21/3/09
Battlestar Galactica. I didn't want to love this show when I first saw the miniseries. I, like many of my fannish contemporaries, was hugely in love with the original. I'd never seen anything like it at the time - it fired my imagination like no other television show ever had.
Plus - Starbuck. *happy sigh*
Then came the mini. It was kind of my show, but ultimately not. It was dark, and they were trying to ground it in reality - who wanted that? I wanted chrome and lame' and "by your command"!
And I didn't want Starbuck to be a woman.
They won me over eventually. All you have to do to see the proof of that is click on my bsg tag - thousands upon thousands of words compiling more squee and meta than I think any other subject addressed on this LJ. In fact, it's probably still my largest tag aside from Robin and my father.
I also think it's kind of appropriate that my icon is the two gender switched characters - the two women that ended up being my favorite characters in the entire run of the show.
To say BSG v2.0 went off the rails in the last couple years is putting it mildly. Its strength was that it *was* grounded in reality. It looked unflinchingly at the details of surviving a holocaust and trying to rebuild an entire society. The men and women we came to know were the full spectrum of the human condition - and their struggles more often than not mirrored our own.
It wasn't "traditional" science fiction on so many levels - but more than that it wasn't "traditional" television. In its heyday, BSG's triumph was the fact that it rarely (if ever) insulted the intelligence of its audience. Kind of sadly appropriate that as the show goes off the air a shadow of its former self, the channel that brought it to us is embracing offensively retro sensibilities regarding its target demographic.
So...the last two hours of the former "best show on television".( Spoilers ahoy...assuming anybody out there still cares. )
Rest in peace, Galactica. At least until RDM gets a chance to tell the story he clearly has wanted to tell for years - "The Plan". Somebody needs to tell him that Stephenie Meyers (Twilight) went there first.
Plus - Starbuck. *happy sigh*
Then came the mini. It was kind of my show, but ultimately not. It was dark, and they were trying to ground it in reality - who wanted that? I wanted chrome and lame' and "by your command"!
And I didn't want Starbuck to be a woman.
They won me over eventually. All you have to do to see the proof of that is click on my bsg tag - thousands upon thousands of words compiling more squee and meta than I think any other subject addressed on this LJ. In fact, it's probably still my largest tag aside from Robin and my father.
I also think it's kind of appropriate that my icon is the two gender switched characters - the two women that ended up being my favorite characters in the entire run of the show.
To say BSG v2.0 went off the rails in the last couple years is putting it mildly. Its strength was that it *was* grounded in reality. It looked unflinchingly at the details of surviving a holocaust and trying to rebuild an entire society. The men and women we came to know were the full spectrum of the human condition - and their struggles more often than not mirrored our own.
It wasn't "traditional" science fiction on so many levels - but more than that it wasn't "traditional" television. In its heyday, BSG's triumph was the fact that it rarely (if ever) insulted the intelligence of its audience. Kind of sadly appropriate that as the show goes off the air a shadow of its former self, the channel that brought it to us is embracing offensively retro sensibilities regarding its target demographic.
So...the last two hours of the former "best show on television".( Spoilers ahoy...assuming anybody out there still cares. )
Rest in peace, Galactica. At least until RDM gets a chance to tell the story he clearly has wanted to tell for years - "The Plan". Somebody needs to tell him that Stephenie Meyers (Twilight) went there first.
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