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

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AlacrityFitzhugh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Beowulf Bolt" <abd.al-hazred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Hobart Floyt wrote:
> >>
> >> And where the heck did Kara get paint?  After Moore
> >> made a big deal about things appearing out of nowhere
> >> in "Voyager", he keeps doing stuff like this.
> >
> > Regardless the validity of your other gripes, this is
> > pretty damned petty.  Perhaps she simply used brightly
> > coloured sewage sludge. Frankly, who cares?  Has there
> > been any indication of a fleet-wide paint storage to make
> > this worthy of a single wasted moment of exposition?
> >
> > When you get to the point where you are manufacturing
> > stuff to complain about, perhaps that's a good time to
> > simply give up on the series.
> 
> I don't have to manufacture stuff to complain about,
> Ron Moore and Dave Eick manufacture more than enough.
> 
> It's related to that issue about liking the characters.
> Something snapped with the wretched Season 3.  Comments
> of even the most ardent fans over at the Sci-Fi Forum
> are focussed on minutia, trying to piece together the
> Final Cylon puzzle, who can make the oddest romantic
> pairing or joking about this or that character.
> 
> Very few people are watching for the damned story
> anymore or concerned with the fate of the characters.
> Viewers are starting to feel manipulated and jerked
> around by the writers and are resenting it.
> 
> I gave up on the series at the end of Season 2.
> Now I watch for the unintentional humour of the writers
> desperately trying to come up with something resembling
> a coherent story.
> 
> Also for the schadenfreude.  "Burn, re-imagined Galactica!
> You're finished R&D!" 
> 

You're out of your mind.  There were several weak episodes in season 3, 
and even 2.  But c'mon man.  Any real 'fan' of this series can see how 
4's building up properly.