BSG Spoiler News

[lesbiassparrow]

News from SciFi wire (warning it contains spoilers): http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?category=0&id=31772



I am not terribly pleased with this spoiler news. How many times can they go back to Caprica? Will they start going back everytime they need something? Or when they feel like it?

If so, I can see how conversations will go:

"Commander, we have no cigars left!"

"What? Quick, back to Caprica and pick me up some clean socks while you are at it. And see if Tigh wants anything - I hear he's out of whiskey."

Also, it irks me on a relationship level. I'll admit it, I'm a Lee/Laura shipper, but I'm under no illusion about the fact that Lee and Starbuck are destined for each other. So throwing in a new love interest to delay that and so we can see lots of mopey or punchy Lee doesn't seem very interesting. Plus will we end up with some sort of mad love quadrangle with Lee, Baltar, and this new guy all after Starbuck? Will they add Helo as well to the mix?

Also, I'd like to see some forward progression in the story not an endless sequence of returns to the motherland.

Perhaps I'm not having faith enough in the writers but this just seems unnecessary.

Comments

[platypush.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not sure why I clicked on your cut because I don't even watch BSG, and I didn't actually read the spoilers. I guess it's because I think you're really smart and always enjoy reading what you're thinking...

But the funny thing is that I just left a comment in someone else's LJ commenting on spoilers for another show that alluded to a season long artificial love triangle being set up, and I mentioned how much I LOATHED the much over-used triangle as obstacle to relationships we all know are eventually going to happen it. LOATHE it. (To be fair, I have Joss Whedon to thank for that - I never much liked it as a dramatic choice to begin with, but I never hated it as much as I do now, thanks to Whedon).

So, even though I have no stake in the situation, I feel your cranky. *g*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I guess it's because I think you're really smart and always enjoy reading what you're thinking...

That's a really kind thing to say...now I'm all blushing...

But the funny thing is that I just left a comment in someone else's LJ commenting on spoilers for another show that alluded to a season long artificial love triangle being set up, and I mentioned how much I LOATHED the much over-used triangle as obstacle to relationships we all know are eventually going to happen it. LOATHE it. (To be fair, I have Joss Whedon to thank for that - I never much liked it as a dramatic choice to begin with, but I never hated it as much as I do now, thanks to Whedon).

I think love triangles are the lazy way to introduce tension; they sometimes work if you don't know how things are going to turn out, but in this case it just seems like cheap tension. And Whedon did taint it for me too, because his resolutions to the triangles were never bloody resolutions and you knew that the whole mess would linger on long after it should have been killed off and buried deep in the ground.