Comments on: The mustache of broken dreams. http://comics.funtax.org/2007/03/26/the-mustache-of-broken-dreams/ A Journal of Unverifiable Claims Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:22:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: ralf http://comics.funtax.org/2007/03/26/the-mustache-of-broken-dreams/#comment-4 ralf Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:51:43 +0000 http://comics.funtax.org/2007/03/26/the-mustache-of-broken-dreams/#comment-4 I agree with your assessment of all the problems completely, but would add that the back end of Season 3 did have a few points of light: E13: The One Where Baltar Gets Tortured. (Lots of classic Baltar worming and sniveling for his life. Plus loads of 'crazy eye', which Baltar-Actor does very well.) E17: Adama make model ship. Adama sad...ADAMA SMASH!!! (I read somewhere that Olmos improvised the Hulking-out, and that the model was actually an antique worth 100K. 'Method Actor...ANGRY! Chased by props department through desert! Throw Raptors at them! Jump many miles away.' Repeat.) E18: Romo Lampkin, a non-cliche defense attorney character. 'Cynical idealist' doesn't work in theory, but Badger-Actor pulled it off nicely, I thought. E20: Tigh and Tyrol's reactions to being Cylons were both excellent. Tyrol, who thought about the possibility since Season 2, is resigned to his fate. Tigh's reaction is the exact opposite: Frak that. But of course none of those things make up for so egregiously violating the suspension of disbelief by including that Dylan/Hendrix song. I agree with your assessment of all the problems completely, but would add that the back end of Season 3 did have a few points of light:

E13: The One Where Baltar Gets Tortured. (Lots of classic Baltar worming and sniveling for his life. Plus loads of ‘crazy eye’, which Baltar-Actor does very well.)

E17: Adama make model ship. Adama sad…ADAMA SMASH!!!
(I read somewhere that Olmos improvised the Hulking-out, and that the model was actually an antique worth 100K. ‘Method Actor…ANGRY! Chased by props department through desert! Throw Raptors at them! Jump many miles away.’ Repeat.)

E18: Romo Lampkin, a non-cliche defense attorney character. ‘Cynical idealist’ doesn’t work in theory, but Badger-Actor pulled it off nicely, I thought.

E20: Tigh and Tyrol’s reactions to being Cylons were both excellent. Tyrol, who thought about the possibility since Season 2, is resigned to his fate. Tigh’s reaction is the exact opposite: Frak that.

But of course none of those things make up for so egregiously violating the suspension of disbelief by including that Dylan/Hendrix song.

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