{"id":1234,"date":"2006-03-27T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1234"},"modified":"2006-03-27T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T19:35:00","slug":"battlestar-time-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1234","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Time Warp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, no spoilers, but the one repeated action that really bothered me in the Battlestar 2.5 episodes was the RAMPANT use of the initial sequence, followed by a little subtitle reading &#8220;48 hours earlier&#8221;. ENOUGH WITH THE FLASHBACKS, PEOPLE! Seriously, one episode was smoking the flashback crack, and just kept jumping backwards and forwards with ever-narrowing fields of intervening time (&#8220;72 hours earlier&#8221;, &#8220;36 hours earlier&#8221;, &#8220;22 hours earlier&#8221;, &#8220;3 hours earlier&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t tell if they think this is a really effective and suspense-building plot device, or if they&#8217;re running low on budget and are cutting costs by re-running the same film over and over and trying to mask it by having the repeated scenes act as the time-marking buffer between flashbacks. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone else watching advanced episodes notice this? Am I alone in thinking it&#8217;s weak? <lj user=\"themusesbitch\">? <lj user=\"aboveaveragejoe\">? <lj user=\"tapeheads\">? <lj user=\"evilprettykitty\">?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say, no spoilers, but the one repeated action that really bothered me in the Battlestar 2.5 episodes was the RAMPANT use of the initial sequence, followed by a little subtitle reading &#8220;48 hours earlier&#8221;. ENOUGH WITH THE FLASHBACKS, PEOPLE! Seriously, one episode was smoking the flashback crack, and just kept jumping backwards <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1234\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}