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November 21, 2006
Battlestar Galactica
I've had disc 2 of (the new) Battlestar Galactica sitting at home for weeks. Since shortly after Dawnise got back from S. Africa.
She's been uninterested in watching it, and I don't generally watch TV without her, so it's been just sorta sitting there. We watched two episodes - You Can't Go Home Again, and Litmus, last night.
I was luke-warm on both of 'em. Adama's (both of 'em) willingness to put the entire fleet at risk, and compromise his combat readiness to continue the search for Starbuck stressed my suspension of disbelief.
I'm also hoping they offer up a damn good explanation as to why the Cylon ship she commandeered was configured as it was. I see little reason that she should have been able to pilot it.
Litmus set the stage for what could be very good, or could be ham-handed - paranoia amongst the general populace. The independent tribunal scenes were pretty clumsy in execution, and just made me want to watch something with real courtroom drama.
It's not that it's bad SF, exactly, it's just not as good as it's talked up to be.
Posted by dberger at November 21, 2006 8:51 AM
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I've had almost the exact same experience (down to the spousal disinterest and resulting slow consumption rate).
Re: Starbuck and the Raider, I like the squishy biotech idea (makes sense given the origin and development of the Cylons), but not the nonsense about her flying it by apparently yanking on it's tendons like some kind of horse's reins. Far cooler would've been some kind of direct interface, maybe some kind of tentacle that shoves itself in through an ear or an eye socket (and as a story bonus, she could end up half deaf/blind, since the Cylon interface doesn't *quite* sync up with human wetware - she'd look good with an eyepatch).
I liked "33", as I recall, and some of the episodes with Richard Hatch's character were interesting. I got all the way through the first season to the cliffhanger ending, and haven't managed to start S2 yet, though I have the discs sitting right here. I heard lots of raving from a podcast about how a recently aired S3 episode was *the* *coolest* *thing* *ever*, and out of curiousity I jumped out of sequence to watch that one. Some very cool FX bits, yes, especially in HD (Universal has been airing BSG on their HD channel), but far from the greatest thing I've ever watched.
Posted by: Hendel at November 21, 2006 3:48 PM