Sci-Fi Friday
Jul. 15th, 2005 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxHee! 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.
