Battlestar Galactica 3x17 Maelstrom and 3x18 The Son Also Rises

[samvara]

I get why Maelstrom was more interesting than a lot of episodes prior (because we all love Kara and her issues) but I maintain that it is a character episode. There is no addition to the existing body of knowledge that would progress the show. Yes, we knew Kara was abused as a child, we knew she had issues with her mother, we knew she had a connection with the temple symbol and we knew Leoben spouted a lot of mystical stuff at her.

What’s new? Nothing. Her death didn’t reveal anything about her, the Cylon, the Fleet or their future and as such I resent having a lot of emotional triggers thrust at me without any payoff.

The Son Also Rises was a bit more interesting. It’s nice to see Lee back after being body snatched and out of character for a long, long time and our new lawyer Romo Lampkin was smokin’ (I mean that in a complex and interesting new character kind of way and a ‘god I love your voice’ kind of way – I loved Mark Sheppard as Badger in Firefly too). I’m not entirely clear on how this arc will answer my questions but they’ve got two whole episodes left in which to do it.

This is where Torchwood really fell apart, by the last few episodes I didn’t have any questions I wanted answered and I didn’t trust the writers. In sad, sad irony, the show that has consistently left me with a) questions and b) the hope of answers is Supernatural, which also has the lowest status (and most of my love).

Comments

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

I partly wish Malestrom had been earlier in the season, even four or five eps ago, becuase then we could have had the question it poses is she> and its ramifications rippling through other storylines. Still a brilliant series but i do feel it lost me a bit int he second half of this season.
Yes, agree totally about Torchwood, it felt more like an epsiodic show of CSI format than a show with character development and a stroy arc, whcih i think it did want be. How did it fail, where Dr Who with a smilair format wins?

As to Supernatural well its hard to be objective when you're in love ;) but it is brining the season in with such strength and does keep opening up questions about both the characters and the mnytharc. Oh I'm besotted, I admit it ;)