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

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

1) Yes, totally.

2) Yes, and OMG Yes (HP anyone? BtVS, though that applies to the entire last season.)

3)Not overly happy with the conclusion of the battle scenes, which came across as a bit 'oh, crap, we need to wrap this up asap to keep this ep under 2hrs', but overall, pretty much agree with this assessment. I liked the circularity of it.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

2. HP tried to do a damn good job killing my love for the series. It couldn't do it completely--too much love for too many of the characters--but when I think of HP I still think of school-age Harry and all the potential. Another example which leaps to mind is Xena.

Funny how pretty much all anime series have left me happy even after their finales!

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

The historian in me made Xena impossible to watch due to the consequent stabbing out my eyes with rusty railway spikes impulse.

And I was thinking the other day that I should re-read the HP books... then I realised that'd mean re-reading DH and that idea died on the vine. The war between my hatred for the book and my completion OCD would probably make my head explode and that would be messy and icky, so I thought best to not even go near it.

Wow. I think this is the goriest lj comment I've ever written. Go me!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I lol'ed. Quite earnestly. :D

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Oh, good. There's nothing worse than an insincere or halfhearted lol. ;)

[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.