I have also been watching BSG and loving it... but only since last week, when I finally got around to watching the miniseries. Call me slow... Alas, this means that I've now completely missed the first run of season one on Sky One, but I'm pinning my hopes on the DVD release towards the end of March.
In the meantime I plan on rewatching the original series, which I also liked - though very much in the way that I liked Voyager - more for its occasional flashes of brilliance and a potential for greatness that the writers and producers never quite delivered on, than for its actual episodes. So far the contracts in the new series has struck me forcibly as being something of a blending of both of those series... but with a deeper thought and analysis of the problems incumbent in the situations being set up. It gives me a certain confidence that the show will eventually deal with some of those things, and put that emphasis on the passengers and the supply shortages and the medium term adjustments that these people are going to have to make in their lives to form a society on the run... and that it might just be a case of when they have time to get around to it.
*sigh* I've watched so much crummy stuff over the past few years. It's entirely typical that as soon as something comes along that actually has the potential to engage my interest, it sneaks out of the starting blocks before I get around to looking up and noticing it.
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Date: 2005-02-09 11:56 am (UTC)In the meantime I plan on rewatching the original series, which I also liked - though very much in the way that I liked Voyager - more for its occasional flashes of brilliance and a potential for greatness that the writers and producers never quite delivered on, than for its actual episodes. So far the contracts in the new series has struck me forcibly as being something of a blending of both of those series... but with a deeper thought and analysis of the problems incumbent in the situations being set up. It gives me a certain confidence that the show will eventually deal with some of those things, and put that emphasis on the passengers and the supply shortages and the medium term adjustments that these people are going to have to make in their lives to form a society on the run... and that it might just be a case of when they have time to get around to it.
*sigh* I've watched so much crummy stuff over the past few years. It's entirely typical that as soon as something comes along that actually has the potential to engage my interest, it sneaks out of the starting blocks before I get around to looking up and noticing it.