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Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-show-that-deserves-it dept.

Chairboy writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has just announced the renewal of Battlestar Galactica for a second season. The creator of the show has announced that the second season will delve into the religious issues surrounding the Cylons in addition to opening up their society more. The latest episode had 3.2 million viewers, almost twice as many as watched the latest episode of Star Trek Enterprise." I said it before, and I'll say it again- this is the best Sci Fi program currently airing, so I'm happy to see more.

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  1. Re:Camera shots from space by ajs · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Problems with this series are legion, and I'm definitly in the "the camera silliness is vastly overused" camp. However, I would also agree that it's the best SF on TV right now.

    Things I wish they'd do, only because I actually like the show, and would like to see it be better than it is:

    * Stop making day trips into planetary systems at sub-light speed. If you're outside of a system, and you want to send a ship to the nth planet, that's a minimum of days worth of travel given obscene graviational tech and near-light travel (we'll ignore the relativistic implications).

    * Stop mis-using the camera work. I like the funky camera work in space for the most part. It makes it feel more realistic, but inside the ship it adds an emphasis to everything that's difficult to sustain. After a while, it just becomes "that annoying camera technique." Use it sparingly indoors and slightly more in space... then your viewers won't cringe.

    * Think carefully about the capabilities of a cylon. There's one scene where one of the warrior type cylons encounters a human. The human is surprised, and yet still manages to pull off the first shot. Perhaps that was intentional, and in which case this example is a poor one, but the point holds: it seems like the show runners aren't staying on top of what cylons are exactly capable of at times.

    * Never, ever, show someone stopping up a hole in a spacecraft with a boot or whatever that was, and then flying into space. That's just awful science.

    There are a bunch of other really minor problems, almost all of which can be explained away by saying that the tech level is REALLY uneven. I'm ok with most of it, and I like the story, so what can ya do? :)

    There's also the good:

    * Camera work in space stresses the vast scale on which space craft operate.

    * Cylons aren't just a generic villan

    * The president who really isn't ready to be leader of the last of the human race.

    * Everything about the relationship between Adama, Starbuck and Apollo.

    * People who don't wear their duty uniforms off-duty.

    Overall it's the best of the orginal show (IMHO) and quite a bit more... with blemishes.