I agree that BSG handled the jump brilliantly. It worked well because even though we had jumped, we could connect the characters we were seeing to the characters we knew at the end of season 2. The flashbacks could then add depth to our understanding of the choices that ended up being made, but the choices themselves were at least on the horizon when we last saw the characters.
Joss isn't handling the jump nearly so well. He has established very little continuity. Plus, I think he's not factoring in the fact that he's coming back to the story several years after we thought it all ended. So in addition to the fact that there's too much unexplained jumping, he's ignoring the fact that a lot of fans had questions they wanted answered at the end of the series. Failing to even allude to those questions furthers the disconnect problems.
I still think it'll be all about the characters. The issue #10 preview seems to make that clear. And a lot of Joss's comments about the project suggest that he does care about where the characters are now in relationship to where they were. He's just not unfolding his story very well. And he seems to have lost at least a portion of his audience as a result.
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Joss isn't handling the jump nearly so well. He has established very little continuity. Plus, I think he's not factoring in the fact that he's coming back to the story several years after we thought it all ended. So in addition to the fact that there's too much unexplained jumping, he's ignoring the fact that a lot of fans had questions they wanted answered at the end of the series. Failing to even allude to those questions furthers the disconnect problems.
I still think it'll be all about the characters. The issue #10 preview seems to make that clear. And a lot of Joss's comments about the project suggest that he does care about where the characters are now in relationship to where they were. He's just not unfolding his story very well. And he seems to have lost at least a portion of his audience as a result.