OT: BSG Series

Nodachi · #1 December 13th, 2004, 03:09 AM

First off, I do agree that the two Stargate shows are the best sci-fi in production right now.

However, I'd like to point out that the producers of BSG are going for a totally different look to their show. 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.

Raging Deadstar · #2 December 13th, 2004, 07:18 AM

Also, Does anyone remember the first two seasons of Stargate? They were good and many enjoyed them, but you can tell that each season has improved with Quality. Hopefully if BSG continues we will see the same.

As for the Stargate spoiler I already Knew, But for those in dispair it isn't what you all think. I would have cried if Apophis came back to life AGAIN! It was getting laughable.

Of course you can't blame them, SG1 have butchered their way through most the Egyptian Pantheon and a few others...

Also for those who were questionning if there would be a SG1 Game: Click Here and all Shall be revealed

Atrocities · #3 December 13th, 2004, 11:13 AM

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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.

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.

tesco samoa · #4 December 13th, 2004, 01:45 PM

AT. I will have to catch up.... I just watched the 2003 movie.

As for SG1 I am on the first season. My wife finds the acting horrible. I agree with her.... Special effects are very cheap in that show.

But I will give it another season as I see protential in it...

Fyron · #5 December 13th, 2004, 03:41 PM

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tesco samoa said:
AT. I will have to catch up.... I just watched the 2003 movie.

As for SG1 I am on the first season. My wife finds the acting horrible. I agree with her.... Special effects are very cheap in that show.

But I will give it another season as I see protential in it...

Note, "first season"... As with any sci-fi show, the first few seasons tend to suffer from very low budgets and such...

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #6 December 13th, 2004, 04:49 PM

The only thing I hate is when they decide to do aliens on the cheap, production companies suddently decide that the aliens can look like us! The War Of The Worlds series had aliens in disquise so they could infiltrate our society. Star Trek Voyager and DS9 could attach some sort of forehead mutation and get an instant alien. Is CGI still that expensive? I want scary Lovecraft gloopy monsters in my sci-fi! But the blonde Cylon can stay. I'll be "evaluating" her in my quarters!

Anyone figure out how many dog years old Lorne(Adama)Greene is? was?

Raging Deadstar · #7 December 13th, 2004, 05:40 PM

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EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro said:
But the blonde Cylon can stay. I'll be "evaluating" her in my quarters!

Amen...

Makinus · #8 December 13th, 2004, 04:52 PM

i desisted from watching SG1 when, in the first episode from the first season (not the pilot), when they find a world with people that lives like the Mongols they instantly are able to talk with the first person that they meet, in modern-day english, and they are not using any kind of translator or something...

Now, a people that were separated from eartg since the time of the Gengis Khan (that spoke a very different language) are speaking modern-day english? I simply could not stand the illogicity and simply don�t watched any othe episode of the series...

Suicide Junkie · #9 December 13th, 2004, 09:00 PM

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Makinus said:
i desisted from watching SG1 when, in the first episode from the first season (not the pilot), when they find a world with people that lives like the Mongols they instantly are able to talk with the first person that they meet, in modern-day english, and they are not using any kind of translator or something...

Now, a people that were separated from eartg since the time of the Gengis Khan (that spoke a very different language) are speaking modern-day english? I simply could not stand the illogicity and simply don�t watched any othe episode of the series...

Hey, now... what good are slaves if they don't speak a modern language?

That Daniel guy is a translator, too

Atrocities · #10 December 13th, 2004, 09:42 PM

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Makinus said:
i desisted from watching SG1 when, in the first episode from the first season (not the pilot), when they find a world with people that lives like the Mongols they instantly are able to talk with the first person that they meet, in modern-day english, and they are not using any kind of translator or something...

Now, a people that were separated from eartg since the time of the Gengis Khan (that spoke a very different language) are speaking modern-day english? I simply could not stand the illogicity and simply don�t watched any othe episode of the series...

Tis the problem with all sci-fi shows except Farscape where they made it clear that it was nano-tec that allowed them to understand and speak other Languages.