Battlestar Galactica

[Warren Ockrassa]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:00 AM, G. D. Akin wrote:

> P.S. Season 3 wasn't disappointing either.

Srsly?

There were things I liked, sure -- there were effects that were  
visually gorgeous, frex the translight jump of the BSG as it fell into  
atmo, I just about freaked as it vanished, leaving only a flaming  
imprint of its hull's own ablation in the sky, a fiery ghost and a  
*beautiful* image I think we'll be seeing again in other series -- but  
I felt the story began to drag heavily about halfway through (all  
shipboard, all the time: translation, we shot our eye-candy wad early).

Definitely BSG is not about FX. However, it is an SF series, and FX  
matter. Playing cheap with them, keeping the budget lean visually,  
forced too much emphasis on the storytelling team -- and I don't think  
they were fully up to snuff there. That is, when the series had to  
rely on plot alone without interspace action sequences, I began to see  
some rather thin places in the plot.

26 eps in a season is too much for a series like BSG. It was much more  
tantalizing and intense, I thought, when they had more room for a good  
budget spread for FX throughout the story season, but had to tell a  
much tighter story in fewer shows. More = less = more.

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