Why would machine-people put chaise lounges in the middle of rooms and wander around in the nude while listening to the piano? You have yet to convince me you have put any real thought into how they live, or why, writers. They just felt consistently shallow
LOL. I always felt zero connection to the cylons personally and I think that while that worked for the first season where you were indeed supposed to mostly identify with the humans, it became a lot more problematic when the show decided to spend time giving them equal weight but without fleshing them out very much at all. (And for me, none of the actors playing cylons intrigued me or offered any kind of empathetic way to related to them. If Chief instead of Boomer had been revealed as a cylon at the end of the mini, I would've been so much more invested.)
By the time Downloaded rolled around, I still didn't care about any of those people enough to really pay much attention to a whole hour devoted to them.
Re: Kara. Hindsight is naturally 20/20 and all, and my problem with the storyline definitely lies in the execution of it, but death/resurrection seemed like a much larger hurdle to suspend some disbelief over than someone having visions or their cancer temporarily cured by half-cylon blood. I mean the one logical route in their world to resurrection was through cylonity, except the show wanted to be cagey and say she wasn't a cylon, that this is just another free-standing miracle of the Gods, and it just always felt a little false and a little forced. The writers wanted us to love the story so much that we'd understand that what she was or how it had happened wasn't the point, but...they kind of failed to make a point, or to make all the rest of it so engaging that we could handwave those things. A story needs answers and just saying "because God made it so" as the resolution to a seven-year saga is both lame and unsatisfying answer.
I wouldn't say it broke the rules of the show, exactly, though it certainly did invalidate some of the tenets of their story bible () (i.e. "We will eschew the usual stories about parallel universes, time-travel, mindcontrol, evil twins, God-like powers and all the other cliches of the genre.") I was just more interested in what the original story told in the mini and s1 would have played out like.
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LOL. I always felt zero connection to the cylons personally and I think that while that worked for the first season where you were indeed supposed to mostly identify with the humans, it became a lot more problematic when the show decided to spend time giving them equal weight but without fleshing them out very much at all. (And for me, none of the actors playing cylons intrigued me or offered any kind of empathetic way to related to them. If Chief instead of Boomer had been revealed as a cylon at the end of the mini, I would've been so much more invested.)
By the time Downloaded rolled around, I still didn't care about any of those people enough to really pay much attention to a whole hour devoted to them.
Re: Kara. Hindsight is naturally 20/20 and all, and my problem with the storyline definitely lies in the execution of it, but death/resurrection seemed like a much larger hurdle to suspend some disbelief over than someone having visions or their cancer temporarily cured by half-cylon blood. I mean the one logical route in their world to resurrection was through cylonity, except the show wanted to be cagey and say she wasn't a cylon, that this is just another free-standing miracle of the Gods, and it just always felt a little false and a little forced. The writers wanted us to love the story so much that we'd understand that what she was or how it had happened wasn't the point, but...they kind of failed to make a point, or to make all the rest of it so engaging that we could handwave those things. A story needs answers and just saying "because God made it so" as the resolution to a seven-year saga is both lame and unsatisfying answer.
I wouldn't say it broke the rules of the show, exactly, though it certainly did invalidate some of the tenets of their story bible () (i.e. "We will eschew the usual stories about parallel universes, time-travel, mindcontrol,
evil twins, God-like powers and all the other cliches of the genre.") I was just more interested in what the original story told in the mini and s1 would have played out like.