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Zoidberg wrote:
It's been much debated -- anytime BSG comes up on http://www.io9.com it always descends into a discussion of disappointment -- but it's pretty much accepted that they simply painted themselves into a corner. Had they another season they might have been able to weave themselves back out, but once they decided the 4th season was it, and then they had to wrap it up, they just stumbled to it.
I take a bit of a contrary position... I think they ran out of ideas by late in the second season (although the very last idea in that one was a doozy) and had to coast on fumes from there on out. Certainly I agree with the "painted into a corner" assessment. It still bugs me that the very beginning of every show turned out to be a lie: "... and they have a Plan." Hell no, they didn't, and neither did the writers.
I enjoyed B5 for the most part, at least the second through fourth seasons, even if it did stray well into the hoakey zone early and often.
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I think I prefer Hotel Babylon over Babylon 5.
Definitely enjoyed BSG, though I thought they handled the end sorta well. The Starbuck as some sort of angel thing was a bit of a stretch, as were Six and Baltar angels. Then there was the whole "we gonna chuck all our tech in favor of sticks and stones that didn't ring true.
I mean, if Hera's bones were found 150,000 years later, shouldn't the remains of Adama's Raptor be somewhere as well?
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For its day, Bab 5 was great. I think it and the other "Crossroads in Space" series, DS9, prodded each other to constantly improve.
Did anyone see much or any of "Crusade," the "sequel" to Bab 5? I only saw one show, or part of one, and it was excruciating.
I remember hearing they were reviving BSG and I thought, "So what?" The original was hokey and just plain awful. Then one day I was flipping the channels and saw the episode where Starbuck crashed on some godforsaken planet and had to -- tame? take over? -- a crashed Raider to get back to Galactica.
Just the amazing retro-future look of it drew me in, and, well, everything else.
I suppose one could have endless debates about whether BSG or Lost had the most disappointing ending. I mean BSG's ending was just plain stupid.
