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.
*eye-rolls* I guess he never saw Babylon Five. Or read pretty-much any good space-opera novel. I just don't get writers/prodicers/etc. who sneer at their forerunners in a genre; for example, Original Trek may have had dirt cheap special effects, but it paved the way for pretty much every sci-fi show that followed it.
It's like the new-wave slash fans who sneer at old-school zine h/c epics for being "out of character wish-fulfillment" or "subconsciously homophobic" or whatever--hello, without those K/S, S&H, and MfU writers, slash fandom would not exist, and then were would you get your porn?
One thing I really like/liked about Next Gen Star Trek was that it managed to keep the spirit of the original, but with more polished special effects and (sometimes) more sophisticated writing. Ditto for Peter Jackson's King Kong--I know some people disliked it for being a celebration of the original movie rather than, say, a deconstruction and/or criticism of the imperialist/racial/general-"filmed-in-the-1930s-ness" themes of the original, but I thought he did a wonderful job of updating and extending the script while still keeping the 20s/30s pulp adventure feel of the old movie. Plus, it had a giant gorilla fighting a T-Rex, which, like DMC's giant tentacle monster, is practically a guarantee of cinematic greatness (My sekrit movie fantasy is now to see Peter Jackson direct and produce a new film verion of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, in all it's late-Victorian "Lost World" glory).
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.
So, basically, the same thing that happens when comics writers run out of ideas? (Well, except for X-Men. When X-Men writers run out of ideas, they just have Apocalypse come back again, or have Wolverine fight Sabertooth for the 237286th time).
no subject
*eye-rolls* I guess he never saw Babylon Five. Or read pretty-much any good space-opera novel. I just don't get writers/prodicers/etc. who sneer at their forerunners in a genre; for example, Original Trek may have had dirt cheap special effects, but it paved the way for pretty much every sci-fi show that followed it.
It's like the new-wave slash fans who sneer at old-school zine h/c epics for being "out of character wish-fulfillment" or "subconsciously homophobic" or whatever--hello, without those K/S, S&H, and MfU writers, slash fandom would not exist, and then were would you get your porn?
One thing I really like/liked about Next Gen Star Trek was that it managed to keep the spirit of the original, but with more polished special effects and (sometimes) more sophisticated writing. Ditto for Peter Jackson's King Kong--I know some people disliked it for being a celebration of the original movie rather than, say, a deconstruction and/or criticism of the imperialist/racial/general-"filmed-in-the-1930s-ness" themes of the original, but I thought he did a wonderful job of updating and extending the script while still keeping the 20s/30s pulp adventure feel of the old movie. Plus, it had a giant gorilla fighting a T-Rex, which, like DMC's giant tentacle monster, is practically a guarantee of cinematic greatness (My sekrit movie fantasy is now to see Peter Jackson direct and produce a new film verion of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, in all it's late-Victorian "Lost World" glory).
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.
So, basically, the same thing that happens when comics writers run out of ideas? (Well, except for X-Men. When X-Men writers run out of ideas, they just have Apocalypse come back again, or have Wolverine fight Sabertooth for the 237286th time).