all of this has happened before;
Mar. 18th, 2012 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
longerthanwedoWow so I finished Battlestar Galactica and
there are two major things that I have a problem with, and the rest of it is fine and dandy (and in some cases really fucking perfect).
The first is the suggestion that the cylon god is a literal thing. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but the feeling I got, and the general consensus I've seen around the internet in the last hour or so I've been stalking tags and such, is that closing on Six and Baltar's hallucinations was meant to insinuate that the reason all of this has happened before and will happen again was because of them. Because of the "hand of god", that god being the "one true god". And then I just get angry because THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS SHOW IS ABOUT. NO. It's not about fate or destiny or God's plan in any way. I mean come on, the Lords of Kobol are quite obviously people - the final five are the cylon equivalent of that - and Gaius is obviously a Christ figure, but none of that is literal. None of it. It was never meant to be, or so I assumed throughout THE ENTIRE SERIES. I just, ugh, can we take cylon god and tack a -complex onto it because then it would be good, we can take "all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again" and we can take Apollo and Athena and we can talk about human nature and cyclical history. We can do all of that without venturing into One True God territory, and we can talk about transition from polytheism to monotheism and we can discuss the existence of both and of atheism without pointing at what is real and what is not. Because that is not only iffy as hell in terms of the realism that this show tends/tended to gravitate towards, but frankly it's offensive. Okay.
The other thing that pissed me off was Kara's narrative and how they just threw it out the window after Maelstrom. Like ughhhh I am all for identity crises. I AM A BIG FAN OF IDENTITY CRISES. But you can't just take a "I don't know who/what I am" crisis and turn it into "it's okay I know my place" without any transition. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT PLACE/REVELATION IS COMPLETELY CONTRADICTORY TO THE ENTIRE PRECEDING PERSONAL NARRATIVE. I fucking love Kara okay, but her narrative should have been about learning to depend on someone (read: Lee), and not about sudden and complete faith in an idea/destiny. Kara Thrace does not have a Special Destiny. That was good material for one breakdown (Maelstrom), but not for an entire season-long narrative arc.
Alright, but if we're talking about narrative arcs, I just want to talk about how LEE ADAMA HAS THE MOST FUCKING PERFECT NARRATIVE ARC I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Seriously. Seriously it's beautiful. And he makes such perfect sense throughout the entire thing, he won't serve in the office of someone who questions his integrity, because say whatever you want, Bill Adama, this man is MADE of integrity. He leaves everything behind for the sake of a doomed future and the people he loves and when he reaches that future he has no one. No one. IT'S LIKE JACK SHEPHARD'S NARRATIVE ONLY POSSIBLY EVEN BETTER SD;FKAKL;SDJKFJL. Also Jamie Bamber's face is a magical, magical thing (HIS FUCKING FACE WHEN HE SAYS "I WANT TO EXPLORE" USAHG;KLSDF I LOST IT OKAY I WAS WATCHING IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND I LOST IT BECAUSE HIS FAAAACE) and should probably be worshipped by human and cylon alike.
Wow okay I have actual homework to do because school starts back up again tomorrow (oh joy), but I had to get those particular things out in the open because otherwise I might have exploded :))))
there are two major things that I have a problem with, and the rest of it is fine and dandy (and in some cases really fucking perfect).
The first is the suggestion that the cylon god is a literal thing. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but the feeling I got, and the general consensus I've seen around the internet in the last hour or so I've been stalking tags and such, is that closing on Six and Baltar's hallucinations was meant to insinuate that the reason all of this has happened before and will happen again was because of them. Because of the "hand of god", that god being the "one true god". And then I just get angry because THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS SHOW IS ABOUT. NO. It's not about fate or destiny or God's plan in any way. I mean come on, the Lords of Kobol are quite obviously people - the final five are the cylon equivalent of that - and Gaius is obviously a Christ figure, but none of that is literal. None of it. It was never meant to be, or so I assumed throughout THE ENTIRE SERIES. I just, ugh, can we take cylon god and tack a -complex onto it because then it would be good, we can take "all of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again" and we can take Apollo and Athena and we can talk about human nature and cyclical history. We can do all of that without venturing into One True God territory, and we can talk about transition from polytheism to monotheism and we can discuss the existence of both and of atheism without pointing at what is real and what is not. Because that is not only iffy as hell in terms of the realism that this show tends/tended to gravitate towards, but frankly it's offensive. Okay.
The other thing that pissed me off was Kara's narrative and how they just threw it out the window after Maelstrom. Like ughhhh I am all for identity crises. I AM A BIG FAN OF IDENTITY CRISES. But you can't just take a "I don't know who/what I am" crisis and turn it into "it's okay I know my place" without any transition. ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT PLACE/REVELATION IS COMPLETELY CONTRADICTORY TO THE ENTIRE PRECEDING PERSONAL NARRATIVE. I fucking love Kara okay, but her narrative should have been about learning to depend on someone (read: Lee), and not about sudden and complete faith in an idea/destiny. Kara Thrace does not have a Special Destiny. That was good material for one breakdown (Maelstrom), but not for an entire season-long narrative arc.
Alright, but if we're talking about narrative arcs, I just want to talk about how LEE ADAMA HAS THE MOST FUCKING PERFECT NARRATIVE ARC I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. Seriously. Seriously it's beautiful. And he makes such perfect sense throughout the entire thing, he won't serve in the office of someone who questions his integrity, because say whatever you want, Bill Adama, this man is MADE of integrity. He leaves everything behind for the sake of a doomed future and the people he loves and when he reaches that future he has no one. No one. IT'S LIKE JACK SHEPHARD'S NARRATIVE ONLY POSSIBLY EVEN BETTER SD;FKAKL;SDJKFJL. Also Jamie Bamber's face is a magical, magical thing (HIS FUCKING FACE WHEN HE SAYS "I WANT TO EXPLORE" USAHG;KLSDF I LOST IT OKAY I WAS WATCHING IN A PUBLIC PLACE AND I LOST IT BECAUSE HIS FAAAACE) and should probably be worshipped by human and cylon alike.
Wow okay I have actual homework to do because school starts back up again tomorrow (oh joy), but I had to get those particular things out in the open because otherwise I might have exploded :))))
