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Time Names Battlestar Galactica Show Of The Year
szyzyg writes "Time Magazine's Television Critic James Poniewozik has put Battlestar Galactica at the top of his list of the Best TV Shows from 2005. His summary starts off 'Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show.'"
Tell me about it. This show is one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen (as is most 'Sci-Fi' on the Sci-Fi channel). It's selection is very telling about the competition it has. My wife and I watch very little television anymore because it's rapidly losing it's appeal as a form of entertainment. The television and film mediums have really got to get out of the sequelitis hole they've dug themselves - it's kicking their ass. Everything's either a rehash, a 'reimagined' approach to an old series, or a knockoff on someone else's successful idea.
What I don't get is why with these rave reviews, NBC hasn't done a couple of miniseries followed by a full series out of the footage yet- after all, they own BG and Sci-fi Channel in the United States. This show is getting enough of a following that they could completely steal the Sunday Night timeslot from all the other sci-fi shows currently in syndication.
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Troll my ass. The parent is 100% correct.
The camera man is obviously drunk off his ass 24/7.
The first time I tried to watch this show I changed the channel after less then 10 minutes and vowed never to watch it again.
The acting IS bad. The camera IS shakey. The shakey-cam made me sea-sick.
You need to take Dramamine to watch it and Prozac to survive the bad acting.
Try watching something filmed in the 30's on TCM.
They don't try to cover bad acting with special effects or loud music.
The actors and plot either worked or failed.
The age of silver screen bling-bling SUCKS......
Making an established male lead character called Starbuck (that's "buck", as in a male) a female who likes to hit men that annoy her, that wouldn't be the ubiquitous millenial misandrist chic now would it?
Correct me if I'm wrong (I did spend the one epsiode that someone forced me to watch trying to claw out my own sensory organs) but wasn't she an attractive "blonde chick" with curves, pert boobs, more hair than acting talent and a costume that retained all the figure-hugging properties of spandex if not the dubious tradename?
Fairly typical pseudo-empowerment for women. The sort that goes quite nicely with teenage boys.
Me, I hate BSG because it's the most god-awful, insipid SHIT I've seen in years.