Comments on: Overthinking BSG: Episodes 1.1-1.8

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:09:30 +0000

I’ll just say, “Made of awesome.” Watch:

Made of awesome.

There.

The non-gendered bathrooms in the series are an interesting touch alluding to a different sort of gender dynamic as a whole in human society. No one is afraid to admit the best pilot on BSG is a woman, Starbuck, a woman is president (and arguments against her were because of her position, not her gender), and one of Chief’s best/closest engineers is a woman. And so far it seems as though Number Six is the highest-ranking Cylon we know of, so perhaps the Cylons are mimicking this.

Interesting that much of the comic relief comes from awkward moments when Baltar is caught having and argument or making out with Number Six in his head.

The board game makes even *more* sense now! Yay!

By: perich

perich — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:50:06 +0000

This is the first BSG recap I’ve read that analyzes it through the lens of object relations theory. I can’t comment further, since I’m not much of a Freudian, but you’ve definitely avoided the trap of repeating old analysis. :)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:11:34 +0000

This was a great read! I feel much better as this goes along that I didn’t bother with the series. Yet it’s interesting to watch you dissect it. Keep it up! :D

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:53:59 +0000

Wow… I am *honored* to start off your first “Overthinking BSG” post! (Well, not counting the miniseries one…)

Just to clarify: I probably should have said “Lots of BAD blogs.” You have a tendency, though, to be anything but boring.

I think a lot of my misgivings have to do with the direction the last episodes went, and certainly the finale — you alluded to it yourself in the last article. I liked the series, never loved it — but the wrapup to all the mysteries, and the Cylon “plan,” just made me pretty angry overall. So reliving all of this again only makes me think of missed opportunities. (I’m in the minority on this, I think… but while BSG didn’t fall apart as badly as Twin Peaks — a favorite of mine, even though it went off the rails — I hated the 4th season. Will be curious to see where you fall.)

BSG also suffers from something I complained about in your “Overthinking Lost” columns — the whole “explanations in other media” thing. Want more of an explanation as to why the Cylons do what they do? Well, you’ll have to shell out for the “Plan” DVD. (I haven’t.) Interested in how the Cylons came to be? We’re alluding to it on BSG, but you’ll REALLY have to start watching the new Sci-Fi — oops, I mean “SyFy” (UGH!) — series “Caprica.” At least they aren’t answering questions in comic books… but I wish everything was entirely self-contained in the series itself. Oh well.

Like I said before, “33″ was the high point of the entire series for me — probably a bad sign, since it was the first episode. (That being said, a number of eps in S1-3 came close to it… just don’t make me watch “Black Market” ever again!)