Battlestar Galactica season 3
Mar. 4th, 2014 08:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHaving bought the whole 5 seasons for £29.99 I have been watching them, starting where I left off, with season 3. I just finished it and... I'm feeling kind of like I paid the right price for these? I mean, my main reaction to that ending is pure WTF, and not the interesting I must put the next season disc in kind. I feel like there's a lot of interesting stuff going on with BSG, like the bit with the unions or Baltar's trial, but then it has anything at all to do with Earth, God/s or visions, and I get epic bored. I think it's because there are parts where people act and react for recogniseable people type reasons, have emotions and make choices and live through events and proceed to be changed by them, but then there's... all that other stuff. It's like, look, God! And *whoosh* something happens like a conjuring trick. Or hey, visions! *whoosh* And how are you supposed to react to that? And why do you need to know how to react? In what way is that story useful or valuable?
Also, there's the serious overlap with mental health problems, and the way it resolves them in terrible ways. Like, if someone with access to weapons is seeing things, they should back the frak away from the trigger. That's not actually ambiguous. Hallucinations plus weapons equals death. To go into the fiction and say hey, look, real visions!!! It's appallingly irresponsible... and common, and I wish writers would just stop doing it. It's just wrong. Plus there's mental health stuff without hallucinations, like, you do not have to forgive your abuser. They were wrong. They were just plain wrong. They did things for their own reasons, they chose bad things, they were wrong and you do not have to forgive them. It is in fact right to take yourself the hell away from the abuse. If the story goes there and goes, oh, oops, turns out that not only the physically abusive mother but the creepy stalker bastard domestic abuser actually turn out to be right... that's just evil. The story is being evil and can fuck right off. And as for that whole not afraid of death bit? Fear death! It is a reasonable and necessary fear!
When I saw the episode where Starbuck died I thought I was watching a story where she had hallucinations due to her long standing history of trauma and sleep deprivation just stacking up, and Lee made the wrong call, and she pretty much committed suicide. That was what I thought that story was. Which made sense, though it pissed me off that they'd do that to Starbuck, especially since it mostly seemed to be there to make guys have feelings all over the place. But that would be a reasonable story. Like, accepting the opinions of her abusers and diving in to the hallucinations instead of listening to her friends equals death. Even that seemed logical.
Then add god/s! And visions! And wtf? And now whatever the hell the story turns out to be it is... wrong.
It seems like there was a shuffling of female characters so they get killed off or pushed aside and there's just a lot of guys having pain. Again. Even when there are women on screen it doesn't feel like it's their story. They're just being moved around for other stories to happen.
So, the thing where I stopped watching? I'm agreeing with earlier me.
Hence the feeling like I spent about the right amount on these discs.
But, I'm going to go watch some more tomorrow. Now I have them they may be depressing and... well, other kinds of depressing... but unless I have to bail out for my own mental health then I might as well watch. Bits of it are even interesting.
Also, there's the serious overlap with mental health problems, and the way it resolves them in terrible ways. Like, if someone with access to weapons is seeing things, they should back the frak away from the trigger. That's not actually ambiguous. Hallucinations plus weapons equals death. To go into the fiction and say hey, look, real visions!!! It's appallingly irresponsible... and common, and I wish writers would just stop doing it. It's just wrong. Plus there's mental health stuff without hallucinations, like, you do not have to forgive your abuser. They were wrong. They were just plain wrong. They did things for their own reasons, they chose bad things, they were wrong and you do not have to forgive them. It is in fact right to take yourself the hell away from the abuse. If the story goes there and goes, oh, oops, turns out that not only the physically abusive mother but the creepy stalker bastard domestic abuser actually turn out to be right... that's just evil. The story is being evil and can fuck right off. And as for that whole not afraid of death bit? Fear death! It is a reasonable and necessary fear!
When I saw the episode where Starbuck died I thought I was watching a story where she had hallucinations due to her long standing history of trauma and sleep deprivation just stacking up, and Lee made the wrong call, and she pretty much committed suicide. That was what I thought that story was. Which made sense, though it pissed me off that they'd do that to Starbuck, especially since it mostly seemed to be there to make guys have feelings all over the place. But that would be a reasonable story. Like, accepting the opinions of her abusers and diving in to the hallucinations instead of listening to her friends equals death. Even that seemed logical.
Then add god/s! And visions! And wtf? And now whatever the hell the story turns out to be it is... wrong.
It seems like there was a shuffling of female characters so they get killed off or pushed aside and there's just a lot of guys having pain. Again. Even when there are women on screen it doesn't feel like it's their story. They're just being moved around for other stories to happen.
So, the thing where I stopped watching? I'm agreeing with earlier me.
Hence the feeling like I spent about the right amount on these discs.
But, I'm going to go watch some more tomorrow. Now I have them they may be depressing and... well, other kinds of depressing... but unless I have to bail out for my own mental health then I might as well watch. Bits of it are even interesting.