Battelstar Galactica in Sweden, worth watching?

[buzzard]

I'll have to dissent. I tried watching the series a few times after watching the Pilot movie. I was left underwhelmed. It's a bunch of characters that left me uninterested and some fairly ridiculous stretches of common sense to justify how they act. I know plenty of people who think it's simply great, but I don't have a lot of use for it. John Ringo(a vet and military Sci Fi author) has an interesting critique of it on his site. I'd link to it, but I can't get the site to come up right now. www.johnringo.com

buzzard

 

[Storm Raven]

I just think Battlestar Galactica sounds cheesy. "Battlestar" or "Galactica" had been enough. Combining them is like "adding onion to salmon", as we say in Sweden.

Maybe its just that I'm not Swedish, but salmon and onion go pretty well together.

Or "to put cake on cake".

Cake on cake sounds good too. On the other hand, I like Igor bars, so that may explain a lot.

 

[Ranger REG]

I'll have to dissent. I tried watching the series a few times after watching the Pilot movie. I was left underwhelmed. It's a bunch of characters that left me uninterested and some fairly ridiculous stretches of common sense to justify how they act. I know plenty of people who think it's simply great, but I don't have a lot of use for it. John Ringo(a vet and military Sci Fi author) has an interesting critique of it on his site. I'd link to it, but I can't get the site to come up right now. www.johnringo.com

buzzard

You'd rather it be more cheerful and hopeful like the original version?

 

[Frostmarrow]

Maybe its just that I'm not Swedish, but salmon and onion go pretty well together.

It's an acquired taste.

 

[buzzard]

You'd rather it be more cheerful and hopeful like the original version?

No, I'd just rather the characters didn't all act compulsively stupid. I hold no banner for the first series either. It was pretty bad as well.

buzzard

 

[Mallus]

No, I'd just rather the characters didn't all act compulsively stupid.

Stupid like sending the captain, chief medical officer, head scientist, engineer, and sometimes the helmsman and navigator for good measure, down to every dangerous, unexplored planet first?

Now that's stupid...

 

[Storm Raven]

I'll have to dissent. I tried watching the series a few times after watching the Pilot movie. I was left underwhelmed. It's a bunch of characters that left me uninterested and some fairly ridiculous stretches of common sense to justify how they act. I know plenty of people who think it's simply great, but I don't have a lot of use for it. John Ringo(a vet and military Sci Fi author) has an interesting critique of it on his site. I'd link to it, but I can't get the site to come up right now. www.johnringo.com

It took me a while, but I finally managed to find the critique on his website. I was underwhelmed by his critique. It seems to boil down to two things: (1) he doesn't like the acting, which is an opinion I don't share, and (2) he thinks that the way they have acquired some of the new military technology in the storylines doesn't match up to good contracting practices, which is a really nitpicky and somewhat trivial objection.

 

[buzzard]

Stupid like sending the captain, chief medical officer, head scientist, engineer, and sometimes the helmsman and navigator for good measure, down to every dangerous, unexplored planet first?

Now that's stupid...

You won't ever find me defending TOS either. I didn't care for that series at all. Even TNG, which I prefer, was pretty moronic for sending bridge officers out like canaries in a coal mine.

buzzard

 

[buzzard]

It took me a while, but I finally managed to find the critique on his website. I was underwhelmed by his critique. It seems to boil down to two things: (1) he doesn't like the acting, which is an opinion I don't share, and (2) he thinks that the way they have acquired some of the new military technology in the storylines doesn't match up to good contracting practices, which is a really nitpicky and somewhat trivial objection.

Well here's the link:
http://johnringo.com/Abyss/BSG.asp

And I think there's a bit more to it than that. His point was that the writers set up the humans for failure all the time, and much of it has to do with how stupid the humans act. That's about what I recall from it, and hence I don't bother watching anymore. The most likely reason he harped on particular issues is that he probably didn't make it through all the DVDs. I wouldn't have either.

buzzard

 

[Storm Raven]

Well here's the link:
http://johnringo.com/Abyss/BSG.asp

And I think there's a bit more to it than that. His point was that the writers set up the humans for failure all the time, and much of it has to do with how stupid the humans act. That's about what I recall from it, and hence I don't bother watching anymore. The most likely reason he harped on particular issues is that he probably didn't make it through all the DVDs. I wouldn't have either.

First off, the link doesn't work.

I did, however, go to his site and track down the critique, so I have read it, and I don't see the "more to it" that you think is there. His argument that "the humans do stupid things" basically boils down to "they didn't follow good military contracting and testing practices", which is, as I said before, a nitpicky and trivial argument.

And if he didn't make it trhough the DVDs, he's not in much of a position to critique the show. And if you didn't, neither are you.