01-24-2009, 04:43 PM
At least we got to see a bit of Six, but Balthar has pretty much gone from being a complicated and fascinating character to a nebbish. Remember, the Balthar from the original series was the humans' nemesis, with his own Cylons and base stars and whatnot. It seemed for the first couple of seasons that Head Six was grooming Balthar to have some glorious future as a Cylon leader, anti-Christ, or father of his country. I was half hoping that after his pep-talk to the Centurian at the end of the last season they'd be a Revolt of the Toasters and they'd put him in charge of everything. It might still happen, I suppose. But that whole line seems to have been unceremoniously dumped in favor of the "final five" one. I'm getting to the point where I couldn't give a frack who the fifth Cylon is.
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While I sometimes enjoy the curves the writers keep throwing at us, the whole "he's-not-the-father" thing seems like a cheap trick they pulled out of their asses just to tweak our noses.
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The writing is making me think of the immortal words of Mickey Spillane. He'd shared some rough chapters of an in-progress book with a friend, who asked him what was going to happen next. Spillane's priceless answer: "I don't know. The typewriter broke."
Oh, yeah, that Smallville was just dreadful. I did love the Legion one -- who knew the brooding hipster look would still be big in a thousand years? I'm sticking with Smallville because it has some hot women, and the payoff of the whole series will be when he puts on the cape and flies away...
[spoiler=More spoiler gripings]
While I sometimes enjoy the curves the writers keep throwing at us, the whole "he's-not-the-father" thing seems like a cheap trick they pulled out of their asses just to tweak our noses.
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The writing is making me think of the immortal words of Mickey Spillane. He'd shared some rough chapters of an in-progress book with a friend, who asked him what was going to happen next. Spillane's priceless answer: "I don't know. The typewriter broke."
Oh, yeah, that Smallville was just dreadful. I did love the Legion one -- who knew the brooding hipster look would still be big in a thousand years? I'm sticking with Smallville because it has some hot women, and the payoff of the whole series will be when he puts on the cape and flies away...