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the_dala at 04:58pm on 07/10/2006
the_dala at 04:58pm on 07/10/2006My god, I love television. There's a program about Viking navigation on the History Channel, "Butch Cassidy" on AMC, "Six Feet Under" on Bravo, and "The Shining" on Spike. That is some quality fucking entertainment choice, right there. I was just thinking about "The Shining" ealier this week, so I think I'll settle on that. I don't really need to sleep tonight.
Okay, so "Battlestar Galactica" S3 premiere, which actually is the first episode of it I've actually watched live. And though I was a bit confused, having only gotten through half of S1 and a few random eps of S2, I reallly appreciated all the extra exposition That and the fact that it seemed to enhance the whole refugee vibe, where they really aren't doing much except sitting around and navel-gazing and/or scheming to blow shit up. Which brings me to what I love about science fiction in general, and what I adore about BSG because it does this with such intelligence and gravitas. In sci-fi, you can say things about the human race (and indeed, even think of us as a race per se) that you can't articulate in other genres, not without bringing a whole lot of situational baggage into the scenario. Take these two episodes, for example -- I've been reading LJ reactions and TWoP posts, and the list of parallels to real-life confict and war is too extensive to remember. By taking this situation and dropping it into outer space, into a world which bears only as much resemblence to our own as its creators wish and as the audience separately wishes, this war and these rebels and this conflict becomes Every-conflick. Ur-conflict, if I want to be totally ridiculous. And that is an extraordinary way to tell a story and to Say Something.
...Okay, I'm done. Basically, I was becoming a fan, and now I'm a full-on believer. I watched the rest of S1 since I started writing this entry, and it's exciting to see it picking so much steam. I knew what was coming at the very end of the finale, but I still jumped, and I still cried a little. Awesome. And actually, I think I did see the first two episodes, and the ones I taped go on from there. So the only ones I'm missing are maybe the last couple, and I can get those from iTunes.
On a completely unrelated note: it is fall break, I'm home, and Dad has a secret stash of mellocreme pumpkins in the basement. Rock.
Want BSG icons! It's not really a fandom if it's not in 100x100 pixel form.
ETA: also "Jerry Maguire" on TBS. Which is one of two movies featuring Tom Cruise I can still watch (the other one is "Rainman").
Okay, so "Battlestar Galactica" S3 premiere, which actually is the first episode of it I've actually watched live. And though I was a bit confused, having only gotten through half of S1 and a few random eps of S2, I reallly appreciated all the extra exposition That and the fact that it seemed to enhance the whole refugee vibe, where they really aren't doing much except sitting around and navel-gazing and/or scheming to blow shit up. Which brings me to what I love about science fiction in general, and what I adore about BSG because it does this with such intelligence and gravitas. In sci-fi, you can say things about the human race (and indeed, even think of us as a race per se) that you can't articulate in other genres, not without bringing a whole lot of situational baggage into the scenario. Take these two episodes, for example -- I've been reading LJ reactions and TWoP posts, and the list of parallels to real-life confict and war is too extensive to remember. By taking this situation and dropping it into outer space, into a world which bears only as much resemblence to our own as its creators wish and as the audience separately wishes, this war and these rebels and this conflict becomes Every-conflick. Ur-conflict, if I want to be totally ridiculous. And that is an extraordinary way to tell a story and to Say Something.
...Okay, I'm done. Basically, I was becoming a fan, and now I'm a full-on believer. I watched the rest of S1 since I started writing this entry, and it's exciting to see it picking so much steam. I knew what was coming at the very end of the finale, but I still jumped, and I still cried a little. Awesome. And actually, I think I did see the first two episodes, and the ones I taped go on from there. So the only ones I'm missing are maybe the last couple, and I can get those from iTunes.
On a completely unrelated note: it is fall break, I'm home, and Dad has a secret stash of mellocreme pumpkins in the basement. Rock.
Want BSG icons! It's not really a fandom if it's not in 100x100 pixel form.
ETA: also "Jerry Maguire" on TBS. Which is one of two movies featuring Tom Cruise I can still watch (the other one is "Rainman").
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