hey– why is Galactica sucking so bad? they even pulled the “Alias
Error”: Season Finale– “…One Year Later…”, ie. completely jettisoning the previous plotlines, not to mention character development (love that the ‘nice sweet schoolteacher’ has become a ice-cold “throw ‘em out the airlock” b*tch. Nice move there for a ‘prophet’).
The miniseries was so incredible.. & now each character is in a rut, & the only ‘humanity’ anyone is displaying is by those 2 Cylons (but they’re hot… hmmm).
I suppose i can stand the character inconsistencies,
fragmented/discarded storylines, low-tek special effects (hey Zoic: low-res cgi shaky-cam & cheesy models looked really cool in ‘Firefly’… b/c the show’s entire look was low-rent & cheesy– the frickin ship was supposed to look like ass! But here in ‘full-on polyester uniform’ville of Galactica, those super-saturated & blown-out crispy digital effects just look like bad circa-80′s Video Toaster)…
…or how about the utterly underutilized character-actor cameos, such as Bill Duke & Dean Stockwell. This is unconscionable– just watch “Predator” (the Sarge) or “Blue Velvet” to see what those two gentlemen in particular can do, when given great scripts & excellent direction. Instead, they’re brought-in, get to ham it up a little, & are then summararily blown-away. You got these guys to play throw-away parts in throw-away plotlines? What were you thinking?!! Just think of Bill Duke as a Cylon overlord… or Dean Stockwell as a mad prophet whose madness eerily parallels the Prez’s. These would be memes that resonated across the entire series, let-alone multiple episodes. Instead, each are whacked, & even that is poorly-written. Consider: a den of thieves, hardened criminals loyal to their boss, & they get cowed by Daddy’s Boy ships away from his backup? Are you kidding me?? Or better– let’s casually destroy the balanced characterization of the prez, & make her a cold-ass killer by whacking Stockwell… w/o even grilling him for information!What a waste.
…or how about all the deus-ex machina’s? Poof, exeunt prez’s cancer. Poof, let’s find habital planets (& worlds chock-full of tillium), just when we need them! Er, I suppose the writers don’t read their own previous scripts, eg. when both habital planets & tillium reserves were described by Adama as “extremely rare… like a needle in a haystack”… & Tie grunts “like a needle on a beach”. I guess it was a beach of needles…
But anyway– I’ll let all that go, or try to… but how about all the huge technical oversights? Excuse me– isn’t this a frickin’ science-fiction series???? Can’t they even get the geeky bits right? Do they think their core demo (dorky, bespectacled geeks w/ photographic memories for myriad, inchoate, parsnickity details) won’t miss a little something like: HOW THE FUCK CAN A BRAND-NEW BATTLESTAR & VIPERS MANAGE TO NOT GET INFECTED BY CYLON VIRII?!!! Especially when every other one was waxed w/in 1hr at the start of the war?! Has anyone ever ‘explained’ that? Don’t tell me “Pegasus” doesn’t have huge networked computers; their control room is like 1/10 the size of Galactica’s. ARRRRGGGH!!!
Let’s imagine The Writers: “Er, um, look-away, look-away; let’s have Starbuck screw-around & get drunk again.” (Which, as a friend pointed out to me, is quite an effective plot-device. But anyway…)
On a more positive note, Number Six has posed naked all over the web, which is very good advertising. Remind me, when i Run a Show, to cast hot ladies willing to get naked. It’s called “Production Value” 
I think my v. fave sci-fi ever is “Firefly”. Get the dvd’s from Netflix,
& watch in the correct order (ie, not the Fox-broadcasted mis-order)… Because: “Joss Whedon Knows Character Development”… & he even includes his obligatory “Hot Teen with Superpowers”(TM).
I’m not a rabid fan, ‘browncoat’ or whatever… but I’ve seen the series 3 times now (the film ‘Serenity’ is not that great), & still like it… whereas i don’t ever plan to watch Galactica again.
What a shame… all those Wasted Opportunities… all those wasted dvd-r blanks…