two new space shows? maybe, maybe not

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Dr. Who

I've watched two episodes of the new Doctor Who so far.

It keeps making me think of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I want to ask the Doctor "Where's your towel, man? What kind of travelling alien are you? You never leave the phone booth without your towel!"

The look of the show reminds me of Farscape. Very bright and colorful.



Battlestar Galactica

On Friday I watched BSG for the first time. It was the episode with the jail break and the terrorist.

My overall reaction: Eh. Ergh. Feh. ::shrug::

It didn't blow me away. The acting was fine. The requisite hot guy was indeed hot. But the overall plot left me kinda bored. And the way it wrapped up felt way too neat. Like a room of a few hundred hardened criminals in that situation would all just throw down their weapons. Right. Bridge, anyone? I've got bridges for sale! Super sale today only!

Comments

[spikewriter]

That episode almost made me give up the series as well -- and I'm still not feeling the fan-love the way some others are. I'm willing to forgive that particularly one, however, because it really was written as a sop to settle all the stupidity with the original series fans who complained because they wanted Hatch's version of BG and didn't like the changes the new series had made.

Having said that, I would suggest trying to stick with it as the series does get better, though it's never a bang-pack action show, but rather something that wormed its way intellectually under my skin. It's more "West Wing with Laser Cannons" in some ways -- and what's going on with the president gets very interesting.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I had a great comment to this. LJ deleted it. Now it's gone forever. Sorry.