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Remember that episode with the gorilla? I'd like to call it "Clarke and Lexa on a Date at the Zoo."
Just finished season two. This is probably the show that reminds me of the new Battlestar Galactica the most, and for more than just the obvious superficial similarities. There are shared cast members (Rekha Sharma is still evil, Kate Vernon is still scheming, Alessandro Juliani is *literally* still Gaeta...) and there is obvious visual inspiration - the inside of the Ark is clearly patterned after the look of the Galactica more than any other, less dirty space show. Oh, and they both begin after the end of most of humanity.
But there's nothing else I can quite think of on television at the moment that is so dedicated to putting its characters into brutal, unwinnable situations to test their ability to weigh decisions between the necessity of survival and the inevitable slide into moral turpitude that comes of living in such a cruel environment. Honestly, this is probably a harsher, more callous fictional world than even BSG had, and that was pretty damn grim at times. That John Murphy doesn't look like all that bad of a guy anymore for killing two unarmed, sick people barehanded in the first season is really saying something. It's impressive how they have managed to shatter any notions of ethical purity into a million pieces for nearly every character on the show.
That sounds kind of negative, but I actually really admire the fact that the show knows exactly what it's doing ("maybe there are no good guys") and basically never pulls its punches - - in any case, I was thoroughly invested by the time of the quality uptick mid-season-one. The show has only gotten better from there, and the second season was, frankly, fucking nuts, in a good way. I even bought into Jaha's whole, weird arc and boy did that ever pay off, as did so many other things large and small that I never expected.
Now if only they could stop that god damn CW thing where they end the episode with a montage set to some shitty pop song, excellent use of Exit Music (For a Film) in the season 1 finale aside.
But what about boobs? Can we get a clearer shot of the boobs in this picture?
What an embarrassing thread derail that was.
Just finished season two. This is probably the show that reminds me of the new Battlestar Galactica the most, and for more than just the obvious superficial similarities. There are shared cast members (Rekha Sharma is still evil, Kate Vernon is still scheming, Alessandro Juliani is *literally* still Gaeta...) and there is obvious visual inspiration - the inside of the Ark is clearly patterned after the look of the Galactica more than any other, less dirty space show. Oh, and they both begin after the end of most of humanity.
But there's nothing else I can quite think of on television at the moment that is so dedicated to putting its characters into brutal, unwinnable situations to test their ability to weigh decisions between the necessity of survival and the inevitable slide into moral turpitude that comes of living in such a cruel environment. Honestly, this is probably a harsher, more callous fictional world than even BSG had, and that was pretty damn grim at times. That John Murphy doesn't look like all that bad of a guy anymore for killing two unarmed, sick people barehanded in the first season is really saying something. It's impressive how they have managed to shatter any notions of ethical purity into a million pieces for nearly every character on the show.
That sounds kind of negative, but I actually really admire the fact that the show knows exactly what it's doing ("maybe there are no good guys") and basically never pulls its punches - - in any case, I was thoroughly invested by the time of the quality uptick mid-season-one. The show has only gotten better from there, and the second season was, frankly, fucking nuts, in a good way. I even bought into Jaha's whole, weird arc and boy did that ever pay off, as did so many other things large and small that I never expected.
Now if only they could stop that god damn CW thing where they end the episode with a montage set to some shitty pop song, excellent use of Exit Music (For a Film) in the season 1 finale aside.
But what about boobs? Can we get a clearer shot of the boobs in this picture?
What an embarrassing thread derail that was.
The only positive I can spin is that hopefully the producers will use the extra time to improve the show. S2 was amazing so hopefully S3 will be just as great.
