So, SGU debuted last night on Syfy with the two hour long premiere, “Air”. I’ve watched it twice now. It’s even less watchable the second time around.
The show is too much BSG (Battlestar Galactica) for my liking. The overlit flashback/dream sequences, the too dark action sequences. Bear McCreary-ish music. Gratuitous and irrelevant sex.
It’s a shame when a show with so much production capital, squanders that capital on being a copycat of a series that crashed and burned on its own narcissism (BSG).
Of course, the biggest wall banger of them all is the plot. Oh gee, I thought I already saw Battlestar Galactica? And yet here we are with the costumes, the camera work, and the plot (being stranded on a ship that’s dying). I get the whole thing about the show being centered around the characters, and that would be totally okay if it wasn’t so terrible and if the characters were so unlikable and so unbelievable, but as it stands this is a terrible continuation of the Stargate franchise. Apparently NBC confused “ratings” with “let’s sex this up and dumb it down.” That’s not what Stargate is about. But I suppose that won’t stop the closet sex scenes that add zero to the plot and platform of the show or the trigger-happy tension of betrayal and back-stabbing for what is predictably in store for us. Thankfully I don’t think it’ll make it past the first season.
The funniest part however, is the selfless Senator. As a voluntarist/ancap/libertarian, there is nothing funnier than a career tax eater sacrificing himself for the team. It’s about as likely as a midget getting voted to start in the NBA All-Star game.
Unless the game plan is changed, I doubt this show goes more than 3 seasons.
I have setup an account at twitter and added some folks I know have twitter accounts. You’re welcome to follow me, and if you have anything interesting to say, I may follow you back. I’m not sure how much I will use twitter, but it will either be a lot or very little. Social media is a regular commitment and I have online commitment issues.
I have to confess, I don’t use a RSS reader. I actually visit sites by hand. It’s impossible to keep up with everything online. So I have a circuit of sites I visit hourly, and sites I visit daily and weekly. If someone can suggest a good online aggregator, I might consider using a feed reader. With my fingers in so many pies, I either need to limit my online exposure (my current approach) or leverage technology to get much more organized and efficient.
I’m going to go into the fir trees
There where I last saw her
But the evening is throwing a cloth upon the land
and upon the ways behind the edge of the forest
And the forest it is so black and empty
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more
Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren’t worth it
On the branches in the ditches
it’s now silent and without life
And breathing becomes oh so hard for me
Woe is me, oh woe
And the birds sing no more
Without you I cannot be
Without you
With you I am alone too
Without you
Without you I count the hours without you
With you the seconds stand still
They aren’t worth it without you
The star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarentino’s “Kill Bill,” was found dead Thursday in Thailand. A published report said he committed suicide.
In the conflict of man vs. nature, sometimes man wins.
