Not really related to your point, but I enjoyed the hell out of BSG for the miniseries and the first season. I do love the original, and it's not something that really embraces that love -- New BSG has always had the annoying attitude of "Look at the crap those people made in the 70s. This is how you make science fiction," not to mention Ron Moore being convinced he invented tight-continuity, plot-driven, "dirty," epic s.f. -- but what the first season was was damned good post-apocalyptic s.f..
As someone who scared the crap out of herself in junior high by reading every post-nuclear speculative piece she could find from the 50s and 60s part of the high school and public library collections, let me say that some good post-apoc is most appreciated.
It started getting silly in the second season, but, frankly, I don't think the creative heads of the project anticipated getting a second season. It reads like they only had the plot worked out to a certain point, and once they got past that point, panicked and threw in prostitutes and magic babies.
And now ... well, I haven't been able to watch the third season due to absence of t.v. in my life, and from the spoilers I've seen, I'm very glad of that. It seems to have stopped being a show about ordinary people -- not great and not even particularly good people -- who, through sheer, dumb luck, survived the unthinkable and are now alone in the dark, trying to figure out how to keep surviving. Now, it seems to be about People With Destinies and vast, semi-divine plans, and everyone being Special.
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Date: 2007-03-31 03:05 pm (UTC)As someone who scared the crap out of herself in junior high by reading every post-nuclear speculative piece she could find from the 50s and 60s part of the high school and public library collections, let me say that some good post-apoc is most appreciated.
It started getting silly in the second season, but, frankly, I don't think the creative heads of the project anticipated getting a second season. It reads like they only had the plot worked out to a certain point, and once they got past that point, panicked and threw in prostitutes and magic babies.
And now ... well, I haven't been able to watch the third season due to absence of t.v. in my life, and from the spoilers I've seen, I'm very glad of that. It seems to have stopped being a show about ordinary people -- not great and not even particularly good people -- who, through sheer, dumb luck, survived the unthinkable and are now alone in the dark, trying to figure out how to keep surviving. Now, it seems to be about People With Destinies and vast, semi-divine plans, and everyone being Special.
I want my post-apoc back.