I am catching up with Battlestar Galactica. I never watched the reboot for a simple reason. I’m no sexist, but Katee Sackhoff is no Dirk Benedict. Just. Saying.
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Don’t get me started on Boomer.
Thing is, the Internet and everyone I know who likes science fiction was right. The show is really good. There is a worrying habit early in the first season of dropping a bunch of plot points that I’m not convinced will ever pay off, but generally Battlestar Galactica sticks to the basics. Kill bad guys.
At least so far…. I hear things get rough later on. Sometimes I feel like Lost has ruined TV (or at least, genre TV) for a generation. The Sarah Connor Chronicles suffered from a desperate need to be deep in some way. In some high school student infatuation with bad poetry and overwrought rock music lyrics way. This need led to placing Lena Headey’s reading of a section of Alice in Wonderland set over a battle between John Connor and a terminator. It led to dream sequences that didn’t make a lot of sense, and worse, were boring.
Chronicles DID have an awesome series of promo posters.
The show got good towards the end but it was too late then, really. If anything, Chronicles kept its powder dry for too long. Or maybe they didn’t come up with anything good until it was too late.
Battlestar Galactica has these problems. Off the top of my head, the whole Baltar hallucination stuff is a bit much, and more concerning, it’s probably going to lead to some weird attempt at a payoff that will either be awesome or just drive me nuts. The daddy issues have been boring from day one. I really just want to see robots get shot. So hopefully that will keep up.
Not to mention the hilarious sci-fi nerdness that permeates the show. My favourite is easily the use of “frak” as this fictional universe’s version of the English speaking world’s most popular naughty word. What the frak? Frak you! Frak me! And so on.
I’m in for the long haul now, and will inevitably write a blog post about how much I hate the finale after I finally see it. I don’t know how I’ve managed not to have that spoiled but I have. I’m on a hiding to nothing aren’t I?
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I keep meaning to get into BSG as I respect the opinion of everyone who recommends it to me. Will definitely tag it on to an increasingly long list of to-be-watcheds. Which is nowhere NEAR as long as my list of to-be-reads.
I know all about the to-be-reads. My biggest problem is that I have about five books on the go at the same time.
Though I did finally start the Dark Tower series!
You have no idea how overjoyed I am to read that statement! Where are you? Tell me everything! Feel free to e-mail me opinions/impressions/theories. I’ve read it so many times I have it pretty well memorized. Which is why my to-be-reads are so extensive, because I keep stopping to re-read beloved books. Dumb, Mere!