I think the writers never realized just how evil they had made the Cylons to be, not withstanding the fact that the Cylons had did have a genuine detachment from understanding why this was so awful in the first place. They didn't just blow up a civilization, they hunted down and raped whoever they could find that was left. Sweeping that under the rug made it look like the writers were trying to rewite their story's own history to be able to get away with a "forgiveness" arc that in truth never felt appropriate after that. But then again, they had to fall back on the Star Trek "Let's make everybody get along by the end of the story" technique, that never did work with BSG in the first place.
I totally agree, they should have kept running wit this. It's like saying you're depicting WWII in a completely REAL and DARK and TRUTHFUL way, but never mentioning the holocaust, the firebombings of civilians in Europe, the horrors of the Eastern front, the Japanese' brutality to the Chinese and POWs, and of course the aftermath of unleashing atomic weapons on the world. You wipe that stuff out, you're basically lying for history's sake, and you lose the right to say you're out there on the edge showing the truth of your subject matter.
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:12 am (UTC)I totally agree, they should have kept running wit this. It's like saying you're depicting WWII in a completely REAL and DARK and TRUTHFUL way, but never mentioning the holocaust, the firebombings of civilians in Europe, the horrors of the Eastern front, the Japanese' brutality to the Chinese and POWs, and of course the aftermath of unleashing atomic weapons on the world. You wipe that stuff out, you're basically lying for history's sake, and you lose the right to say you're out there on the edge showing the truth of your subject matter.