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Battlestar Galactica

You hate it, you love it these seem to be what people are feeling about this tv show controversy. To be honest I love the show to death, it is well written, and just so damn amazing. Now I was over at www.imdb.com and noticed that on the message board that alot of people have beef with Ronald D. Moore, I have not known of him until well about a few weeks before. The main debate about him is mostly looking at his past work which just pisses me off. You want to know what his past work was, it was fuckin Star Trek and Mission Impossible 2. Now maybe Mission Impossible 2 could have been better (by alot) but never look at Star Trek as an example for bad writing, I mean come on its Star Trek, it has bad writing no matter what it does (well for alot of its episodes). For those of you who say, well you have never watched it or given it a try, I used to be a very big Star Trek geek (trekker for those of you) and even then I found TNG kinda bad which was suppose to be the best Star Trek. I mean some were good but most of it was just well boring and not very deep or interesting. Now back to BSG, alot of criticism has been sent to the camera work, and too much drama. Well you know what, thats what scifi shows needed, its camera work is the best on tv, its different and daring which is more than I can say for any other tv show out there. The drama is what shows needed, I remember seeing the episode Pegasus and I was deeply entangled in the scene where Boomer was being raped, I think I went even as far as to jump out of my seat.

Now for my last beef with BSG, Black Market was known to be a bad episode even Ronald D. Moore said he was not to fond of it. Well you know what it was daring move, it wasn't great but it also was very deep and brought some new drama to the fleet, what Ronald should have done was keep going with it but I think he heard the criticism and was scared off of the arc he was creating.

Yes BSG might be a little damp in spots but its only risks and if I can see people take more risks on tv, even if they fail they will be remembered for those risks and for their shows.
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Mista S said…
Your damn right it's a little damp in places, that's what happens when you play in the deep end, you get a little damp, sure it's safer like you said in the shallow pool with show's like Star Trek but we all know what happens when someone pees in the shallow end, we all get more than damp. Alright that analogy got kinda gross, lol. You've got a great style for reviewing Brother, keep it up, i'll keep reading.
S.
February 5, 2007 at 9:56 PM
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