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

In article <m2ip04l8thd53ag4dtm419b5uu91j6r9i9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, EGK
<me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


> I liked the Trek shows but agree with you about the "happy ****ny
answers". I
> love dark characters.  See my examples of Vic Mackey from The ****eld and
> Dexter.   Even those characters, as dark as they are have a sense of
humor
> about them.   It's not the flaws in the characters I mind on BG.  It's
that
> the flaws are all we ever see anymore.   They have no redeeming
> characteristics for me.  When everyone is equally flawed, how can you
tell a
> difference?  When a character like Cally is killed off, my initial
reaction
> is "yay" and I have a hard time believing that's what the writers are
going
> for.    There isn't a single character on the show I'd be sorry to see
die.
> 
> Some of the best drama is created when characters are thrust in to
extremely
> dark situations and the camaraderie that develops.   How they keep their
> senses of humor and their humanity about them.  I don't see that in BG
and
> since saving humanity is supposed to be the point of the show, they
could
> have worked harder to make those humans worth saving.


Yeah. Well they certainly are getting to be a disturbed bunch - but you
know, their entire race was pretty much wiped out, no one knows who is a
cylon anymore, they are probably sick to death of each other and algae...

I know! They need Julie The Cruise Director!

I get what you are saying though, I guess I still all like them too much .
I am kind of new to this series ( started watching this past winter...all
the DVDs straight through) so I am still in the honeymoon phase.