Ok, as I said, I was determined to watch this show with an open mind.
In a word: boring.
In no way am I comparing this to the original. This is purely my opinion of the show on its own merits.
The three of us watching it tonight agreed on one thing - we don't give a rat's ass about these characters. First off, it's very unoriginal. Son hates father, bad guys deceive genius who just happens to know how to get into the defense grid. Blah blah blah. Been there, done that, wore the T-shirt 20 years ago.
Another thing I despised was the documentary feel to it. It was hideously overdone. Far shot to REAL FAST ZOOM IN. Rinse, repeat.
And one thing to the Sci-Fi channel:
STOP SHOWING CLIPS FROM THE NEXT SEGMENT
It totally ruins the feel of the show. I frakking hate that. My wife was getting real annoyed with it. We've seen this done on other shows.
I think it's partially clever that the older ships weren't affected by the Cylon's jamming, but let's be serious here - how can you NOT network a ship into the fleet? I can't even fathom the protocol issues with a system like that. What do you do - send a shuttle every time someone needs a database update? (Sneakernet indeed!)
One of the biggest travesties of the show was how they spent all this time showing you the transport and all these other minor details, but they give ZERO time to any kind of feel about what's happening to the 12 Colonies. None. Nada. No shots of other Battlestars, no shots of the other colonies, nothing. All you get is some lame clip from their newscast and that's IT? Again, too much documentary, not enough story/drama. I want to feel like I CARE about what's happening to these people.
Anyone with Starbuck's attitude wouldn't last through to Lieutenant. "How's the wife?". Um...why?
Yes, "Encounter at Farpoint" sucked, but I'm not really liking the new BG. I'll watch tomorrow and see what happens afterwards.
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Now, the comparison to the original.
The original was SO much better. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. You get a sense of a society from the minute the show opens. You get a better feel for the characters within the first 10 minutes. You see what's happening to the 12 colonies and how helpless the Galactica is to help them. THAT made the show great, and it's 25 years old. And the music was just TOP NOTCH. Was there even any music in this version? If there was it was damn forgettable.
The damn CGI in this show was nice, but something as simple as the Viper launch from the original just really put you IN the cockpit.
Seeing all those Battlestars in one shot gave the audience a sense of scope with this culture.
Baltar. Come on...BALTAR!
Original:
New show: Not sure yet. It's not over.
The new show has no soul.
Mike
In a word: boring.
In no way am I comparing this to the original. This is purely my opinion of the show on its own merits.
The three of us watching it tonight agreed on one thing - we don't give a rat's ass about these characters. First off, it's very unoriginal. Son hates father, bad guys deceive genius who just happens to know how to get into the defense grid. Blah blah blah. Been there, done that, wore the T-shirt 20 years ago.
Another thing I despised was the documentary feel to it. It was hideously overdone. Far shot to REAL FAST ZOOM IN. Rinse, repeat.
And one thing to the Sci-Fi channel:
STOP SHOWING CLIPS FROM THE NEXT SEGMENT
It totally ruins the feel of the show. I frakking hate that. My wife was getting real annoyed with it. We've seen this done on other shows.
I think it's partially clever that the older ships weren't affected by the Cylon's jamming, but let's be serious here - how can you NOT network a ship into the fleet? I can't even fathom the protocol issues with a system like that. What do you do - send a shuttle every time someone needs a database update? (Sneakernet indeed!)
One of the biggest travesties of the show was how they spent all this time showing you the transport and all these other minor details, but they give ZERO time to any kind of feel about what's happening to the 12 Colonies. None. Nada. No shots of other Battlestars, no shots of the other colonies, nothing. All you get is some lame clip from their newscast and that's IT? Again, too much documentary, not enough story/drama. I want to feel like I CARE about what's happening to these people.
Anyone with Starbuck's attitude wouldn't last through to Lieutenant. "How's the wife?". Um...why?
Yes, "Encounter at Farpoint" sucked, but I'm not really liking the new BG. I'll watch tomorrow and see what happens afterwards.
--
Now, the comparison to the original.
The original was SO much better. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. You get a sense of a society from the minute the show opens. You get a better feel for the characters within the first 10 minutes. You see what's happening to the 12 colonies and how helpless the Galactica is to help them. THAT made the show great, and it's 25 years old. And the music was just TOP NOTCH. Was there even any music in this version? If there was it was damn forgettable.
The damn CGI in this show was nice, but something as simple as the Viper launch from the original just really put you IN the cockpit.
Seeing all those Battlestars in one shot gave the audience a sense of scope with this culture.
Baltar. Come on...BALTAR!
Original:
New show: Not sure yet. It's not over.
The new show has no soul.
Mike