I was watching Best Week Ever last night on VH1, and they had a little segment on Battlestar Gallactica.
I only started watching the series, so please don't spoil it..
But anyway, they evidently love it, it's up for emmy's... woo... I love to see Sci-fi shows get recognition.
One of the commentators talked about how he liked the realistic aspects of the show--like how they use real guns rather than laser guns.
What's annoying about that is that Firefly did that wonderfully and is an awesome show. It's being rerun on the sci-fi channel and with Serenity coming out, it could really use the good PR of being on Best Week Ever.
*sigh* I'm glad they mention a Sci-Fi show, but I wish they'd mention the really really excellent ones.
-Katarain
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Well, the funny thing about Firefly is that the Alliance uses laser guns which, when used briefly by Jayne in "Ariel" are discarded as totally useless.
Stargate, at least the humans in the series, use bullets, but then I suppose it's not futuristic. Although they do have the option to use laser weapons and they clearly prefer bullets.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
What Jayne used in "Ariel" didn't appear to be any type of laser gun. It appeared to be some sort of stun gun -- a "less lethal" weapon used by law enforcement, not the army.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
Well, I've only seen Firefly once...
Anyway... while I agree that Battlestar Gallactica is probably a good show (ask me when I've seen more than one episode), there are other sci-fi shows that deserve more mention and hype.
Like Firefly... like Stargate... Like Stargate: Atlantis (which is shaping up to be a bit more interesting than Stargate lately)...
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Yeah, what Porter said about the guns in Ariel. We see an actual hand-held laser being used in Heart of Gold, and while its effects are impressive it's too power hungry to be an effective weapon in any kind of prolonged firefight.
The thing that gets me about Stargate: Atlantis is the acting; in particular the two female leads strike me as fairly horrible actors, who attempt to emote solely through the waggling of eyebrows. Drives me up. a. freaking. wall.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Mph, I suppose you're right. I found that scene very amusing though, because of the opposite of Star Trek thing.
quote:The thing that gets me about Stargate: Atlantis is the acting; in particular the two female leads strike me as fairly horrible actors, who attempt to emote solely through the waggling of eyebrows. Drives me up. a. freaking. wall.
Noemon, I don't mind Dr. Weir. She's not a stunning actress but she's not a dreamy-eyed token warrior-queen-style bronzed-skinned person. I cannot stand Tyla, or whatever her name is. I cannot stand the incidental females who seem, without exception, to be the dreamy-eyed token warrior-queen-style bronzed skinned people who cannot look at a male character without fluttering their eyelids and, as you noted, waggling of eyebrows.
My friends and I spend a long time exasperated by this seemingly incapable casting. All we want is a character who can look at someone straight on, who doesn't sort of float around, who is (by gum!) a normal person. All the casting directors are male. Perhaps they need a woman in there to stir things up a bit and hire someone less idyllically 'female'?
I like Stargate: Atlantis (I've seen up to episode 15 or 16 of season 1) but I find it hard to watch the ones with these quasi-females because they're so frustratingly awful!
Stargate Sg-1, for whatever reason, is more bearable, females-wise (perhaps because there seem to be overall fewer, and the average age of the characters is higher), although it does share the same issues.
EDIT: I do not wish to insult the female actors who play these roles. I'm sure they're all intelligent females. But the overwhelming similarity of every single female in the show is very irritating. It's the casting, the writing, the acting, something. It's wrong.
EDIT #2: By the way, by "golden skinned" I do not mean race. These women glow in a peculiar way.
[ August 08, 2005, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Teshi ]
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I just watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries and I have to say I was fairly unimpressed. While the acting was decent, the characters didn't really seem to have any depth at all. They could each be summed up completely in a one sentence stereotype. Also, it took FOREVER for anything to happen. You really don't need to take an hour to establish that nobody expects the world is about to end, but it is anyway.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by Joss Whedon, whose characters are complex and fullbodied and who is a genius at making at lot happen in a little time. But I really don't see what all the Battlestar Galactica hype is about.
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