EARLY/UNCUT: Battlestar Galactica Season 1: Episode 1 "33" | REACTION
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(Example I just remembered, in one of the episodes, these flashes actually give away an otherwise extremely shocking death of a main character - argue that this is in any way to the advantage of enjoying the viewing experience)
lemmy
2020-04-30 15:49:21 +0000 UTCAlso I watched BSG with my now wife and told her to look away just the same. She's rewatching it with me now and watching these sections and every episode she's getting extremely annoyed by how much of the episode they give away. Maybe its a cultural thing if you're american I dunno, since its a LOT more prevalent on TV over there, but it completely sucks and is done by the network to try and increase ad revenue from viewing figures because they fear people changing channel during the break and need to tempt them about what's to come to keep them watching. This stuff would NEVER happen on streaming services or cable, EVER. It's not a decision by the creators nor written into the script, a flashforward is written into a script with consideration by the writers to telling an interesting story, playing with time and narrative. This is a business decision that will have had zero input from the people who actually came up with the narrative and to the detriment of the media. So why not avoid it? All for the sake of glancing away for 10-15 seconds, to be able to experience everything in the episode completely fresh and for the plot development to be a complete mystery? And episode 1 is relatively mild, there are episodes throughout where quite major surprising plot developments are totally given away. If you just watched this opening section you possibly didn't experience the surprise and exhilaration of these events as I and others who avoid them did.
lemmy
2020-04-30 15:30:55 +0000 UTCI disagree heavily - these spoiler flashes prior to episodes are notorious amongst BSG fans. for example he had no idea helo was a character in the main series and was still alive, it shows him running thru the woods, kissing a cylon. It's an infinitely better experience to suddenly happen upon that in the context of the episode. There are MUCH worse things in later episodes that give away the plot to the entire episode when its not even hinted at prior. It shows all the major beats of what happens in the episode. It's ridiculous and awful, why would you want to know what's going to happen when you're literally watching the episode? Why when watching reactions would you want the reactor to have ANY idea of what is going to happen in the episode? I don't get this. This stuff was obviously added by the network in a kind of outdated american network TV philisophy since there are ads between that and the episode, 'stay tuned, don't switch the channel, this is what's after the break', I would put $1000 on the fact the writers of the show probably face palmed and were really annoyed by it. its awful and just an artifact of suits at networks thinking they need to try keep people with a low attention span from switching channel. If you think this is remotely about 'artistic vision' or how it was meant to be watched then that's a shame. (For the record this is my patreon tier choice and my suggestion to avoid, in case it wasn't obvious)
lemmy101
2020-04-30 15:11:09 +0000 UTCThere's no reason to look away during the opening, these flashes are supposed to be seen, the producers put them there Intentionally. Fear of spoilers should not make you consume media differently than the producers intended. The flashes in the opening are not different than flash forwards Within an episode or movie, technically they spoil things as in "show things that haven't happened to the characters yet chronologically" or a narrator flat out telling the audience what's going to happen but no one knows exactly what lead to those events.
Phillip Grischa
2020-04-30 08:55:13 +0000 UTCYup there's a fair few people that went straight into season 1 - a mess up they should have just called is season 2 really!
lemmy101
2020-04-29 21:48:41 +0000 UTCThanks for the recap! Glad you managed to avoid the intro spoilers haha! All 12 colonies were destroyed, they just only got reports of the first few before they were completely cut off from any further news. The 50k people in that fleet are all that live as far as anyone knows.
lemmy
2020-04-29 21:19:15 +0000 UTC
