{"id":188,"date":"2006-10-08T09:39:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikew.ca\/wp\/?p=188"},"modified":"2025-01-14T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T20:40:42","slug":"i-didnt-like-the-battlestar-galactica-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t like the Battlestar Galactica season opener."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[<em>Update:<\/em> After Ken&#8217;s ever so subtle hint, I feel compelled to warn you that this article contains numerous spoilers. Sorry, Ken.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who thought it was a good idea to <em>wreck<\/em> every interesting character?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adama? &#8212; losing his grip<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baltar? &#8212; getting a conscience(!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apollo? &#8212; a fat slob<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Starbuck? &#8212; turning into a Cylon sympathizer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Colonel Tigh? &#8212; an absolute raving psycho<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Roslin? &#8212; shot. (ok, I&#8217;ll give you that one; I saw her in the trailer for next week&#8217;s episode, so&#8230;)<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Man, I smell a Matrix sequel!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the g.d. cylons have gone nuts. Guys, I get it: Cylons are starting to behave like people. Did you think we wanted to see that? Ask yourself this: If you blur every distinction in the damn series, what are you left with? My guess: Another generic &#8220;rebels versus the empire&#8221; story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for the record, &#8220;stepping over the line&#8221; into suicide bombing as a fucking <strong>plot device<\/strong> is so absolutely unfeeling that I was speechless when I saw it. Who do these morons think they are?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update: After Ken&#8217;s ever so subtle hint, I feel compelled to warn you that this article contains numerous spoilers. Sorry, Ken.] Who thought it was a good idea to wreck every interesting character? Man, I smell a Matrix sequel! Even the g.d. cylons have gone nuts. Guys, I get it: Cylons are starting to behave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikew.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}