Angels or whatever.

SO. MUCH. HATE!

Smug, arrogant jerks! And I hate that the last of BSG was these two smugging it up, and that all the other characters were pretty much thrown under the bus to get that scene. Those two characters so needed taking down a peg and that didn't happen. In fact they won. Grrr.

Which is why I cannot buy the BSG God as a loving god, when these two are his agents (and there's also the whole destroying everyone and everything just to go play Intelligent Design, but that's another rant).


I feel better getting that of my chest.

It's like a toothache you can't stop poking, even though you know it'll hurt like hell. Anyway, reading this review of the Battlestar finale managed to trigger off the melancholy again, mainly because I agree with it.

( Cut for nerd rage and spoilers. )

These issues seem to be coming out in dribs and drabs, which is mainly down to my concentration level being appalling. Otherwise it would probably be wall of text rage.

Well, anything that helps keep the apprentice tag from being the largest on the side of the layout there.

Or I notice the similarities with the problems in the major plot resolutions in the Battlestar finale and RTD penned Doctor Who series finales, minus the cgi glowy magic dust.

Apparently Caprica is available on the intertubes. I'm not going to get it because my heart is still too broken. And that the wireless on my "acquiring" computer is busted. Whenever I do end up watching it I must remember to repeat "expect nothing, expect nothing," and not get my hopes up. Again.

Yeah, I'm in a happy mood today.

Think this is vague enough to not need a cut.

So, I am home looking forward to finally seeing the Battlestar Galactica finale, yet come 9 and I'm watching annoying smug yuppies getting yelled at by Sir Alan Sugar. Reading others thoughts on the finale I still end up crying like a baby, but I've lost all interest in actually watching it. I think it's a mix of not wanting it to end plus being knowing full well that I'll end up being unsatisfied when I watch the thing. It's not that I'm in an apoplexy of rage over it, actually I think as an ending it works. It's just, meh, hard to explain. It might also be part frustration that threads that I found interesting were never followed through, and now they are not going to be.

Eh,I think I'll just go read some more and cry again.