{"id":6586,"date":"2009-02-07T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T08:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2009-02-07T01:22:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T08:42:39","slug":"battlestar-galactica-414-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Galactica 4.14: Meh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bsg_gaeta_4_14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bsg_gaeta_4_14-500x282.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Felix Gaeta\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6587\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I <em>love <\/em>that Adama&#8217;s alliance with the cylons set off a mutiny which needed to be put down. I love that the cost of an alliance with cylons is that two named characters &#8212; including one that the fans and many of the main characters had affection for &#8212; were executed. This is exactly the sort of &#8220;choices have consequences&#8221; storyline that really should be included in space opera shows, but almost never is.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m glad they did this story.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the episode itself was tepid and unoriginal. What could have been a meaningful storyline, with some moral complexity, was instead done as a trivial action movie.<\/p>\n<p>The only element that was at all unexpected was that the council got killed off, which was only unexpected because Tom hasn&#8217;t been shown to be that much of a generic Evil Villain in his past episodes.<\/p>\n<p>I found Tom&#8217;s actions generally bewildering. It made sense for him to lie about Tigh being dead to Adama. But why didn&#8217;t he tell Gaeta the truth, once they were out of Adama&#8217;s earshot? If a bunch of incredibly important and dangerous prisoners escape, the rational thing to do is to tell the head of the military, so that a search and capture\/kill effort can be deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Also: The lawyer is able to quickly kill the big, armed guard because the plot kind of requires it. Boring.<\/p>\n<p>Also: The Chief sabotages the FTL at the last possible moment &#8212; during the countdown, even. Gee, I&#8217;ve never seen <em>that <\/em>before. Boring.<\/p>\n<p>So, anyhow, that&#8217;s my thoughts. Yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}