Re: 4th Season Battlestar Galactica - The Ties That Bind - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:29:27 -0230, cloud dreamer <Fight@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>EGK wrote:

>> I don't want to rain on anyone's parade here but I can't see the
attraction
>> of this show any more.  I loved it when it first started but now I
record
>> episodes and FF thru most of them.  It's become nothing but a giant
soap
>> opera  in space.  That's ok if you like soaps.  I do sometimes if
they're
>> done well but I have to care about the characters.   The only reason I
even
>> still record them to FF through later is to hopefully see some sort of
>> closure to the series.
>> 
>>  My major problem with BG is there is not a single character in the
whole
>> series who I give two ****s about.  I hope they all die.  Cally was a
>> likeable character years ago but like everyone else on the series, the
>> writers trashed her.  They basically made her a shrewish ***** and a
quick
>> exit out an air-lock seemed like a fitting end for her.   If they could
only
>> do that to the rest of them.  
>> 
>> I'm wondering if other people who still think BG is great TV like the
>> characters?   Or am I in a minority in needing to like and be able to
root
>> for them to enjoy a show like this?
>
>
>I hate soaps. I don't see anything soapy about BSG except for maybe a 
>couple episodes last year when they played with the Lee/Kara thing. 
>Other than that, it's a very strong show that focuses on the characters, 
>not the "cylon attack of the week" that the original did much too often. 
>All the characters are appealing in one form or another. I can honestly 
>say there isn't a character I don't like.
>
>If you hate the show that much, why even waste the electricity to record 
>it? Obviously, something still appeals to you.

Look.  I wasn't disrespectful to anyone who still loves the show .  Why
can't anyone on here ever offer a contrary opinion of something without
someone  giving a variation of the old "why do you even watch it, blah
blah
blah" as a response?  I already said I record it in hopes of seeing some
sort of closure to the series.  I was close to doing the same thing with
LOST until the big changeup the writers threw at the end of last season.
Some episodes I watch more than others.  This one I FF'd through most of
it.
At least you did answer my question about still liking the characters.  I
don't find any redeeming value in any of them.  

I don't know what you think soaps are but it's not a derogatory term
though
I know some people use it that way.  This definition fits BG quite well.
What else would you call it if not a program chiefly characterized by
tangled interpersonal situations?   The action certainly takes a back seat
to that and has for a long time now.   Most shows have elements of soap
opera.  I just think the show has become bad melodrama.   Again, just my
opinion.

soap opera
Etymology:  from its sponsor****p by soap manufacturers

1 a: a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television
program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and
melodramatic or sentimental treatment b: a series of real-life events
resembling a soap opera2: the melodrama and sentimentality characteristic
of
a soap opera <even cops need a little soap opera in their lives — Joseph
Wambaugh>; also : something (as a novel) having such qualities
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