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hollylolly posted:Also I have no idea why that piece of fabric tipped Claire to a Gabriel connection. It's a symbol of the cult. The cult of neckerchiefs.
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Yeah. The show's sort of in love with the idea of being a realpolitic drama, without really thinking the ramifications of its narrative through. Any violence or betrayal is grist for the blackmail mill, and not actionable in and of itself. That's just silly.
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Jul 19, 2014 16:40
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Subterfrugal posted:I think there are some shows that are built on a vision (BSG, the Wire, Whedonverse, etc) and some are built on an outline (Dominion, for example). Would anyone be shocked to know that six different writers have written the last seven episodes? I don't know if its the Scifi production schedule, but I get the distinct impression that the whole season was written simultaneously with each writer getting a rough outline of the characters, major plot points and ending positions. I don't believe this correlates -- Farscape's first twelve episodes were written by ten different writers, Glee is written by three. Which is the more consistent show? If anything, given that the show went straight to series without a pilot, and its incredibly short season order (nine episodes for an American production is unheard of, even if it is a co-production) the show probably had all the scripts written before the show went to air. I think this, and a lovely understanding of how language/action translates to screen, accounts for a least some of the show's lack of polish. The show has a showrunner, whose job it is to lead the writers room and edit the scripts, so even if he's not penning so many episodes the writers have more than a little idea about what's going on with the metaplot and backstory (there are a lot of call-backs) but I reckon his inexperience lets down the show's individual episodes.
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Kinda think the wrong regular died. Arika (sp?) is kind of terrible, hanging out like a freeloader in her palatial apartment doing sweet gently caress all while the actress gives this really vampy performance and strips a lot. The first time I was remotely interested in her was this episode, and that's only because I inherently like Uriel (aka that weirdy sex fairy from Hex) rather than because she herself was particularly interesting. I can see what she's meant to be about, both as a gesture to world building and the non-normative future cultures the show wants to depict, and as an outside player in the political landscape meant to bolster the realpolitik narrative while prefiguring as a wild card, but she's sort of this really exploitative, silly presence that hangs out by herself for the most part. All her political moves, her sister being beheaded by her lover and her lover then getting the chop in return, have happened off-screen. I can't say I care. On the other hand, while Becca's accent seemed to slip further and further south of the Rhine with every episode, I gave a poo poo about her conflicted politics and her conflicted loyalties. She's the only character that seemed to have a legitimate connection to Michael, even if it was an uncapitalised one, and as an outside Consul and some sort of scientist, she actually represented a disparate position. But suddenly she's vivisecting people? Okay then, scratch that avenue of investigation. Sure, a lot of this potential was uncapitalised upon -- a lot of the show's cast have been badly served by the narrative -- but I'm sad that the show's spent so much time on narrative blind alleys, like Arika and Furyae -- when it could have been fleshing out the significant players more effectively. All that said, the show's got some strong plotting going on behind it, and I really like where the show has taken the Risens and Wheele's over the course of the show. I'm pretty invested in all of that, despite stupid, shlocky metaphysical tangents. ("You have to kill the lion to kill yourself!" or whatever that was, euugh)
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Aug 8, 2014 09:58
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Combat Pretzel posted:The pacing of the final episode was all over the drat place. Apparently it was two episodes jammed together. I couldn't tell, personally, but the show's always had problems with pacing.
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Aug 9, 2014 07:09
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Fenris13 posted:I think you missed a pretty huge plot point in the last episode, namely that she isn't actually "Arika", she is the leader of New Delphi the whole time, so those two heads were not her sister/lover, they were just random heads sent as part of her political maneuvering. I am not really sure that this changes anything about her character development, it has been hammered in that she is stone cold, but it does at least depict her as a thinker who is capable of pulling off long term maneuvers. Oh. That's kinda cool, though also silly. Did they explain why her own people didn't seem to know this, back in the first two episodes? That seems like a pretty big plothole to me.
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