Post by JoeTaboe on Jan 27, 2005 17:57:12 GMT -5
I am just not keen on the whole Pegasus thing. I guess it irks me that the Pegasus would have to wander off, leaving the fleet with only one Battlestar to protect it. I can’t see that as realistic, no matter how much of a megalomaniac the Pegasus captain is.
What do I want to see? I want to see more of an exploration of the sadness involved in the whole process. The characters seem pretty flippant about having literally the “last cigar.” What about the wine and liquor? They will run out very quickly unless one of the ships was a transport ship full of the stuff. How sad would it be to be a wine lover and have the last bottle of Bordeaux, ever? Wouldn’t able bodied men (and women) be lining up to volunteer to do something? I know I would.
There are so many things that could be done with this material without veering too much from the main characters. What about a memorial service for the dead on the 6 month anniversary of the attacks?
If earth were the present day earth, which maybe they could somehow let us know without making it cheesy, then I think a lot of talk about how getting to earth will be their salvation would add a bit of poignancy to things. I know this has been covered in another thread a bit, but if the fleet showed up right now there wouldn’t be time to use the technology brought with the fleet to build more weapons to use against the cylons. Earth, instead of being the salvation, just becomes a second victim.
I would like to see more backstory about why the 13th colony was so distant. I also agree with others that some stories about the original cylon war would be nice. I think the series sold itself short by reaching Kobol in the first season. Maybe they needed it to get the ratings to stay alive. A sad commentary if true since now the search for earth will be very drawn out while finding Kobol was easy by comparison.
If Roslin is having visions it would be nice to have a vision (i.e., a long segment on the series) about Kobol before the colonies were established. They could use that in place of some of Baltar’s meanderings with No. 6. I think No. 6 is hot but most of that story line just bothers me. Maybe in her flashbacks she finds out about the real reason for some people fleeing to earth. Maybe they were religious separatists, Luddites even (space faring Amish – OK maybe space faring Mennonites with black bumpers on their spaceships, no chrome trim and all). Roslin sees (not the Mennonite bit) this and knows that finding earth will only lead to disaster for humanity and so directs the fleet off in another direction. Only she and a few people will know and then she will pass away.
I want Baltar to have a rival. Not some stupid political rival but some equally engineer/scientist or CEO type (think Steve Jobs) who is used to adversarial situations and a real rival for Baltar’s primacy as technical advisor. And I don’t want it to be just something where the cylons bump the rival off or something where he is later marginalised. Better yet, what if the rival is a she who thinks Baltar is a twit and he thinks she is hot? No. 6 will hate the rival but somehow can’t do anything about her.
What do I want to see? I want to see more of an exploration of the sadness involved in the whole process. The characters seem pretty flippant about having literally the “last cigar.” What about the wine and liquor? They will run out very quickly unless one of the ships was a transport ship full of the stuff. How sad would it be to be a wine lover and have the last bottle of Bordeaux, ever? Wouldn’t able bodied men (and women) be lining up to volunteer to do something? I know I would.
There are so many things that could be done with this material without veering too much from the main characters. What about a memorial service for the dead on the 6 month anniversary of the attacks?
If earth were the present day earth, which maybe they could somehow let us know without making it cheesy, then I think a lot of talk about how getting to earth will be their salvation would add a bit of poignancy to things. I know this has been covered in another thread a bit, but if the fleet showed up right now there wouldn’t be time to use the technology brought with the fleet to build more weapons to use against the cylons. Earth, instead of being the salvation, just becomes a second victim.
I would like to see more backstory about why the 13th colony was so distant. I also agree with others that some stories about the original cylon war would be nice. I think the series sold itself short by reaching Kobol in the first season. Maybe they needed it to get the ratings to stay alive. A sad commentary if true since now the search for earth will be very drawn out while finding Kobol was easy by comparison.
If Roslin is having visions it would be nice to have a vision (i.e., a long segment on the series) about Kobol before the colonies were established. They could use that in place of some of Baltar’s meanderings with No. 6. I think No. 6 is hot but most of that story line just bothers me. Maybe in her flashbacks she finds out about the real reason for some people fleeing to earth. Maybe they were religious separatists, Luddites even (space faring Amish – OK maybe space faring Mennonites with black bumpers on their spaceships, no chrome trim and all). Roslin sees (not the Mennonite bit) this and knows that finding earth will only lead to disaster for humanity and so directs the fleet off in another direction. Only she and a few people will know and then she will pass away.
I want Baltar to have a rival. Not some stupid political rival but some equally engineer/scientist or CEO type (think Steve Jobs) who is used to adversarial situations and a real rival for Baltar’s primacy as technical advisor. And I don’t want it to be just something where the cylons bump the rival off or something where he is later marginalised. Better yet, what if the rival is a she who thinks Baltar is a twit and he thinks she is hot? No. 6 will hate the rival but somehow can’t do anything about her.