I rewatched the BSG 2004 version and I had a though time getting through it. The beginning is so strong, but it goes downhill fast. At first it has ups and downs and then it just turns into only downs.
One thing I noticed this go around is the actor that does Apollo might be a good actor in other stuff, I don’t know, but in BSG he really does poorly. In most scenes he’s in he only has a few lines so he spends the entire scene just lurking in the background with the biggest smirk on his face. I don’t know if they were kidding around a lot on set, but it’s really off putting to see an emotional scene and have this dude with an idiot smirk on his face in shot. His character was also written poorly, as were most, but that’s not the actors fault. There are so many scenes with him where I honestly thought: Really, this was the best take? How rushed was this? Once you notice how poorly he’s doing, it kinda ruins a lot of the show.
Sad it doesn’t hold up, after such a strong start to the series.
Well you missed something really cool because NBC wouldn’t play ball. I wanted to do a radio drama podcast series which took place on a different ship in the fleet that had its own issues going on, but incorporating what was going on in the main series, including things like fleet-wide broadcasts by the president or Adama. Shipboard drama would have to work around original series plot points.
Tell me that wouldn’t have been great. I had the connections, but they turned me down. Oh well.
Yeah, the whole story for the show is running for their lives as the last of humanity, and dealing with what that requires. It’s so strong. Then this mostly stops being the focus and it’s so much weaker. I’d say after New Caprica is the turning point for where things feel off.
I’ll argue the Cylons fracturing and joining the humans has some good pieces to it, but overall things just get really boring when it’s no longer about surviving and instead just on moving forward.
Honestly, I’ve watched the show probably a half dozen times, and I typically have a great memory, but I can’t remember what’s going on at the end. I know the Cylons are working with the humans, they find Earth and it sucks, then… something, and the cycle restarts. I can’t remember what that something is.
I rewatched the BSG 2004 version and I had a though time getting through it. The beginning is so strong, but it goes downhill fast. At first it has ups and downs and then it just turns into only downs.
One thing I noticed this go around is the actor that does Apollo might be a good actor in other stuff, I don’t know, but in BSG he really does poorly. In most scenes he’s in he only has a few lines so he spends the entire scene just lurking in the background with the biggest smirk on his face. I don’t know if they were kidding around a lot on set, but it’s really off putting to see an emotional scene and have this dude with an idiot smirk on his face in shot. His character was also written poorly, as were most, but that’s not the actors fault. There are so many scenes with him where I honestly thought: Really, this was the best take? How rushed was this? Once you notice how poorly he’s doing, it kinda ruins a lot of the show.
Sad it doesn’t hold up, after such a strong start to the series.
Well you missed something really cool because NBC wouldn’t play ball. I wanted to do a radio drama podcast series which took place on a different ship in the fleet that had its own issues going on, but incorporating what was going on in the main series, including things like fleet-wide broadcasts by the president or Adama. Shipboard drama would have to work around original series plot points.
Tell me that wouldn’t have been great. I had the connections, but they turned me down. Oh well.
Yeah, the whole story for the show is running for their lives as the last of humanity, and dealing with what that requires. It’s so strong. Then this mostly stops being the focus and it’s so much weaker. I’d say after New Caprica is the turning point for where things feel off.
I’ll argue the Cylons fracturing and joining the humans has some good pieces to it, but overall things just get really boring when it’s no longer about surviving and instead just on moving forward.
Honestly, I’ve watched the show probably a half dozen times, and I typically have a great memory, but I can’t remember what’s going on at the end. I know the Cylons are working with the humans, they find Earth and it sucks, then… something, and the cycle restarts. I can’t remember what that something is.