Comments on: Why Battlestar Galactica Sucks

by: Ivan

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:42:35 +0100

Worst. Show. Ever.
Actually, no… Heroes was the worst show ever, but BSG comes in at a close second.

by: O_Deus

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:19:45 +0100

There are people who will jump on board anything that’s pretentious enough to let them show off how smart they think they are.

Their cluelessness was shown by how many of them finally turned on the show and Moore with the finale, when they realized the whole thing had been a fly by the seat of your pants sack of meaningless crap that mostly didn’t make any sense, and the part that did was hopelessly stupid

by: Mindmelder

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:05:45 +0100

What has rankled me most about this abysmally bad show is all the “praise” that has been heaped on it.

When I first happened upon it several years ago I found it mesmerizingly bad. You know- you can’t believe anything so terrible could have made it past the studio brass so you somehow can’t look away. I equate it to gaping at a car accident in traffic.

When I did break the spell I was stunned by all the aforementioned praise for the show that I came accross. Surely people weren’t that stupid. In the end, as I assumed, it was all hype. People behind the show getting their cronies in the media to say it was “deep”.

I don’t blame the actors of the original series for feeling animosity towards this mess. I really have to give them a big thumbs up. A bunch of usurpurs come along and hijack the name of their show and hang it on rehashed DS9 material with low rent acting to boot.

Your original review is so well said that I won’t waste words with my own.

I will make the obsevation though that the few rebuttals to your views came early and evaporated quickly. Syncophantic lickspittles run for cover quickly when so many people refute them with precision.

by: Alex L

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:51:20 +0100

I am currently in Korea for work and thought that I would seek some solace at nights in downloading and watching the next season (being 3) of battlestar galactica.
At first I could not figure out why it was so taxing to watch. Then I found my self shouting at the computer and flicking over to the discovery channel. Finally it hit me. It takes it self way to seriously, undeservedly so.

I almost made it to the end but then starbuck had some thing with her mother and I deleted the rest of the episodes. bottom line, the series is no longer enjoyable. So why in the hell should i watch it

and you know what has calmed my nerves, finding all you discerning people expressing the exact same sentiments.

Ps. I still love Adama, would that I were his president

by: DECONHorizon

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:05:02 +0100

God, it feels great to know I’m not alone in hating BStar.

by: O_Deus

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:21:12 +0000

And this isn’t even Science Fiction. SF assumes that technology can help us move further up, which it has. This is retarded Hollywood luddite anti-tech.

And somehow BSG assumes that if we give up technology, we’ll end the violence. Because you know stone age societies are non-violent and somehow creating resource scarcities will bring peace.

by: pDemo

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:06:41 +0000

Ok! Now it has done it! I just finished watching the the final episode so let me state my point of view as clearly as possible: Battlestar Galactica sucks. I knew it was going to go end like this since they started mentioning Earth on season one. It was a pretty obvious ending! The remaining of the human race joined with a bunch of rebel cylons and native primitives native to the planet gave birth to our civilization many many years ago, giving up their history, sience and of course, tecnology. And they did so in order to prevent themselves from “inevitably” falling to autodestruction. Will somoeone please explain me why should this be true. I ask because it seems to be a common belief all around the globe these days! There are more and more people who belive that it is, in fact, our tecnological evolution that is leading us to waste. I mean, that is just such a pitty, because we had the potential! There was a time when people were all excited about science an tecnology an there were more and more youngsters who were in fact willing to enter college, join research, and let me say it, all that has led us the kind of tecnology needed for making a poor written story like battlestar galactica grow into a higly rated show against all odds! What is the morallity of it anyway! Stop these “closed cycle thing” crap! If humanity is to end someday it will be because of self righteus mediocratic idiots that are growing in numbers as we speak all over the fucking world! Im really angry at this, we are a less advanced society than we were in the ’80s. I mean it. A show, should be a work of art, but, should in some measure transmit a message to the ones who are willing to watch it as well. State something, a value, even a contemplation! This show transmitts nothing, and, it is not science fiction! It is jus sad that it gets such high rating

by: Anonymous

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:26:02 +0000

Mysticism = lazy writing.

