Monday, September 13, 2010

Doink Number 2, Gaius Baltar: Battlestar Galactica


Yes, yes, two battlestar's in a row, go away flamers this doink needs to be talked about. Gaius Balatr is A british scientist from Battlestar Galactica, and is quite honestly, just there so they have an excuse to put a sex scene in every flipping episode. In the story, a cylon spy has been sleeping with him in order to hack into the human deffense mainframe and make a cylon takeover very easy. The problem is that Gaius sticks around for the entire series instead of dying in a nuclear blast. He has the required slimy attitude, scores way to often, and is also a massive annoying plot device to be manipulated by his imaginarry girlfriend.
The first requirement is ofcorse the annoying personality. As I said he is very slimy. He is constantly making some excuse for his idiotic behavior, or sleeping with someone. He will always do stupid things, and then make some BS excuse AND HE ALWAYS GETS AWAY WITH IT! Also, as I said, he has a rare disorder that causes him to be unable to keep his tallywhacker in his pants for more than 5 seconds. He sleeps with EVERYONE! And overall, he's just unpleasent, although this was the intention. The actor is great, the character sucks.
Next, the annoying sittuations. Baltar constantly see's visions of the cylon he was sleeping with, which she tells him is due to a chip she planted in his brain. This is sort of interesting, but all she ever does is preach to him to "Trust god and all will be fine and dandy" Which for some reason, saves the fleet on multiple occasions. Often there will be some massive groundbreaking decission that needs to be made, and eventually comes down to Baltar, and he talks to him immaginarry girlfriend, she tels him to trust god yadda yadda yadda, and his wild guess turns out to be right. THIS IS ANNOYING! It makes no sense, and it happens so often it isn't even funny! Also, this chick in his head is the only one more horny than he is! She will try to have sex with him at least twicwe an episode. And why should he be the one who scores so often!? He never does any real science, and all that ever happens is he gets wierd vissions that turn out to be nothing but BS! Even worse, later he gets elected president of a new colony that the humans set up shop on, and he's so lazy he ignores his own people, let's most of them suffer and die, let's the cylon's take over without a fight, and all he does is repeatedly have sex with a couple of prostitutes the whole time!!!!!! GOD ARE THESE SITUATIONS SUCKY!!!!!!!! As
for bogging down the main charictors, see previous paragraph, and the fact that he cuased the near total annihilation of humanity several times. Next! At last we reach the decission point, cuold the seris exist without him? YES!!!!!!! Just give the hot cylon vissions to a character we care more about, and leave the total surprise to a one plot charicter that dies in the explosions! End of story, I want to shoot Gaius Baltar out an airlock!!!!!!!!!!

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