I've been enjoying Battlestar Galactica season 4, yes, but for some reason, not as much as I expected.  It was disappointing, it was missing something, and I was having trouble putting my finger on what.  Today I figured it out.

I'm having a hard time caring about it, because those aren't the characters I so painstakingly learned to love.

Now, I do believe that characters that change, evolve, grow, and yes, even devolve sometimes, are essential to good storytelling.  My problem with comics these days is that most things that change, eventually get rolled back to "status quo" by a different writer (or editor) that didn't like them.  So I'm glad those guys are changing.  However, changing too many of them at the same time is a mistake, because your audience will feel lost, abandoned.  I don't recognise these people, and as such, I don't give a frak about them.

The only ones that didn't get completely turned upside down (or airlocked) were, let me see, the Admiral, Helo, and Athena.  But I never really cared too much for the Admiral, and I positively dislike Helo, which leaves me only the Toaster Babe... who made, if memory serves, one appearance in this season.

I suppose if I count recurring characters, I still have Cottle and Zarek to smile about.  Oh, Gaeta didn't change much, but he changed a lot in season 3, and I can't stand him anymore.  Ah yeah, and Racetrack... the most boring character in the series, worse than Simon even.  I was surprised to notice I actually felt disappointed last episode when she failed to die.  Sigh.

Now to be honest, I do like the new Lee more than the old one; and Sam is finally getting developed into an actual character.  So it isn't all bad.  Heck, it's not bad at all in absolute terms, because stuff is happening; it's just, I feel like I have to get to know the characters all over again, I feel... well, lost and abandoned.

Maybe I'll feel better when D'anna returns.  Er... she will, won't she?

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Ok, just to put some more volume into the post, I'll share my pet BSG mad theories :-P  Those aren't new, but stuff I've been musing for some time.  Spoiler warnings: if you haven't finished season 3 yet, stop reading!

Since season 1 I decided Ellen was a cylon.  What's crazy about that, you ask?  Well, I didn't think she was a previously unseen model, but rather, an (artificially) aged 6.  I thought I just had to share this, in light of the last episode.  Very funny.

And, I don't think Starbuck is a cylon; I think, instead, she's the real first hybrid!  That could explain her crazy powers... her mystery daddy may be Cavil (model 1), Tigh, or the final one.  There's something about the idea of Kara as Tigh's daughter that just makes me cackle.

Finally, not a theory but a wish, I'd really like to see the cylons resurrect some human, just to freak us out.  I mean, if they're as similar to humans as they keep saying, there should be nothing preventing their resurrection system to work for a human, right?  I guess Baltar would be the perfect candidate (they had plenty of chance to get whatever information they need to do it), but Cally would be fun to see too.