Sci-Fi Friday
Jul. 15th, 2005 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Date: 2005-07-16 03:53 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-07-16 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 10:40 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-07-16 01:21 pm (UTC)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*
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Date: 2005-07-16 12:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-16 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-17 01:28 am (UTC)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...