Thoughts about BSG: Razor
Nov. 26th, 2007 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readsalotAll spoilers, all the time. You've been warned.
My comment at the end of that episode was, "Well, that was pointless." Apparently they wanted to have a stand-alone 2-hour episode (that they could sell on DVD right after it was first shown), and that didn't change continuity, but why not tell a story where the ending wasn't a foregone conclusion?
You could tell from the beginning that Shaw was going to die, because she was too vivid a character to vanish into obscurity in 6 months (or whatever), and she was never in evidence during any of the regular season episodes where we saw Lee Adama in command of Pegasus.
What did we learn? We got some more details on Cain's tactics, but we always knew that she had committed war crimes because she thought they were necessary. Was seeing them really necessary?
The one interesting point to me was that Gina had seduced Cain. That was not necessarily obvious from what we knew, and it explained Cain's rabid hatred of her. I also liked the scenes with Gina and Cain, and then Gina and Shaw; they were well-done, and not overly obvious.
My comment at the end of that episode was, "Well, that was pointless." Apparently they wanted to have a stand-alone 2-hour episode (that they could sell on DVD right after it was first shown), and that didn't change continuity, but why not tell a story where the ending wasn't a foregone conclusion?
You could tell from the beginning that Shaw was going to die, because she was too vivid a character to vanish into obscurity in 6 months (or whatever), and she was never in evidence during any of the regular season episodes where we saw Lee Adama in command of Pegasus.
What did we learn? We got some more details on Cain's tactics, but we always knew that she had committed war crimes because she thought they were necessary. Was seeing them really necessary?
The one interesting point to me was that Gina had seduced Cain. That was not necessarily obvious from what we knew, and it explained Cain's rabid hatred of her. I also liked the scenes with Gina and Cain, and then Gina and Shaw; they were well-done, and not overly obvious.
