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He doesn't seem to like many space science fiction shows, or even start watching them. He saw Serenity, but never mentioned watching Firefly for instance.
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IIRC, he only watched Firefly after somebody sent him the DVDs. Same with Smallville, I believe.
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Yeah, OSC requires me to send him spaceship shows and then bug him a year later before he'll watch them I only got him the Galactica premiere six and a half months ago, so you'll need to wait another five and a half, assuming I spent Christmas at his house.
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I've been wondering myself what OSC will think of the show, and waiting for it to show up in his columns.
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Everyone here seems to like BSG, so I rented the pilot. But it was so dark and heavy, I really didn't care for it and didn't finish it--I think I watched a little over an hour of it. Is the pilot fairly representative of mood of the series?
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I'd say yes and no. The series is more or less a sci-fi-personification of a small ray of sunshine peeking through the heart of a giant thunderstorm.
Definately the whole series is very gritty and harsh, but it's primarily the stories of people triumphing over adversity. The miniseries (especially the beginning) is necessarily more doom-and-gloom because it's setting up the plot for the rest.
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With movies and TV that are really objectively good -- and BSG fits squarely in this category -- I don't really have much interest in reading reviews. Either the reviewer says the obvious, which isn't that interesting, or else they don't "get" the show, which tends to make me mad.
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I only got him the Galactica premiere six and a half months ago, so you'll need to wait another five and a half, assuming I spent Christmas at his house.
