BSG

[c9]

simplisticton gave me a copy of the new (to me) Battlestar Galactica series. It is so awesome. I really regret not catching it from the beginning. Though one nice thing is that I'm not dealing with any commercials.

The Great

• Atmosphere: the cinematography, the music
• Scripts: Several characters were believeable from day one, which is rare. There's a few that are still caricatures, but less and less so.

The Awful

• The use of "frak" everytime a character would normally say "fuck." Very distracting.

The Funny

• The fact that they use obsolete technology and pray to COBOLKobol.

Comments

[c9.livejournal.com]

RD was all British though, so they said all sorts of made up words, like lorry, bangers, and only gay in the village.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

true, although they did go on record that "Smeg!" was actually made up so they could use a non-swear swear-word. I can't think of an earlier example.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Ace saying 'Gordon Bennett' in Doctor Who. Although Cable's use of 'flonq' in comics is early 90's.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with 'flonq' unfortunately.

And I'd like to try to forget about Ace, I'm not sure if it was the enforced "character issues" or the actress' horrible acting, but she really stunk up the late 80s.