Battlestar Galactica: The Plan

[starrylizard]

So, I finally got around to watching The Plan and I'm kinda glad I hired it rather than buying it.

It was interesting to have seen it and in certain parts I felt like it added something. It was at least interesting to get a whirlwind revisit of the entire series. However, for the most part, it left me feeling like the cylons really didn't have any plan beyond "blow up the humans" which sort of seemed to undermine the whole series; the same series that started every episode with ..."and they have a plan". It also felt like the writers wanted to humanise the cylons further in our eyes, which just frustrated me for the most part.

It basically left me feeling like (a) the writers felt some need to explain themselves, but I wasn't quite sure what was being explained and (b) the network figured they could milk the series for another tele-movie.

Is anyone active in BSG fandom, unlike me, and therefore have some insight into what we were meant to get from this movie? I feel like I'm missing the point somehow.

I was also really hoping it might give me further insight into the unsatisfactory BSG series ending, but alas no mention of that. Did anyone really get the series ending? Is there meta out there that'll make me feel less let down by it? (I loved the series right up until that ending and now I pretty much can't be bothered watching it ever again.)

Anyway, it was good to have seen The Plan but I'm not awed by it. Nice acting as always, but it didn't add much for me. *nods*

Comments

[billy-red-ocean.livejournal.com]

Well ever since the Plan when someone says "I/We've got a plan" it's just double as hilarious as it were before. And really we all knew Cavill had no plan he was just frakking crazy!

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Teehee! So fandom couldn't rationalise any of it either, huh? :P