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Wired says Battlestar Galactica is
the best sci-fi TV ever. And that's because it's not merely great science fiction -- it's great TV.
While most sci-fi -- whether on TV, in movies or books -- remains aimed toward science geeks or overgrown adolescents, producer Ronald Moore and the Sci-Fi Channel have essentially reinvented the genre by giving it an edgy, current, broad-based appeal.
I still think Firefly was better....
People who are in large embarrassed to find themselves liking something sci fi or fantasy, generally come out with stuff like this, saying "Hey I like it because it's more than just sci fi"
Whereas what they mean is "God I like this, I better talk down sci fi in general whilst saying that this is more than just sci fi."
Moore has more than enough SF chops, though, so if he says something like that, he's at least cognizant of what he's pushing.
Fair enough.
Exactly UTTAD and that reeeeeeeeeeeeally pisses me off.
There was an excellent article in SFX Magazine recently highlighting this very fact. It had quotes from film makers, authors and TV show creators, all desperately back peddling away from their own creations which are so sci fi as to be the most sci fi-y thing ever.
One quote was someone saying that their work wasn't sci fi because it was based on what actual scientists think might actually happen in the actual future. Guh.
I'll see if I can look it out and post some of the quotes.
People who are in large embarrassed to find themselves liking something sci fi or fantasy, generally come out with stuff like this, saying "Hey I like it because it's more than just sci fi"
Generally speaking, I agree, but I doubt that Wired, of all places, is calling BSG "broad-based" because they're embarrassed to be liking sci-fi.
Yuhuh, it was that broad brush o' min causnig problems.
I don't have a problem with "is you is or is you not sci-fi", but I do highly doubt that BSG "reinvents the genre". Like, really? A barely-disguised alternate-world treatise on your current social and political world? Wow, what an unknown concept for SF!!
I mean, intellectually, I'm pleased that that kind of SF can exist, but, this kind of thing has been done before.
but, this kind of thing has been done before.
Done this well, and on television, I'd say rarely.
I'll agree that "reinvent" is a pretty strong word. (As is "best" -- I'd have to pick Farscape if it came down to a choice.)