Battlestar Galactica

[burntcopper]

They're re-showing the pilot tonight and tomorrow on Sky One, with repeats, leading up to the new series on monday. And yes, I'm bloody stunned that we're getting the new series before the US. According to scifi.com, you lot not in the UK don't get it until January. Are your schedules that stuffed that we get to do the 'Spoilers! Nyaaaaaah and thpppppbbbbt!' ? My word.

(And yes, this is all due to the usual Brit thing, where we don't have spoilers due to having heard it talked about months prior to seeing it on our screens, be it satellite or terrestrial. And it's not merely a matter of skip week intruding, like it did for the ep of Stargate where Daniel Jackson got killed.)

Second time of watching the pilot, and my god I'd forgotten just how bloody good it is. The dialogue, the design, the sheer desperation and awful decisions... not to mention how damn cool it is that during space battles, you get low 'whumphs', because there's no sound in space, due to it being a vacuum. Like implosions rather than explosions. :does the dance of geeker joy: And the music. The drumming, large overtones of middle-eastern style in that drumming. So damn coooooooooool.

But you bastards get Peacekeeper Wars this sunday. :sulks in your general direction:

Though have discovered that the music and tension and mood make for very good pure porn writing.

Comments

[blue-monday.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Someone else who loves the music.I liked it when I watched it the first time, and this just reminded me how much. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with it in a series, it has the potential to be fantastic, if they don't balls it up.

All that you mentioned - the sounds, the desperation etc, that's stuff I saw mentioned in a review in the Independent about it, pointing out that that all added up to make it so much better than the original and, well, a lot of other stuff with big explosions that just wouldn't happen.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Now we just need to find the slash. So far I'm only seeing Adama Sr. and alcoholic second in command bloke, and Adama Jr and the pilot of the civilian transport in the first half.

Also? No stupid necklaces or shiny gold and bronze uniforms.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Am just re-reading the independent bit. ...There was a 'Muffy the cyborg panda'? That's almost as bad as Seaman Staines.

[blue-monday.livejournal.com]

There was a lumbering robotic bear/dog-type-thing which was actually called Muffy. Yup, really.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god. There's just not enough wrong in the world, and they made that?

[mingmerciless.livejournal.com]

One is also given to understand that it was played by a chimp in a suit. It was created for Boxey who missed his pet who was, of course, wiped out along with the rest of the Twelve Colonies...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Ah, the irony. I've just finished watching up to the end of season 2 (!) of Stargate, and then read your post. Don't reveal which season it happens in, at least then it'll be mostly a surprise when I get that far :-)

[psmorrison.livejournal.com]

I'm still adjusting to Australian TV scheduling. Last night I watched a double length episode of Stargate featuring Daniel (which confused me somewhat) which was billed as the season premiere. I've just checked at epguides.com, and it seems that it was actually the last two episodes of a season.

I've seen this with other shows too. Australian networks will just stop at a random point in a season, show repeats for a bit, then pick up where they left off while announcing it as a new series.

They're also behind the UK in some series, but ahead in others. Strange.