it reminds me of The Wire second season when they started the whole dock stiryline and moved what had been the A storyline(Barksdake and his crew and the squad working against them) to the B one.
Heh! See, I think the problem for me with this comparison is that I agree that "The Wire" Season 2 was absolutely brilliant; but that was also because all of these new characters were actually fascinating and beautifully written and that even though the show had moved away from the whole focus being on the Barksdale crew, that was never the entire intent even of Season 1 - "The Wire" to me was always as much social commentary as a crime show, and the social commentary in season 2 was about the decline of an American industrial base that left former workers stranded in a no-man's land without options. In the end, Ziggy and Nick were not much different from Wallace and Poot and Bodie who might have done other things if they'd been born in other places.
Whereas this time-jump on BSG just seems to be resetting everything to where we were in the miniseries, and I think that it shows a lack of imagination, a reliance on shock rather than on actually organically developing (or taking a look at) the problematic aspects of Season 2. They've never shown us very good pictures of what's going on in the Fleet - that could have actually gone a long way to explaining Baltar's victory. And they've re-imagined the characters in such a way that because I haven't SEEN any of the changes that happened to them to see why they are so different, they just seem like these new, different, not very likeable people and I just don't care all that much what happens to them now.
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Heh! See, I think the problem for me with this comparison is that I agree that "The Wire" Season 2 was absolutely brilliant; but that was also because all of these new characters were actually fascinating and beautifully written and that even though the show had moved away from the whole focus being on the Barksdale crew, that was never the entire intent even of Season 1 - "The Wire" to me was always as much social commentary as a crime show, and the social commentary in season 2 was about the decline of an American industrial base that left former workers stranded in a no-man's land without options. In the end, Ziggy and Nick were not much different from Wallace and Poot and Bodie who might have done other things if they'd been born in other places.
Whereas this time-jump on BSG just seems to be resetting everything to where we were in the miniseries, and I think that it shows a lack of imagination, a reliance on shock rather than on actually organically developing (or taking a look at) the problematic aspects of Season 2. They've never shown us very good pictures of what's going on in the Fleet - that could have actually gone a long way to explaining Baltar's victory. And they've re-imagined the characters in such a way that because I haven't SEEN any of the changes that happened to them to see why they are so different, they just seem like these new, different, not very likeable people and I just don't care all that much what happens to them now.