Sunday Oct 30, 2005

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I spent most of today watching Battlestar Galactica.

I started with the miniseries, watched two regular episodes, and five hours later I only stopped because I needed to go with my wife to the store.

BSG is much much more than just a SciFi show. In fact, it is a complex, challenging, and very satisfying human drama that happens to take place in outerspace.

Firefly set the bar for sci-fi. Battlestar has raised it tremendously.
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metaverse:
Indeed, I agree totally. My girlfriend and I started watching it this season and we saw every episode. We looked forward to each one so much.

We missed season 1, so I will be buying it for my girl for Christmas, she will be happy .

My favorite Sci Fi series of all time though is still Babylon 5..but BSG is so so close. The scripts / stories are just amazing. The cast all do an amazing job as well. Can't wait for season 3!
dybbuk:
So true-so much money was saved on Friday night bar tabs thanks to Galactica. The poorest sci-fi seems to be worst-case scenario projections (post-apocalyptic crap). The best scifi is a metaphor for a current day problem wrapped in the future. Forbidden Planet's Id Monsters were nuclear weapons. TNG was about morality supporting technology, and the ways we can all benefit. BSG questions the meaning of humanity. Aside from really compelling plots, there are so many layers of myth. . .January can't come soon enough. I gotta get the DVD's.

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