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This is a joke, right?

I mean the show is nice and everything but these are fracking actors. They should stick with driving hybrids that use more gas than smaller, lighter cars and stick to pretending. I'm still miffed about Sean Penn's Oscar speech...

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D'ya mean David Eick? Or did something ugly go down?

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Whoopi Goldberg is widely known to be a BSG fan. No surprised.

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If U.N. representatives actually watched BSG and listened to the themes it so eloquently spoke to, I have no doubt the world would be a better place.

Considering the amount of whitewashing of corruption, war, and exploitation than goes on there at a daily basis, this panel cannot be mocked without a healthy sense of denial.

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This panel discussion was put together for high school students. Clips will be shown on a specific issue (terrorism, torture, children of wartime, reconciliation and dialogue between conflicting civilizations (faith-based and others). Students will participate in the conversation with BSG creators and actors as well as representatives from the U.N. Frak yeah!

NY Times article: http://tinyurl.com/dykqa4

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I could care less why Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Ron Moore and Dick Eick are going to the UN. Only one thing is for sure, it will only serve to bloat the already oversize egos on these people. I just got finished watching the "The Last Frakkin' Special," and it just made be throw-up a little bit in my mouth. I've never seen so much self-congratulatory, pretentious narcissism, whether it was SciFi channel, Ron Moore, or the actors (ughh!--actors--this thing reminded me how pompous and full of themselves actors are, and in other cases how shallow and vapid they come across). I grew to like these characters over the last five years, and in more than a few cases I found myself wanting to gouge my eyes out with a stick after watch this "special!"

It reminded me of something I have said for so long on this show--what a bad, bad actor Jamie Bamber is. I complained about Bambie the first couple of seasons, until his storyline became less and less focused on, and his character became less and less interesting. Which I thought was a good thing. I gave the producers credit for realizing that Bamber just couldn't carry any emotional weight that was assigned to him. (Seriously, considering how important Apollo was on the original series, its amazing what a back seat he has taken on this series--to Starbuck, to Baltar, to half a dozen Cylons, to Adama--and it can only be explained by the fact that the producers at some point realized his limitations and started "writing" away from him). I cringe every time I hear that sissified little English accent of his, because it reminds me of how BAD he is trying to act with an American accent.

But enough with the actors, and more about the vain pretensions and delusions of grandeur permeating this hour-long masturbatory love fest. Have you ever seen a show and the people on it proclaim that it is the best show on tv? Have any of these people ever heard of humility? Maybe its because with only 2 million viewers (probably the biggest reason this series lasted only 4 seasons) and little to no Emmy acknowledgment, they are probably feeling pretty neglected (even in the face of widespread critical acclaim from the media and winning a Peabody). But I've never seen so many people associated with a show talk about how great they all are.

I'm not talking about the normal platitudes of appreciation and fondness that people who work on a show (or anything else really) together have for each other. This thing was oozing with conceit. It was downright arrogant. I used to love this show, and here it was making me sick at my stomach.

And I've blogged about it, but I've also read a lot about it, and the fan base out there is largely turned off by the way they've screwed with this show. And the BEST thing I can say is, in several places they pretty much ADMITTED IT. It said Ron Moore was in touch with his fans, and when the fans didn't like certain characters, he just gave the haters more, to throw it in their faces. Katie Sachoff (who kind of came across as a stuck-up bitch, and proud of it) at one point related how she HATED how the character was being written during Season 3. Moore, again, at one point told a story of how trouble with the plot in the final season was keeping him up at night, and he had an epiphany that it was "the characters, stupid!" (read, "copout"--he just threw out any concerns for the plot). SO THAT'S HOW WE GOT THESE LAST CRAPTASTIC EIGHT HOURS OF EPISODES!

It was just unreal. Unreal! And to think, I thought this show was headed for greatness. I now think this show will go down as one of the biggest failures in execution that television has produced. It will give new meaning to the phrase "frakked it up" which I predict will replace "jumped the shark." Whenever a show in the future screws up a really good thing, people will say, and I quote, "They really 'frakked' that up!" And everyone will mutter just under their breath "...just like BSG did." Someone should have taken all of that greatness that was wafting about in their heads and PUT IT ON SCREEN. Instead, they just patted themselves on the back, and took their eyes off the prize. Many have criticized me and said, "quit your whining, shut the hell up." "Its about the journey, not the destination." Well, that little journey has turned out to be one long ego trip.

And the saddest thing of all was, I felt like I spent all this time growing to like these characters, and this "Last Frakkin' Special" came along and showed me that I really didn't like these people.

Good riddance. Come Friday night, be prepared for disappointment.

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