On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:00 AM, G. D. Akin wrote: > P.S. Season 3 wasn't disappointing either.
Srsly? There were things I liked, sure -- there were effects that were visually gorgeous, frex the translight jump of the BSG as it fell into atmo, I just about freaked as it vanished, leaving only a flaming imprint of its hull's own ablation in the sky, a fiery ghost and a *beautiful* image I think we'll be seeing again in other series -- but I felt the story began to drag heavily about halfway through (all shipboard, all the time: translation, we shot our eye-candy wad early). Definitely BSG is not about FX. However, it is an SF series, and FX matter. Playing cheap with them, keeping the budget lean visually, forced too much emphasis on the storytelling team -- and I don't think they were fully up to snuff there. That is, when the series had to rely on plot alone without interspace action sequences, I began to see some rather thin places in the plot. 26 eps in a season is too much for a series like BSG. It was much more tantalizing and intense, I thought, when they had more room for a good budget spread for FX throughout the story season, but had to tell a much tighter story in fewer shows. More = less = more. -- Warren Ockrassa Blog | http://indigestible.nightwares.com/ Books | http://books.nightwares.com/ Web | http://www.nightwares.com/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
