BSG 3.01: "Occupation/Precipice"

[hsapiens]

To borrow a phrase from Stargate...Holy Hannah! I wasn't much fond of the last 10? minutes for the season ender for S2 but I trusted the writers enough to know that how S3 opened would decide for me whether I ultimately thought the weird ending for S2 was good or not.

Some things I'm having a little bit of trouble with, still, but oh my god. That is so the way to open a season. So many very interesting references to current events but all twisted in a way I'd never expect to see on American television. I'll write more when I've watched it again and can wrap my brain around the two hours of dark goodness. Holy Hannah!

*hugs beloved and bedraggled Stargate* So sad to say, but if you want your audience to understand why it's imperative to fight the soul-crushing peril that the Ori theoretically are, THIS is the way to do it.

Comments

[selmak.livejournal.com]

Yes, Yes, Yes. BSG, what an incredible show. I'm so glad that it's NOT heading toward NBC as a season replacement series as NBC would dumb it down and turn it into TV accessible to the mindless masses.

Lordie, the only show that made me yell "OMG" was B5, up until now. I think the first time I saw Edward James Olmos as Adama, I literally thought, "Lorne Greene who?". Michael Hogan's Tighe took me a little longer to get hooked (maybe because as a young fangrrrl geekette I had a major crush on the old Tighe), but he's absolutely scary as Saul Tighe, damaged goods.

And I truly believe that while Saul Tighe is fracking Ellen, his heart truly belongs to Bill Adama. :P

Can't wait to see you in NJ!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Was that its planned fate?!? Gods, I'm glad it dodged that bullet. I just don't think they'd be able to show the heroes strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up the marketplace in today's US political climate.

And oh yes -- B5 was a sci fi junkie's dream. (OK, when one disregars the deleterious effects of the yearly uncertainty as to whether B5 would actually get its entire 5 years filmed.) It's still my gold standard in terms of plot, continuity, and character development. BSG ranks with it in my books. The production values are superior in BSG and, well, I'm just totally in love with the show. At least, when we're focusing mostly on human/Cylon conflict or Cylon/Cylon. Human/human? Not so much.

EJO totally walks on set and owns Adama. I never once looked back in fond rememberance of the other. In fact, this show is so different that I don't really equate or compare the two. It really is like a wonderfully written AU fanfic for the original. And, just like in fanfic, sometimes it's better than what I'm getting in the source material. ;-)

I'll admit, I spent a lot of time the first season watching the development of Baltar and enjoyed watching them put together a character who I knew was destined to betray humanity. Other than that, I just didn't care how the new related to the old because it was fully satisfying all on its very own.

I think I had crushes on damned near every cast member of the original series. It didn't hurt that my first crush is life was on the Greek God Apollo (hey, being a nerd/archaeologist is in my blood, baby!) and there was a show with Apollo. :) Starbuck was hot and had plenty of 'tude. The women were pretty. Even the kid was cute. (Hey! I was young. Honest.) Shit, I even wanted my own robot dog.

Now I'm older, I think I have a crush on just about everyone on BSG, and I may replace my aging dog with a robot version if he doesn't stop peeing on the floor when Joe goes out of town on business. ;-)