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*

There were explosion sounds. Or weapon firing sounds, at least. Odd sort of silence. Kinda half-assed.

It felt so unrelievedly grim.

Actually, you know, to me it felt grim-lite. Like, okay, I think I know now what disaster looks like, and I think I've seen a lot about how people react to disaster (in all that multiplicity). Nobody turned aside and threw up, you know? Nobody was cracking gallows humor; nobody felt faint; nobody burst into ugly heaving sobs; nobody completely lost it; nobody let slip something completely inappropriate and then apologized -- it was all telegraphed as serious faces and a formal demeanor.

Even the civilians -- the only civilian sowing discord was a Secret Bad Guy. Like good guys don't get into fights when their emotions are running high.

When Edward James Olmos did his big speech at the end, that crescendoed into shouting? Everybody cheered afterwards. It was just -- wrong. One big speech -- even a good one -- isn't going to put everyone into a good mood after a devastating disaster. George W. Bush had to start a whole war to get people into the cheering mood, and some of that shouting wasn't cheering after all.

A lot of SF shows and movies (and regular non-SF disaster ones too) like to throw large numbers of people away, and then be like, Oh, wow, that sucks, okay, moving on... -- it rings falser and falser for me every time I see it.

Is tonight new Smallville?

I think they're on a similar break to Angel. As in, not tonight.

Next new Smallville (Asylum) is Jan. 7.

Finally finished BG:2003. The original wasn't set in an Earth future?