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Hee! Ben Browder is still playing Crichton. Browder's new SG1 character is so, so Crichton! Too bad Claudia's character isn't up to Aeryn. Still, I enjoyed Crichton Part II. And I've always liked Daniel Jackson.


I think I've pinpointed my curious detachment with Battlestar Gallactica... it's too grim for me to enjoy. I find it fascinating. It think it's written intelligently. I think several of the actors do excellent jobs. I think that there's a great deal in it that's worth watching. . . but it just doesn't exhilerate me with any sense of fun. That's not a criticism. It's a grim premise and it's executed well. It's just... I LIKE humor. I like snarkage. I like things being just a bit lighter. While I find BSG to be a laudable series, full of a great many things to be respected it's just not the type of show I thrill to. It's interesting more than FUN.

Sigh. I'm shallow, I think. I'm not wallowing in angst girl (hence many of my problems with BtVS Season 6). I want adventure to have SOME angst, and some lightheartedness, and some romance and some FUN. It's why Farscape and the new Doctor Who fit my tastes so perfectly. It's when a show veres strongly one way or the other that it loses me. If it's too cotton candy, I dismiss it. If it's too dark, I can respect it but it just doesn't work me up into great excitement.

I LIKE BSG. I respect BSG. I'm not in love with BSG... and that's okay. It's just, strangely, I got more of a kick out of watching Not!Crichton in a far sillier show than I got out of BSG. BSG is much, much better written than SG1. It's got a far better execution and premise. But, I'm low brow. Sometimes I just want my TV to be fun.

Date: 2005-07-16 03:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
I do find that I dislike characters on BSG, and that's not a problem I have on either of the two Stargates (with the exception of not liking Everett, but that was a short term problem).

The entire Gaius and Six plot irritates me, and I wish he'd die or something. And I don't like the Colonel (whose name I can never remember). I was reminded tonight just how very much I like the Chief and wonder how long it'll be before he gets back on Galactica and finds out about Sharon.

Date: 2005-07-16 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malabud.livejournal.com
You know, I think you nailed exactly what my problem is with BSG. It's so unrelentingly grim with very little hope in sight. As you say, it's fascinating, but a little snark and humor would go a long way.

Date: 2005-07-16 10:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fer1213.livejournal.com
I could cut and paste this post into my own LJ. Everything you've said here is exactly how I feel.

Ben could play Crichton the rest of his life and I would be a very happy fangirl. I thought the scenes where Mitchell and Vala were together were just sizzling, though I think Claudia was channeling Aeryn a tiny bit in those. Otherwise, her character is fun but extremely lacking in any depth. Like you said, there needs to be a balance.

BSG is grim. Well-written, hard-hitting, action-packed but yes, not so much with the fun. I like watching the episodes once but have had no desire to view them a second time, unlike Buffy or Doctor Who or The X-Files or Farscape--all shows that had/have a healthy sense of humor to them and all shows that I adore.

Date: 2005-07-16 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
like watching the episodes once but have had no desire to view them a second time,

Yes, exactly. When the marathons were on, I turned on the BSG one and ended up muting it and trolling lj, but I watched the SG-1 marathon after I got home from work (and I'm buying all the DVDs) and I took the freaking day off to watch the Atlantis marathon. *g*

Date: 2005-07-16 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paratti.livejournal.com
Balance is good and humour amps tragedy. Good showrunners know that - which explains Marti.

Date: 2005-07-16 01:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sp23.livejournal.com
Hee! I love you.

Date: 2005-07-17 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com
I had a conversation with [livejournal.com profile] queenofthorns last season (of BSG) in which I said almost exactly the same thing. And I contend that no matter how grim the premise, I don't believe that that many human beings could or would be that humorless. People use humor to relieve tension, to diffuse fear, and sometimes - no matter how bad a sitch is - some things are just plain funny. And some people are snarky or goody or sarcastic by nature, and in a group that big, I can't believe there aren't a few funny people of some stripe.

The show doesn't, imo, have the power of or rise to the level of great tragic drama, in which case my emotions would be so engaged that I might be OK with the unrelenting depressiveness of it all, so I think it needs some form of humor to be believable and therefore, for me, something I can care about. Otoh, some people think it is fabulous enough to be Great Drama, so...

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