Re: BG-13: Greetings From Earth
The script is still poorly written. The entire scene with Starbuck and Hector, shot on location in Montreal at the ruins of Expo 67 comes off more as something that ultimately doesn't do much to advance the plotline. The real big problem of the script is that there's far too much tease and not enough proper revelation of the whole Terra backstory so that consequently, the Eastern Alliance isn't revealed to us as a big threatening menace. They're talked about in sinister terms but then show up for a too quick scene where they get very easily disposed of. Granted, this was to lead into a larger arc in the next two stories but even there the connecting points weren't done well. Doing this episode as a fanfic adaptation was something that ultimately required a massive overhaul I felt to put some semblance of coherence that's just lacking.
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