Posted on 11/17/2007 3:45:02 PM PST by Professional
It jumped the shark by season three and we stopped.
Too many asinine or ridiculous plot changes, retarded twists, and downright bad episodes. They should have made it a tight two or three seasons and ended it. Instead, it is now a soap opera a with all the accompaning baggage like loose plot threads, gaping holes, duex ex machinas etc.
It WAS the best show on TV.
Ok, but check out Razor. It is getting rave reviews. Apparently, the soap element is out.
It's character and story driven, rather than effects driven. It's got some of the best characters and dialog you'll see. All of the actors are perfectly cast in their roles.
Mark
There was a movie too?
But I can't say enough about the series. I'd guess that since buying the boxed set of DVDs, I've watched each episode at least 8 to 10 times. And they never get old, even though I practically know everything by heart.
Mark
For what they are tasked to do, Galactica is a low budget show. The papers and reports seen in each episode with four corners cut off are an in-joke on how they must cut corners to make the show. The “soap opera” aspects some complain of were the compromise the producers had to make in order to do the spectacular work most love to watch.
Galactica emptied the piggy bank to build the New Caprica sets and such special effects in that story arc such as Galactica entering the atmosphere in the liberation attack. The soap, or human shows thereafter brought the costs per show back into line.
Overall it was a good trade off. If the producers didn’t aim so high, would there be such a thread talking about the show?
That may all be true but IMO is irrelevant to my point.
The show sucks (now) because it blew the story for money.
Yeah, I know...its a business...but that is what happens when you get too greedy.
They took what was essentially STAR WARS or DUNE type of story arc and turned tried to turn it into a STAR TREK type arc. The result was AS THE BASE STAR TURNS or ALL MY CYLONS.
They should have wrapped it up in three seasons. I mean, does anyone know how long they are going to go with this? How they are going to tie up all the loose ends and plot holes?
To me Babylon 5 was the best Scifi show out there.. Firefly was a good show and I curse those fools at Fox for fracking up Firefly. They should have given the show a better chance... Firefly could have given Babylon 5 a run for its money imho..
That was pretty good. Lots of good editing by folks at youtube, real talent.
some cool links on here. Hope you’ve seen the 7 minisodes of Razor. Pretty cool, and they are not going to be in the movie. They are just extras. The reviews for Razor are very very good from the forum at scifi.
I second that motion. I love BSG, it's a terrific show, but I would put "Firefly" higher on the list. Absolutely outstanding, and a true travesty of network idiocy in its cancellation.
When it did get cancelled, did it finish so that it made sense? I ask this as a former fan of Twin Peaks...
When taken as a whole with the film “Serenity” as a pseudo-second season, yeah, it makes sense. I saw “Serenity” before I ever saw the show, my wife and I really enjoyed it, then we got the TV show DVDs off of Netflix. The TV show really expounds on why the events in the movie are so important, but the movie does an excellent job of standing on its own.
I’ll check into both of them. Thanks, as good viewing is hard to find.
That has to be hands down one of (if not THE) best episodes of the entire series!
Looks like a screener of razor is out on the torrent networks..
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