Nov
3
So I got The Plan on DVD the other day and watched it over the weekend. I wasn’t crazy about the idea of having a movie come out after the season finale. I wasn’t thrilled when Razor came out either, but I thought that ended up being a great addition to the Battlestar Galactica series, plus it was just a bridge between the excruciatingly long wait between seasons 3 and 4. But regardless of your feelings about the finale, did we really need another movie?
The answer is no. No we absolutely did not. The Plan is a retelling of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica from the Cylon point of view. We were promised a whole new view of the series and it would make us rethink everything and blow our minds. Well my mind was not blown. We hardly learned anything we didn’t already know. Just a tid bit here and there. The highlight by far was seeing the destruction of the 12 colonies in greater detail and what the Cylons were doing at that time, but that was over in the first ten minutes. The rest was a rush through two seasons worth of material with a lack of focus or purpose. It reminded me a lot of the second season episode of Lost where we see the first two seasons from the Tailies perspective. It’s kinda interesting, but you wouldn’t make a movie after the fact about it. At most this should have been cut down to an hour and made a season 4 episode.
Battlestar Galactica isn’t Star Trek. It had a beginning, middle, and end. And the end was super final. There can’t be much happening after that. So I get it. If they want to make more movies they need to go back and rehash previous timelines. But as much as I want Battlestar Galactica to keep going and going and going, I don’t want unnecessary filler stuff like this. How about we go back and have a movie about the final five and their previous lives and creation of the skinjobs? That would have been much better. But since this is Battlestar Galactica, I want to end this review on a high note. So… OMG could you believe the scene in Spiral where Buffy is fighting those knights on top of the moving RV with all the other knights on horseback in pursuit shooting arrows and stuff? AMAZING!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:10 am
They know people will shell out to watch something they love even if it’s crap. Stinks.
Ummm, yeah, knights on horseback, cool. *slinks away*
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:00 am
Haven’t watched yet!
Yay Buffy!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
The only shows I am trying to keep up with (I don’t have cable, I just netflix everything so I have to wait a while, but I get to watch the whole season in like three days) are Dexter and Heroes. yeah yeah yeah-”oh god but heroes blows now!!” Well…I can say this much-it most certainly does not blow. What blows is waiting a week for every single cliffhanger episode to come out. That show was meant to be seen all at once. Therefore, I still lurves it (and by lurvez it I mean I wish Sylar was my secret husband). As for Dexter, it needs no explanation of it’s genius.
I spend the rest of time rewatching favorite shows like ATHF, Venture Bros, and X-Files. Doesn’t get much dorkier than me.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Thanks for saving me a Netflix slot.
Tam: That explains Transformers 2.
“Shooting arrows and stuff” makes me sad that I am at work rather than reading Shadows Return at home.
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Did Craig’s server move to Nova Scotia?
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm
What makes you say that?
November 3rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm
What time is it?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I caught a commercial for the DVD of this a few days ago and wondered if you’d review it.
The commercial really didn’t focus on the story, but more about the fact that it was new BG. Guess we know why they marketed it that way. 
Given the greatness of BG, it makes you wonder why they’d put out something that’s not up to par. Especially something as big as a DVD release. It’s different when a single sub-par episode slips out, but a full-blown DVD? There’s no excuse for that, in my opinion.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
first of all, for whatever reason, the retarded blocker here at work won’t let me comment on ANY of your posts until there’s like 5 comments already. Prior to that, it denies me because of “adult” reasons. And it does this to every freakin post! It’s NUTS!
Now, having gotten then out of my sytem, i want to let you know I MEANT to comment on this early this morning, like at 8:30, but couldn’t. And now that I can comment, I’ll just say….
Battlestar Galactica and Buffy….well, actually I don’t even really HAVE a comment. Other than I hear that Doctor Who show is pretty spiffy.
HUGS…
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
…was it enjoyable though? I mean, you described it as exactly the way I expected it to be…interesting but not important to the overall story. My fave episodes of the series weren’t all the OMGWTF moments but the ones that show the Cylon story. Honestly I wasn’t that into the show until they started showing the Cylon side of things. That’s what intrigued me the most…the story within the story…the critiques on our society’s attitudes toward war and religion. I need to get around to watching this because it still sounds like something I would really love.
Interesting note, when Jamie Bamber (whom I like to call Bambie) came to Stony Brook for I-CON, he lead a discussion on Cylons…and he fucking hates them lol. Like, he thought they were the worst part of the show and weren’t interesting at all.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I have to disagree and say that I loved the “movie”. The most interesting thing in the series were probably the Cylons in the middle of the series. I love how they could resurrect like machines yet had feelings and were built to be like a human.
This really showed us that only Cavil wanted humanity dead, not all of the Cylons. He erased the memory of the final five from all the other Cylons, he wanted humanity dead and the others followed because they didn’t know any better.
It also showed us that “god” or fate stepped in to save them all from day one. Cavil should have killed the final five in the 12 Colonies, all of them should have died day one and resurrected on the cylon ship. Instead they lived on, helped to save humanity and in the end stop Cavil(who acts out like a child wanting attention from mom and dad). Cavil is basically Lucifer, lamenting God for loving humanity more then their own creation and so he let his own hubris take over and he decided to whipe out humanity so god(final five) would love him more then humans.
I must admit though I would love SOMETHING explaining exactly what was going on with Starbuck(the paint swirl, angel, her at the end). She had a lot going on mythos wise that I still want answers too.