battlestar galactica
Aug. 17th, 2005 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideI'm not sure how she does it. But Sarah's quite possibly the only person who can coax me into watching/reading Sci-Fi. How? Why? I'm not sure. I suspect she puts something in my water.
Somehow, she's got me watching Battlestar Galactica. I watched the original series growing up, sure. But the glimpse I'd seen of the miniseries was pretty boring. But, again, she worked her witchy magic. And I spent three hours of my evening tonight watching the mini-series.
Sarah came over to watch it with me, and really, to explain the important parts that I would inevitably be too bored to pay attention to. Bored, distracted by ...ooo shiny, etc.
Having survived the pilot mini-series, I'm curious about the actual series. I liked certain parts of the pilot. Not crazy about the sound, which is picky, but I really hate heavy-handed, "you should feel this emotion, now!" type of background music. Use music for effect, but I'll take my emotional cues on the scene from the actors, thanks.
I haven't seen the original series in twenty years or so (god, that makes me feel so fucking jurassic, ick), so I don't have anything to compare it with, really (save for some dreamy memories of Dirk Benedict as Starbuck, and also "Face" from the A-Team). I vaguely remember the Battlestar Galactica part of the Universal Studio's tour. So, I don't feel as bitchy about it as some people.
I was going to blather on more with a spoiler cut, but it is fucking late. WTF. I'm not allowed to be up this late. Shit. More later. Gah.
Somehow, she's got me watching Battlestar Galactica. I watched the original series growing up, sure. But the glimpse I'd seen of the miniseries was pretty boring. But, again, she worked her witchy magic. And I spent three hours of my evening tonight watching the mini-series.
Sarah came over to watch it with me, and really, to explain the important parts that I would inevitably be too bored to pay attention to. Bored, distracted by ...ooo shiny, etc.
Having survived the pilot mini-series, I'm curious about the actual series. I liked certain parts of the pilot. Not crazy about the sound, which is picky, but I really hate heavy-handed, "you should feel this emotion, now!" type of background music. Use music for effect, but I'll take my emotional cues on the scene from the actors, thanks.
I haven't seen the original series in twenty years or so (god, that makes me feel so fucking jurassic, ick), so I don't have anything to compare it with, really (save for some dreamy memories of Dirk Benedict as Starbuck, and also "Face" from the A-Team). I vaguely remember the Battlestar Galactica part of the Universal Studio's tour. So, I don't feel as bitchy about it as some people.
I was going to blather on more with a spoiler cut, but it is fucking late. WTF. I'm not allowed to be up this late. Shit. More later. Gah.
