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From: dbarnett@nospam.com
"Ken from Chicago" wrote in message
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> Disappointing. Nice the show embracing more of genre, but that's not the
> flaw. Watching Adama and Zoe NOT act, NOT take the initiative ... yawn.
> Bored now.
I don't find the show, as a whole, boring but the plot is most of the time
developing glacially IMHO - ie going at a snail's pace.
So, are you going to watch further episodes?
> 1) Watching Adama repeatedly state he doesn't know the answer to the
> riddle ... okay, I get it, move on. Instead they keep asking him the same
> questions and he is unable to answer. I liked he finally did act in the
> end, but that took too long.
I do find the Adama story borintg most of the time, yet I like the actor.
> 2) Watching Zoe not respond to her dad was also tiresome. Eric Stoltz was
> good in his speechifying, but a one-way argument gets tiresome. It differs
> from typical torture scenes where at least the victim responds, argues
> back, laugh, to deflect from giving the answer the torturer wants (e.g.,
> BABYLON 5's Delenn being tortured by the Inquisitor or Sheridan tortured
> by Earthgov stooge, the former responded beyond just I don't know and the
> latter argued against TPTB behind his torturer, BUFFY's Spike being
> tortured by Glory still laughed off the torture--when he was screaming in
> agony--but didn't just stand there mute).
I rather enjoyed the battle of wits at the time, but at the end of it all,
in retrospect, it did seem tiresome.
> Ironically's Adama's story felt like a watered down retread of Tamara's
> where she starts out in New Cap City wimpy but learns to kick butt--only
> it took him too forever to get to that point while Tamara realized it much
> sooner.
I agree with you here.
> And watching Daniel spend much of the episode proving Zoe was in the
> cylon, when he already knew from the pilot movie he had copied Zoe's
> avatar and installed it in the cylon was tiresome. The question was why
> was he doubting it? Why did he have to "prove" it? Just cuz the computer
> said the data was irrevocably lost? He's a computer genius, he should know
> that's not always so. Plus despite the Zoebot's lack of response he still
> thinks she's in there.
> And as Lacy said, why again won't Zoe reveal herself? What would be so
> horrible about that? So he tries to exploit her to make more robots? She's
> shown she can outsmart him, she could just download her essense onto the
> v-world. She knows she can be transferred to another Meta Cognitive
> Processor (yes, I too like the refs to TRON's MCP as well as "derezzing"),
> what's the big whup? She can override the robot's programming. What the
> frell is her beef?
Yes, all that (the 2 paragraphs above) bugs me.
> To summarize my reaction, you had two plots where the featured characters
> didn't take the initiative--and I prefer my protagonists, ala Tamara, to
> be more assertive--to do much. Technically three, but I didn't care much
> about what Zoe's mom was doing about her dead brother.
I agree again.
> -- Ken from Chicago
>
> P.S. Reportedly the Sister Clarice character was originally planned to be
> more comedic, ala Gaius Baltar but at the last second TPTB changed there
> minds. A pity since Polly Walker showed in HBO's ROME she's more than
> capable of giving James Callis a run for his money in portraying a villain
> who's at turns evil, dramatic and over-the-top comedic and can change on a
> dime to do so.
I thought I had seen Polly Walker before & IMO she was certainly excellent
in HBO's ROME.
The different make up & costuming was probably responsible for my not
remembering where I had seen her before.
--
David Barnett
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