Are you not entertained?
Tamara and I have been watching the show 'Battlestar Galactica' recently. (Ummm, the new one, not the 'classic', although it's easy to get confused since Richard Hatch is in both.) The show has actually been doing fairly well for being an 'original' series produced by the sci fi channel, but mostly it's just making me miss Firefly something fierce...to borrow a phrase.
The basic story in BSG is powerful and well established, the human race is responsible for its own near destruction and the survivors must band together in a long shot attempt to find salvation. Sure it's been done and it'll be done again, but they do it well here. The special effects and the 'gritty realism' style are interesting and much improved over the classic BSG. The level of technology and who/what happened to survive is a little less well thought out, but forgivable (they just happened to have one ship that's actually a giant simulated outdoor park, and it just happens to have airport style metal detectors for some reason?)
The characters in BSG are all well developed people with histories, strengths, flaws, complex relationships and varied motivations/purposes, which should make for interesting drama. But (and this is where my problem with the series begins) no matter how different the characters are, they all share one common trait...they ALL make the absolute DUMBEST decisions at EVERY opportunity. I mean it's literally ridiculous, these people are supposed to have millitary training but they're all incapable of simple logical thinking or handling any sort of emergency.
And the evil robot cylons that look like humans are just ridiculous. Are they robots or clones? The series hasn't committed yet. If they're robots, then they're made of metal, you can detect that. And even if they're clones, it's well established that they can communicate with the cylon home world, why can't the humans detect these signals!? Wouldn't they learn to be suspicous of anyone with a radio built into their skulls? Instead, the best anyone can come up with is a cylon test that takes eleven hours per person to complete? And why the heck would anyone trust that doctor with anything in the first place, he's obviously dangerously mentally ill! There are only 50,000 humans left, why are they not all accounted for and tracked? Yes that's a major privacy violation, but you're up against an enemy that looks like you and can wreak havoc without warning.
Grrr.
Bring back Firefly ...please. I promise never to complain that the pace is a little slow again.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to get Tamara into Mythbusters, now that's a good show.
-Tim
The basic story in BSG is powerful and well established, the human race is responsible for its own near destruction and the survivors must band together in a long shot attempt to find salvation. Sure it's been done and it'll be done again, but they do it well here. The special effects and the 'gritty realism' style are interesting and much improved over the classic BSG. The level of technology and who/what happened to survive is a little less well thought out, but forgivable (they just happened to have one ship that's actually a giant simulated outdoor park, and it just happens to have airport style metal detectors for some reason?)
The characters in BSG are all well developed people with histories, strengths, flaws, complex relationships and varied motivations/purposes, which should make for interesting drama. But (and this is where my problem with the series begins) no matter how different the characters are, they all share one common trait...they ALL make the absolute DUMBEST decisions at EVERY opportunity. I mean it's literally ridiculous, these people are supposed to have millitary training but they're all incapable of simple logical thinking or handling any sort of emergency.
And the evil robot cylons that look like humans are just ridiculous. Are they robots or clones? The series hasn't committed yet. If they're robots, then they're made of metal, you can detect that. And even if they're clones, it's well established that they can communicate with the cylon home world, why can't the humans detect these signals!? Wouldn't they learn to be suspicous of anyone with a radio built into their skulls? Instead, the best anyone can come up with is a cylon test that takes eleven hours per person to complete? And why the heck would anyone trust that doctor with anything in the first place, he's obviously dangerously mentally ill! There are only 50,000 humans left, why are they not all accounted for and tracked? Yes that's a major privacy violation, but you're up against an enemy that looks like you and can wreak havoc without warning.
Grrr.
Bring back Firefly ...please. I promise never to complain that the pace is a little slow again.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to get Tamara into Mythbusters, now that's a good show.
-Tim
posted by tjmcardl | 10:18 PM
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Fiber optics? They can't detect fiber optics!?
Yes, the hummer was great. Obviously, hummers are such great vehicles that the military in any civilization would use them. And why exactly did she have a military style hummer in her garage, does the military normally give those out to pilots for personal use?
But what really convinced me that they must be a vastly different culture was that they use hexagonal paper. I mean, come on! Why would anyone develop that shape as the standard? How much paper must they waste by chopping off the corners of every single sheet of paper produced!?
-Tim
Ah, I stand corrected. Equilateral hexagons could at least be made so that there was a repeating pattern and no material was wasted. I don't think that's possible with octagons though.
-Tim
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