Fly me to the moon

[cyrano]

Finally took my first sip of the kool-aid and watched the Battlestar Galactica miniseries. It took me two hours, but I finally got excited sometime around the big meet up at Ragnar. I love the recognition that combat in space is not like air combat in WWII--it's been a while since I've seen that in science fiction. It's occasionally very obvious that ZOIC is doing the f/x, and that makes me smile. It's weird adjusting to the 'sound in space' thing again, but I'm trying hard to pretend it's part of the score. I really like a television show that presents characters with hard choices that have no 'right' answer. And I'm assuming that sometime during the series Starbuck becomes 'cool' because so far I'm not seeing it.

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yay!
(Because the idea that because somebody is good at something--whether flying or playing football--gives them the right to fuck with other people is one that made high school not fun. Plus, as much as it makes me cool and iconoclastic, I don't particularly enjoy being at odds with the majority.)

[aberrantvirtue.livejournal.com]

The quick version is that Tigh is relatively abusive with her. (You'll see more of it in the end of the mini-series, and I think in the first couple eps of Season One. It then comes to play again in the beginning of S.2.)

She is on a hair-trigger, and she is relatively volitile, but she has some good reasons for it too. Later on when she's humanized, it's more sensical.

Also, there are podcast commentaries starting with ep 1.09, on Sci-Fi.com, although they may also be on the DVDs. They're good.

[merlinofchaos]

She is cool and she is very talented and she is also flawed.

In fact, every single character in that show is very, very deeply flawed in one way or another. Expect those flaws to make you wince from time to time.