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POSTED BY: DMAANLILEILTT
UPDATED: Friday, August 6, 2010 17:14
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Friday, August 6, 2010 5:14 PM

..."All Along the Watchtower" is a prophetic vision from 150,000 years ago.

(**WARNING: This post will contain some whinging and whining. Leave now if you don't want to read. There WILL also be spoilers. Leave now if you don't want Battlestar Galactica or Ender Saga spoilers. That is all.**)

Let's begin. In 2003, I first saw the re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. The mini-series ran over two nights one weekend. I thought it was awesome and when I heard there was a TV series being made I couldn't wait to see it. I watched every episode of the first season and I couldn't wait for the second. I even bought the DVDs.

I had to wait more than a year for it to start and it was on very late when it did so, I had to record it. The first half ran weekly, then it stopped. I found out the DVDs had already been released and I bought them and watched the season from beginning to end. There were some crap episodes, but it was still a good show.

The third season came out on DVD first and so I watched it that way and didn't even bother with TV anymore. Again, there were crap episodes, but on the whole it was good.

Because the last season was split in two, I waited until both were released (and at a reasonable price) before getting them. The series as been over for a while in the US but I managed to avoid spoilers. I kind of wish I hadn't so I could've saved my money.

That ending is possibly the worst possible they could've used. This advanced civilisation unanimously and immediately agree on spreading out over the face of a planet and then destroy all their technology and spaceships...WHERE DO I BEGIN?!

This group of people almost tore itself apart about eight times in four years. One time it was over something as stupid as an alliance with the Cylon rebels. (Incidently, "The Oath" is probably one of my favourite episodes.) When you're down to 30,000 people, don't you think you would take as many oppourtunities to make friends with your enemies as possible or is that just me?

So, basically, Ronald D Moore is saying that these people would, in the spacce of about five months, grow enough as people that they're willing to go tribal for a "clean slate." Hell, I think we need a clean slate. Who's with me? We can strip down and go back to the bush.

So, after seven years and five DVD sets, that's what I get....I hope you see why I'm

Another series I'm pissed off at is the Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card. I had heard great things about it from people here and elsewhere on the interweb so, I bought the entire series on Amazon.

I read Ender's Game and thought it was one of the best books I've ever read. I still do. I read Speaker For The Dead and pretty much thought the same thing. Then I read Xenocide...

After 500 pages of non-stop technobabble, exposition and whining about whether or not to kill a disease, I felt like I earnt a satisfying conclusion. Instead I got a cliffhanger, which, in itself, is not a bad thing. Trilogies often end the second one on a cliffhanger (Ender's Game could be considered to be it's own entity and the last three to be a trilogy). The bad thing was a series of "Accept-or-Reject" events and not being able to accept a single one of them.

The trip "Outside" and then having copies of Val and Peter spawn inside the ship is inconisistent. If Ender held them so clearly in his sub-conscious, then why didn't the other two spawn things as well. Why wasn't the ship filled with various sub-conscious fantasies? I suppose you could argue that they were already focused on what they went Out there to spawn but that isn't a very staisfying explanation.

Another thing is Children Of The Mind. I really like how Novinha decides that after God causing all her pain throughout her life, she decides that, because "Ender loves Jane more", that God wants her to join some fucked-up sect where you have to be married but celibate.... And then Ender decides to join her...

I won't bother with the majority of the plot and instead skip to the end. Miro marries Jane/Val (Vane) and Peter marries Wang-Mu. Okay the fact that the young Val was in her early teens when spawned leads to some odd things considering Miro is 21 when that happens. So, that could technically be statutory rape. Also, it says in Xenocide that Wang-Mu never returns to Path and that Qing-Jao dies alone still obessing over her ritual for the "Gods". So despite the fact that Wang-Mu can instantly travel to anywhere around the galaxy and that she really has nothing special going on, she never returns to see and help her friend...what a stupid, selfish bitch.

Whoo, I'm gald I got that off my chest. I feel less stressed now. I notice that both these series are sci-fi with phiosophical and religious themes in both, which is probably why I got so interested in them to begin with. So if you're a writer writing any philosophical/religious sci-fi, make sure you get the ending right. Or else.

Me done.

"I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?"

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