Lost, Battlestar Galactica
Feb. 13th, 2005 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharplittleteethYeah, I've been watching telly.
Lost
A plane crashes on a mysterious South Pacific island. The survivors huddle and bicker on the beach. Meanwhile, some giant unseen monster roams the jungle...
This show has potential. It's main problem is that it's too choppy, constantly cutting between all the different characters. I understand they're trying to establish the ensemble. I just hope that later episode's will be built around individual characters.
As for The Big Mystery: since I know season one has wrapped in the US, and the secret of the island still hasn't been revealed, this isn't such an incentive for me to watch. A long, drawn-out mystery does not an exciting tv series make.
A friend and I were joking that the island is the villian's lair from a James Bond film. Of course, Lost is created by J. J. Abrams, so that's pretty much my prediction: the survivors have crash landed into an Alias spin-off.
Battlestar Galactica
I loved Battlestar Galactica as a kid. But that was a long time ago, and now I don't really remember much about the original. So I'm not going to slip into fanboy piques of rage at the changes they've made for the recent "re-imagining", like turning Starbuck into a woman, or having the Cylons being created by mankind.
Like Lost, this show has potential. But, like pretty much every tv sci-fi show ever, it's going to waste it. I wasn't exactly blown away by the personality and depth of the main characters. That may just be the establishing-the-series blues, or may point to future shallowness and cliche.
Which is pretty much how I feel about Lost. I'll give them both a few more episodes to see how they shape up.
Lost
A plane crashes on a mysterious South Pacific island. The survivors huddle and bicker on the beach. Meanwhile, some giant unseen monster roams the jungle...
This show has potential. It's main problem is that it's too choppy, constantly cutting between all the different characters. I understand they're trying to establish the ensemble. I just hope that later episode's will be built around individual characters.
As for The Big Mystery: since I know season one has wrapped in the US, and the secret of the island still hasn't been revealed, this isn't such an incentive for me to watch. A long, drawn-out mystery does not an exciting tv series make.
A friend and I were joking that the island is the villian's lair from a James Bond film. Of course, Lost is created by J. J. Abrams, so that's pretty much my prediction: the survivors have crash landed into an Alias spin-off.
Battlestar Galactica
I loved Battlestar Galactica as a kid. But that was a long time ago, and now I don't really remember much about the original. So I'm not going to slip into fanboy piques of rage at the changes they've made for the recent "re-imagining", like turning Starbuck into a woman, or having the Cylons being created by mankind.
Like Lost, this show has potential. But, like pretty much every tv sci-fi show ever, it's going to waste it. I wasn't exactly blown away by the personality and depth of the main characters. That may just be the establishing-the-series blues, or may point to future shallowness and cliche.
Which is pretty much how I feel about Lost. I'll give them both a few more episodes to see how they shape up.
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Date: 2005-02-12 07:14 pm (UTC)I don't know if American TV would go that far with an off the wall idea but it's food for thought.