Tonight's installment of BG was kind of dull ... though I missed a chunk in the middle.

Daniel, there's an interesting series of articles (or did you post the link?) with Joss and Tim in which Joss discusses the camerawork on Firefly for a few lines. He pretty much attributes the style to 70s westerns and identifies it as a staple of several currently running shows. It's actually a really cool series of interviews, and I think I know how to link now, so ...

Here it is

Is that too long of an address to link?

There was some nice HSQ at the end.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

No seriously. That was my exact reaction to that HSQ. Screaming.

And I'll just come out and say it. I liked the miniseries, and I kind of hope it gets picked up for a show, but only if Farscape gets picked up too.

Still, either way, I'll probably watch. I think given more time, the story and characters will be better developed.

I'm prepared to be in the minority on this.

I thought the HSQ was so entirely telegraphed as to be no surprise at all. But, you know, YHSQMV. So.

I just... you know? It felt so unrelievedly grim. No humor, no hope, no joy. Just death and loss and grey walls and grey uniforms.

And Harvey!Cylon? Ron Moore owes the Farscape team a round of drinks for swiping their idea, anyway. I mean, really. Utterly utterly shameless. Besides, I don't think Baltar breaks nearly as well as Crichton does, and I won't care as much if he does.

I did like Starbuck, though. And the space battles. The battles, I've decided, are kinda cool and interestingly done. Although kind of antiseptic, for some reason I have yet to articulate.

t gives 'Suela a great big slobbery kiss

I disagree. The little shifts of focus and the moving cameras I had never seen before and still have only seen on Firefly and this show. It's the pov of as if there was a cameraman trying to range shots in space.

I profess my adoration for the show, old and new. I really liked it for it's own merits. If it does get picked up I will watch it to see how it turns out. Besides, it's Edward James Olmos.

The little shifts of focus and the moving cameras I had never seen before and still have only seen on Firefly and this show. It's the pov of as if there was a cameraman trying to range shots in space.

I seem to remember Bab 5 doing a bit of this for their battles, usully at the start of the epic ones. Though not so much as BSG has done here.

I just... you know? It felt so unrelievedly grim. No humor, no hope, no joy. Just death and loss and grey walls and grey uniforms.

That's genocide for you. I really wish Enterprise had this kind of edge, I think it would make it a much better show.

I agree -- Enterprise needs the injection of something new. . .

If they do continue this as a series or even as a number of different 4 hour minis? A future of multiple CKRs. .. how could you not like that?

I disagree. The little shifts of focus and the moving cameras I had never seen before and still have only seen on Firefly and this show. It's the pov of as if there was a cameraman trying to range shots in space.

Oh, well, I'm not arguing your point -- I just thought the interviews were cool and remember his mentioning the camerawork, so I linked it. I don't personally know from 70s westerns, and the only camerawork I tend to notice (consciously) is what I don't like -- for example, the early shakey, frenetic camerawork on NYPD Blue (or maybe it's calmed down -- I havent' watched in a while). It was probably all cool and edgy, but it drove me batshit.

Although, I do like listening to JW DVD commentaries about why he shot something a particular way and how. (Did I mention, Firefly DVDs and Yay! yet?)

Last night's BG ep just felt kinda eh to me, I dunno. Maybe I was in a mood. But, yeah, I'd catch eps of the series. I liked it fine overall.

The little shifts of focus and the moving cameras I had never seen before and still have only seen on Firefly and this show.

No, I liked that. I don't deny the creativity of the space battles. I don't know why I felt the battles were antiseptic. Perhaps it had something to do that the thing they were fighting was basically a thing, a robot, not something with its own feelings or emotions at stake.

I dunno. I'm not explaining it well because I can't. It's entirely possible I missed the big explosion sounds. *g*