Totally with you on the BSG miniseries. I never saw the original, but Brian and I were both stunned by it and the following season of television. Masterful stuff.
Now, if someone could explain to me WTF HAPPENED between seasons 1 and the rest that caused the entire thing to go so completely off the rails...that'd be nice. Not that there weren't good episodes in seasons 2 and 3 (I haven't gotten around to watching 4 yet, and am not sure I will), but part of what made the miniseries/first season so amazing was the sense of cohesiveness, of narrative arc, of "there's a whole story here already and even though you don't have all the pieces yet I'm going to reveal them slowly, or even just bits of them, and half the fun is going to be theorizing about how they all fit together because you know they do. And then it was like we got too busy focusing on this or that subplot, or the writers were floundering around trying to figure out where to go next, and we were left wondering "Is this even the same show?" Honestly, it was a little traumatizing, like watching a slow striptease performed by a beautiful and skilled woman...who turned out, under the clothes, to be a robot cobbled together of parts from eight different robots, none of which were particularly useful or beautiful to begin with.
Also, someone totally needs to make O HAY IZZAT A CASINO PLANET? into an animated lolcat gif. :)
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Date: 2011-02-07 12:41 am (UTC)Now, if someone could explain to me WTF HAPPENED between seasons 1 and the rest that caused the entire thing to go so completely off the rails...that'd be nice. Not that there weren't good episodes in seasons 2 and 3 (I haven't gotten around to watching 4 yet, and am not sure I will), but part of what made the miniseries/first season so amazing was the sense of cohesiveness, of narrative arc, of "there's a whole story here already and even though you don't have all the pieces yet I'm going to reveal them slowly, or even just bits of them, and half the fun is going to be theorizing about how they all fit together because you know they do. And then it was like we got too busy focusing on this or that subplot, or the writers were floundering around trying to figure out where to go next, and we were left wondering "Is this even the same show?" Honestly, it was a little traumatizing, like watching a slow striptease performed by a beautiful and skilled woman...who turned out, under the clothes, to be a robot cobbled together of parts from eight different robots, none of which were particularly useful or beautiful to begin with.
Also, someone totally needs to make O HAY IZZAT A CASINO PLANET? into an animated lolcat gif. :)