Comments on: The BSG Diaries: part 7 http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-bsg-diaries-part-7/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:19:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The BSG Diaries: part 8 | SciFiNow http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-bsg-diaries-part-7/comment-page-1/#comment-10285 The BSG Diaries: part 8 | SciFiNow Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:49:05 +0000 http://www.scifinow.co.uk/?p=8712#comment-10285 [...] read my previous entry in this blog series, hit the link. Let us know your definitive thoughts on this show’s second season below. Do you subscribe to the [...] [...] read my previous entry in this blog series, hit the link. Let us know your definitive thoughts on this show’s second season below. Do you subscribe to the [...]

]]> By: Peter http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-bsg-diaries-part-7/comment-page-1/#comment-9887 Peter Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:54:10 +0000 http://www.scifinow.co.uk/?p=8712#comment-9887 I just have to comment on the above points from DRAX.......seriously man that is nitpicking to the extreme!! It is a TV show, and a damn good one at that. What show is perfect?? I am a bit obsessive and details at times, but you are a being a little anal to say the least! SO its not a scifi show if there is a recognisable car in a scene?? !! Come on!! Keep enjoying I just have to comment on the above points from DRAX…….seriously man that is nitpicking to the extreme!! It is a TV show, and a damn good one at that. What show is perfect?? I am a bit obsessive and details at times, but you are a being a little anal to say the least! SO its not a scifi show if there is a recognisable car in a scene?? !!
Come on!!

Keep enjoying

]]> By: Kevin Hall http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-bsg-diaries-part-7/comment-page-1/#comment-9862 Kevin Hall Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:38 +0000 http://www.scifinow.co.uk/?p=8712#comment-9862 Someone spending far too much time nitpicking there... BSG was on constant high form throughout its four year run, bringing us tension-filled stories and some brilliant space battles - who cares if the writing is a little sloppy for one episode or two? No series has perfect seasons. But BSG remained thoroughly entertaining and my only gripe is they couldn't go to another season! Caprica is also shaping up nicely too - Have you watched any of this yet, Shaun? Someone spending far too much time nitpicking there… BSG was on constant high form throughout its four year run, bringing us tension-filled stories and some brilliant space battles – who cares if the writing is a little sloppy for one episode or two? No series has perfect seasons. But BSG remained thoroughly entertaining and my only gripe is they couldn’t go to another season!

Caprica is also shaping up nicely too – Have you watched any of this yet, Shaun?

]]> By: Drax http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/the-bsg-diaries-part-7/comment-page-1/#comment-9856 Drax Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:34:32 +0000 http://www.scifinow.co.uk/?p=8712#comment-9856 You've just passed the point where BSG ceased to be an SF show in my book. What was Starbuck driving on Caprica ? A frakkin' Humvee! They didn't even bother to dress it up or call it something else, this is a motor vehicle designed and built by AM General of South Bend Indiana. Alarm bells started to ring for me as early S01E02-Water when Tigh made that quip about given lemons they'd make lemonade. I could put that down to sloppy writing. Starbucks Humvee was the first clear sign that the writers and producers didn't want to be working on an SF show, they wanted something else where they could preach about their issues and views on our contemporary world. I'm in tune with the messages they were sending but there's better platforms, The Wire, Generation Kill and The West Wing all spring to mind. But BSG was first and foremost an SF show and SF fans have standards, as do fans of procedurals like the CSI franchise and aficionados of medical dramas. You have to get the facts and details right or you're gonna take the viewer right out of the show. Imagine an episode of ER where the surgeon says something like "Pass me that curvy knife with scissor handles, I think I can rewire his eyeball." How well do you think that'd be received ? Now imagine an SF show set thousands of years away from our own time, in a part of the galaxy where Earth isn't even on the star charts let alone in the neighbourhood, imagine the characters driving around in Hummers or Ford Escorts. As an SF fan with working eyeballs hooked up to a working brain, then these things take you right out of the story. Our only window into the world of BSG is through the TV screen, we have to take everything at face value, so when we see Starbuck driving Helo around in a Hummer then we have to ask why. Do the Colonials share anything else with Earth ? Did they get the design from us or is it something they somehow passed down to us ? How big a clue is this ? What does it mean ?? Oh wait, it's just sloppy writing... So you have to ask yourself what else is sloppy writing and what points actually bear some thought ? But we shouldn't have to sort out the wheat from the chaff like this, it takes us out of the story and SF is *supposed* to immersive by its very definition. This was a sign of things to come and BSG becomes less and less an SF show as the episode count ticks by. It was still damn good television at this point, "Final Cut" and the upcoming Cain storyline are the highpoints of the show for me, and they remain some of the best hours I've spent in front of the TV for a very long time. I just wish I'd spent those hours watching an SF show instead of BSG. You’ve just passed the point where BSG ceased to be an SF show in my book. What was Starbuck driving on Caprica ? A frakkin’ Humvee! They didn’t even bother to dress it up or call it something else, this is a motor vehicle designed and built by AM General of South Bend Indiana.
Alarm bells started to ring for me as early S01E02-Water when Tigh made that quip about given lemons they’d make lemonade. I could put that down to sloppy writing. Starbucks Humvee was the first clear sign that the writers and producers didn’t want to be working on an SF show, they wanted something else where they could preach about their issues and views on our contemporary world. I’m in tune with the messages they were sending but there’s better platforms, The Wire, Generation Kill and The West Wing all spring to mind.
But BSG was first and foremost an SF show and SF fans have standards, as do fans of procedurals like the CSI franchise and aficionados of medical dramas. You have to get the facts and details right or you’re gonna take the viewer right out of the show. Imagine an episode of ER where the surgeon says something like “Pass me that curvy knife with scissor handles, I think I can rewire his eyeball.” How well do you think that’d be received ?
Now imagine an SF show set thousands of years away from our own time, in a part of the galaxy where Earth isn’t even on the star charts let alone in the neighbourhood, imagine the characters driving around in Hummers or Ford Escorts. As an SF fan with working eyeballs hooked up to a working brain, then these things take you right out of the story. Our only window into the world of BSG is through the TV screen, we have to take everything at face value, so when we see Starbuck driving Helo around in a Hummer then we have to ask why. Do the Colonials share anything else with Earth ? Did they get the design from us or is it something they somehow passed down to us ? How big a clue is this ? What does it mean ??
Oh wait, it’s just sloppy writing… So you have to ask yourself what else is sloppy writing and what points actually bear some thought ? But we shouldn’t have to sort out the wheat from the chaff like this, it takes us out of the story and SF is *supposed* to immersive by its very definition.
This was a sign of things to come and BSG becomes less and less an SF show as the episode count ticks by. It was still damn good television at this point, “Final Cut” and the upcoming Cain storyline are the highpoints of the show for me, and they remain some of the best hours I’ve spent in front of the TV for a very long time. I just wish I’d spent those hours watching an SF show instead of BSG.

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