ccosborne3 Wrote:I've been catching up on the previous 2 seasons and just saw the premier this afternoon. It was pretty damned good. They seem intent on pushing the envelope this season. They've got a lot of guts to go in the directions they have.This is what I love about the show. It makes you change your perspective and question things.
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Cant remember the last time I saw a bleeding child on TV. It was disturbing.
Not sure how I feel about the suicide bombers.
Lee Adama as a fatty was pretty damn funny.
I've already set the DVR for next weeks episode. Curious as to who, if anybody made it through "The Great Escape" like mass execution.
jimbow8 Wrote:This is what I love about the show. It makes you change your perspective and question things.
The Mad American Wrote:SPOLIERa) why is this a bad thing? It is hardly a new thing for TV shows to mirror and comment on current events.
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I agree. As stated before I think this is the best written and acted show on TV right now but I was a bit disappointed with the premier. It seemed kind of clumsy in that they seemed to try to hard to correlate it to things going on in todays world.
Quote:I think it is great, provactive writing but it just seemed to try too hard. The Colonel Tigh turning into a fanatic wouldn't have been so bad if they hadn't had him with the full beard and always seeming to be in some obscure location. Is it just me or did it seem they tried really hard to draw a comparison to Osama Bin Laden?This partially answers my second question, but do you have more examples?
jimbow8 Wrote:a) why is this a bad thing? It is hardly a new thing for TV shows to mirror and comment on current events.
b) how did they "try too hard"?
This partially answers my second question, but do you have more examples?
Because frankly this never occured to me.
The Mad American Wrote:OK Jimbow to try and elaborate on my clumsy postI wasn't trying to be argumentative, so apologies if that was the result.
a) Never meant to imply that mirroring current events is a bad thing. It just seemed to me they just smashed us over the head with it in the premier where in the past they have been more subtle, at least in my opinion.
b) Hard to explain I guess but it just seemed really really in your face with it without any subtleness. Once again just my opinion. I did really enjoy the premier for the story arcs it seems to be setting up for the upcoming season.
Maybe I am reading too much into it but it just seemed they really tried to put a spin on the tactics used by the Islamofacists and show that they become more acceptable depending on your view of the conflict.
Even with this take on the premier I stick by my earlier statement that this is the most well writen and acted show on TV right now. The writers are not afraid to be controversial and I really like that in that most fiction on TV nowadays is so concerned about being PC and not offending that they hamstring themselves as far as being creative.
Quote:OK and now a question that comes completely out of left field.He reminds me of someone, but I haven't placed it. I hadn't considered Roddy (though I'm more familiar with Malcolm), but I will when I watch it Friday.
Does the actor who plays Gauis Baltar remind anyone else of a young Roddy McDowell?
The Mad American Wrote:Does the actor who plays Gauis Baltar remind anyone else of a young Roddy McDowell?