I broke down and picked up the first season of the new “Battlestar Galactica” show on DVD as a bonus Christmas gift to myself, using a coupon attached to the Serenity DVD as an excuse. In the past week and a half, we’ve blown through both the season 1 DVD set as well as the season 2.0 set, and I am now thoroughly addicted. I’ve even managed to Tivo the new episodes from the past couple of weeks, so I am almost completely and totally caught up, and ready to feel the pain of having to wait a week or more between new episodes.
I don’t have time or energy to launch into a big, deconstructive “why it’s great and you should watch it too” post, but I will say this:
It’s like an entire series of End of Evangelion.
This statement will probably make more sense if you’ve seen Evangelion; if you haven’t, you should watch that too.
- Mood:geeky
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Yay! Another Battlestar Galactica addict!
(and I thought we were busting through the show, having started season one on Christmas, and we’re only a few episodes into season two now.)
We’ve got it bad at our house — on Wednesday, we watched six episodes in a row. Oi!
I have the two most recent ones Tivo’d if you guys finish the 2.0 set and need to get caught up. (And I’ll have this week’s Tivo’d tonight!)
Ah, nothing brings friends closer than sharing addictions.
We’ve been fighting ourselves to keep to no more than two episodes a night. Sometimes it’s hard. VERY hard. But… I want this joy to -last-!
Here’s my thought on Why Battlestar Galactica is the Best TV Show EVER:
In her book, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott advises new writers to ‘give it all away’ - that if you hold back and parcel out your ideas, you won’t get any new ones, and your writing will suck.
This holding back and parcelling out is what MOST TV shows with a continual plot do. Babylon 5 was notorious for it. They’d have Boomer’s cylon-hood still secret into season four because they would be afraid of thinking of something new to do next…
But Battlestar forages bravely ahead, using up their plot lines and letting new ones develop. I. Am. In. Love.
yikes. That’s a lot of TV for one night.
You can share things you Tivoed? As you probably already know, we don’t have a Tivo… or a TV… I don’t really know how these things work…
But that would be great!
Perhaps that should have read “I have the new episodes Tivo’d if you want to come over and get caught up”. I could also dump them to tape for you (though I am not certain that helps you much).
Your other alternatives are: re-runs, waiting for DVD’s, or buying it from the iTunes store.
ah, coming over would be even better.
And besides, now that I think of it, since we’re not paying for cable, I’d feel vaguely bad about slumming off someone else’s recordings…
Sadly, the clips on iTunes that I saw looked kinda grainy and pan-n-scanny.