Battlestar Galactica non-spoilery reaction

[amanuensis1]

1) When BSG does indulge in cliché, it does it with style.

2) Watching the finale makes me want to run back and watch the whole series again from the beginning, and that does not always happen with a beloved series. I've turned my back on entire adored series in the past after finales that left me sulking.

3) Thanks for giving me conclusions I wanted, conclusions I liked better than those I thought I wanted, hurting me a little in good ways, and for keeping the ribbons and bows down to a tasteful, albeit sparkly, few.

What a fantastic series.


Spoilers will be indulged in the comments.

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to pick up a single HP book since DH. Not one. I have never in my life been so infuriated by a piece of fiction, especially one ostensibly directed at children. There were many, many fan endings that were superior to Rowling's...and what makes it worse is that I think she knew it and wrote at least some of what she wrote in the last two books in response to the "wrongheaded thinking" of the fans.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The last two books soured me. The idea that she was going to draw out "is Snape loyal" and "Harry's a horcrux" over two books and pretend it was going to be a surprise blew my mind, and the romance was all tell-not-show and the loss of the Hogwarts structure in the last book disappointed big-time.

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

For me, it was the "let's pick the most predictable and trite way to resolve everything" and the "OMG people are either ebil or goood at birth and there is no such thing as free will blah blah blah" ad infinitum that got up my nose. To start with. I could go on. Again. But I won't. :D

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Word word wordy word word.

Yes, the total and complete failitude of Ms. Rowling in her self-appointed role as moral guide for the young is something that I've railed upon at great length over the years.