BSG
Last week I began viewing the second season of the re-made Battlestar Galactica.
Once upon a time in a childhood far, far away, I loved the original BSG. With special effects harkening to the then-recently-first-released "Star Wars" (the original Star Wars, "Episode IV"), BSG rocked!
But BSG has matured over the decades since and I'm pretty pleased with the reworked version. It's kind of fun seeing echos of the original in the names and characters and seeing how they differ from the old version. The new version is a bit grittier, a bit darker, and that's appropriate given the genocidal theme of the series.
Once upon a time in a childhood far, far away, I loved the original BSG. With special effects harkening to the then-recently-first-released "Star Wars" (the original Star Wars, "Episode IV"), BSG rocked!
But BSG has matured over the decades since and I'm pretty pleased with the reworked version. It's kind of fun seeing echos of the original in the names and characters and seeing how they differ from the old version. The new version is a bit grittier, a bit darker, and that's appropriate given the genocidal theme of the series.
posted by Consul-At-Arms at 11:10 PM
2 Comments:
The original BSG was Reaganesque: we trusted the Cylons, and they blew us to crap. This was hitting TV screens at the same time as the various real-life debates over nuclear disarmament.
The current BSG is 9-11-esque: the Cylons went away for years - it wasn't a matter of trusting or not trusting them, because they had totally withdrawn. Then they came back with a dual-pronged vengeance: conventional attacks combined with android infiltration of the human ranks. Most of the new BSG plots I've seen revolve around "who's the Cylon?", kind of like what you do in real life, Consul, playing "Who's the Jihadi?".
Both the new and old shows were more topical than we usually expect from the MSM. Maybe it's because the entertainment wing of the MSM realizes that the eyeballs it's trying to attract are attached to common-sense Middle Americans.
JM
Nice comment!
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