I find BSG riveting, but you have to be in the mood for bleakness and melodrama, and I'm not always. And the stand-alone filler eps are usually not that great. That said, season 2 was pretty good, and season 3 was an absolute killer--and I like that Ron Moore is part of the fandom community and understands his roots and responsibilities. Also, I highly recommend his podcasts; they are often very interesting meditations on craft.
I guess that I like dark, but not bleak, usually. I liked the miniseries a lot, though, and I liked Adama and Starbuck as characters. (Although part of the arc of the first season seemed to be all about creating/exploiting insecurity in Starbuck, which annoyed me.) But the first season episodes I saw were pretty uneven, and I wasn't trusting that the writers could really back up all the sturm und drang of the Cylons' supposed plan. The deal-breaker, for me, was my dislike of the characters Baltar and Six, and my disinterest-ranging-to-desire-to-smash-the-screen whenever they appear. From what I'm told, they continue to get about the same amount of screen time throughout the series, so I doubt I'll pick it up again.
It's a bit weird, because a lot of friends and people whose opinions I respect really enjoy the show, yourself included. But, then, some of them don't like "Farscape" (or "Buffy," or what have you) so I guess sometimes reasonable folks just disagree :-)
BSG is *very* bleak. So much so in fact, that at the end of Season 2 I almost didn't go back--I like tragedy pretty well, but after a point it's a bit *too* tragic. But I did go back, and I'm not sorry for I think the show is very interesting, and if it is a bit uneven--well, with the time pressure they are on, it's lucky to be as good as it is. I was not a super fan of Six, but she gets MUCH more interesting as the show goes along--surprisingly so in fact--and I became mesmerized by the Shakespearean depths to which Baltar will stoop--and his character development is also quite surprising--so if they were the main reason you tuned out, perhaps you might try again sometime. Or not. I did like Buffy and Farscape quite a bit, tho' for entirely different reasons--Firefly I could never get into. But I enjoyed Serenity. Go figure!
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Date: 2007-07-16 08:54 pm (UTC)And, er, sorry for spoiling you on the Peacekeeper Wars . . .
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Date: 2007-07-16 09:22 pm (UTC)I find BSG riveting, but you have to be in the mood for bleakness and melodrama, and I'm not always. And the stand-alone filler eps are usually not that great. That said, season 2 was pretty good, and season 3 was an absolute killer--and I like that Ron Moore is part of the fandom community and understands his roots and responsibilities. Also, I highly recommend his podcasts; they are often very interesting meditations on craft.
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Date: 2007-07-16 09:49 pm (UTC)It's a bit weird, because a lot of friends and people whose opinions I respect really enjoy the show, yourself included. But, then, some of them don't like "Farscape" (or "Buffy," or what have you) so I guess sometimes reasonable folks just disagree :-)
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Date: 2007-07-17 01:41 am (UTC)