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Battlestar
May. 5th, 2005 10:41 amOK, I watched last night's ep and one small gripe.
The scientist really bugs me. He has 60 years worth of work (?!), no lab techs (?!?!?) and he runs for politics!
Granted, I'd be running away if I had that much work and no help too, but even so.
The whole stereotype of the mad genius is just annoying me. Surely, given that the project is of vital importance and that there's probably a couple of hundred underemployed scientists sitting around on the various ships they could expand the lab and get the flowthrough happening.
I know, I know, dramatic tension etc. But every time I see him sitting there, running 1 experiment per 11 hours (seriously guys, duplicate the machinery? Run more than one sample at a time? Hire a couple of techs and let the mad genius move on to further research?) I start wondering how any scriptwriter can be taking this seriously.
(Then again, I'd be happy leaving the project in the hands of someone who appears to have a serious mental problem.)
Anyway, I'm liking Battlestar. And Go Richard!
The scientist really bugs me. He has 60 years worth of work (?!), no lab techs (?!?!?) and he runs for politics!
Granted, I'd be running away if I had that much work and no help too, but even so.
The whole stereotype of the mad genius is just annoying me. Surely, given that the project is of vital importance and that there's probably a couple of hundred underemployed scientists sitting around on the various ships they could expand the lab and get the flowthrough happening.
I know, I know, dramatic tension etc. But every time I see him sitting there, running 1 experiment per 11 hours (seriously guys, duplicate the machinery? Run more than one sample at a time? Hire a couple of techs and let the mad genius move on to further research?) I start wondering how any scriptwriter can be taking this seriously.
(Then again, I'd be happy leaving the project in the hands of someone who appears to have a serious mental problem.)
Anyway, I'm liking Battlestar. And Go Richard!
