Battlestar Galactica Season Three: Already Going Downhill?
By stephanie - Friday, October 13th, 2006
After watching the season three premiere of Battlestar Galactica, I am getting concerned the show is seriously going downhill this season. Cylons trying to convert humans to God by becoming fascist dictators? Cylons are machines – they should be more logical than this. The whole premise is just ludicrous.
Also, why the need for the graphic sex scene between Tigh’s wife and Dean Stockwell’s cylon? Eeeww. Gross. Honestly. I miss the old BSG, which was clean enough for kids to enjoy and had a sense of epic scope and wonderment. This BSG is turning into just another boring sex-filled adult drama. Ho hum.
I’m hoping the second episode will allay my fears…so we’ll see…
October 13th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Boring sex filled adult drama? I must be watching a different show. Suicide bombers may not be space adventure but if it isn’t topical right now, I don’t know what is. I didn’t think the sex scene was too graphic, I mean, you didn’t see any naked bits, and until the end I don’t think you saw Dean Stockwell at all.
Like Prison Break this season, it is a different format which will take a little time to get used to but I don’t have any doubts that BSG will still rock.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
At first site you immediately question the legitimacy of any emotional baggage a cylon would carry. Isn’t that, what in theory, makes them superior?
Think for a moment though, the whole premise of the show is based on the Cylons reacting in vengeance – it all started with the series opener, right?
Perhaps it is the pure logical nature which drives them to the internal conflict. The existence or principal of God isn’t logical, yet humans being created in his image is – perhaps the Cylons are faced with the long standing morale issue: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?