battlestar galactica
finally get to watch my tivo of Battlestar Galactica today.
season 3 is underway, and after watching the season premiere episode i am most definitely hooked hooked hooked!
i can understand now, however, why with even much acclaim and praise from the critics, that Galactica still struggles to find a wider audience. the fact that it's a science fiction genre is one reason, and that it's on the often-skipped-over Sci-Fi channel is another, so people always equate it with the show only nerds and geeks would watch. kinda like hardcore trekkers who watch StarTrek series like it's a religion.
(sidenote: i am a Trekker, proud and prejudiced. the other day my housemates found out that i am NOT a starwars fan and we all got into a kutukmengutuk battle over which is better. phhleeease, startrek wins hands down. livelong and prosper.)
but the other reason why not many people watch the show is that Galactica is MORE than a sci-fi drama, in fact i'll venture to say that it has nothing to do with the typical sci-fi genre, that even nerds and geeks shy away from the show.
the Galactica storyline is often heavy, very very heavy, on humanity. that it is on a galaxy far far away, and in a time millenium and millenium away, is but a sidenote in the drama.
the story opens with the human civilization, after decades of war and an uneasy/absent truce with the Cylons, soon awakens one day with a vicious invasion by the superiorly-evolved Cylons. a worn-down near-decommissioned battleship named Galactica barely escapes, hardly unscathed, and flees its torched twelvecolonies with only 47 thousand souls of what's left of the human world.
now without a home, they limp aimlessly thru the nightskies, struggling to stay ahead of the pursuing Cylons. hope is scarce, spirit is low, until one day they discovered an ancient sign, a beacon call of hope, a way to a new home, a place they all thought was merely a myth:
Earth.
Galactica is a show about human survival. it's about desperation, and hope. it's about the struggle to keep humanity alive. it's about the political clashes within the ranks. it's about how people, facing desperation, will often have to choose impossible choices.
the show is very heavy, as i've already mentioned. but truly worth watching. the writing is just amazing. the weaving of human mythology and ancient symbolism into the story subplots is very subtle, very creative, and very excellently done.
but Galactica does demand a lot from you. it's the sort of show that forces you to take sides, and forces you to sit down shut up and listen to the other side of an argument. case in point, the plots of upcoming episodes: military occupation, the torture of captured insurgents, and suicide bombers.
in our worldnews today, these subjects ring eeriely familiar, ...yes?
all around a superb show, though. i wished people would start watching it.
season 3 is underway, and after watching the season premiere episode i am most definitely hooked hooked hooked!
i can understand now, however, why with even much acclaim and praise from the critics, that Galactica still struggles to find a wider audience. the fact that it's a science fiction genre is one reason, and that it's on the often-skipped-over Sci-Fi channel is another, so people always equate it with the show only nerds and geeks would watch. kinda like hardcore trekkers who watch StarTrek series like it's a religion.
(sidenote: i am a Trekker, proud and prejudiced. the other day my housemates found out that i am NOT a starwars fan and we all got into a kutukmengutuk battle over which is better. phhleeease, startrek wins hands down. livelong and prosper.)
but the other reason why not many people watch the show is that Galactica is MORE than a sci-fi drama, in fact i'll venture to say that it has nothing to do with the typical sci-fi genre, that even nerds and geeks shy away from the show.
the Galactica storyline is often heavy, very very heavy, on humanity. that it is on a galaxy far far away, and in a time millenium and millenium away, is but a sidenote in the drama.
the story opens with the human civilization, after decades of war and an uneasy/absent truce with the Cylons, soon awakens one day with a vicious invasion by the superiorly-evolved Cylons. a worn-down near-decommissioned battleship named Galactica barely escapes, hardly unscathed, and flees its torched twelvecolonies with only 47 thousand souls of what's left of the human world.
now without a home, they limp aimlessly thru the nightskies, struggling to stay ahead of the pursuing Cylons. hope is scarce, spirit is low, until one day they discovered an ancient sign, a beacon call of hope, a way to a new home, a place they all thought was merely a myth:
Earth.
Galactica is a show about human survival. it's about desperation, and hope. it's about the struggle to keep humanity alive. it's about the political clashes within the ranks. it's about how people, facing desperation, will often have to choose impossible choices.
the show is very heavy, as i've already mentioned. but truly worth watching. the writing is just amazing. the weaving of human mythology and ancient symbolism into the story subplots is very subtle, very creative, and very excellently done.
but Galactica does demand a lot from you. it's the sort of show that forces you to take sides, and forces you to sit down shut up and listen to the other side of an argument. case in point, the plots of upcoming episodes: military occupation, the torture of captured insurgents, and suicide bombers.
in our worldnews today, these subjects ring eeriely familiar, ...yes?
all around a superb show, though. i wished people would start watching it.
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