BSG has bored me since the start of season 3. I watch it now just to see how bad it can get…. which is pretty damn bad.

by: Robert

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:38:59 +0000

its the worst show on television bar none. well maybe some reality garbage. bad, bad actors. I mean below soap opera level except for edward james olmos who must have needed the money. either very ugly female characters or failed strippers. spastic zoom ins on space ships passing as direction? the jackass who decided we need to hear the non word frack every 13 minutes. sounds of ships in space. as if space IS NOT a void. hello, wheres the SCIENCE in science fiction? starbuck goes from being a guy to being an ugly woman. and then comes back as the vice president. suuuurrree.
its supposed to be about people trying to get back to earth but most of the people are white english speakers, just like on earth right? the next shut in [ as in mens health magazine ] who calls this tripe the best show on television should have their entire family euthanised.

by: Andy

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:18:44 +0000

worst… show… ever *a la comic book guy from Simpsons*

by: Captain Shrugs

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:31:45 +0000

I actually just saw my first full episode a while back. I’ve pretty much watched every Sci-Fi series at one point or another although I usually steer clear of watching them when they originally show just because I like seeing episodes back to back. Honestly, I think the lack of humor is a spot on criticism.

Maybe one of the problems with the Sci Fi being produced at the time of BSG was that they were so tongue-in-cheek. Leading into it, I guess the major series would have been Stargate, Farscape, and Enterprise. Enterprise wasn’t really that funny, but then it never got the traction I think some expected and wasn’t successful in terms of what you would expect from ST either.

So I guess in that sense, BSG filled a void for people who apparently can’t tolerate anything less than 100% seriousness in dire situations because they find that a lack of comedy is “real.” Of course, I find that level of drama highly unrealistic since a (perhaps “the”) major stress coping mechanism in human beings IS humor and therefore you quite often find VERY funny people in a war time backdrop. So I’m spending my time watching an episode going, “umm where are these people?”

As for the morality plays, I won’t fault BSG for those since anyone who writes a story is usually forced to shoehorn one into the plot. It might make us feel good to attribute a particular story to a show we enjoy and then say another show copied it, but if a person cares to research literature more deeply, you tend to find just about everything is a retread. Unique twists, maybe. A true original is rare and may occur once or twice in the entire run of series and usually aren’t the episodes you’d think of either.

by: Alex

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:39:49 +0000

I think BSG gets a lot of great reviews because it sticks closely to reality. It doesn’t require a great suspension of disbelief as far as scifi goes, so it appeals to more folks than just the general scifi crowd.

I loved the show for a while, but its strayed into LOST territory, creating more and more questions while not answering earlier ones, straying from the main plot arc for silly and cliche sub plots, and using sentimental and shallow emotional tricks to add weight to a floundering story.

With so few episodes to go, I was very let down by the last ep, playing the Zarek card AGAIN and going along almost like the recent premier ep never happened. I guess I like science fiction more than political fiction, the same problem I had with DS9.

by: O_Deus

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:00:47 +0000

Yeah, got to agree with you there. Except I don’t think the female characters are all that strong or much on the identification front either.

It’s too bad that this or the latest Stargate Trek ripoff is what outer space SciFi on TV comes down to now.

by: Adamma

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:46:29 +0000

heh, I actually prefer the first BSG over the remake, for one thing it had some humor! it didn’t take itself too seriously mind you only one season, and a few made for TV episodes (which were pretty bad I must say) but it’s been said many times in the posts.. too Dramatic, I get tired watching it, if it wasen’t for the epic space carnage.. I would not watch it at all. To many strong women (not that this is bad) but their were no guys to identify with, Adama is too old, Tye just plain bothers, and Apollo?? I figure he’s the guy that was included for my demographic.. he’s a PUSSY weak, How about some stonger male characters to complement the women?
Stopped watching after the Pegasus arc, sigh, I want my Trek or B5 back (you can flush Star Wars imo).

cheers =)

by: NEW BSG HATER

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:27:13 +0000

wow. I am finally not alone. There is lightness in the dark.

The first season was the absolute best.

Then the show headed south with one little turn around in BSG Razor. But they even messed this up towards the end with Kara.

Then came BSG Iraq,
then came Karas slutting around,
then came the president and Olmos’s love affair,
then came a few more hook ups with weak characters i.e. the chief and flight deck crew,
then came the gay love story 10 part mini series,
then came gaps in the plot that were never explained,

What type of super liberal writing menace is putting things on air. These no talent, no vision writers have done in another show. How could you screw up a decent plot, a decent set adn decent actors.

Let me see. Hire a bunch of extreme femenist liberals and let them loose on the script. Incorporate lesbian love seens, kara slutting around, and a gay 10 part mini series, plot incongruities and more….

Wow, I was a die hard fan until season 2 and season 3 was jsut stupid. Season 4 has not one good episode.

Oh ya and like the 5 missing cylons in the temple that predates the cylons creation. Like they are ever going to explain that one….

Im not holding my breath. I sense a lame ending coming.