I’m thankful for this thread because I was gonna watch it from the beginning, since I stopped after the 3rd season.
Now I won’t bother. Sucks, tho.
You should stick with it, it's still certainly better than 90% of dross on tv nowdays..
Just finished S1-3 on bluray. S3 ended at a reasonable place and one could probably stop there I suspect. Managed to find an S4 set on disk, but I know I'll never see S5-6 since they're only on amazon streaming.
How annoyed am I going to be at the end of season 4?
I think most of the seasons end on semi cliff hangers but nothing too major after 4.
It was all good to me. S6 deserved to be full-length, but I'm just happy we got a series finale, and that it wasn't killed in its sleep in the offseason. The Laconia arc can start off fresh on another platform.
It was seriously my favorite sci-fi show ever, overtaking TNG. S6 had its moments too. The battle with the Roci against the Pella and other free navy cruisers was easily my favorite in the whole series. The volley of PDC fire after baiting the Pella into dodging the railgun. The whole strategy was brilliant, using the distance to the pursuers as a means of cutting down the firing angle, and thus allowing them to utilize the Roci's single greatest asset, that goddamn railgun.
IMO, beyond the respect for physics that this show has, it was the space battles. The creators of this show put a ton of effort into setting up and shooting these skirmishes in a way that makes tactical sense. So many of this show's battles had me rewinding multiple times to admire some move or tactic that was employed. For that reason, I think S6 was tolerable.
Exactly! It was bloody awsome how they planned it all out. Seeing the PDC's rip out half the cockpits and pop heads was a brilliant touch too.
Like with Game of Thrones the show would've been better without the "supernatural" elements. The more it got into the space magic stuff in later seasons the worse the show got. Should've just stayed space politics between Earth/Mars/Belt. Shame because the worldbuilding was absolutely fantastic.
I will say that even with space magic I still enjoyed it. Even the story with the kid and her brother hooked me in. When she was first introduced I had vivid flash backs of Obi wan and the Leia chase scene and thought, oh no.. not this again
But the kid could act, and the the whole purring dog things seemed weirdly cute but had menacing undertones.. then the brother looked quite evil but was still thoughtful and kind about his sister not being able to eat anything outside the colony, it was a great mix that subverted your expectations..
Gah, why'd it have to end!
Yeah I am definitely on board for being incredibly disappointed at the direction the show went. Season 5 was a bit of a bummer as the pacing and focus shifted but it wasn't terrible... just not up to the quality that the rest of the story has been at. Then 6 happened and it just felt like a waste of a season
Aye, season 5, was very Naomi and feels, it was a hard season, even 6 had a few too many feels scenes when you just wanted it to get going..
I should give this show a 2nd chance given how much praise it gets, but s1e1 literally put me so sleep
You should, it was a bit of a curve to get into as there is so much going on I think, I can see why some would drop it. Worth sticking with though.
..Shite. Spent too long trying to reply to everyone, gonna be late out the door. Whoops
