TV: Not Quite Digging “Battlestar Galactica” Yet…
By stephanie - Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
OK, I’ve only gotten to episode four from season one of the new “Battlestar Galactica,” so I maybe I just need to keep watching to get sucked in more…but…and pardon me for complaining:
Why do all the uniforms look like they came from an Army Surplus Store? Can’t the costume designers come up with something more imaginative?
Why are all the civilian characters dressed like it’s 1995 America?
Where is all the cool Egyptian themed stuff from the first “Battlestar Galactica”?
Can’t the president have a more imaginative disease than cancer? If they fly spaceships, shouldn’t they have some way to at least put that into remission?
When will this show stop being so darn serious and depressing all the time? I liked the dark quality to the mini-series, but when it comes to the ongoing show I wouldn’t mind some comic relief somewhere.
Now, maybe that last bit is fixed somewhat as the characters grow but I have to say, I am so disappointed in the obviously American look and feel of everything in this show. In one episode, a bunch of pilots actually started chanting what seemed to be a standard military chant. In another, a funeral included a 21-gun salute.
Please don’t expect me to buy that humans across the galaxy somehow evolved to become so darn *American*. At least steal some costume ideas from the Chinese, like cheesy old “Buck Rogers” used to do.
I will keep watching, since the show is still good, but I had to voice my complaints. Thanks for listening.
March 23rd, 2006 at 6:16 pm
I watched the entire first season and a portion of season 2 of the newer BSG and I liked it and I didn’t…I also really miss all the Egyptian themed stuff and the old-school cylons; the new ones are too much like Terminator. It’s better than I thought, but it’s nothing “I have to see”.
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