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KnuckleBuckett

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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2007, 01:18:33 PM »
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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2007, 11:34:24 AM »
Buffy sounds ridiculously lame to me, but it's supposed to be literature caliber.
That's only coming from nerds who say you just "don't get" their latest anime about a schoolboy who turns into a girl to save glorious Nippon from a tentacle monster from the 8th dimension

Really? I never watched the show, but everything I heard was that it really was well done and deserved praise and attention and stuff.

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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2007, 11:37:23 AM »
I dunno, I saw a couple episodes and it seemed pretty weak to me.

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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2007, 11:47:48 AM »
I'm talking about Buffy.  I never watched Firefly because there was pretty much nothing in it that I was interested in.

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Re: Battlestar Galactica
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2007, 05:08:35 PM »
I've watched a fair bit of BSG. The first series, like a lot of tv shows these days, unfortunately seemed to rely on soft porn as a hook, which wasn't necessary. Since then it's blown lukewarm and cold. There were a couple of episodes in the third series where they touched very lightly on the effects of occupation by a foreign power that seemed to promise to allude to the mess of Iraq but then wimped out; ditto with Baltar's (communist) 'manifesto'. Nice effects, decent enough characterisations (Olmos is very good) but the shows were ultimately disappointing. Having said that, it's miles better than the seventies version which was utter shit.

Buffy's not literature but it was original and post-modern in the sense that it included strong moral relativisms and inverted the cute girlie as victim. Of course, guys my age had to make up all sort of shit to get away with watching 'art' like that. I never watched Angel because it featured a bloke and so that show was obviously neither original nor post-modern in its exploration of moral relativism.

Buffy sucked.

You know, I always wondered about that.

I have to confess that I watched the Serenity movie on the strength of PJ's review (that's a couple you've recommended that have been very watchable) then watched - and thoroughly enjoyed - the tv series probably because ethic wouldn't stop hammering on about it. It's actually very good; I don't think Whedon did all the writing but the writing is clever and polished enough for what it does, although it did dumb down stuff beyond what's necessary ("Mal's latin for bad" springs to mind; it's glaringly telegraphed without the need to state it).
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