And I didn't particularly mind that there was nothing (aside from a space armada with giant ships in it) about the world that seemed too terribly advanced technologically, at least compared to us.

It's not a lack of high-tech that annoyed me; it's a lack of different. It was like they set up shop on the Generic Sci Fi Channel Space Ship Set, and then dressed it a little bit (with phone cords).

Space television will insist on using sheetrock for internal walls in a space ship. (They didn't even pretend it was steel.) And they always insist on individual fighters swarming around a large carrier, and those fighters are always shaped like needles with stabilizing wings at the back, and they're always flown by cigar-chomping hotshots.

It was just a resounding lack of creative sideways-thinking in the design. I'd seen it all before. We'll not start in with what I'd seen before in the plotting and the dialogue.

And they always insist on individual fighters swarming around a large carrier, and those fighters are always shaped like needles with stabilizing wings at the back, and they're always flown by cigar-chomping hotshots.

Okay, but to be fair, it was the original BG that started pretty much all of those conventions you just stated right there. They're being faithful to the source material.

It was just a resounding lack of creative sideways-thinking in the design. I'd seen it all before.

Yes, this.

Sorry, Sean, don't mean to harsh your mellow. It's popcorn for me: I'll watch part 2 tonight and fastforward through much of the boring stuff, but I certainly don't think it's in any way particularly creative, either storywise or presentation.

t shrugs

Yeah, I imaigne that's so (I never watched much of the original). But what's that thing about a foolish consistency?

I don't know. I don't especially care about the show in the slightest. I'm sort of sorry for Sci Fi, since this is one of their Big Annual Movie events. Although I loathed Taken, and thought both Dune movies were flawed, in all three cases I felt like I was really watching an event, and not Straight To Video 3 as would normally be shown on a Sunday afternoon's rotation. It was just -- unremarkable in every way.

Well, despite my staunch defense of the show, I'm not saying it's the next Big Thing. I'm just saying I liked it well enough, and if they do make a series out of it, I'll watch it.

I don't think it was particularly creative, either, but I don't necessarily need all my TV to be "poked a badger with a spoon" original. I thought it was leaps and bounds better than Enterprise or Jake 2.0 or Voyager.

We just won't be able to share the love on this one. My mellow remains unharshed.

I'm sort of sorry for Sci Fi, since this is one of their Big Annual Movie events.

Thing is - everyone in my office is talking about it. Even the non-sci fi/genre folks watched it. So, in that respect, is was effective for what Sci Fi wanted to do - get viewers.

I don't necessarily need all my TV to be "poked a badger with a spoon" original.

::snerk::

The fighter spaceplanes looked like Starfuries, or like X-Wing fighters.

Actually, they looked like the Vipers from the original series. I grant you, that's not original, because the original Battlestar Galactica stole it's look from Star Wars (to the point where Lucas sued them), but the look of the new BG is in keeping with the old. I don't have a problem with that, although I can see how someone coming to the series for the first time might feel that way.

Goes off to sit in the corner with Sean.

eta: or what Sean said. You guys type too frelling fast.

I don't necessarily need all my TV to be "poked a badger with a spoon" original.

I do! I do!

(Okay, not really.)

But in the end, I was sort of sorry I hadn't watched Everwood instead. And I don't especially watch Everwood, only for glimpses of Holli's Secret Boyfriend playing piano. Peter Jennings talking about corn subsidies was more interesting, to me. (Yes, I did watch that, and yes, it was interesting!)

I can see where Jennings talking about corn subsidies might be interesting...