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They wanted a more gritty feel to it. The lack of small high-tech details makes the show more accessible to a wider audience. There also was a reason given in-show about the lack of high-tech but it was implied rather than stated. These people had already fought a war with the Cylons, their own high-tech creations, so a society-wide disillusionment with high-tech would be natural.
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Hense the cheap look of the show. To me cheap means that it is to simular todays everyday life to be believed as occuring in the future or in an another part of the galaxy.
What I am saying is, they could have achieved the low tech look and feel of the show without using ciggerettes, modern clothing, known city locations, toasters, US Military rashions, us military trucks, current military avation terms, modern looking ammunition for hand held weapons, modern day looking weapons, every day common clocks that reflect earth time, etc. The use of these items does nothing to boalster the show as being futureisting or gritty. It just makes the show look down right dirt cheap with very low production quality.
Hell even TOS has more going for it than this new BSG. At least in TOS, even by todays standards, suspends ones belief of reality far better than this new BSG does.
Not enough time was spent on attention to detail. They did it on the cheap, dirt cheap - low budge with the attention to detail that is a kin to a high school made movie.
The acting is fine, the CGI work is fine. The stories are ok, and the premis is very interesting. However, the lack of attention to production detail is aggervating as all hell.
Even the low budge TV flick Earth Above and Beyond did a far better job at selling the shows future concept than BSG.
Simply put I think the show looks to current day modern, and that to me makes the show so cheap that it would be laughable if it wasn't so sad.
I really believe that this is Moore telling people that they are too stupid to know the differance. A throw back to his star trek days.
