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?

The original wasn't set in an Earth future?

That was never clearly established in the original series, but if the awful, shortlived second series - Galactica 1980 - counts as canon, no. The Galactica finally arrived, at Earth, after voyage of at least a couple of generations, to find an Earth less technologically advanced than they were.

It was kind of a dumb series, and died a quick, deserved death.