Author Topic: Everything you've heard about nBSG is true.  (Read 981 times)

Hadriel

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Everything you've heard about nBSG is true.
« on: November 20, 2006, 05:37:03 pm »
Especially if it's glowingly positive.

I seriously have no storytelling qualms with this show thus far.  It's one of a very, very few where that's the case.  Even Joss Whedon has stuff that I wish he'd done differently, and he's just about the only screenwriter at this point that I automatically have to sample every time he puts out something new.

I think the key reason why I think this show kicks so much ass is the character development.  Absolutely no one is a bit character.  Even the inconsequential communications officers, pilot trainees, fighter mechanics, marines, and the frakkin' Cylons see some focus into who they are and what they want.  The only thing that I really have to argue with from a technical standpoint would be the complete lack of weaponized lasers, even for point defense.  But that's a stylistic decision, mostly, and it's got little if anything to do with the pervading atmosphere of loss and desperation that Ron Moore has managed to set up.  The man's a genius.