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Entertainment & Artistry => Photography/Video/Movies & TV => Topic started by: A Bit of Fruit on December 07, 2007, 12:18:07 AM

Title: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on December 07, 2007, 12:18:07 AM
A guy at work recommended it to me, I watched the mini series which I felt was a little slow but thats mostly the result of watching it in one sitting I think. The series are GREAT. I'm 1/2 way through series 3 and I am well and truly hooked.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 07, 2007, 01:19:41 AM
A guy at work recommended it to me, I watched the mini series which I felt was a little slow but thats mostly the result of watching it in one sitting I think. The series are GREAT. I'm 1/2 way through series 3 and I am well and truly hooked.

Started out good.  Slowed way down.  Picking up again.  Two hour movie sucked.  Season four ends it.

Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez on December 07, 2007, 03:45:47 PM
I watched most of the first season.  It was alright, but didn't hook me at all.  Edward James Olmos is pretty cool though
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Stephen on December 07, 2007, 07:28:37 PM
I downloaded Firefly, but haven't had a chance to watch it.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: A Bit of Fruit on December 07, 2007, 08:04:19 PM
Yeah Ive seen all of the Firefly and Serenity, I actually grabbed it from work last night. Battlestar reminds me of it a lot mostly due to the same style CGI cinematography (same company did both)
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez on December 07, 2007, 08:09:47 PM
I hate Firefly pretty much based on the people that like it. 

I've never seen an episode
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez on December 07, 2007, 08:30:43 PM
Nope.  I couldn't stand Buffy or Angel or those other shows so I don't think I'm gonna like his show about cowboys in space
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 07, 2007, 09:59:17 PM
in fact, I think this weekend will consist of nothing but
Firefly + Serenity + several pizzas.

Friggin' awesome show!!  Serenity was 11/10 too.  Only B5 beats it!
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 07, 2007, 10:00:24 PM
I hate Firefly pretty much based on the people that like it. 

I've never seen an episode

!?!?!    :( :( :(
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 07, 2007, 10:01:17 PM
Buffy was terrible.  I couldn't get into the POS.  Never tried Angel.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: JaWiB on December 07, 2007, 10:36:36 PM
+1 for Firefly and BSG

Great shows.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Stephen on December 07, 2007, 11:31:27 PM
Buffy sounds ridiculously lame to me, but it's supposed to be literature caliber.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: PJYelton on December 08, 2007, 12:12:08 AM
Hell I hate most fads but I have to honestly say Serenity is one of my favorite movies of all time.  I had never seen a Firefly episode before seeing the movie, although I've seen a couple since and while not as good as the movie they are better than 95% of the crap out there.  I know its the same guy that did Buffy and whatnot but its nothing like that drivvel.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez on December 08, 2007, 09:24:25 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
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 08, 2007, 09:37:05 AM
Hell I hate most fads but I have to honestly say Serenity is one of my favorite movies of all time.  I had never seen a Firefly episode before seeing the movie, although I've seen a couple since and while not as good as the movie they are better than 95% of the crap out there.  I know its the same guy that did Buffy and whatnot but its nothing like that drivvel.

What made Serenity work for you?
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on December 08, 2007, 01:18:33 PM
All of the chicks.  Almost.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: charlie 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.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez on December 10, 2007, 11:37:23 AM
I dunno, I saw a couple episodes and it seemed pretty weak to me.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Govtcheez 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.
Title: Re: Battlestar Galactica
Post by: Ken Fitlike 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).