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My children believe I am God. |
So is this it? The Cylon God is an old guy in a bath tub? I wouldn't have a problem with that if they had used him to greater effect. That being said I have a number of problem with BSG: Razor (Cain going from being tough to crazy in the space of one scene when she blows the XOs head off, and this is
before she learns her lover is a Cylon) but admittedly most of these involve the ending.
I held off watching this for weeks because I'm not a fan of this style of story telling. It's a cheat to slip in this amount of material after the fact but never reference it in any shape or form in direct continuity.
I'm certain they'll mention one or two bits next season but too much viewing time has passed between the Pegasus episodes, the New Caprica debacle with it's missing year and when this was supposed to happen. It's an interesting look back but ultimately it's designed to never be referenced again by using a disposable situation and disposable characters.
I think Moore dropped the ball by blowing up the Gen 1 Cylons. To date his interpretation of the skinjob Cylons has been dull. From Baltar's time with them on the BaseStar and the New Caprica boredom we've learned that there was no real divine plan or greater thinking beyond wiping out the colonies. It was just a pre-emptive strike which turned out to be more successful than they had planned for.
I'd have liked to have seen the Gen 1 Cylons, the tin cans thrown on the scrap heap by the skinjobs, rise up and represent a more conservative Cylon ideology with clearer goals. They did over throw their human masters the first time around so why not do it again to the Skinjobs? I'd like to have seen swarms of classic BaseStars and Centurions take on and take out some of the skinjob forces. Hell let some of the current gen bullet heads, their BaseStar hybrids, and perhaps the Brother Cavil or Leoben models throw in with bath tub guy and go after the rest of them and Galactica.
Daddy is home and he's not happy with how things have turned out so he's going to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.
Finally there's a large part of me which didn't want to see any kind of noble death. Indeed I'd have preferred to have seen the nuke fail to go off when she pulled the trigger and have the main character dragged away to be used in further experimentation as the ship pulled a Galactica and jumped out before a Pegasus launched nuke hit.
I suppose my problem with the Cylons is that I don't think they have anyone who could go head to head against Adama and win. So why not the Cylon God? Why not the creature that got away from him the first time around and left him a little psychic vision before it left.
