This week I was reminiscing about what convinced me to start watching BATTLESTAR GALACTICA in the first place. Season 2 was weeks away from beginning. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, SEX AND THE CITY, and SIX FEET UNDER were gone, and I was jonesing for new shows to feed my need for well-drawn, inspiring, passionate women on television.
One of my good buds, a fellow BUFFY devotee, kept telling me I’d love BSG. It won’t surprise some of you to hear that I resisted for a while - due to a limited but extremely negative memory of the original series. Even at 8 years old, I could tell a cheesy STAR WARS/STAR TREK ripoff when I saw one. ;) But after my fangrrl pal sent me this Salon piece, it was hard to resist renting a few DVDs and giving it a go – I was doing it for The Bucker.
BSG’s obvious quality, intelligence, modernity, cinematic style – and its kick-ass grrls – had me from hello! Not to mention Baltar and his Sixes. ;)
Salon has always been a huge supporter of BSG, and here is their advance piece on season four – in the form of a guide to the major plot and characters of the entire series. This, combined with EW’s episode guides (1 / 2 / 3) and the “What The Frak?” video, can be a great way to entice n00bs into the fold and/or get a quick refresher for yourself.
It’s a fantastic show, one of the best on TV. Watching it with the rest of this clever, dedicated and enduring fandom has been a joy. If any of our faithful readers want to share their "how I came to love BSG" stories in the comments, we are all ears.
Erm...all eyes.
Is it really, truly, just ONE DAY AWAY now? Gosh.
(BTW, in our Off Topic Department: Amazon is having a 50% Off sale on the box sets of Joss Whedon shows BUFFY, ANGEL, and FIREFLY, as well as THE X FILES. Just sayin’.)
Thursday, April 03, 2008
All This Has Happened Before…
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I can't believe no one's commented on this. Well, I'll go first then:
I also was skeptical of this version of the show, filled with tarnished memories of the cheese-fest of a Star Wars rip-off that was the original (which I loved as a kid, but which as an adult left much, much, MUCH to be desired) and completely avoided the miniseries and the first few episodes of season one. Then, in early 2005 I spent a week in Eugene, Oregon on business with no car and nothing to do in the evening, so I sat myself down to a night of hotel room TV. With nothing on, I settled on a Sci-fi mini-marathon of the first five episodes of BSG figuring it'd be good for a laugh. Why not see how bad THIS version of Galactica was?
Somewhere around the middle of "You Can't Go Home Again" I thought to myself, "you know, I actually CARE what happens to Starbuck. That's unusual..."
I was hooked.
I haven't missed an episode since. So say we all.
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