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Battlestar Friday!!!!!!!!!
Like BG!
Unfortunatly my wife doesn't, so I have to sneak it in.
It's a darn good show.
Good news (old news) for those who miss an episode. They are available for download on iTunes. You don't need a video iPod, you can watch it on your PC.
It took a lot of cues from "Space Above & Beyond" though, but BG's even more realistic IMHO.
More often than not, there's better fare on the History Channel than Sci-Fi.
It's where I am glued every Friday night. Where everyone on Star Trek is superbly trained and everything works like a well oiled machine, the people on BG are flawed and real and make mistakes.
My only complaint with this article is the swipe at the original BSG. The remake inspired me to Netflix the original and seriously watch it again since the first time it was on (when I was a wee-pup and wouldn't have noticed much in the way of deep plot lines). I was startled by how much of what makes the new BSG good was actually in the original, the tension, the internal conlict, the philosophical questioning. Sure it wasn't nearly as front and center most of the time in the original as it is in the new, but it was all there. The cheesiness came from the budget, if you pay attention to the actual plot the show really was hitting good issues very well.
You know, Battlestar Galactica used to be something I could watch as a little kid. I could NEVER let my nieces watch this new one. It's just basicall soft porn from time to time. The hooker dream cylon in Baltar's mind. Sheeesh. And the Colonies have a woman leader-- gay. And Starbuck is dykey and the typical liberal "she's the best in the damn fleet" thing--gay, and Apollo is a fruity pretty boy--gay. It's like Stargate Atlantis. Atlantis leader is woman- gay. The main star guy is a fruity pretty boy- gay. The Scientist is scared of his own shadow- gay.
Cap'n Kirk was always getting in a fight and getting his shirt ripped off, he and Scotty would booze it up and hang with the chicks. But it was fairly tasteful. TThis new stuff is just too "Brokeback" for me, you know? And how about "Enterprise" with the fruity captain, and then they bring on the porn queen vulcan, and rub each other in their underware with gel in the decontamination room. sheeeesh Yeah, just liek the old days... huh?
The last episode (the conclusion of the two commanders trying to kill each other) was about the most serious piece of drama I've seen on TV in a very long time.
Their direction is excellent. The two opposing squadrons of vipers dancing around each other was stressful, the radio chatter really making an impact on the emotions of the scene. You could see the whole thing was an accident waiting to happen, which would trigger a shooting war. High stakes indeed.
And did anyone see that move for strafing the ressurection ship? Get your momentum forwards, maneuver jet 90 degrees to the right, and strafe as you fly sideways. This is the only show since 2001: A Space Odyssey I've seen that tries to get flight physics in space right.
Is it really otherwise?
I watched the first series in the 70's as a kid, and loved it!!
I tried to watch the new series, but I could not get into it (too many memories, I guess), but when the Pegasus showed up (just like in the first series), I had to see, and I got hooked up in it, and now I need to start this series over and catch up. The entire plot is WAY different than I remember, and much better.
It will #1 only when they rip it on South Park.
My only complaint with scifi friday is the amount of commercials vs story plot covered.
and the lack of use of frack and felterkarb.
Starbuck is definitely better looking too.
Since those idiots at FOX took "Firefly" off the air, anyway
Bump for later reading.
Katie Sackhof ROCKS as Starbuck - and I love the darker BG - but I was a fan of the old one too.
I just realized the other day why Science Fiction didnt take for me - it wasnt because I was female and didnt like the techno-hardware aspect. But there was something interminably missing from the majority of the sci-fi I tried to read : there seemed to be a lack of "spirit." After reading Tolkien, which is saturated with it, sci-fi seemed so dry and dessicated, not to mention the fact of an underlying desire to prove that humans didnt need all that "mumbo-jumbo" to survive. I think in this day and age, we are seeing otherwise.
Having said that, have recently been re-acquainting myself with an Alan Dean Foster series of Flinx and Pip (first book is "For Love of Mother-Not"). I tried reading it in highschool and got distracted. Now I am rediscovering it.
I think BG does a good job of intertwining 'spirit' with 'technology' - it just makes me a bit nervous though because I am not sure if they are using it to prove yet again that religion/spirit is harmful. I get a little tired of the sci-fi geeks telling me that I am stupid for believing in something greater than myself, whilst proving with their lives how empty and hollow all their faith in technology is. Not a good way to recommend me to their vision.
Hope I made sense...