Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
I was thinking "this looks like a movie" during the battle scene. And... I dunno, I once raced home from a dinner to see the big fight in B5's "Severed Dreams." Again. But even at the time, that was "cool for TV" -- I didn't have the reaction I did to BG. I dunno if it would hold up perfectly on a big screen, but it was pretty damn impressive.
Some of it was the treatment. That we suddenly jumped into battle and a lot of it was off-screen, which just felt cinematic to me. "You know how this goes, so we're cutting to the important parts." And I assume that doing that let them spend more time on what we did see, which was clever.
I want to watch the 3 parts all in a row, but that means I'll have to set time aside for it. Maybe next weekend.
My widescreen LCD tv died recently. I have never missed it so much (I've been watching on an old 19").
Well, that's incentive for me to haul it to the shop to get fixed....
"Feature-quality" would imply a resolution equivalent to 35mm film
I didn't read "feature-quality" as talking about the resolution, but rather the "realism" and/or "technical sophistication" of the shots.
My widescreen LCD tv died recently.
Ow, that's sad. I have a... I can't remember, 28 or 30-inch old timey TV. Which is probably why I was compelled to go sit 2 feet away from it halfway through the ep.
Last summer I sent my old tapes of season 1 to a friend now living in Germany. He emailed this weekend saying he was trying to upgrade iTunes so he could buy the season 2 premiere, because he had to know how the cliffhanger got resolved. So I had the nicely sadistic pleasure of telling him, "The premiere doesn't resolve anything. You should probably just order the 2.0 DVDs." And then he was all, "Really? Not even..." "No, nothing. It takes a few episodes before Adama's even conscious again. You're welcome!"
If I'd been thinking, I'd have recorded one of the marathons for him, but he hadn't seem interested the last time we talked. He must have blown through the first season in a month.
I had to see it without the comentary after having seen it with the commentary.
Is that the few minutes of commentary up at aol.com? Also, where can one find the podcast by the creator-guy (Moore, right?)?
Is that the few minutes of commentary up at aol.com?
No, I meant the podcast. I suppose I should call it that, to avoid confusion with the AOL thing.
Also, where can one find the podcast by the creator-guy (Moore, right?)?
Yeah, Moore is exec producer, head writer, etc. The podcast stuff is here: [link]
If you have iTunes and want to subscribe to the feed, use this:
http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast/podcast.xml
eta: Huh, they added this disclaimer:
Commentary by the producers is presented unedited and uncensored, and may contain adult language. Listener discretion is advised.
Yes, there is occasional naughty-wordage....
I just leapt ahead to comment on BSG.
Has anybody noticed yet that we saw three different people try to commit suicide, only one successful? (Lee, Six, and Cain)
Cain was *telling* Kara to kill her, and Kara didn't quite grasp that.
Cain was *telling* Kara to kill her, and Kara didn't quite grasp that.
I didn't feel that was her point, but that it was a message that could be extracted from it. I don't see why she'd want to be killed. She still seemed to feel she was the saviour of the species, and that no one else was able to do what needed be done.
Yeah, what ita said. Cain didn't strike me as anywhere near despairing enough to kill herself. For instance, she was at that point still planning to take out the Galactica command structure--and, presumably, run the whole show herself.
That's why that scene with Kara didn't really work for me--I didn't believe Cain wanted Kara to kill her, but Cain's topic of conversation didn't make any sense outside of its ironic meaning RE Kara's assassination mission.
I will say, Cain did not fight very hard for her life at the end there, though. Just stood and waited for execution.
