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.
Nope, but it did have an underlying Egypt-motif that I kind of miss in this newer one.
Huh. Now that I know it's not an earth future -- damn the costumers are lazy.
And people bitched about Firefly's costuming.
Boomtown comes back (briefly) according to Zap2it:
NBC Sets 'Boomtown' Blowout Bonanza
(Thursday, December 11 04:17 PM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The critically admired, but ratings starved drama "Boomtown" is set to make a fleeting return to NBC's schedule at the end of December. The network will air all four remaining new episodes of the drama in a two-night marathon on Saturday, Dec. 27 and Sunday, Dec. 28.
Saturday, Dec. 27 will find NBC showing three consecutive unaired episodes of "Boomtown." The night will begin with the episode titled "Wannabe" at 8 p.m. ET, followed by "Haystack" at 9 p.m.. The night concludes with "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang."
The next evening, NBC will present "The Big Picture" at 10 p.m. That episodes contains cameos by Virginia Madsen and the one and only Howard Hesseman.
All four unseen episodes feature guest star Vanessa Williams, who was recruited to try to turn Graham Yost's cop drama into a popular success in its sophomore season.
After averaging more than 10 million viewers per night on Sundays last season, "Boomtown" shifted to Fridays this year. Only two episodes aired this season, averaging only 7.2 million viewers between them. NBC put "Boomtown" on hiatus in early October and moved "Third Watch" into its place in the schedule, where the John Wells drama has noticeably aided Friday ratings.
The network officially pulled the plug on the show in early November
