See, now I'm going to disagree with youse guys. It was exceptional *television* - among the best ever - and its treatment of the subject matter (military in space, political tension, the struggle to survive, hunters and hunted, mysticism, etc etc) set it apart from all before.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
Atmosphere, cinematography, acting, visual design, even the MUSIC - everything was off the charts. Simply incredible. Which is why it SHOULD have been the best science fiction on television, evar. But the writing was a hot mess, and the show was garbage once that mattered.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
It set up that there was "a plan". That there was some big mystery, that all the odd things added up to something and made sense in the end. Where have I heard that before cough lost cough?
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
And just like Lost, and The X-Files before them, the writers were talking out their ass the whole time. Making it up as they went along. Going with whatever sounded cool at the time, with ZERO idea how to justify it.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
And so they started painting themselves into corners, except that they didn't care about that - they just outright ignored anything they'd previously committed to in pursuit of whatever sounded cool *this* episode. New things came out of left field, and old stuff got dropped.
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Replying to @random_eddie @BrowningMachine and
... and so much of what they threw at us was just plain DUMB. Goofy shit. "The Final Five" ?? All along the watchtower? Remember when the Boomer clone stopped a computer virus by sticking a wire into her arm?
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Replying to @LibertyFarmNH @BrowningMachine and
Hints of the awfulness were there early on, but I shrugged my shoulders and cut them slack. Because of the awesomeness. Which was awesome.
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Replying to @random_eddie @LibertyFarmNH and
Towards the middle the cracks were starting to show, and couldn't be ignored any more. And by the end it had all just fallen apart, lying there on the floor like a spilled bucket of dirty mopwater, and I just wanted it to be done.
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Yep Jumped the shark w the "we're so clever we're gonna make you have sympathy for suicide bombers" eps. Too much nonsense justification for too little payoff.
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Replying to @LibertyFarmNH @MorlockP and
Yes. That. Yet another show falls victim to It's All About The Relationships And The Interpersonal Drama Like In High School You Remember High School Right
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