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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3421015" data-attributes="member: 20741">Honestly? The series was fine this year up to the end of Ep 5:Collaborators. At that point, the series was as good as it had ever been.But the problem was Iraq war parallels and that not sitting too well with a lot of American fans. America's not much for self-criticism during a war - and that's a fact. The show bled audience and lost half their viewers over the run of those first five episodes.It was a continuous claw back to try and keep the show alive. We got insipid one-offs as they abandoned the mythos episodes in an attempt to attract new viewers throughout the second half of Season three.There are a couple of good and and a couple of bad one-offs up until Eye of Jupiter and Rapture.Eye of Jupiter plot aside, the show then spirals into pretty much awful SF television for the rest of the season as the series circles the bowl until the final 12 minutes of Crossroads Part2.What did we get instead of Cylons and Mythos - and god forbid - story development? We got a Lee Adama and Starbuck love quadrangle. It stank.It's ratings. Had they not gone down and had they gone up, we would have got a LOT more mythos episodes in the final half of the season and things would have gone better, if not positively swimmingly. The jump to Sunday adds a lot of viewers back and a few one-offs attract enough eyeballs to get a season renewal.Then, after Starbuck is killed in a brash publicity stunt wtf not moment by RDM, BSG jumps the shark.Contrast this with Heroes. Heroes stumbles a bit out of the gate, ratings wise but it's not bad. NBC thinks as long as people see it - they'll be hooked. NBC then gambles and re-runs eps 1-4 on a Sunday night in prime time, and carries on with ep 5 the next day. The show takes off  - ratings zoom up and the show never looks back. Script wise with Heroes we get the pure opposite of BSG. No one-offs. Pure story the whole way through. And they even avoid the Lost nonsense and reveal large plot elements to the viewer as well. The viewer is there for the story and it develops.In Heroes you get story plus character development and it works; In BSG, you get this ratings backtrack and they desperately move away from story + character dev. Instead, they sidetrack  to pure character dev in multiple one-offs and the season largely tanks after a promising beginning.Sad.</blockquote>

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